Patents Assigned to Taiho Kogyo Co.
  • Patent number: 10982712
    Abstract: A sliding member including an overlay capable of realizing good fatigue resistance while preventing interlayer peeling. The sliding member includes an overlay formed of an alloy plating film of Bi and Sb. The overlay contains Bi, Sb, and unavoidable impurities. The concentration of Sb on the surface of the overlay is 0.92% by mass or more and 13% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 10941810
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding member capable of realizing the wear resistance effect by Si particles. The sliding member includes an aluminum alloy layer containing 7.0% by mass or more and 13.0% by mass or less of Sn, 6.5% by mass or more and 12.0% by mass or less of Si, 0.5% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less of Cu, unavoidable impurities, and a balance Al. Si particles are dispersed in the aluminum alloy layer. A Vickers hardness of a matrix of the aluminum alloy layer is 40 HV or more and 60 HV or less. A load resistance value, which is a product of a volume concentration and average area of the Si particles and the Vickers hardness of the matrix, is 0.00001 N or more and 0.00029 N or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Maki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210040988
    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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeyuki SUGA
  • Publication number: 20210033145
    Abstract: To provide a sliding member including an overlay capable of realizing good fatigue resistance while preventing interlayer peeling. A sliding member including an overlay formed of an alloy plating film of Bi and Sb, and the overlay is bonded to a lining formed of a copper alloy via an intermediate layer containing Ag as a main component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya ICHIKAWA, Shigeyuki SUGA
  • Publication number: 20210036581
    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: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Terumi NONAKA, Daisuke SHIKANAI
  • Patent number: 10900393
    Abstract: A control device controls an internal combustion engine including: an elastic wave sensor arranged and configured to output a signal responsive to the strength of an acoustic emission wave produced at a sliding portion; and a variable oil pump. The control device is configured to execute an oil pressure control such that the oil pressure approaches a target oil pressure according to an engine operating condition. This oil pressure control includes a first pressure-increase processing executed where an AE correlation value correlated with the strength or occurrence frequency of the acoustic emission wave detected by the elastic wave sensor is greater than a first threshold value. The first pressure-increase processing increases the target oil pressure associated with a first engine operating condition present when the AE correlation value becomes greater than the first threshold value, as compared to when the AE correlation value is not greater than that.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TAIHO KOGYO CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Morita, Motoichi Murakami, Takeshi Fukui, Yuichiro Kajiki, Katsuhiro Ashihara, Alan Hase, Takashi Izumi
  • Publication number: 20210003169
    Abstract: A sliding member including an overlay capable of realizing good fatigue resistance while preventing interlayer peeling. The sliding member includes an overlay formed of an alloy plating film of Bi and Sb. The overlay contains Bi, Sb, and unavoidable impurities. The concentration of Sb on the surface of the overlay is 0.92% by mass or more and 13% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210003172
    Abstract: The sliding member includes an aluminum alloy layer containing 7.0% by mass or more and 13.0% by mass or less of Sn, 6.5% by mass or more and 12.0% by mass or less of Si, 0.5% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less of Cu, unavoidable impurities, and a balance Al. Si particles are dispersed in the aluminum alloy layer. A Vickers hardness of a matrix of the aluminum alloy layer is 40 HV or more and 60 HV or less. A load resistance value, which is a product of a volume concentration and average area of the Si particles and the Vickers hardness of the matrix, is 0.00001 N or more and 0.00029 N or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO.,LTD.
