Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Kasahara
Hidetoshi Kasahara 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: 11644100Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that stable lubrication performance can be provided across a wide range of rotation speed. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes inclined grooves formed at a sliding surface so as to be arranged in a circumferential direction, the inclined grooves being open on an outer diameter side of the seal ring to generate a drawing pressure. The seal ring further includes supply grooves being open on a sealed fluid side of the seal ring and extending in a radially outward direction toward inner diameter sides of the inclined grooves.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Inventors: Wataru Kimura, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Yoshiaki Takigahira, Toru Kono, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Takafumi Ota
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Patent number: 11530749Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that stable lubrication performance can be provided across a wide range of rotation speed. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes multiple static pressure grooves provided at a sliding surface of the seal ring and arranged in a circumferential direction, the static pressure grooves being opened on a sealed fluid side and closed on an outer diameter side, a circumferential length of each of the static pressure grooves being shorter than a radial length of each of the static pressure grooves.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Inventors: Wataru Kimura, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Yoshiaki Takigahira, Toru Kono, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Takafumi Ota
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Patent number: 11525512Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that stable lubrication performance can be provided across a wide range of rotation speed. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes; inclined grooves formed at a sliding surface so as to be arranged in a circumferential direction, the inclined grooves being closed on an outer diameter side thereof and configured to generate a dynamic pressure; and supply grooves opening on a sealed fluid side and communicating with an inner diameter side of the inclined grooves.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Wataru Kimura, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Yoshiaki Takigahira, Toru Kono, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Takafumi Ota
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Patent number: 11428324Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a seal device (10) that seals between a housing (11) and a rotation shaft (20) passing through the housing (11) includes: a floating ring (15) arranged with a gap h with respect to the rotation shaft (20), a seal portion (14) formed by bringing one end face of the floating ring (15) into contact with the housing (11), and a space portion j provided between the floating ring (15) and the housing (11), and the floating ring (15) includes bias means that contactlessly biases the floating ring (15) to the seal portion via the space portion j. The seal device in which the floating ring follows movement of the rotation shaft is capable of exerting a sealing operation so that vibration of the rotation shaft can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Inventors: Yuichiro Tokunaga, Hideyuki Inoue, Wataru Kimura, Tetsuya Iguchi, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Ryu Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11293553Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that a fluid film can be formed between sliding surfaces across a wide range of rotation speed and configured with high lubricity. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes, dynamic pressure grooves formed at a sliding surface of the seal ring and having positive pressure generators and negative pressure generators, and static pressure supply paths formed at the sliding surface of the seal ring to extend from an inner diameter side to an outer diameter side and to open on a sealed fluid side. Each of the positive pressure generators, each of the negative pressure generators, and each of the static pressure supply paths are arranged in description order in a circumferential direction of the sliding surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventors: Wataru Kimura, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Yoshiaki Takigahira, Toru Kono, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Takafumi Ota
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Patent number: 11085539Abstract: A sealing device includes a floating ring in a space between the outer circumference of a rotating shaft and the inner circumference of a housing, and a multi-layered cylindrical body including a plurality of elastically deformable cylindrical thin plates layered on top of each other provided between an outer peripheral surface of the floating ring and an inner peripheral surface of the housing, so as to impart a radial restoring force against the eccentricity of the rotating shaft to restore it to its center position, and a tangential damping force to reduce the whirling of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Tokunaga, Hideyuki Inoue, Wataru Kimura, Tetsuya Iguchi, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Ryu Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11078919Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a seal device 10 that seals between a housing 11 and a rotation shaft 20 passing through the housing 11 includes a floating ring 15 arranged with a gap h with respect to the rotation shaft 20, wherein the floating ring 15 includes at least one supporting means 18 that supports in the circumferential direction. In the seal device, the floating ring follows movement of the rotation shaft even upon running for a long time, a clearance between the rotation shaft and the seal ring can be properly held, and the sealing operation by the floating ring and the vibration damping function can be exerted, and the seal device is easily assembled.