Patents Assigned to NSK
  • Patent number: 12060116
    Abstract: An actuator with reverse input blocking clutch has a function of switching the reverse input blocking clutch to a state in which torque can be transmitted between an input member and an output member, in a state in which reverse torque is input to the output member from an output-side mechanism, by applying torque to the input member by an actuator in an opposite direction to a direction of the reverse torque, and then by giving an instruction to the actuator to apply torque having a magnitude smaller than a magnitude of the reverse torque to the input member in the opposite direction, transmitting the reverse torque to the input member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Yamamoto, Atsushi Maeda, Shohei Kaneko, Cyou Kyo, Hideyuki Saito
  • Publication number: 20240263099
    Abstract: A grease composition for vehicular hub unit bearings is provided, in which a base oil is a synthetic hydrocarbon oil having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 25-50 mm2/s, a thickener is an alicyclic aliphatic diurea compound, based on a total mass of the composition, 0.1-5% by mass of a carboxylic acid-based corrosion inhibitor, 0.1-5% by mass of a carboxylic acid salt-based corrosion inhibitor, and 0.1-3% by mass of an amine salt of a fatty acid are contained, and a worked penetration is 220-270.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD., NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki ISA, Yuki TAKEYAMA, Masatoshi IJIMA, Suguru SUGAWARA, Hiroaki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240263690
    Abstract: A linear actuator of the present disclosure includes a ball screw device, a piston, and a rotation stopper. A screw shaft includes a screw shaft body, a male spline portion, and a step surface. A nut includes a first end surface, a first opening portion, and a first stopper. The piston includes a piston body, a cylindrical portion having a cylindrical shape, protruding in a second direction from a central portion of an opposite surface, and fitted into the male spline portion, and a second stopper protruding in the second direction from the opposite surface. The first stopper and the second stopper abut on each other and form the rotation stopper when the screw shaft is at an initial position. The step surface is arranged in the second direction compared to the first opening portion and is located inside the nut when the screw shaft is at the initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Motoshi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 12055556
    Abstract: A manipulation system includes a sample stage configured such that a minute object is placed thereon, a first manipulator including a first pipette for holding the minute object, a second manipulator including a second pipette for manipulating the minute object that is held to the first pipette, an imaging unit configured to image the minute object, and a control unit configured to control the sample stage, the first pipette, the second pipette, and the imaging unit. The control unit moves the second pipette to a direction approaching the sample stage from the upper side of the minute object, at a position where the second pipette overlaps with the minute object and is away from the center of the minute object in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the second pipette, when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the sample stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ueda, Manabu Kishida, Nobuaki Takana
  • Publication number: 20240253693
    Abstract: An electric power steering device includes an assist pinion shaft, a worm wheel attached to an end part on the Z2 side of the assist pinion shaft, a worm shaft that has shaft teeth meshing with wheel teeth, and a casing that houses the worm shaft and the worm wheel. Among a plurality of parts of the wheel teeth, a first part is a part that meshes with the shaft teeth, and a second part is a part located on the opposite side of the first part with a central axis interposed therebetween. The first distance from an end surface on the Z1 side of the first part to a tip end of a casing end part is greater than the second distance from an end surface on the Z1 side of the second part to a tip end of the casing end part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeo SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240255030
    Abstract: A detection method for detecting a state of a bearing device including a plurality of rollers and first and second members configuring rolling surfaces of the rollers, the method including: applying an AC voltage to an electrical circuit configured by the rollers and the first and second members; measuring an impedance and a phase angle of the electrical circuit when applying the AC voltage; and deriving, based on the impedance and the phase angle, an oil film thickness and a metal contact ratio in at least one of between the first member and the rollers and between the second member and the rollers, in which the oil film thickness and the metal contact ratio are derived using a calculation equation corresponding to an electrical circuit configured by a line contact occurring between a roller and at least one of the first and second members in the bearing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke MARUYAMA, Faidhi RADZI
  • Patent number: 12048984
    Abstract: A centerless grinding processing in which a sliding contact surface (10) is subjected to grinding by pressing a grindstone against the sliding contact surface (10) of an inner ring (3) while rotating the inner ring (3) relative to the grindstone in a prescribed direction, and then, in the centerless grinding process, a finishing step in which grinding lines in a direction intersecting grinding lines formed on the sliding contact surface (10) are formed on the sliding contact surface (10) and/or processing for improving the surface roughness of the sliding contact surface (10) is performed is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12049931
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Nagao Dohi
  • Patent number: 12043302
    Abstract: A screw shaft includes a large-diameter shaft portion having a male-side screw portion over the entire length of the outer circumferential surface thereof; a first small-diameter shaft portion arranged adjacent to one side in the axial direction of the large-diameter shaft portion, and having an outer diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of the large-diameter shaft portion, and having a helical first rolling mark on the outer circumferential surface thereof; and a second small-diameter shaft portion arranged adjacent to the other side in the axial direction of the large-diameter shaft portion, and having an outer diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of the large-diameter shaft portion, and having a helical first rolling mark on the outer circumferential surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Saito
  • Publication number: 20240239401
