Patents Assigned to NSK Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240110595
    Abstract: A deep groove ball bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a plurality of balls, and a seal member. An axial cross-sectional width is smaller than a radial cross-sectional height, a thickness of the inner ring is greater than a thickness of the outer ring, and a pitch diameter of the ball is larger than a median diameter between an inner diameter of the inner ring and an outer diameter of the outer ring A radial dimension between an outer diameter of a shoulder portion of the inner ring and an inner diameter of the seal member is greater than the thickness of the outer ring. As a result, width and weight can be reduced, a load capacity can be secured, grease leakage can be prevented, and a service lifespan can be extended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Eri WATABE, Hiroshi ISHIWADA, Kento TAKEUCHI, Shigeki MAEHARA, Takashi KURAMOCHI, Ahmadfirdaus BINABDULHALIM
  • Patent number: 11933365
    Abstract: A producing method of a bearing unit includes: a step of measuring torque of a first bearing unit under each of a plurality of load conditions during production of the first bearing unit; a step of determining a target value of each of a plurality of production parameters based on of a load-torque relationship obtained from measurement results of the torque; and a step of producing a second bearing unit on the basis of the target value of each of the plurality of production parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11931983
    Abstract: A method of performing pressing on a workpiece using a press machine. The pressing method includes: performing pressing on the workpiece between a lower die and an upper die by causing the upper die to approach the lower die by using the hydraulic cylinder in a state in which the workpiece is disposed between the lower die and the upper die, and performing the pressing on the workpiece between the lower die and the upper die, in a state in which a shape of each of the frame, the lower die and the upper die has a rotationally symmetric shape about the reference axis and in which the workpiece center axis coincides with the reference axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20240083489
    Abstract: A steering device includes: an upper column having a cylindrical shape that is disposed on a radially outer side of a steering shaft; a lower column having a cylindrical shape that is fitted to the upper column and is capable of relatively moving in an axial direction with respect to the upper column; an attachment portion that is attached to the upper column and provided with a column long hole; a column bracket that includes a side plate portion located on a side of the upper column and is attached to a vehicle body; a liner slot that is inserted into the column long hole of the attachment portion and restricts an axial movement; and a pin that extends along a vehicle width direction and penetrates through the side plate portion and the liner slot, in which the liner slot is provided with a through-hole through which the pin penetrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori MORISHIMA, Tasuku OISHI, Jotaro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240077118
    Abstract: A reverse-input blocking clutch, including a pressed member having a pressed surface, an input member having an input-side engaging portion coaxially arranged on an inner side in a radial direction of the pressed surface, an output member having an output-side engaging portion coaxially arranged further on the inner side in the radial direction than the input-side engaging portion, an engaging element having a pressing surface facing the pressed surface; an input-side engaged portion engageable with the input-side engaging portion; and an output-side engaged portion engageable with the output-side engaging portion; the engaging element movable in a first direction as a direction away from or toward the pressed surface, and an elastic member elastically held between the output-side engaging portion and the engaging element in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Nagao DOHI
  • Publication number: 20240077109
    Abstract: An outer diameter of a claw portion is smaller than an outer diameter of a main portion, a radial width of the claw portion is ½ or less of a radial width of the main portion, an axial width from an upper surface of a connection portion of a pillar portion to a bottom surface of the main portion is ½ or less of an axial width of a crown type cage for a ball bearing, and in the main portion, an opening portion is provided between adjacent pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Masahito MATSUI, Takefumi KICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11921004
    Abstract: A linear motion drive device including a ball screw, a linear motion table driven by the ball screw to move linearly, and an abnormality detection device configured to detect a decrease in a preload applied to the ball screw. The abnormality detection device includes a vibration sensor configured to measure vibration during operation of the ball screw, a calculation processing unit configured to acquire a vibration value of a vibration signal in a specific frequency band among vibration signals measured by the vibration sensor, and an abnormality detection unit configured to determine that a decrease in the preload has occurred in the ball screw when the vibration value is less than a previously determined threshold with respect to a reference value, the reference value being a vibration value in an initial stage of the operation of the ball screw or during a normal operation of the ball screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Matsumura, Yushi Ootani, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11919390
