Patents by Inventor Soshi Miyahara

Soshi Miyahara 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: 11542983
    Abstract: A motion guide device includes: a supporting body; a movable body which is movable along the supporting body; a roller which is configured to be rollable between the supporting body and the movable body; a roller holding member which is provided on the movable body to hold the roller, wherein the roller holding member comprises an upper roller holding member and a lower roller holding member, a protrusion is formed on the lower roller holding member, the protrusion is in a length direction of the movable body and opposite to a foot of the movable body, an opening is formed on the foot, the opening is opened to a side of the supporting body in the length direction to receive the protrusion, a protrusion width of the protrusion is greater than an opening width of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunlei Liang, Rendong Li, Jixun Sha, Tsutomu Togashi, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida
  • Publication number: 20210317872
    Abstract: A motion guide device includes: a supporting body; a movable body which is movable along the supporting body; a roller which is configured to be rollable between the supporting body and the movable body; a roller holding member which is provided on the movable body to hold the roller, wherein the roller holding member comprises an upper roller holding member and a lower roller holding member, a protrusion is formed on the lower roller holding member, the protrusion is in a length direction of the movable body and opposite to a foot of the movable body, an opening is formed on the foot, the opening is opened to a side of the supporting body in the length direction to receive the protrusion, a protrusion width of the protrusion is greater than an opening width of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: THK Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunlei Liang, Rendong Li, Jixun Sha, Tsutomu Togashi, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida
  • Patent number: 10711838
    Abstract: This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Shigeo Tomita
  • Patent number: 10662999
    Abstract: This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Shigeo Tomita
  • Patent number: 10393244
    Abstract: This rolling device 10 includes an inner member 11 provided with a rolling element rolling groove 11a, and an outer member 21 attached to the inner member 11 to be relatively movable via a plurality of rolling elements 12. The outer member 21 includes an outer member main body portion 22 including a loaded rolling element rolling groove 25 forming a loaded rolling element rolling raceway in cooperation with the rolling element rolling groove 11a and a non-loaded rolling element rolling raceway 33 arranged to correspond to the loaded rolling element rolling groove 25, and a pair of lids 24 attached to both end surfaces of the outer member main body portion 22 in a relatively-moving direction and having at least a part of a direction changing raceway 35 connecting one end of the loaded rolling element rolling raceway to one end of the non-loaded rolling element rolling raceway 33. Each of the lids 24 is provided with a projection portion 24b including at least the part of the direction changing raceway 35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Horiike, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190170189
    Abstract: This mobile-object-holding tool is mounted in place of a track body on a mobile object which moves along the track body, wherein the mobile object includes at least a pair of rolling element load rolling grooves through which a plurality of rolling elements roll and the mobile-object-holding tool includes a pair of holding parts which face the pair of rolling element load rolling grooves and hold the plurality of rolling elements, a biasing linking part which links the pair of holding parts together and biases the pair of holding parts away from each other, and a deformation regulating part which regulates a mounted contraction amount by which the biasing linking part is capable of contracting after being mounted on the mobile object to a predetermined value or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi, Shigeo Tomita
  • Patent number: 9995338
    Abstract: A linear guide 10 includes: a track rail 20 having a ball rolling groove 22; a movable block 30 having a loaded ball rolling groove 33 opposing the ball rolling groove 22, an unloaded ball rolling groove 34 extending in parallel with the direction in which the ball rolling groove 22 extends, and a direction change guide groove 35 connecting the loaded ball rolling groove 33 and the unloaded ball rolling groove 34; and a plurality of balls 40 arrayed on an endless circulating path including a loaded ball rolling path 50, an unloaded ball rolling path 60, and a direction change path 70 formed by the track rail 20 and the movable block 30. The direction change path 70 has a plurality of change points where the track changes. By having this configuration, it is possible to provide a linear guide which does not require an end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Hiroshi Ohara
  • Publication number: 20170030447
