Patents Assigned to NSK
  • Publication number: 20220268331
    Abstract: The reverse input cutoff clutch includes: a pressed member having a pressed surface around the inner peripheral surface; an input member coaxially arranged with the pressed surface and having an input-side engaging portion arranged on the radially inner side of the pressed surface; an output member coaxially arranged with the pressed surface and having an output-side engaging portion arranged further on the radially inner side than the input-side engaging portion; and an engaging element arranged so as to be movable in a first direction as a direction toward or away from the pressed surface on the radially inner side of the pressed surface. The engaging element has a main engaging element body having a pressing surface and a pivot-support shaft, and a link member. The link member has a first end portion pivotally linked to the pivot-support shaft, and a second end portion pivotally linked to the input-side engaging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Nagao DOHI, Yuya DAIKOKU, Tomoyuki MIYAZAKl
  • Patent number: 11421736
    Abstract: A rolling bearing unit includes: an inner ring member having a recess on a first side in an axial direction, the recess being recessed toward a second side in the axial direction; an outer ring member disposed on the outer periphery side of the inner ring member; a rolling body disposed between the inner ring member and the outer ring member and rotatably supporting the inner ring member with respect to the outer ring member; a transmitter capable of transmitting at least one of electric power or a signal, at least a part of the transmitter being accommodated inside the recess of the inner ring member; and a covering member that is supported by the first side of the outer ring member in the axial direction, covers the first side of the inner ring member in the axial direction, and fixes the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiro Hitomi, Daisuke Gunji, Hiroyasu Kumagai, Ricardo Rodriguez Lopez
  • Patent number: 11415185
    Abstract: A reverse-input blocking clutch includes: a pressed member having a pressed surface; an input member having an input-side engaging portion on an inner side in a radial direction of the pressed surface; an output member having an output-side engaging portion further on the inner side in the radial direction than the input-side engaging portion; an engaging element on the inner side in the radial direction of the pressed surface to move in a first direction away from or toward the pressed surface, having a main engaging element body having a pivot-support shaft, and a link member having a first end portion pivotally linked to the pivot-support shaft and a second end portion pivotally linked to the input-side engaging portion; and an elastic body between the main engaging element body and the link member and applying an elastic force to the link member toward the pressed surface in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NSK, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nagao Dohi, Yuya Daikoku
  • Patent number: 11415205
    Abstract: A piece type ball screw in a screw shaft with a spiral external thread groove on an outer peripheral surface, a nut which is fitted onto the screw shaft and has a spiral internal thread groove on an inner peripheral surface, a plurality of balls rotatably arranged in a track path formed between the external thread groove and the internal thread groove, and a piece member which is attached to the nut and connects the internal thread grooves to each other. The piece member includes a piece body in which a return groove connecting the internal thread grooves is formed and a pair of engaging portions which are provided on the piece body, extend in opposite directions in a circumferential direction of the nut, and engage with the internal thread groove of the nut. A joint portion between the piece body and the engaging portion has a fillet shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Keitaro Oka
  • Publication number: 20220243772
    Abstract: To realize a method for manufacturing a hub unit bearing capable of increasing the processing efficiency of a staking portion. An axial inner end portion of a hub ring 22 is processed into a staking portion 26 by rotating a die 31 around a reference axis C in a state in which the die 31 having a rotation axis ? inclined with respect to the reference axis C is pressed against the axial inner end portion of the hub ring 22 under a condition that the hub ring 22 is disposed so that a center axis of the hub ring 22 is coaxial or parallel to the reference axis C and the hub ring 22 is supported to be radially movable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki HAGIWARA, Reiji HIRASAKI
  • Patent number: 11390313
    Abstract: A steering jacket includes a first jacket member and a second jacket member in this order from a side proximal to a steering wheel, and the first jacket member and the second jacket member overlap each other such that the steering jacket is extendable and retractable in an axial direction. An actuator is connected to an extension bracket that is attached to an outer surface of the first jacket member and extends toward the front of a vehicle body, so as to extend and retract the first jacket member with respect to the second jacket member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kurokawa, Jessica Elaine Lipa
  • Patent number: 11391358