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a mobile communication unit for communicating with an in-vehicle signal-sending device, an input operation unit for inputting data, a computational processing unit for performing computational processing, a display unit for displaying a screen, a storage unit for storing screen display information, and a mobile control unit for controlling the display unit. The computational processing unit has a function for calculating a loadage deviation based on vehicle specifications and vehicle loadage information contained in a sensor signal from the mobile communication unit, the storage unit has a function for presetting the vehicle specifications, the loadage deviation, and the screen display information prepared to display the vehicle specifications and the loadage deviation on the display unit screen, and the mobile control unit has a function for causing the display unit to display at least the vehicle specifications and the loadage information based on the screen display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Yousuke Shimomura
  • Patent number: 11920644
    Abstract: In a predetermined first state, a distance (D1) in a second direction between a contact portion (Pin) between a input-side engaging part (9) and an input-side engaging part (17) and a rotation center (O) is larger than a distance (D2) in the second direction between a contact portion (Pout) between an output-side engaging part (12) and an output-side engaged part (14) and the rotation center (O). In a locked state or a semi-locked state, a contact portion (C1) between the output-side engaging part (12) and the output-side engaged part (14) is located closer to the rotation center (O) of the output member (4) in a first direction than an imaginary straight line (L) connecting a contact portion (C2) between one pressing surface (13) of the pair of pressing surfaces (13) and a pressed surface (6) to the rotation center (O) of the output member (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Nagao Dohi, Shohei Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11920667
    Abstract: A cam device includes a cam, a cam roller, a rotary drive device, a linear motion guide device, and an action unit. A cam profile of the cam includes a rotary end at a circumferential one end, at which a camshaft is non-rotatable in a reverse direction by the cam roller, a cam surface from the rotary end to the circumferential other end, on which the cam roller is abuttable, and formed of a single CV curve from a vicinity of the rotary end to the circumferential other end of the cam surface, and a non-continuous section formed between the rotary end and the circumferential other end of the cam surface and not in contact with the cam roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Kouhei Dobashi
  • Publication number: 20240067248
    Abstract: A drive wheel, comprising: a first input shaft and a second input shaft coaxially disposed; a first output shaft and a second output shaft disposed on different axes; a first spur gear mechanism that transmits rotational force of the first input shaft to the first output shaft; a second spur gear mechanism that transmits rotational force of the second input shaft to the second output shaft; a wheel connected to an axle; a pivot shaft that supports the wheel in a pivotable manner via the axle; a first power conversion mechanism that transmits the rotational force of the first output shaft to one end portion of the axle; a second power conversion mechanism that transmits the rotational force of the second output shaft to another end portion of the axle; a first slide mechanism; a second slide mechanism; and an elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventor: Ko FUJIOKA
  • Patent number: 11912333
    Abstract: A steering device includes a steering shaft, a steering column, a bracket, and a fastening mechanism. An upper column includes a clamp, a cylindrical part, a pair of protrusions, and contact ribs. The clamp includes a continuous clamp and a spaced clamp. The protrusions include a continuous protrusion and a spaced protrusion. The contact ribs include first contact ribs disposed each of which is disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the clamp, second contact ribs each of which is disposed on a side surface of the protrusion and disposed opposite to the first contact rib with respect to a long groove, and at least one third contact rib disposed on a side surface of the spaced protrusion and between the first contact rib and the long groove. The third contact rib has a protrusion amount greater than those of the first contact rib and the second contact rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikuta, Yoshiyuki Sato, Suguru Sugishita, Hirotaka Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240059344
    Abstract: A steering device includes an input shaft coupled to a steering wheel and extending in an axial direction, an output shaft fitted to the input shaft and capable of relatively moving in the axial direction with respect to the input shaft, an upper column having a cylindrical shape that is disposed on a radially outer side of the input shaft and rotatably supports the input shaft, a lower column having a cylindrical shape that is fitted to the upper column and capable of relatively moving in the axial direction with respect to the upper column, a column bracket that includes a side plate portion located on the side of the upper column and is detachable from a vehicle body, a support member provided on the upper column, and a pin that is provided to extend along the radial direction and penetrate through the side plate portion and the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomonori MORISHIMA, Tasuku OISHI
  • Publication number: 20240060532