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTDInventors: Yuichiro Tokunaga, Hideyuki Inoue, Wataru Kimura, Tetsuya Iguchi, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Jun Hiromatsu, Yasuhiro Kuroki, Ryu Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20210164571Abstract: A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes dynamic pressure grooves formed at a sliding surface of the seal ring and arranged in a circumferential direction so as to be configured to generate dynamic pressure. The dynamic pressure grooves include deep grooves having openings on a sealed fluid side and shallow grooves being shallower than the deep grooves. The shallower grooves are formed continuously to the deep grooves and extend to at least one side in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Wataru KIMURA, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA, Toru KONO, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Takafumi OTA
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Publication number: 20210116032Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that stable lubrication performance can be provided across a wide range of rotation speed. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes multiple static pressure grooves provided at a sliding surface of the seal ring and arranged in a circumferential direction, the static pressure grooves being opened on a sealed fluid side and closed on an outer diameter side, a circumferential length of each of the static pressure grooves being shorter than a radial length of each of the static pressure grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Wataru KIMURA, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA, Toru KONO, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Takafumi OTA
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Publication number: 20210116030Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that stable lubrication performance can be provided across a wide range of rotation speed. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes; inclined grooves formed at a sliding surface so as to be arranged in a circumferential direction, the inclined grooves being closed on an outer diameter side thereof and configured to generate a dynamic pressure; and supply grooves opening on a sealed fluid side and communicating with an inner diameter side of the inclined grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Wataru KIMURA, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA, Toru KONO, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Takafumi OTA
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Publication number: 20210116029Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that stable lubrication performance can be provided across a wide range of rotation speed. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes inclined grooves formed at a sliding surface so as to be arranged in a circumferential direction, the inclined grooves being open on an outer diameter side of the seal ring to generate a drawing pressure. The seal ring further includes supply grooves being open on a sealed fluid side of the seal ring and extending in a radially outward direction toward inner diameter sides of the inclined grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Wataru KIMURA, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA, Toru KONO, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Takafumi OTA
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Publication number: 20210080009Abstract: Provided is a seal ring configured so that a fluid film can be formed between sliding surfaces across a wide range of rotation speed and configured with high lubricity. A seal ring for sealing a clearance between a rotary shaft and a housing includes, dynamic pressure grooves formed at a sliding surface of the seal ring and having positive pressure generators and negative pressure generators, and static pressure supply paths formed at the sliding surface of the seal ring to extend from an inner diameter side to an outer diameter side and to open on a sealed fluid side. Each of the positive pressure generators, each of the negative pressure generators, and each of the static pressure supply paths are arranged in description order in a circumferential direction of the sliding surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Wataru KIMURA, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yoshiaki TAKIGAHIRA, Toru KONO, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Takafumi OTA
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Publication number: 20210054936Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a seal device (10) that seals between a housing (11) and a rotation shaft (20) passing through the housing (11) includes: a floating ring (15) arranged with a gap h with respect to the rotation shaft (20), a seal portion (14) formed by bringing one end face of the floating ring (15) into contact with the housing (11), and a space portion j provided between the floating ring (15) and the housing (11), and the floating ring (15) includes bias means that contactlessly biases the floating ring (15) to the seal portion via the space portion j. The seal device in which the floating ring follows movement of the rotation shaft is capable of exerting a sealing operation so that vibration of the rotation shaft can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE, Wataru KIMURA, Tetsuya IGUCHI, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Yasuhiro KUROKI, Ryu KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 10907684Abstract: In a pair of sliding parts having sliding faces S that slide with respect to each other, at least one of the sliding faces S has a one-side peripheral edge (4a) and an other-side peripheral edge (4b) and includes: fluid introduction grooves (12) each of which has one end communicating with the other-side peripheral edge (4b), dynamic pressure generation grooves (11) each of which has one end communicating with the other-side peripheral edge (4b) and the other end being surrounded by a land portion, and a release groove (13) provided in the land portion, the release groove (13) communicating with the fluid introduction grooves (12). With the sliding parts, not only a liquid such as oil but also an oil mist serving as a mixture of oil and air can be sealed as a sealed fluid, and generation of oil mist itself can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru Kimura, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Hideyuki Inoue, Tetsuya Iguchi, Hidetoshi Kasahara
