Patents Assigned to NSK
  • Patent number: 12168472
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Morishima, Tasuku Oishi, Jotaro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12168471
    Abstract: The steering device includes a steering shaft, a steering column, a bracket, and a fastening mechanism. The steering column includes a lower column and an upper column. The upper column includes a clamp, a cylindrical part, a pair of protrusions, and a reinforcement rib that extends across an outer peripheral surface of the clamp and an outer surface of one of the protrusions. The clamp includes a continuous clamp positioned near the cylindrical part and a spaced clamp spaced apart from the cylindrical part. The protrusions include a continuous protrusion that protrudes from the continuous clamp, and a spaced protrusion that protrudes from the spaced clamp. The reinforcement rib linearly extends from the spaced protrusion toward the continuous clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikuta, Yoshiyuki Sato, Suguru Sugishita, Hirotaka Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12162527
    Abstract: A drive wheel in which the rotational axial center of a wheel along the vertical direction intersecting the axial center of the axle is arranged shifted in the horizontal direction orthogonal to the axial center of the axle with respect to the axial center of the pivot shaft. When a radius R1 of the wheel, center distance R2 between the rotational axial center and the axial center of the pivot shaft, rotational frequency n1 of the wheel, rotational frequency n2 of the pivot shaft, rotational speed V1 of the wheel, and steering rotational speed V2 of the wheel rolling on a floor surface while turning the pivot shaft satisfy V1=V2, relations of V1=2?×R1×n1, V2=2?×R2×n2, and n1=n2 (R2/R1) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Ko Fujioka
  • Patent number: 12152949
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetostrictive torque sensor shaft (100) to which a sensor portion (2) of a magnetostrictive torque sensor (1) is mounted. The method includes heat treatment step of subjecting an iron-based shaft member to a carburizing, quenching, and tempering process, and a shot peening step of performing shot peening using a boron-free zirconia shot media having a Vickers hardness at least equal to 1100 and at most equal to 1300, at least in a position on the shaft member, after the heat treatment step, to which the sensor portion is to be attached. The surface of the shaft member, after shot peening, has a total error, including hysteresis error and angle error, of not more than 3%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Fukuda, Junji Ono, Teruyuki Nakamura, Yuta Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 12151738
    Abstract: A steering column device includes a steering column; and a telescopic actuator. The steering column includes a first column member, a second column member assembled to the first column member in a manner of being displaceable relative to the first column member in an axial direction, and a low-friction sliding member disposed between the first column member and the second column member. The telescopic actuator includes a telescopic motor, and displaces the second column member in the axial direction with respect to the first column member by using the telescopic motor as a drive source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Taguchi, Shin Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12152624
    Abstract: A rolled thread screw includes: a screw part having, on an outer circumferential part of the screw part, thread crests and thread grooves disposed alternately along an axial direction of the rolled thread screw; and a columnar part adjoining at least one of both sides of the screw part in the axial direction. An axial end surface of the columnar part is provided with: a first concave surface concave in the axial direction; a second concave surface positioned to an outer circumference of the first concave surface and being concave in the axial direction; and a salient part positioned on a boundary between the first concave surface and the second concave surface and projecting further than a bottom of the first concave surface and a bottom of the second concave surface, the salient part extending in an arc-like shape along a circumferential direction of the columnar part as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Saito
  • Publication number: 20240384759
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a linear motion device using a highly reliable and environmentally friendly separator that improves a dimensional stability, ductility, and adhesion of greases based on poly-?-olefin oil, which are required for separators, and also prevents deformation at high speeds. [Solution] Provided is a linear motion device including a linear motion body (15) that is fitted onto a screw shaft (11) and moves straight along the screw shaft (11), a large number of balls (B) held in a ball groove (14) formed on an inner surface side of the linear motion body (15) and rolling between the ball groove (14) and the screw shaft (11), a separator (100) interposed 10 between each ball (B), a circulation passage (18) formed in the linear motion body (15) and circulating the ball (B) from one end side of the ball groove (14) to the other end side, where at least one of the separator (100) and the circulation passage (18) is formed from polyamide 410 by injection molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Toshikazu YABE, Keisuke YOKOYAMA, Shintaro HONDA, Nariaki AIHARA
  • Patent number: 12146552
    Abstract: The nut has a first fitting surface provided with a first retaining ring groove on an end portion on the other side in the axial direction; the fitting cylinder, at an end portion on the one side in the axial direction, has a second fitting surface provided with a second retaining ring groove in a portion facing the first retaining ring groove with regard to a radial direction; and the retaining ring is engaged so as to span between the first retaining ring groove and the second retaining ring groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Yasumi Watanabe, Ryo Segawa, Tomoko Miyamori
  • Publication number: 20240376969
    Abstract: A ball screw device has a screw shaft that has a screw portion having a spiral-shaped shaft-side ball screw groove on an outer peripheral surface thereof, and a carrier integrally formed with the screw portion and constituting a planetary speed-reducing mechanism; a nut that has a spiral-shaped nut-side bass screw portion on an inner peripheral surface thereof; a plurality of balls arranged between the shaft-side ball screw groove and the nut-side ball screw groove; and a rolling bearing for supporting the carrier which has an outer ring having an outer ring raceway, an inner ring raceway provided on a portion facing the outer ring raceway in a radial direction, and a plurality of rolling bodies arranged between the outer ring raceway and the inner ring raceway, which is directly formed on an outer peripheral surface of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo SEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12142972
