Patents by Inventor Hironobu Nishida

Hironobu Nishida 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).

  • Patent number: 8226350
    Abstract: A fan apparatus includes a casing and a fan unit. The casing is a hollow member having an inlet and an outlet. The fan unit has an inlet and an outlet, and includes a plurality of axial fans. The fan unit is disposed on the inside of the casing, and the inlet of the fan unit is disposed in the vicinity of the inlet of the casing. The position of the fan unit within the casing can be varied in order to alter the air flow and static pressure of the air discharged by the fan apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Tomo Hayashigaito, Kenji Iwamoto, Yoshihisa Kato, Hironobu Nishida, Suguru Yamada, Manabu Miyakoda
  • Patent number: 8047803
    Abstract: A fan apparatus includes a fan section having a hollow housing with an inlet and an outlet, and a hollow duct section disposed on the outlet side of the fan section. The housing and the duct section are coupled by a coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Yamada, Hironobu Nishida, Tomo Hayashigaito, Kenji Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20090040714
    Abstract: A fan apparatus includes a fan section having a hollow housing with an inlet and an outlet, and a hollow duct section disposed on the outlet side of the fan section. The housing and the duct section are coupled by a coupling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru YAMADA, Hironobu NISHIDA, Tomo HAYASHIGAITO, Kenji IWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20080260517
    Abstract: A fan apparatus includes a casing and a fan unit. The casing is a hollow member having an inlet and an outlet. The fan unit has an inlet and an outlet, and includes a plurality of axial fans. The fan unit is disposed on the inside of the casing, and the inlet of the fan unit is disposed in the vicinity of the inlet of the casing. The position of the fan unit within the casing can be varied in order to alter the air flow and static pressure of the air discharged by the fan apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomo HAYASHIGAITO, Kenji IWAMOTO, Yoshihisa KATO, Hironobu NISHIDA, Suguru YAMADA, Manabu MIYAKODA
  • Publication number: 20080213103
    Abstract: An axial flow fan includes a housing defining an air inlet and an air outlet, a motor mounted to the housing and an impeller including blades. The housing includes an expanded portion adjacent the air outlet. In the expanded portion, the inner diameter of the housing increases towards the air outlet so that the expanded portion has an inner end where its diameter is smallest. The trailing edge of each blade is inclined, with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the impeller, so as to extend toward the air inlet from a radially innermost end of the edge to a radially outermost end of the edge. The radially outermost end of the trailing edge is disposed closer to the air inlet than the inner end of the expanded portion, and the radially innermost end of the of the trailing edge is disposed closer to the air outlet than inner end of the expanded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Miyakoda, Hironobu Nishida, Suguru Yamada
  • Patent number: 6160334
    Abstract: In a thin type flexible disk drive motor, in order to improve undesirable jittering of rotation, an inertia ring of larger diameter than that of the rotor frame is fixed immediately under the rotor. The inertia ring consists of a short cylinder part of the larger diameter to be fixed under the rotor frame and a flange part of the diameter not smaller than that of FG (frequency generation) magnet part. The disk drive motor also has a drive pin engaging assembly that allows a drive pin to be secured within a hub of the flexible disk while stabilizing the drive pin and after disk chucking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Teshima, Hironobu Nishida
  • Patent number: 5783880
    Abstract: In a thin type flexible disk drive motor, in order to improve undesirable jittering of rotation, an inertia ring of larger diameter than that of the rotor frame is fixed immediately under the rotor. The inertia ring consists of a short cylinder part of the larger diameter to be fixed under the rotor frame and a flange part of the diameter not smaller than that of FG (frequency generation) magnet part. The disk drive motor also has a drive pin engaging assembly that allows a drive pin to be secured within a hub of the flexible disk while stabilizing the drive pin and after disk chucking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Teshima, Hironobu Nishida
  • Patent number: 5621260
    Abstract: In a coreless motor, a shaft of the coreless motor does not pass through a magnet but is arranged in series with a columnar magnet on the same axis. The magnet is inserted in a tubular frame made of magnetic material and a coil which is mounted on the shaft is inserted in the gap between the outer surface of the magnet and the inner surface of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kodo Fukuoka, Kouji Kuyama, Miyuki Furuya, Hironobu Nishida, Hiroto Inoue, Yukihiro Okada