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Publication number: 20200182299Abstract: In a pair of sliding parts having sliding faces S that slide with respect to each other, at least one of the sliding faces S has a one-side peripheral edge (4a) and an other-side peripheral edge (4b) and includes: fluid introduction grooves (12) each of which has one end communicating with the other-side peripheral edge (4b), dynamic pressure generation grooves (11) each of which has one end communicating with the other-side peripheral edge (4b) and the other end being surrounded by a land portion, and a release groove (13) provided in the land portion, the release groove (13) communicating with the fluid introduction grooves (12). With the sliding parts, not only a liquid such as oil but also an oil mist serving as a mixture of oil and air can be sealed as a sealed fluid, and generation of oil mist itself can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Wataru KIMURA, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE, Tetsuya IGUCHI, Hidetoshi KASAHARA
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Patent number: 10598286Abstract: In an embodiments, in a sealing face of at least one slide part of a pair of slide parts, a dynamic pressure generation groove 10 is provided so as to be separated not to communicate with a sealed fluid side and a leakage side by land portions on both sealing faces, between an end 10a on the leakage side of the dynamic pressure generation groove 10 and the leakage side, a fluid introduction groove 11 which communicates the dynamic pressure generation groove 10 and the leakage side is provided, and the cross-sectional area of the fluid introduction groove 11 is set smaller than the cross-sectional area of the dynamic pressure generation groove 10. The sealing faces are subjected to fluid lubrication and low friction in a steady operation, and leakage of the sealed fluid and entrance of dust into the sealing faces are suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Tokunaga, Hideyuki Inoue, Wataru Kimura, Tetsuya Iguchi, Takeshi Hosoe, Hidetoshi Kasahara, Takafumi Ota, Keiichi Chiba, Masatoshi Itadani, Hikaru Katori
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Publication number: 20200063871Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing device includes a floating ring 5 in a space 4 between the outer circumference of a rotating shaft 3 and the inner circumference of a housing 2, and a multi-layered cylindrical body 10 including a plurality of elastically deformable cylindrical thin plates 11 layered on top of each other provided between an outer peripheral surface of the floating ring 5 and an inner peripheral surface of the housing. The sealing device can impart a radial restoring force against the eccentricity of the rotating shaft to restore it to its center position, and a tangential damping force to reduce the whirling of the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE, Wataru KIMURA, Tetsuya IGUCHI, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Yasuhiro KUROKI, Ryu KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20200063873Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing device includes a floating ring 5 in a space 4 between the outer circumference of a rotating shaft 3 and the inner circumference of a housing 2, and a permeable damping member 10 provided around an outer peripheral portion of the floating ring 5. The sealing device can impart a radial restoring force against the eccentricity of the rotating shaft to restore it to its axis position, and a tangential damping force to reduce the whirling of the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE, Wataru KIMURA, Tetsuya IGUCHI, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Yasuhiro KUROKI, Ryu KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20200032912Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a seal device 10 that seals between a housing 11 and a rotation shaft 20 passing through the housing 11 includes a floating ring 15 arranged with a gap h with respect to the rotation shaft 20, wherein the floating ring 15 includes at least one elastically supporting means 18 that supports in the circumferential direction. In the seal device, the floating ring follows movement of the rotation shaft so that the sealing operation and vibration damping function can be exerted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE, Wataru KIMURA, Tetsuya IGUCHI, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Yasuhiro KUROKI, Ryu KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20200018401Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a seal device for sealing between a housing 11 and a rotating shaft 20 which penetrates through the housing 11 includes a floating ring 15 arranged on the rotating shaft 20 with a first gap h therebetween, wherein the floating ring 15 is provided with a squeeze film damper 14 with a second gap g being formed as a narrow gap between the squeeze film damper 14 and the housing 11. In the seal device, the floating ring can exhibit a sealing action by following the movement of the rotating shaft and can reduce vibrations in the circumferential direction and the radial direction of the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE, Wataru KIMURA, Tetsuya IGUCHI, Hidetoshi KASAHARA, Jun HIROMATSU, Yasuhiro KUROKI, Ryu KIKUCHI