    Abstract: This rolling device 10 includes an inner member 11 provided with a rolling element rolling groove 11a, and an outer member 21 attached to the inner member 11 to be relatively movable via a plurality of roiling elements 12. The outer member 21 includes an outer member main body portion 22 including a loaded rolling element rolling groove 25 forming a loaded rolling element rolling raceway in cooperation with the rolling element rolling groove 11a and a non-loaded rolling element rolling raceway 33 arranged to correspond to the loaded rolling element rolling groove 25, and a pair of lids 24 attached to both end surfaces of the outer member main body portion 22 in a relatively-moving direction and having at least a part of a direction changing raceway 35 connecting one end of the loaded rolling element rolling raceway to one end of the non-loaded rolling element rolling raceway 33. Each of the lids 24 is provided with a projection portion 24b including at least the part of the direction changing raceway 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Horiike, Soshi Miyahara, Masakazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9506544
    Abstract: A ball screw device or linear motion guide device has a seal member preventing dust and dirt from entering into a movable member of a linear motion guide device and seals out fine dust, dirt or like by surely contacting a seal to a shaft member without providing a large margin to the seal. The seal member includes a body portion mounted to the movable member and a lip portion contacting an outer portion of the shaft member, the lip portion has an oblique surface having an axial section inclining with respect to its axial direction, the body portion has an urging member urging the lip portion in a diameter direction of the shaft member and a reinforcing portion reinforcing the body portion. The urging member is located on the reinforcing portion side than the tip end of the lip portion in the axial sectional shape of the lip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Tsutomu Togashi, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20160305476
    Abstract: A linear guide 10 includes: a track rail 20 having a ball rolling groove 22; a movable block 30 having a loaded ball rolling groove 33 opposing the ball rolling groove 22, an unloaded ball rolling groove 34 extending in parallel with the direction in which the ball rolling groove 22 extends, and a direction change guide groove 35 connecting the loaded ball rolling groove 33 and the unloaded ball rolling groove 34; and a plurality of balls 40 arrayed on an endless circulating path including a loaded ball rolling path 50, an unloaded ball rolling path 60, and a direction change path 70 formed by the track rail 20 and the movable block 30. The direction change path 70 has a plurality of change points where the track changes. By having this configuration, it is possible to provide a linear guide which does not require an end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicants: THK CO., LTD., THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Hiroshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 8739646
    Abstract: There is provided a roller screw in which a twisted amount of an unloaded return path is reduced. The roller screw has a screw shaft 1 having a spiral roller-rolling surface 1a on an outer peripheral surface thereof; a nut 2 having a spiral loaded roller-rolling surface 2a on an inner peripheral surface thereof, the spiral loaded roller-rolling surface being opposed to the roller-rolling surface 1a of the screw shaft 1; a circulation member 7 arranged in the nut 2 and formed to have an unloaded return path 8 connecting one end and the other end of the loaded roller-rolling surface 2a, whose turn number is less than one, of the nut 2; and a plurality of rollers 4 arranged in a one-turn roller circulation path composed by a loaded roller-rolling path 6 and the unloaded return path 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Nishimura, Tetsuya Miura, Akimasa Yoshida, Soshi Miyahara, Yusuke Todoroki, Takashi Sakuyama
  • Publication number: 20130255419
    Abstract: A ball screw device or linear motion guide device has a seal member preventing dust and dirt from entering into a movable member of a linear motion guide device and seals out fine dust, dirt or like by surely contacting a seal to a shaft member without providing a large margin to the seal. The seal member includes a body portion mounted to the movable member and a lip portion contacting an outer portion of the shaft member, the lip portion has an oblique surface having an axial section inclining with respect to its axial direction, the body portion has an urging member urging the lip portion in a diameter direction of the shaft member and a reinforcing portion reinforcing the body portion. The urging member is located on the reinforcing portion side than the tip end of the lip portion in the axial sectional shape of the lip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Tsutomu Togashi, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8511896
    Abstract: A rolling device having high silencing effect and requiring no positional alignment working to the seal is provided. The rolling device includes an inner member, an outer member and a number of rolling members disposed between these inner and outer members to thereby allow the outer member to carry out relative rotational motion with respect to the inner member. In such rolling device, an end plate 24 is mounted to each end portion of the outer member. This end plate 24 is provided with an end plate body 24a, a packing member 24c disposed on an abutting surface to the outer member and a seal member 24b slidably contacting the inner member with substantially no clearance. The end plate body 24a, the packing member 24c and the seal member 24b are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeki Shirai, Soshi Miyahara, Hideki Fujii, Kentaro Hikomoto
  • Patent number: 8375815
