Patents by Inventor Keisuke Nakata

Keisuke Nakata 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: 20230101010
    Abstract: In an electric power unit that includes: a motor accommodating portion and a gear accommodating portion in a housing; and an inverter accommodating portion and an auxiliary machine attachment portion formed on side walls of the housing, the auxiliary machine attachment portion is formed by a protruding portion having at least a first vertical surface and a first horizontal surface formed on one of the side walls forming the motor accommodating portion and the gear accommodating portion of the housing, a first rib extending in a horizontal direction is formed on the first vertical surface facing one axial side of the auxiliary machine attachment portion, and a second rib, which extends in a vertical direction with respect to the first horizontal surface and connects the first horizontal surface and the inverter accommodating portion, is formed on the first horizontal surface, adjacent to the inverter accommodating portion, of the auxiliary machine attachment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke OGASAWARA, Jun MURAKAMI, Hiroki AKAISHI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA
  • Patent number: 11608883
    Abstract: A drive device includes a first shaft, a gear portion, a lubricant flow path, and a housing. A gear portion having a second shaft is connected to an end portion of the first shaft in the axial direction. A side plate portion of the housing separates a motor tubular portion surrounding a motor accommodation portion that accommodates a rotor and a stator and a gear tubular portion surrounding a gear accommodation portion that accommodates the gear portion. First and second bearing holding portions disposed in the side plate portion rotatably support the first and second shafts via the first and second bearings, respectively. A lubricant supply portion that is disposed radially outward of the stator and supplies lubricant to the stator includes a lubricant flow path through which lubricant can flow. The lubricant flow path is connected to at least one of the first and second bearing holding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Yuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11598410
    Abstract: A drive device includes a first catch tank above a first gear and including a first bent portion bent between the first gear and a second gear, and a second catch tank below the first catch tank and including a second bent portion that is bent downward. A space above the second bent portion communicates with a space above the first bent portion. A third catch tank is above the second gear, and includes a third bent portion that is bent toward between the first gear and the second gear. A space above the third bent portion communicates with the space above the first bent portion. A fourth catch tank is in front of the second gear and above the third gear, and includes a fourth bent portion that is bent downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Keisuke Nakata
  • Patent number: 11578798
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device of an aspect of the present invention includes a motor, a transmission mechanism including a plurality of gears, a first shaft and a bearing supporting the first shaft and transmitting power of the motor, a housing that accommodates the transmission mechanism and holds the bearing on an inner face, oil that collects in a lower region inside the housing, a catch tank that is disposed inside the housing and opens upward, an oil passage through which the oil passes, and an oil pump provided in the oil passage. The oil passage has a first path connecting the oil pump and the catch tank and a scooping path for scooping the oil by rotation of the gear to guide the scooped oil to the catch tank. The catch tank includes a feed portion for supplying the oil to the gear or the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Yuki Ishikawa, Sota Doi
  • Publication number: 20230040459
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet with excellent delayed fracture resistance, having a tensile strength of 1700 MPa or larger, including a predetermined component composition, having a martensite structure whose ratio accounts for 95 area % or more of the entire metallographic structure, and having a transition metal carbide whose ratio accounts for 0.8 volume % or more of the entire metallographic structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Kosuke SHIBATA, Junichiro KINUGASA, Keisuke NAKATA, Atsuhiro SHIRAKI
  • Publication number: 20220282783
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including gears, a first shaft, and a first bearing supporting the first shaft, a housing accommodating the transmission mechanism and having a first bearing holder portion on the inner face, oil collected in the lower region of the housing, and a catch tank disposed in the housing and opens upwards. The first bearing holder portion has a holding tubular portion that holds the first bearing from radially outside. The holding tubular portion has a cutout portion that connects the inside and outside of the holding tubular portion. A flow passage including a cutout portion is provided on the inner face of the housing. The catch tank includes a reservoir and a feed portion extending from the inside of the reservoir to the holding tubular portion. The distal end portion of the feed portion is inserted into the flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220286016
    Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a third flow path, and a fourth flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The third flow path supplies a part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to the outer surface of a stator. The fourth flow path supplies the other part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to a hollow portion of a shaft. A minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the fourth flow path is smaller than a minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the third flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Kouhei OBA
  • Publication number: 20220282781
    Abstract: A drive device includes a first shaft, a gear portion, a lubricant flow path, and a housing. A gear portion having a second shaft is connected to an end portion of the first shaft in the axial direction. A side plate portion of the housing separates a motor tubular portion surrounding a motor accommodation portion that accommodates a rotor and a stator and a gear tubular portion surrounding a gear accommodation portion that accommodates the gear portion. First and second bearing holding portions disposed in the side plate portion rotatably support the first and second shafts via the first and second bearings, respectively. A lubricant supply portion that is disposed radially outward of the stator and supplies lubricant to the stator includes a lubricant flow path through which lubricant can flow. The lubricant flow path is connected to at least one of the first and second bearing holding portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220281310
    Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, and a connection flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The first flow path and the second flow path are connected to the connection flow path. At least a part of the connection flow path is disposed in the motor accommodation space for accommodating the motor portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220282784
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device of an aspect of the present invention includes a motor, a transmission mechanism including a plurality of gears, a first shaft and a bearing supporting the first shaft and transmitting power of the motor, a housing that accommodates the transmission mechanism and holds the bearing on an inner face, oil that collects in a lower region inside the housing, a catch tank that is disposed inside the housing and opens upward, an oil passage through which the oil passes, and an oil pump provided in the oil passage. The oil passage has a first path connecting the oil pump and the catch tank and a scooping path for scooping the oil by rotation of the gear to guide the scooped oil to the catch tank. The catch tank includes a feed portion for supplying the oil to the gear or the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Sota DOI
