Patents Assigned to Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11959518
    Abstract: A technique capable of reducing the possibility of generation of a Cu—Sb compound in an overlay and the possibility of delamination between layers. A sliding member includes: an overlay including an alloy plating film of Bi and Sb; a lining including an Al alloy; a first intermediate layer including Cu as a main component, and laminated on the lining; and a second intermediate layer including Ag as a main component, and connecting the first intermediate layer and the overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Suga
  • Publication number: 20240101730
    Abstract: A sliding member is formed of a polytetrafluoroethylene resin. The polytetrafluoroethylene resin contains 2.4 wt % or more and 15.6 wt % or less magnesium phosphate, 7.6 wt % or more and 19.9 wt % or less barium sulfate, 0 wt % or more and 10.0 wt % or less molybdenum disulfide, and 8.3 wt % or more and 15.7 wt % or less fired clay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki MURAI, Masaya TOKORO, Naoki HORIBE
  • Patent number: 11824426
    Abstract: The motor cooling member includes: an oil feed port to which oil is fed; a plurality of discharge ports that discharge oil toward a motor; a basis oil passage connected to the oil feed port; and a plurality of derived oil passages each of which is formed by branching from the basis oil passage so as to correspond to each of the plurality of discharge ports and is formed so as to connect the basis oil passage to each of the discharge ports, and which are formed in different shapes from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terumi Nonaka, Daisuke Shikanai
  • Patent number: 11807926
    Abstract: [Object] To improve both abrasion resistance and seizure resistance. [Solution] A copper alloy sliding material is configured, which contains 0.5 to 12.0 mass % of Sn, 2.0 to 8.0 mass % of Bi, and 1.0 to 5.0 vol % of an inorganic compound, the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein the inorganic compound includes a first inorganic compound having an average particle size of 0.5 to 3.0 ?m and a second inorganic compound having an average particle size of 4.0 to 20.0 ?m, and wherein a value obtained by dividing a volume fraction of the first inorganic compound by a volume fraction of the second inorganic compound is 0.1 to 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuhei Ebata
  • Publication number: 20230235787
    Abstract: A sliding member including an overlay capable of realizing good fatigue resistance while preventing interlayer peeling. The sliding member including an overlay formed of an alloy plating film of Bi and Sb, wherein Bi—Sb oxide is formed on a surface of the overlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki SUGA, Hironori SUGITANI
  • Publication number: 20230208254
    Abstract: The motor cooling member includes: an oil feed port to which oil is fed; a plurality of discharge ports that discharge oil toward a motor; a basis oil passage connected to the oil feed port; and a plurality of derived oil passages each of which is formed by branching from the basis oil passage so as to correspond to each of the plurality of discharge ports and is formed so as to connect the basis oil passage to each of the discharge ports, and which are formed in different shapes from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Terumi NONAKA, Daisuke SHIKANAI
  • Publication number: 20230191950
    Abstract: Included are: a case; a motor provided in the case and having a rotatable shaft; two blowers provided in the case and including impellers that are fixed to a shaft and are capable of being rotated by the motor, the impellers each having multiple blades disposed at predetermined intervals on a circumference of the corresponding impeller; an intake port provided in the case and configured to take air in between the two blowers; and discharge ports provided in the case to each correspond to a one of the two blowers, each configured to discharge the air taken into a corresponding blower through the intake port to the outside. In each of portions that accommodates corresponding one of the two blowers in the case, a side opposite to a side through which air is taken in is sealed off so as to prevent inflow of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMASHITA, Kiyotaka OHTAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230160425
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of realizing good wear resistance with a simple structure. A sliding member and a sliding bearing each include a base layer and a coating layer formed on the base layer, the coating layer having a sliding surface with a counterpart member. The base layer is formed of a hard material that is harder than the coating layer, and the average concentration of a diffusion component of the hard material diffused from the base layer is 4 wt % or more in an evaluation range, in the coating layer, in which the distance from an interface with the base layer is 1 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230150023
    Abstract: A sliding member (10) includes a base material (12), a porous sintered layer (14) provided on the base material (12), and a resin layer (16) impregnated into the porous sintered layer (14) and provided on the porous sintered layer (14). In the porous sintered layer (14), a porosity decreases from a second surface (S2) opposite to a first surface (S1) closer to the base material, toward the first surface (S1), the first surface and the second surface each being one of end surfaces in the thickness direction, and a decrease rate of the porosity in the thickness direction (Z) in a first region (E1) occupying 50% or more of the thickness of the porous sintered layer (14) from the second surface (S2) toward the first surface (S1) is larger than a decrease rate of the porosity in the thickness direction (Z) in a second region (E2) other than the first region (E1) in the porous sintered layer (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki HORIBE, Noriyuki WADA, Hiroshi ITO
  • Patent number: 11632018
    Abstract: The motor cooling member includes: an oil feed port to which oil is fed; a plurality of discharge ports that discharge oil toward a motor; a basis oil passage connected to the oil feed port; and a plurality of derived oil passages each of which is formed by branching from the basis oil passage so as to correspond to each of the plurality of discharge ports and is formed so as to connect the basis oil passage to each of the discharge ports, and which are formed in different shapes from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terumi Nonaka, Daisuke Shikanai
