Patents by Inventor Hayao Watanabe
Hayao Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11784535Abstract: An actuator includes: a first motor including a first stator and a first rotor; a second motor and including a second stator and a second rotor; a shaft member penetrating through the first rotor and the second rotor, and including a first part protruding from the first rotor toward an opposite side to the second rotor and including a spline groove, and a second part protruding from the second rotor toward an opposite side to the first rotor and including a male screw portion; a spline outer cylinder engaging with the spline groove to guide the shaft member and configured to rotate together with the first rotor to enable the shaft member to rotate; and a nut member provided with a female screw portion engaging with the male screw portion of the shaft member, and configured to rotate together with the second rotor to enable the shaft member to move.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Hayao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20230037848Abstract: A motor includes a housing including a housing base and a housing shaft portion that is provided on the housing base and extends in a direction along a rotation center axis, a motor stator that is disposed outward in a radial direction of the housing shaft portion, a motor rotor that is provided between the motor stator and the housing shaft portion, a bearing that is provided inward in a radial direction of the motor rotor and rotatably supports the motor rotor to the housing shaft portion, a sealing structure that is provided on an opposite side to the housing base in an axial direction of the motor rotor and seals between the motor rotor and the housing shaft portion, and a resolver that is configured to detect rotation of the motor rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Toshifumi TAGUCHI, Hayao WATANABE, Masayuki MARUYAMA, Kenichi FUKUYAMA
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Publication number: 20210391767Abstract: An actuator includes: a first motor including a first stator and a first rotor; a second motor and including a second stator and a second rotor; a shaft member penetrating through the first rotor and the second rotor, and including a first part protruding from the first rotor toward an opposite side to the second rotor and including a spline groove, and a second part protruding from the second rotor toward an opposite side to the first rotor and including a male screw portion; a spline outer cylinder engaging with the spline groove to guide the shaft member and configured to rotate together with the first rotor to enable the shaft member to rotate; and a nut member provided with a female screw portion engaging with the male screw portion of the shaft member, and configured to rotate together with the second rotor to enable the shaft member to move.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori KOIZUMI, Hayao WATANABE
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Patent number: 10594196Abstract: A dual shaft integrated motor includes an inner rotor and an outer rotor that are independently rotatable and rotate in an identical pivotal direction. The inner rotor, an inner stator, an outer stator, and the outer rotor are sequentially arranged from a pivot in a radial direction. The inner stator and the outer stator interpose a non-magnetic body therebetween, the non-magnetic body being provided at a position contiguous with the inner stator and the outer stator along a circumferential direction centering on the pivot.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Hayao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190372417Abstract: To provide a motor capable of preventing particles generated inside from being emitted to the outside, more reliably. The motor includes: a stator that is provided with a coil and a stator core; a rotor that is disposed on the inner side of the stator in a radial direction, and rotated relatively with respect to the stator; a stator housing that has a first exhaust hole through which the air is exhausted by suctioning, and to which the stator is fixed; a first sealing portion where the stator housing and the rotor housing face each other with a first gap therebetween across the entire circumference in the circumferential direction, with the first sealing portion being provided between an internal space and the outside of the stator housing; and a first squeeze portion that is at a position different from the first sealing portion, and that has a second gap connecting the internal space and the first exhaust hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Hideya HIGUCHI, Hayao WATANABE, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 10432072Abstract: A dual shaft integrated motor including inner and outer rotors independently rotatable and rotating in an identical pivotal direction, the inner and outer rotors each having an output shaft positioned on one end of the pivotal direction, the dual shaft integrated motor includes: a detection unit including a first detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the inner rotor, and a second detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the outer rotor; a bearing unit including a first bearing rotating in conjunction with the inner rotor, and a second bearing rotating in conjunction with the outer rotor; a stator core unit including a first core serving as a stator core of the inner rotor, and a second core serving as a stator core of the outer rotor; and a base to which the detection unit, the bearing unit, and the stator core unit are sequentially attached from the one end.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Hayao Watanabe