  • Publication number: 20220285917
    Abstract: A vertical cavity light-emitting element includes a first multilayer film reflecting mirror, a light transmissive first electrode, a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a light-emitting layer, a second semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, a second multilayer film reflecting mirror, and a semiconductor substrate. The second multilayer film reflecting mirror includes a plurality of semiconductor layers having the second conductivity type and constitutes a resonator together with the first multilayer film reflecting mirror. The semiconductor substrate is formed on the second multilayer film reflecting mirror, has an upper surface and a projecting portion projecting from the upper surface, and has the second conductivity type. A second electrode is formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Masaru KURAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220286012
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a hollow shaft, a housing, a current shunter fixed to the housing and in electrical contact with the shaft and the housing, and a nozzle member for feeding a fluid inside the shaft. The shaft has an open end portion on a first axial side. The housing includes a bottom wall on the first axial side from the open end portion, and a peripheral wall protruding from the bottom wall toward a second axial side and surrounding the open end portion. The nozzle member has a feeding tubular part at least partly inserted inside the shaft from the open end portion, and a flange portion protruding radially outward from the feeding tubular part. The current shunter is located radially inside the peripheral wall, and the flange portion is located between the current shunter and the bottom wall in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220286025
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor, a stator, a housing, an inverter device, a bus bar, and a pipe member in a hollow shape accommodated inside the housing. The housing is provided inside with a first region located between an outer surface of a stator core and an inner surface of the housing as viewed in an axial direction, and a second region located between the outer surface of the stator core and the inner surface of the housing as viewed in the axial direction while being disposed apart from the first region in a circumferential direction. The second region is wider than the first region. The pipe member overlaps the first region as viewed in the axial direction. The bus bar overlaps the second region as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi KUROYANAGI, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220286011
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including a hollow shaft, and a bearing supporting an outer face of the shaft. A holder holding the bearing is on the inner face of a housing of the transmission mechanism. The holder has a facing face facing an end of the shaft, a tubular portion holding the bearing and protruding in the axial direction radially from the facing face, and a rib inside the tubular portion and protruding in the axial direction from the facing face. The rib extends in a concave shape opening upward. A lower end of an inner face of the rib is below an upper end of an inner face of the shaft when viewed from the axial direction. At least one end of the rib in an extending direction faces an inner face of the tubular portion via a gap when viewed from the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220154814
    Abstract: A drive device includes a first catch tank above a first gear and including a first bent portion bent between the first gear and a second gear, and a second catch tank below the first catch tank and including a second bent portion that is bent downward. A space above the second bent portion communicates with a space above the first bent portion. A third catch tank is above the second gear, and includes a third bent portion that is bent toward between the first gear and the second gear. A space above the third bent portion communicates with the space above the first bent portion. A fourth catch tank is in front of the second gear and above the third gear, and includes a fourth bent portion that is bent downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA
  • Patent number: 10317842
    Abstract: A timepiece mainspring is accommodated inside a barrel, an inner end thereof is fixed to a barrel arbor included in the barrel, and an outer end thereof engages with an inner wall of the barrel. The timepiece mainspring includes a helical portion wound in a Bernoulli curve shape from the inner end in a free state having no applied load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Masao Takeuchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9972972
    Abstract: A vertical cavity light emitting device includes: a first multilayer film reflector; a semiconductor structure layer that is formed on the first multilayer film reflector and includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type; an insulating current confinement layer formed on the semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type; a through opening formed in the current confinement layer; a transparent electrode for covering the through opening and the current confinement layer, the transparent electrode being in contact with the semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type through the through opening; a second multilayer film reflector formed on the transparent electrode; and a mixed composition layer formed to be in contact with an edge of the through opening and in which the current confinement layer and the transparent electrode are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Komei Tazawa, Ji-Hao Liang, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Masaru Takizawa, Keisuke Nakata
  • Publication number: 20170308037
    Abstract: A timepiece mainspring is accommodated inside a barrel, an inner end thereof is fixed to a barrel arbor included in the barrel, and an outer end thereof engages with an inner wall of the barrel. The timepiece mainspring includes a helical portion wound in a Bernoulli curve shape from the inner end in a free state having no applied load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Masao TAKEUCHI, Shogo KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170149213
    Abstract: A vertical cavity light emitting device includes: a first multilayer film reflector; a semiconductor structure layer that is formed on the first multilayer film reflector and includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type; an insulating current confinement layer formed on the semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type; a through opening formed in the current confinement layer; a transparent electrode for covering the through opening and the current confinement layer, the transparent electrode being in contact with the semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type through the through opening; a second multilayer film reflector formed on the transparent electrode; and a mixed composition layer formed to be in contact with an edge of the through opening and in which the current confinement layer and the transparent electrode are mixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Komei TAZAWA, Ji-Hao LIANG, Seiichiro KOBAYASHI, Masaru TAKIZAWA, Keisuke NAKATA
  • Patent number: 8687075
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus, which is capable of recording a still image during a moving image recording operation, includes a display unit, an operation unit configured to receive an instruction from a user, and a controller configured to control the display unit to display information about a number of recordable still image data, when the operation unit receives a predetermined instruction during a moving image recording operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Senichi Onoda, Jun Takemura