    Abstract: To provide an electric driving device and an electric power steering device with a smaller area of power supply wiring in a circuit board and higher reliability of the circuit board. 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 power supply wiring module, and a heat sink. The first circuit board is provided with a transistor that outputs an electric current to excite a motor coil. The second circuit board includes a control circuit that controls an electric current supplied to the transistor. The power supply wiring module is configured by molding, with resin, a choke coil for noise removal, a capacitor, and wiring that supplies electric power to at least one of the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The heat sink is sandwiched between the power supply wiring module and the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu Morimoto
  • Patent number: 12139213
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a steering system for vehicles that precisely compensates an influence of the friction generated in the turning mechanism and enables a vehicle to respond properly. The control apparatus controls a turning mechanism by drive-controlling a turning actuator based on steering information communicated electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tsubaki, Ryo Minaki
  • Patent number: 12139190
    Abstract: A steering device includes: a steering shaft which extends along a central axis and to which a steering wheel is coupled on one side in an axial direction; a tubular steering column which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the steering shaft and extends in the axial direction; and a gearbox which is disposed on the other side in the axial direction of the steering column and is fixed to the steering column. The steering column includes a fixing member provided at an end on the other side in the axial direction and fixed to the gearbox, and an outer circumferential surface on one side in the axial direction of the fixing member has an outer diameter which increases toward the other side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Suguru Sugishita, Hirotaka Shimizu, Kouhei Takeishi
  • Patent number: 12128946
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Morishima, Tasuku Oishi, Jotaro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12128525
    Abstract: A workpiece supporting device (6) includes a base stand (10), a shoe (11) which is disposed on at least one place in a circumferential direction of a workpiece (1a) that is rotationally driven using a rotary drive device (4) and is in sliding contact with a circumferential surface of the workpiece (1a), and a supporting body (12) which supports the shoe (11) with respect to the base stand (10). The supporting body (12) includes a compliant structure portion (a leaf spring (14)) which tilts the shoe (11) in accordance with tilting of the workpiece (1a) with respect to the base stand (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ebina, Koji Yokoe, Takashi Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20240352993
    Abstract: A fitting shaft portion has an inner-diameter side engaging portion on an outer peripheral surface with external teeth arranged in a circumferential direction; a fitting member has an outer-diameter side engaging portion on an inner peripheral surface with internal teeth arranged in the circumferential direction and engaging with the inner-diameter side engaging portion; an engaging portion between the inner-diameter side engaging portion and the outer-diameter side engaging portion includes a portion having interference in the radial direction in a portion in the axial direction; and the fitting shaft portion has a crimped portion at an end portion on one side in the axial direction that engages in the axial direction with the fitting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SEGAWA, Yuta NAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12123466
    Abstract: A plurality of press rolls (33) each having an inclined roll central axis (6) are used. Each of press rolls (33) and a bub ring (22z) are relatively rotated while pressing a roll processing surface portion (34) of each of the press rolls (33) against a plurality of locations of a tubular portion (25) of the hub ring (22z) in a circumferential direction to plastically deform the tubular portion (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hagiwara, Xuexiao Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240342843
    Abstract: Axial relative movement of an auxiliary member (30) and a hub body (22z) is performed, the hub body (22z) and an inner race (21) are combined with each other in an axial direction, and a part of the hub body (22z) deformed by a blade (33) of the auxiliary member (30) is disposed inside an engagement concave portion (26) of the inner race (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki HAGIWARA, Sonji RYU
  • Publication number: 20240344563
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rolling bearing ring comprising: a step of obtaining a base member; a step of forming, by laser cladding, a cladded layer made of a metal material having a higher hardness than the base member on one surface of the body member; a step of forming a rolling element guide surface by finishing a surface of the cladded layer; and a step of forming, by laser hardening, a hardened layer over the entire circumference of a surface layer portion of at least a part of the base member that is separated from the cladded layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: NSK L LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro SUGANUMA, Hiroki KOMATA, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Hiroki SHODA, Haruna KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20240342784
    Abstract: A press-formed product manufacturing method includes obtaining a first piece (19, 55) by punching a metal material, obtaining a second piece (28, 50) by comprising an edge of a second surface (8) of the first piece (19, 53) sandwiching the first piece (19, 55) between a first die (25) and a second die (26), and trimming a second piece (28) by using press working.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji NAKAMURA, Manabu SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: D1051920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Takenobu Inaba