    Abstract: A worm reduction gear, including: an inner diameter side holder in which a bearing is internally fitted and held; an outer diameter side holder which includes a holder holding part in which the inner diameter side holder is internally fitted and held so as to be able to be relatively rotated and moved and to be displaced in a direction orthogonal to a center axis of a worm wheel and a center axis of a worm, and which is internally fitted and held in a holding recessed part of a housing; and an elastic urging member in a circumferential direction which elastically urges the inner diameter side holder against the outer diameter side holder in a direction of rotating in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Segawa, Toru Ishii, Souta Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11391350
    Abstract: A ball screw includes: a screw shaft (10) having a spiral first screw groove (11) formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof; a nut (20) disposed on the periphery of the screw shaft (10) and having a spiral second screw groove (21) formed in an inner peripheral surface thereof; a plurality of balls (30) accommodated in a rolling path (23) formed by the opposing screw grooves (11, 21); and a circulation piece (40) that forms a ball return passage (42) for circulating the plurality of balls (30) through one circuit or less of the rolling path (23). Traffic variation is made to be small by determining the maximum angle of inclination (?) of the ball return passage (42) in an expression using the lead (L), the ball diameter (Da), and the lead angle (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Keitaro Oka
  • Patent number: 11383757
    Abstract: A shaft for a steering device has a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion that is a shaft integrated with the first portion and the second portion and couples the first portion and the second portion in a first direction. The outer diameter of the third portion is smaller than the length of the second portion in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and is constant across a direction extending along the first direction. The hardness of the third portion is greater than the hardness of the second portion, and is constant across the direction extending along the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kaname Yasuda, Tatsuya Suehiro, Kazuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 11384821
    Abstract: A ball screw device includes: a screw shaft the outer peripheral surface of which has a first thread groove; a nut the inner peripheral surface of which is provided with a second thread groove that matches the first thread groove, and the outer peripheral surface of which is provided with a through hole; a plurality of balls that roll between the first thread groove and the second thread groove; a circulation component including a main body part and a pair of leg parts provided on both ends of the main body part, and that is provided on the nut; and a pin component that fixes the circulation component to the nut. Each of the leg parts is inserted into the through hole, the pin component is provided on the leg part in an overlapping manner, and the leg part is retained in the through hole by the pin component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Sato, Yasuaki Abe, Kazuya Yamada, Motoshi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11384818
    Abstract: A pressing device for a toroidal continuously variable transmission, comprises: a disk having a toroidal curved surface and a first cam surface; a cam plate having a cylindrical portion, and an outward facing flange portion having a second cam surface; and a plurality of rolling bodies. The cylindrical portion has a cylinder portion, a projection projecting inward in the radial direction in one axial end portion of the cylinder portion and having a step surface, and an oil supply passage. At least a part of a radial inside opening of the oil supply passage opens to a portion of the cylinder portion positioned further on the other side in the axial direction than the step surface. The oil supply passage has an oil-passage hole penetrating the cylinder portion and an oil-passage groove continuous with the oil-passage hole and recessed from the step surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: NSK LTD., KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Kita, Kippei Matsuda, Hideyuki Imai, Kenichiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220212715
    Abstract: A steering device includes a steering wheel, a steering shaft, a steering column, a tilt position adjustment mechanism for tilting the steering column, and a joint for tiltably connecting the steering shaft with a fixed-side rotating body which is supported on a vehicle body side without being interlocked with a tilt operation performed by the tilt position adjustment mechanism. The joint is disposed closer to a steering wheel side than the fixed-side rotating body is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220212244
    Abstract: A shaft member includes: an outer peripheral surface; at least one axial side surface facing an axial direction; a chamfered portion formed at a connection portion between an axial end edge of the outer peripheral surface and an outer peripheral edge of the axial side surface; and a processing target portion formed on at least a part of the outer peripheral surface. The chamfered portion includes at least one supported surface portion disposed at an axially intermediate portion of the chamfered portion and inclined radially outward as approaching the processing target portion in the axial direction. The axial end edge of the outer peripheral surface and the outer peripheral edge of the axial side surface are located radially inward than a tangent line at an axially intermediate portion of the supported surface portion, in a cross section in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi SAITO
  • Patent number: 11377138
