Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kiguchi

Hirofumi Kiguchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20230069263
    Abstract: A planetary carrier includes a plurality of plate portions, and column portions connecting the plurality of plate portions. The column portions each have an outer circumferential surface, an inner circumferential surface, and sidewall surfaces. The sidewall surfaces are each formed in a circular arc shape and the circular arc shape has a center on an outer circumferential side in a cross section perpendicular to a shaft of the planetary carrier. An angle formed between the outer circumferential and each of the sidewall surfaces is an obtuse angle and an angle formed between the inner circumferential and each of the sidewall surfaces is an acute angle. The plurality of plate portions and the column portions are integrally formed as one sintered body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hirofumi KIGUCHI, Daisuke HARIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220410260
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sintered component includes a step of making a green compact having a relative density of at least 88% by compression-molding a base powder containing a metal powder into a metallic die, a step of machining a groove part having a groove width of 1.0 mm or less in the green compact by processing groove with a cutting tool, and a step of sintering the green compact in which the groove part is formed after the step of forming the groove part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaro YOSHIDA, Shoichi TAKADA, Hirofumi KIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11511360
    Abstract: A machining method for forming an opening through a workpiece, serving as a green compact, by moving a milling tool in a radial direction relative to the workpiece is provided. The milling tool includes a first milling tool and a second milling tool. The method includes a pre-machining step of using the first milling tool, and forming the first sidewall surface by rotating the first milling tool so as to cause cutting edges of the first milling tool to cut the workpiece from the acute angle corner to the obtuse angle corner, while leaving a cutting allowance on the second sidewall surface; and a post-machining step of using the second milling tool whose cutting edges are reversed from the cutting edges of the first milling tool, and forming the second sidewall surface by rotating the second milling tool so as to cause the cutting edges of the second milling tool to cut the cutting allowance from the acute angle corner to the obtuse angle corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kiguchi, Daisuke Harimoto
  • Patent number: 11465206
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sintered component includes a step of making a green compact having a relative density of at least 88% by compression-molding a base powder containing a metal powder into a metallic die, a step of machining a groove part having a groove width of 1.0 mm or less in the green compact by processing groove with a cutting tool, and a step of sintering the green compact in which the groove part is formed after the step of forming the groove part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yoshida, Shoichi Takada, Hirofumi Kiguchi
  • Patent number: 11020809
    Abstract: A machining jig holds a workpiece with respect to a tool when machining the workpiece with the tool, the workpiece including a ridge that projects from an outer periphery of a cylindrical section in a radial direction and that extends so as to intersect a peripheral direction. The machining jig includes a holding jig that includes a cylindrical body section that is disposed at an outer periphery of the workpiece and a stopping section that projects inwardly from the body section and that stops a face of a surface of the ridge on a side where the tool leaves a processing portion of the ridge; and a coaxial base that is coaxial with the holding jig and to which the holding jig is coaxially fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kiguchi
  • Publication number: 20210039168
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sintered component includes a step of making a green compact having a relative density of at least 88% by compression-molding a base powder containing a metal powder into a metallic die, a step of machining a groove part having a groove width of 1.0 mm or less in the green compact by processing groove with a cutting tool, and a step of sintering the green compact in which the groove part is formed after the step of forming the groove part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro YOSHIDA, Shoichi TAKADA, Hirofumi KIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10737361
    Abstract: A machining jig holds a workpiece with respect to a tool that partially removes an outer peripheral surface of the workpiece. The machining jig includes a first jig including an inner peripheral surface having a shape similar to a contour of the workpiece and an outer peripheral surface including a first inclined section inclined with respect to an axial direction of the workpiece; a second jig including an inner peripheral surface including a second inclined section configured to be fitted to the first inclined section; a base to which the second jig is coaxially fixed; and a sliding mechanism that enables a large-diameter portion of the first inclined section and a small-diameter portion of the second inclined section to move toward and away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishimine, Hirofumi Kiguchi
  • Publication number: 20200189014
    Abstract: A machining method for forming an opening through a workpiece, serving as a green compact, by moving a milling tool in a radial direction relative to the workpiece is provided. Among inner wall surfaces defining the opening, respective cut surfaces, cut by cutting edges on an outer periphery of the milling tool, are defined as a first sidewall surface and a second sidewall surface that is opposite the first sidewall surface. A side from which the milling tool enters is defined as an outer circumferential surface of the workpiece, and a surface opposite to the outer circumferential surface is defined as an inner circumferential surface of the workpiece. A corner where the first sidewall surface or the second sidewall surface and the outer circumferential surface meet is defined as an obtuse angle corner, and a corner where the first sidewall surface or the second sidewall surface and the inner circumferential surface meet is defined as an acute angle corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Hirofumi KIGUCHI, Daisuke HARIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190314941
    Abstract: A machining jig holds a workpiece with respect to a tool that partially removes an outer peripheral surface of the workpiece. The machining jig includes a first jig including an inner peripheral surface having a shape similar to a contour of the workpiece and an outer peripheral surface including a first inclined section inclined with respect to an axial direction of the workpiece; a second jig including an inner peripheral surface including a second inclined section configured to be fitted to the first inclined section; a base to which the second jig is coaxially fixed; and a sliding mechanism that enables a large-diameter portion of the first inclined section and a small-diameter portion of the second inclined section to move toward and away from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ishimine, Hirofumi Kiguchi
  • Publication number: 20190143429
    Abstract: A machining jig holds a workpiece with respect to a tool when machining the workpiece with the tool, the workpiece including a ridge that projects from an outer periphery of a cylindrical section in a radial direction and that extends so as to intersect a peripheral direction. The machining jig includes a holding jig that includes a cylindrical body section that is disposed at an outer periphery of the workpiece and a stopping section that projects inwardly from the body section and that stops a face of a surface of the ridge on a side where the tool leaves a processing portion of the ridge; and a coaxial base that is coaxial with the holding jig and to which the holding jig is coaxially fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kiguchi