  • Patent number: 11572917
    Abstract: A sliding bearing that is disposed in a cylinder block and supports a journal portion of a crankshaft, including: a semi-annular first split bearing having a first circumferential end surface; and a semi-annular second split bearing having a second circumferential end surface. The first and second circumferential end surfaces contact each other, the first split bearing has a same outer diameter as an outer diameter of the second split bearing, the second split bearing has a thickness at a second circumferentially central position that is greater than a thickness of the first split bearing at a first circumferentially central position, the thickness of the first split bearing is decreased from the first circumferentially central position toward the first circumferential end surface, the thickness of the second split bearing is decreased from the second circumferentially central position toward the second circumferential end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Goto
  • Publication number: 20220403879
    Abstract: A resin material 16 for a sliding member contains a synthetic resin 18, graphite particles 20 dispersed in the synthetic resin 18, and a hard material 24. The synthetic resin 18 contains 5% or more by volume and 30% or less by volume of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) 22. The graphite particles 20 have an average particle diameter of 0.5 ?m or more and 5.0 ?m or less and have a content of 1% or more by volume and 15% or less by volume in the synthetic resin 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Naoki HORIBE, Toshiyuki CHITOSE
  • Patent number: 11499111
    Abstract: To provide a technique capable of realizing an appropriate wear resistance in a resin coating layer. The sliding member of the present invention is a sliding member including a base layer and a resin coating layer formed on the base layer, wherein the resin coating layer is formed of a polyamide-imide resin as a binder, barium sulfate particles, molybdenum disulfide particles, and unavoidable impurities, wherein the resin coating layer is composed of a plurality of overcoated application layers, and wherein the plurality of application layers are different from each other in content of hard particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Yasunori Kabeya
  • Patent number: 11480216
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy for a slide bearing of the present invention contains: 0 mass % or more and 10.0 mass % or less of Sn and 0 mass % or more and 5.0 mass % or less of Si, 0 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less of Cu as a solid-solution strengthening component, at least one of 0.05 mass % or more and 0.35 mass % or less of Cr, 0.05 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less of Mn, and 0.05 mass % or more and 0.3 mass % or less of Zr as a precipitation strengthening component, 2.3 mass % or more and 6.0 mass % or less of Ag, a part of which is dissolved to form a solid solution and the rest of which is precipitated, and the balance consisting of unavoidable impurities and Al.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 11460067
    Abstract: A washer includes a first washer piece formed in a circular arc shape and formed with a first fitting portion that protrudes from one end in a circular arc direction; and a fourth washer piece formed with a second fitting portion that is recessed from one end in the circular arc direction and fitted with the first fitting portion. The first fitting portion and the second fitting portion are fitted in a state where approach and separation therebetween in the circular arc direction is controlled. One of the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion includes a crimped portion that is formed in a state where a side surface of the one of the fitting portions is pushed into a side surface of the other of the fitting portions, the one of the fitting portions being fixed to the other of the fitting portions by the crimped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Otake
  • Publication number: 20220298603
    Abstract: [Object] To improve both abrasion resistance and seizure resistance. [Solution] A copper alloy sliding material is configured, which contains 0.5 to 12.0 mass % of Sn, 2.0 to 8.0 mass % of Bi, and 1.0 to 5.0 vol % of an inorganic compound, the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein the inorganic compound includes a first inorganic compound having an average particle size of 0.5 to 3.0 ?m and a second inorganic compound having an average particle size of 4.0 to 20.0 ?m, and wherein a value obtained by dividing a volume fraction of the first inorganic compound by a volume fraction of the second inorganic compound is 0.1 to 1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuhei EBATA
  • Patent number: 11408465
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding bearing having an improved circularity and having achieved an increase in contact area with respect to a holder. The sliding bearing 1 comprises a pair of an upper halved member 2 and a lower halved member 3 which are portions of a cylinder halved in parallel to an axial direction. The sliding bearing has an oil hole 24 penetrating therethrough in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the cylinder. An inner peripheral portion 24a of the oil hole 24 has formed a laser-melted portion 25 which is an area in which a change in property in comparison to the original material has been caused by the thermal influence of laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kato, Kohei Fukami
  • Patent number: 11396910
    Abstract: Provided are a sliding member and a sliding bearing which can improve the fatigue resistance. A sliding member having a base layer and a coating layer laminated on the base layer, in which the coating layer contains Bi or Sn as a first metal element, a second metal element which is harder than the first metal element and forms an intermetallic compound with the first metal element, C, and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Suga
  • Patent number: D967197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syuhei Nishida, Satoshi Ikeda, Kazuya Mizuno, Ken Nakamuta
  • Patent number: D969171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syuhei Nishida, Satoshi Ikeda, Kazuya Mizuno, Ken Nakamuta