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Patent number: 10432055Abstract: Provided is a motor capable of more reliably preventing dust generated therein from flowing to the outside. A motor includes a stator, a rotor, a rotor housing which rotates along with the rotor, a stator housing which fixes the stator thereto, includes spaces formed with respect to the rotor housing, and overlaps the rotor housing with first gaps interposed therebetween in the entire circumferential direction, annular members which overlap the stator housing with second gaps interposed therebetween in the entire circumferential direction inside the spaces, exhaust holes which suck and discharge air inside the spaces through the second gaps, and exhaust grooves.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Hideya Higuchi, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Hayao Watanabe
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Patent number: 10381905Abstract: A dual shaft integrated motor including inner and outer rotors independently rotatable and rotating in an identical pivotal direction, the inner and outer rotors each having an output shaft positioned on one end of the pivotal direction, the dual shaft integrated motor includes: a detection unit including a first detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the inner rotor, and a second detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the outer rotor; a bearing unit including a first bearing rotating in conjunction with the inner rotor, and a second bearing rotating in conjunction with the outer rotor; a stator core unit including a first core serving as a stator core of the inner rotor, and a second core serving as a stator core of the outer rotor; and a base to which the detection unit, the bearing unit, and the stator core unit are sequentially attached from the one end.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Hayao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190190353Abstract: A dual shaft integrated motor includes an inner rotor and an outer rotor that are independently rotatable and rotate in an identical pivotal direction. The inner rotor, an inner stator, an outer stator, and the outer rotor are sequentially arranged from a pivot in a radial direction. The inner stator and the outer stator interpose a non-magnetic body therebetween, the non-magnetic body being provided at a position contiguous with the inner stator and the outer stator along a circumferential direction centering on the pivot.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori KOIZUMI, Hayao WATANABE
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Patent number: 10250113Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotor having a rotor yoke and a magnet; and a stator formed by stacking, in a rotation axis direction of the rotor, a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheet layers in each of which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets each having two teeth is annularly arranged. A core of a coil provided in the stator is formed of the teeth stacked in the rotation axis direction, there are two types of phases for arrangement of a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in one electromagnetic steel sheet layer, and the stator includes the electromagnetic steel sheet layers having the two types of phases.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Hayao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20190068035Abstract: A dual shaft integrated motor including inner and outer rotors independently rotatable and rotating in an identical pivotal direction, the inner and outer rotors each having an output shaft positioned on one end of the pivotal direction, the dual shaft integrated motor includes: a detection unit including a first detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the inner rotor, and a second detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the outer rotor; a bearing unit including a first bearing rotating in conjunction with the inner rotor, and a second bearing rotating in conjunction with the outer rotor; a stator core unit including a first core serving as a stator core of the inner rotor, and a second core serving as a stator core of the outer rotor; and a base to which the detection unit, the bearing unit, and the stator core unit are sequentially attached from the one end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori KOIZUMI, Hayao WATANABE
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Publication number: 20180367018Abstract: An electric motor includes: a rotor having a rotor yoke and a magnet; and a stator formed by stacking, in a rotation axis direction of the rotor, a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheet layers in each of which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets each having two teeth is annularly arranged. A core of a coil provided in the stator is formed of the teeth stacked in the rotation axis direction, there are two types of phases for arrangement of a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in one electromagnetic steel sheet layer, and the stator includes the electromagnetic steel sheet layers having the two types of phases.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori KOIZUMI, Hayao WATANABE