    Abstract: A rolling-element screw device includes: a large number of rolling elements; a screw shaft having an outer periphery on which a rolling groove for the large number of rolling elements is helically formed; a nut member which has a through-hole through which the screw shaft is passed and which is threadedly engaged with the screw shaft through intermediation of the large number of rolling elements; a lubricant supply hole formed through the nut member from an outer peripheral surface of the nut member to an inner peripheral surface of the nut member; a lubricant tank mounted to the outer peripheral surface of the nut member and comprising an accommodating chamber for lubricant; and a lubricant applying body standing from the lubricant tank, and inserted into the lubricant supply hole along with amounting operation of the lubricant tank with respect to the nut member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Hideo Saito, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama, Tsutomu Togashi, Kazuhiro Tani, Eri Kameda, Futoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8336415
    Abstract: Provided is a roller screw capable of preventing rollers moving from an unloaded return path to a loaded roller rolling path from coming into collision with a scooping portion. The roller screw has: a screw shaft 1 having a spiral roller rolling surface 1a formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof; a nut 2 having a loaded roller rolling surface 2a formed in an inner peripheral surface thereof; a circulation member 3 having an unloaded return path connecting one end of the loaded roller rolling surface 2a of the nut 2 to an opposite end thereof; and a plurality of rollers 4 arranged in a loaded roller rolling path 6 and the unloaded return path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Masahiko Yoshino, Lina Teng, Tsutomu Togashi, Takashi Sakuyama, Kentaro Nishimura, Tetsuya Miura, Akimasa Yoshida, Yusuke Todoroki
  • Patent number: 8336414
    Abstract: Provided is a roller screw having an unloaded roller return path of new shape capable of moving rollers smoothly. The roller circulation path of the roller screw has the unloaded roller return path and a loaded roller rolling path. The unloaded roller return path 10 is twisted so that while each roller 4 moves in the unloaded roller return path 10 its central axis is inclined. In a cross sectional shape of the twisted part of the unloaded roller return path 10, each of paired side surface corresponding parts 25c and 25d facing respective side surfaces of the roller 4 is convex toward the inside of the unloaded roller return path 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama
  • Patent number: 8302498
    Abstract: A linear actuator unit has a slide plate which is allowed to freely move along the outer rail while causing a cover to retreat. The linear actuator unit includes: an outer rail, which is formed into a cylindrical shape, and includes the slit-opening portion formed along an axial direction thereof; the slide plate (3), which is coupled to an inner block in the hollow portion through the slit-opening portion; a cover belt, which is tensioned between both ends in a longitudinal direction of the outer rail so as to cover the slit-opening portion; a belt-guiding member, which separates the cover belt from the outer rail correspondingly to movement of the slide plate; and a seal member, which seals between the belt-guiding member and the cover belt and between the belt-guiding member and the outer rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeki Shirai, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Ryuji Furusawa
  • Patent number: 8261627
    Abstract: There is provided a new rolling body screw device manufactured with cheap cost without degrading quality in comparison with a conventional device even for a device having any large dimension in an end-cap type rolling body screw device. The rolling body screw device includes the direction changing passages 42 each including: a scoop-up portion 43 scooping a ball rolling in a loaded rolling body passage as a loaded area of the endless track so as to hand over the balls to the direction changing passage 42 as a non-loaded area of the endless track; and a route path 44 forming a circulation path of the ball scooped by the scoop-up portion. Each of the return pieces is composed, in combination, of a metal part 41a formed of a metal material including the scoop-up portion 43, and non-metal parts 41b, 41c formed of a non-metal material including the route path 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soshi Miyahara, Toshiaki Kadono, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama, Lina Teng, Tsutomu Togashi, Kazuhiro Tani
  • Patent number: 8132477
    Abstract: A ball screw device having a novel ball circulation structure suitable for a screw shaft with a large lead, optimum for downsizing and weight saving of a nut member, capable of being manufactured at low cost, and capable of exhibiting high reliability even under severe use conditions. In a ball screw device where a screw shaft and a nut member are screwed to each other through an intermediation of a large number of balls, a no-load ball path which forms an infinite circulation path for the balls is constituted by a no-load ball groove spirally formed in an inner peripheral surface of a through-hole of the nut member and by a pair of direction change grooves which communicatively couple a load rolling groove and the no-load ball groove to each other so as to complete the infinite circulation path as a closed loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeki Shirai, Yuji Tachikake, Soshi Miyahara, Masahiko Yoshino, Takashi Sakuyama, Lina Teng, Tsutomu Togashi
  • Patent number: D664169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeki Shirai, Katsuya Iida, Soshi Miyahara, Ryuji Furusawa