    Abstract: A gear housing for an electric power steering device has a front-side housing and a rear-side housing. The front-side housing has a worm wheel housing portion, a worm housing portion, and reinforcing ribs. The worm wheel housing portion has a worm wheel cylindrical portion and a ring shaped worm wheel bottom portion bent inward in a radial direction from a front end portion of the worm wheel cylindrical portion. The worm housing portion is provided on a part in a circumferential direction of an outer-diameter side portion of the worm wheel housing portion. The reinforcing ribs are provided on a front side surface of the front-side housing, extend in a direction in which an engagement reaction force acts between the worm wheel and a worm of the worm shaft, and span between the worm housing portion and the worm wheel bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NSK, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 11377141
    Abstract: An electric power steering device including: a control rotational displacement calculation unit configured to calculate a control rotational displacement when a steering angle of the steering system is in an angular range from a maximum allowable steering angle for the steering system to a predetermined threshold steering angle; a control steering angle shifting unit configured to calculate the control rotational displacement corrected by a correction amount based on one of the steering torque and rack axial force and a sign of one of the control rotational displacement and the steering angle as a shift control steering angle; and a feedforward control unit configured to output a second current command value based on the shift control steering angle and steering velocity. An assist control is controlled with a third current command value calculated by adding the second current command value to the first current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitazume, Shoya Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20220205495
    Abstract: The reverse input cutoff clutch comprises a pressed member having a pressed surface, an input member arranged coaxially with the pressed surface and having an input-side engaging portion arranged radially inside the pressed surface, an output member arranged coaxially with the pressed surface and having an output-side engaging portion arranged more radially inside than the input-side engaging portion, and an engaging element arranged radially inside the pressed surface and having a pressing surface facing the pressed surface, an input-side engaged portion that engages with the input-side engaging portions, and an output-side engaged portion that engages with the output-side engaging portion. The output-side engaged portion is configured by a recessed portion, and the interior surface of the recessed portion has a pair of guided surfaces. The output-side engaging portion has a pair of guide surfaces facing the pair of guided surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Nagao DOHI, Yuya DAIKOKU
  • Patent number: 11370473
    Abstract: An interface structure includes a sleeve, a wedge and a biasing member. The sleeve is arranged between the inner circumferential surface of the outer tube and the outer circumferential surface of the inner tube. The sleeve includes at least one fixing portion fixed to a first tube that is one of the outer tube and the inner tube, at least one contact surface configured to come into contact with a second tube that is the other of the outer tube and the inner tube, and a wedge mating surface configured to be mated with the wedge. The wedge is arranged between the first tube and the sleeve and is mated with the wedge mating surface of the sleeve. The biasing member biases the wedge so as to engage the wedge between the first tube and the sleeve while allowing the sleeve and the second tube to slide on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kurokawa, Jessica Elaine Lipa
  • Publication number: 20220196065
    Abstract: In a tapered roller bearing (10), the surface roughness of at least a rolling surface (13c) and a large diameter-side end surface (13b) of a tapered roller (13) is 0.02 to 0.17 ?m in reduced peak height Rpk, 0.12 to 0.21 ?m in core roughness depth Rk, and 0.07 to 0.43 ?m in reduced valley depth Rvk and the average recessed portion area in the fine irregularities on the surface of the tapered roller (13) is 5 ?m2 or less. As a result, oil film formability can be improved under dilute lubrication and a decline in lubricating oil viscosity and surface damage at a rolling contact part and an increase in friction at a sliding contact part can be suppressed at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki CHISHIMA, Hiroaki YAMANAKA, Hiroyuki OHSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11365764
    Abstract: A rolling bearing unit includes: an inner ring member having a recess on a first side in an axial direction along a rotation axis, which is recessed toward a second side in the axial direction; an outer ring member on an outer peripheral side of the inner ring member; a rolling body between the inner ring member and the outer ring member; a non-contact transmitter using electric field coupling capable of transmitting at least one of an electric power or a signal and including a stationary-side transmission part including a stationary-side electrode and a rotary-side transmission part including a rotary-side electrode facing the stationary-side electrode; and a covering member supported by the first side of the outer ring member in the axial direction, covering the first side of the inner ring member in the axial direction, and fixing the stationary-side transmission part to the first side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Gunji, Hiroyasu Kumagai, Naohiro Hitomi, Ricardo Rodriguez Lopez
  • Patent number: D955461
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NSK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Miyagawa