    Abstract: A linear motion guide device having a long-life slider is provided. The linear motion guide device includes a guide rail, a plurality of rolling elements, and a slider. The material of the slider body 11 is alloy steel containing 0.1 mass % or more and less than 0.3 mass % of C, 0.5 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of Cr, and 0.1 mass % or more and 0.4 mass % or less of Si, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. An amount of retained austenite in a surface layer 14F of a slider-side rolling groove 14 subjected to a carburizing heat treatment is 15 vol % or more and 45 vol % or less. The surface hardness of the slider-side rolling groove 14 is Hv 650 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu OHKUBO
  • Patent number: 11909274
    Abstract: An electric driving device and an electric power steering device. An electric driving device includes a motor and an electronic control unit that controls rotation of the motor. The electronic control unit includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a second housing, a lid, and an inter-board connector. The second circuit board includes a control circuit that controls an electric current supplied to a transistor of the first circuit board. The second housing accommodates the second circuit board and has a first through hole passing therethrough in the axial direction. The lid covers the second housing. The inter-board connector connects the second circuit board disposed on the anti-load side of the second housing to the first circuit board disposed on the load side of the second housing. The inter-board connector is disposed in the first through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11904383
    Abstract: Provided is construction which is able to downsize an orbital forging device comprising a spherical seat with shaft that swings and rotates with a molding die. The end section on the other side in the axial direction of the swinging shaft 13 is supported with respect to the driving mechanism 17 in a state where the movement toward one side in the axial direction (lower side) is prevented, and a member for preventing the swinging shaft 13 from moving toward the one side in the axial direction with respect to the frame 10 is not assembled in a section which is located between the convex spherical seat 14 and the driving mechanism 17 in the axial direction of the swinging shaft 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsurou Maruno, Nobuyuki Hagiwara, Tokumasa Kikuchi, Hiroshi Koyama
  • Publication number: 20240052915
    Abstract: A ball screw device has: a screw shaft rotationally moving during use, a nut having a protruding non-rotating side engaging portion at an end portion on one side in an axial direction, the nut linearly moving during use, balls arranged between a shaft-side and nut-side grooves, and a driving member fixed to the screw shaft having an arc-shaped rotating-side engaging groove portion into which the non-rotating side engaging portion can be inserted in the axial direction, and which can be engaged with the non-rotating side engaging portion in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SEGAWA, Kazutaka TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240052881
    Abstract: A ball bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of balls rollably disposed between an inner ring raceway surface of the inner ring and the outer ring raceway surface of the outer ring, and a cage in which pockets rollably holding the balls are formed at intervals in a circumferential direction. An inclination angle of a cylindrical surface of each of the pockets is set more than 0° and less than a contact angle of the ball bearing, the cylindrical surface and a corresponding ball are in contact with each other at an inner side in a cage thickness direction relative to a position where a rotation axis of the ball intersects with the cylindrical surface, and a space is formed at a portion from a contact position to a circumferential surface of the cage on a side closer to the intersection position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori SUZUKI, Takuya OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240044377
    Abstract: A reverse-input blocking clutch, comprising a pressed member, an input member, an output member, and an engaging element, the pressed member including a first pressed member element having a pressed surface around an inner peripheral surface thereof and a second pressed member element having a mounting portion fixed to a portion that does not rotate during use, the engaging element configured to transmit rotational torque input to the input member to the output member by moving in a direction away from the pressed surface and to completely block rotational torque reversely input to the output member or transmit a part of the rotational torque reversely input to the output member to the input member and block a remaining part thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Nagao DOHI, Yuya DAIKOKU
  • Patent number: 11891114
    Abstract: A steering column has a cylindrical front-side column and a cylindrical rear-side column having a front-end portion that is connected to a rear-end portion of the front-side column. The steering shaft has a front-side shaft rotatably supported inside the front-side column, a rear-side shaft rotatably supported inside the rear-side column and has a rear-end portion to which the steering wheel is attached, and a universal joint connecting the rear-end portion of the front-side shaft and the front-end portion of the rear-side shaft. The front-end portion of the front-side column is always arranged above a portion of the extension line of the center axis of the rear-side column which exists at the same location in the front-rear direction as the front-end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NSK, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Kurokawa