    Inventor: Maki AOKI
  • Patent number: 10794372
    Abstract: There is provided a shoe for a compressor with improved seizure resistance. The shoe for the compressor includes: a first sliding face that slides on a piston; a second sliding face that slides on a swash plate; and a recess formed in the second sliding face. In a section along a height direction and scaled up 1000 times in the height direction and 10 times in a radial direction, a connecting portion between the second sliding face and the recess 53 is formed in a rounded shape with a radius R2 larger than 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensaku Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10758975
    Abstract: Provided is a molding device for manufacturing a molded product having an arc-shaped bent inner space, wherein the molding device includes: a pair of molds which is joinable to each other and separable from each other, and is capable of forming a cavity C which has a shape corresponding to an outer shape of the molded product in a joined state during molding; a core which has a shape corresponding to an inner shape of the molded product, and is disposed in the inside of the cavity C which the pair of molds forms during molding; and a rotation member which is joined to a terminal end of the core, and is rotatable together with the core after molding. Compared to a conventional molding device, the molding device of the present invention becomes a molding device capable of suppressing the occurrence of a defect on a molded product having an arc-shaped bent inner space at the time of taking out the molded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisaomi Masuzawa, Toshiaki Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 10675670
    Abstract: A washer that includes: an inner peripheral face formed in an arc shape; an outer peripheral face formed in an arc shape concentric with the inner peripheral face on a radially outer side of the inner peripheral face; and outer peripheral cut-out portions (such as a left outer peripheral cut-out portion and a right outer peripheral cut-out portion) formed at positions of the outer peripheral face corresponding to end portions (a first end portion and a second end portion) of the inner peripheral face to have the same shapes as outside shapes of the corresponding end portions of the inner peripheral face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Ochiai
  • Patent number: 10648503
    Abstract: A slide surface of a thrust bearing includes a planar portion, a taper portion, and a pocket portion. The pocket portion includes a bottom surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface. The first side surface is formed on the side of the taper portion. The second side surface is formed on a side opposed to the first side surface. A depth from the plane of the planar portion to the thinnest portion of the taper portion is between 10 ?m and 80 ?m. A first angle that is an angle between a virtual surface obtained by extending the bottom surface and the second side surface is between 90° and 120°. And a second angle that is an angle between a virtual surface obtained by extending the first side surface and the tapered surface is between 60° and 120°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Uematsu, Takashi Koyama, Tsutomu Kubota, Tadashi Namba
  • Patent number: 10608262
    Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle comprises a fuel cell module configured to include a fuel cell stack, a tank configured to store a gas that is supplied to the fuel cell stack, a fuel cell placement chamber configured to place the fuel cell module therein and a tank placement chamber formed on a rear side of the fuel cell placement chamber in a vehicle longitudinal direction of the fuel cell vehicle under a floor of the fuel cell vehicle and configured to place the tank therein. The fuel cell module is placed vertically above the tank such as not to overlap with the tank when being viewed in the vehicle longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nishiumi, Tatsuya Tokumasu
  • Publication number: 20200063786
    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: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki OTAKE
  • Publication number: 20200063797
    Abstract: A half bearing includes: a semi-cylindrical bearing body having an inner circumferential surface that slides against a shaft; and a first groove formed in the inner circumferential surface so as to extend in a circumferential direction of the inner circumferential surface. In a cross section that is parallel with the circumferential direction and passes through the first groove, of the bearing body, an angle ? satisfies 30°???60°, where the angle ? is formed by: a line that connects the inner circumferential surface side end of a mating surface that is located on a downstream side in a rotational direction of the shaft with the center point of a circular arc that constitutes an outer circumferential surface; and a line that connects an end of the first groove in the circumferential direction, on the upstream side in the rotational direction of the shaft, with the center point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKATA, Yuichiro KAJIKI
  • Publication number: 20200056611
    Abstract: A vane pump including a housing having a peripheral wall portion, a bottom wall portion, and a pump chamber; a rotor disposed in the pump chamber to be rotatable; a vane disposed to be slidable in the radial direction with respect to the rotor and partitioning the pump chamber into working chambers; and a reed valve that opens and closes a discharge hole of the bottom wall portion. A pressure relief groove is disposed in a portion of the bottom wall portion corresponding to the discharge section with a clearance secured between the peripheral wall portion and the pressure relief groove. When the vane overlaps the pressure relief groove, a pair of the working chambers on both sides of the vane in the rotational direction communicates with each other via the pressure relief groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicants: TAIHO KOGYO Co., Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji SUZUKI, Akihiro UTO, Naoyuki MIYARA, Hiroki HARA, Shinsuke KIYOMIYA, Akira FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200018308
    Abstract: A vane pump includes a housing, a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a vane that rotates together with the rotor and reciprocates in a radial direction with respect to the rotor, the vane dividing a pump chamber into a plurality of working chambers. At least one of opposite end surfaces of the vane in an axial direction is a sliding surface that slidably contacts an inner surface of the housing via an oil film, and an oil reservoir portion is provided in the sliding surface in a recessed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken NAKAMUTA, Syuhei Nishida
  • Patent number: 10522846
    Abstract: A fuel cell stack 100 includes a fuel cell stack 10, and an end plate 30 placed at an end of the fuel cell stack 10. The end plate 30 includes a metallic plate-like body 32, and a resin layer 60 formed on a surface 32b of the plate-like body 32. The plate-like body 32 includes flow holes 39 for a reactant gas and a cooling medium, and a stripe-shaped protrusion 38 protruding from the surface 32b and which divides the surface 32b into an inner area containing the flow holes 39 and an outer area outside the inner area. The protrusion 38 includes a vertical portion 38a protruding from the surface 32b, and a jutted portion 38b jutted from a distal end of the vertical portion 38a toward the inner area. The resin layer 60 is formed in the inner area to cover a surface 38as of the vertical portion 38a facing the inner area as well as at least part of the jutted portion 38b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd., Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Shimizu, Hitoshi Hamada, Yutaka Hotta, Tatsuya Tokumasu, Tadanobu Ota, Yoshiki Nakamura
  • Patent number: D875141
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syuhei Nishida, Satoshi Ikeda, Kazuya Mizuno, Ken Nakamuta
  • Patent number: D906255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sosuke Yamaguchi