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Patent number: 9954416Abstract: An actuator, a stator, a motor, a rotational-to-linear motion conversion mechanism, and a linear actuator are provided. The motor, the actuator, and the linear actuator at least include a screw shaft and a nut. The screw shaft is a rod-like member, and at least a part of the surface of the screw shaft has a thread. The nut is screwed onto the thread on the screw shaft, and moves the screw shaft in a linear motion direction that is a direction in parallel with a rotational center. The stator, the motor, the actuator, and the linear actuator can at least convert a rotational motion into a linear motion.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kataoka, Yusuke Ota, Toshifumi Taguchi, Hayao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20170331343Abstract: Provided is a motor capable of more reliably preventing dust generated therein from flowing to the outside. A motor includes a stator, a rotor, a rotor housing which rotates along with the rotor, a stator housing which fixes the stator thereto, includes spaces formed with respect to the rotor housing, and overlaps the rotor housing with first gaps interposed therebetween in the entire circumferential direction, annular members which overlap the stator housing with second gaps interposed therebetween in the entire circumferential direction inside the spaces, exhaust holes which suck and discharge air inside the spaces through the second gaps, and exhaust grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Hideya HIGUCHI, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Hayao WATANABE
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Patent number: 9685842Abstract: A direct drive motor includes: a motor unit including a stator and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator; a housing including a first housing to which the stator is fixed and a second housing to which the rotor is fixed; a bearing that rotatably supports the second housing with respect to the first housing; and a rotation detector that detects a rotating state of the motor unit. The rotation detector is a single incremental-type resolver that detects a relative displacement of the rotor with respect to the stator.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori Koizumi, Kenichi Fukuyama, Hayao Watanabe
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Publication number: 20170047818Abstract: A direct drive motor includes: a motor unit including a stator and a rotor rotatable with respect to the stator; a housing including a first housing to which the stator is fixed and a second housing to which the rotor is fixed; a bearing that rotatably supports the second housing with respect to the first housing; and a rotation detector that detects a rotating state of the motor unit. The rotation detector is a single incremental-type resolver that detects a relative displacement of the rotor with respect to the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazunori KOIZUMI, Kenichi FUKUYAMA, Hayao WATANABE
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Publication number: 20160301270Abstract: To provide a motor core and a motor capable of reducing cogging torque and torque ripple by the shape of a pole tooth of a stator. An end surface of a pole tooth of a stator is formed such that a cross-section of the end surface along a circumferential direction is a curved surface having an arc shape that protrudes in a direction opposite to a direction in which an end surface of a magnet of a rotor (equivalent to an outer periphery of a rotor yoke part), which is opposed to the end surface, protrudes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Yusuke OTA, Hayao WATANABE, Shigeru ENDOU
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Publication number: 20160118855Abstract: Provided are a motor having a small number of parts and provided with waterproof performance in a low-cost method, and a positioning device and a conveyance device that are positioned and driven by the motor. The motor includes a columnar motor body that is formed with a center hole penetrating in an axial direction, and a housing for accommodating the motor body. The housing includes a cylindrical part that covers an outer peripheral surface of the motor body; a rotation output part provided on an upper side of the cylindrical part in the axial direction and fixed to rotary bodies of the motor body; and a fixed part provided on a lower side of the cylindrical part in the axial direction and fixed to fixed bodies of the motor body. The housing is sealed by a sealing mechanism at only one place of the cylindrical part in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Masayuki MARUYAMA, Yusuke OTA, Kazunori KOIZUMI, Hayao WATANABE, Toshinori SATOU
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Publication number: 20150015104Abstract: An actuator, a stator, a motor, a rotational-to-linear motion conversion mechanism, and a linear actuator are provided. The motor, the actuator, and the linear actuator at least include a screw shaft and a nut. The screw shaft is a rod-like member, and at least a part of the surface of the screw shaft has a thread. The nut is screwed onto the thread on the screw shaft, and moves the screw shaft in a linear motion direction that is a direction in parallel with a rotational center. The stator, the motor, the actuator, and the linear actuator can at least convert a rotational motion into a linear motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kataoka, Yusuke Ota, Toshifumi Taguchi, Hayao Watanabe
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Patent number: 8662755Abstract: Provided is a roller bearing device, which is suitable for preventing misdetection of a rotation sensor when a moment load is applied. A thin motor 100 includes a cross roller bearing 14 having an inner ring 14a and an outer ring 14b, a stator 22 supported by the inner ring 14a, a rotor 12 supported by the outer ring 14b, a motor unit 16 that applies rotation torque to the rotor 12, and a resolver 30 that detects a rotation angle position of the rotor 12. The resolver 30, the cross roller bearing 14, and the motor unit 16 are arranged in the recited order from the radially inner side on a radially identical plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Hayao Watanabe, Masaki Kuwahara, Kazuhiro Yoshida