    Abstract: An actuator with reverse input blocking clutch has a function of switching the reverse input blocking clutch to a state in which torque can be transmitted between an input member and an output member, in a state in which reverse torque is input to the output member from an output-side mechanism, by applying torque to the input member by an actuator in an opposite direction to a direction of the reverse torque, and then by giving an instruction to the actuator to apply torque having a magnitude smaller than a magnitude of the reverse torque to the input member in the opposite direction, transmitting the reverse torque to the input member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin YAMAMOTO, Atsushi MAEDA, Shohei KANEKO, Cyou KYO, Hideyuki SAITO
  • Patent number: 12024222
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Morishima, Tasuku Oishi
  • Patent number: 12024248
    Abstract: A vehicle steering device includes a target steering torque generation unit configured to generate target steering torque for a reaction force motor, and a torque correction value calculation unit configured to generate a torque signal Tref_p in accordance with road surface reaction force acting on a steering wheel of a vehicle. The torque correction value calculation unit generates the torque signal Tref_p by separating estimated road surface reaction force into a low-frequency component and a high-frequency component, providing level restriction on each of the low-frequency component and the high-frequency component, and adding torque values converted from the low-frequency component and the high-frequency component after the level restriction. The target steering torque generation unit generates the target steering torque by adding the torque signal Tref_p and a torque signal Tref_a generated based on a predetermined basic map in accordance with at least a vehicle speed and a steering angle of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Keitarou Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20240209927
    Abstract: The nut according to the present disclosure includes a nut main body and a circulation component. The nut main body includes a housing part having a bow shape when viewed from an axial direction, a seat surface forming a bottom surface of the housing part, a through hole passing through the seat surface, and a pair of side surfaces arranged on both sides in the axial direction with respect to the housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei YUMIBA, Yasumi WATANABE, Yasuaki ABE
  • Publication number: 20240209892
    Abstract: A roller includes chamfered portions and roller inclined surfaces formed on both axial ends of a roller outer circumferential surface. When in a cross section taken along a plane including a rotation axis of the roller and a bearing central axis, an intersection angle between a tangent line of the roller inclined surface at the first position of the roller inclined surface corresponding to an end portion of a guide surface and a perpendicular line of the rotation axis is defined as ?, an intersection angle between a tangent line of the roller inclined surface at the second position corresponding to a boundary between the chamfered portion and the roller inclined surface and a perpendicular line of the rotation axis is defined as ?, and an intersection angle between the guide surface and a perpendicular line of the bearing central axis is defined as ?, ?<?<? is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi MURAI, Yoshinari KAGOTA
  • Patent number: 12017310
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hagiwara, Sonji Ryu
  • Patent number: 12017233
    Abstract: Provided is a nozzle structure, a blow device, and a manufacturing method for parts, a bearing, a linear motion device, a steering device, a vehicle, and a mechanical device which can uniformly and satisfactorily perform various processes with fluid over a wide range on a processing target member. The nozzle structure includes an inner member, an outer member surrounding the inner member, and a laminar flow path formed between an outer surface of the inner member and an inner surface of the outer member to allow fluid to flow. The blow device or the mechanical device having the nozzle structure can process the inner member by flowing the fluid in the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Kouhei Dobashi
  • Publication number: 20240200617
    Abstract: The efficiency of assembling a reverse-input blocking clutch including an elastic member is improved. A reverse-input blocking clutch 1 includes a pressed member 2 having a pressed surface 7, an input member 3 having an input-side engaging portion 22, an output member 4 having an output-side engaging portion 33, an engaging element 5 having a pressing surface 45, an input-side engaged portion 50, and an output-side engaged portion and arranged between the pressed surface 7 and the output-side engaging portion 33 with respect to a first direction which is a direction of moving toward or away from the pressed surface 7, an elastic member 6 that elastically urge the pressing surface 45 toward the pressed surface 7 in the first direction, and a displacement prevention means for preventing relative displacement in the axial direction of the engaging element 5 with respires to the output member 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Nagao DOHI, Shohei KANEKO
  • Patent number: 12013307
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a rolling device (10) including an outer member (1), an inner member (3), and rolling elements (5) includes: applying an AC voltage to an electric circuit including the outer member (1), the rolling elements (5), and the inner member (3); measuring an impedance and a phase angle of the electric circuit when the AC voltage is applied; and measuring a dielectric constant of a lubricant at least one of between the outer member (1) and the rolling elements (5) and between the inner member (3) and the rolling elements (5) based on the measured impedance and the measured phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke Maruyama, Masayuki Maeda, Ken Nakano
  • Patent number: 12012165
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an electric power steering device including a first control portion that derives a first command value based on a steering torque and a second control portion that derives a second command value based on a target command value for a driving support function, where the first control portion generates the first command value by extracting a command value corresponding to a vibration suppression component from a command value including the vibration suppression component derived from the steering torque, adjusting the derived command value according to an operating state of a function of the second control portion, and adding the extracted command value to the adjusted command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kitazume
  • Patent number: D1031548
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Ohira