Patents by Inventor Tadatsugu Imura
Tadatsugu Imura 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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Publication number: 20220128092Abstract: A sliding component includes: a dynamic pressure generation groove provided in a sliding surface of the sliding component, the dynamic pressure generation groove having a first end forming a closed end and a second end forming an inlet communicating with any one side of a sealed fluid side and a leakage side in a radial direction; and a deep groove provided in the sliding surface and deeper than the dynamic pressure generation groove, an inlet 16a of the deep groove communicating with an inlet of the dynamic pressure generation groove on a side of a side wall of the dynamic pressure generation groove, the side wall being circumferentially opposite to a dynamic pressure generation wall constituting another side wall of the dynamic pressure generation groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Iwa OU
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Publication number: 20220120313Abstract: A pair of sliding components formed in an annular shape and disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotary machine are constituted by a first sliding component 10 and a second sliding component. A sliding surface of the first sliding component has a plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms each of which includes at least a shallow groove communicating with a leakage side. A sliding surface of the second sliding component has deep grooves each of which has a dimension deeper than that of the shallow groove of each of the dynamic pressure generation mechanisms and communicates with the leakage side, each of the deep grooves overlapping with the shallow groove each of the dynamic pressure generation mechanisms during relative rotation of the first and second sliding components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Iwa OU, Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroshi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220106980Abstract: To provide sliding components capable of suppressing dynamic pressure generation mechanisms from being deformed and damaged due to wear of sliding surfaces. In a pair of sliding components which is disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotary machine, has a plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms formed in a sliding surface of the sliding component by recessed portions, and is formed in an annular shape to seal a sealed fluid by sliding the sliding surfaces of the sliding components. A surface region in the periphery of the recessed portions of the sliding component is formed to be separated from an opposite region of the sliding component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Iwa OU, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220099188Abstract: A sliding component having an annular shape is disposed at a relative rotation point of a rotating machine. A plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms are provided on a sliding surface of the sliding component each including a first groove portion communicating with a leak side and a pair of second groove portions and communicating with the first groove portion and extending on both sides in a circumferential direction. Extension-direction end surfaces and of the second groove portions and are disposed on a sealing target fluid side as compared with a communication portions between the first groove portion and each of the second communication portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroshi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220099190Abstract: A sliding component having an annular shape is disposed in a place where relative rotation is performed in a rotary machine, in which a plurality of dynamic pressure generating mechanisms are provided in a sliding surface of the sliding component, each including a deep groove portion that communicates with an outer diameter side, and at least one shallow groove portion that communicates with the deep groove portion and extends in a circumferential direction, and the deep groove portion is provided with a trap portion that suppresses a sealed liquid in the deep groove portion from leaking to a leakage side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Iwa OU, Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220099138Abstract: A pair of sliding components are disposed at a relatively rotating position at the time of running a rotary machine and formed in an annular shape in which a sealed liquid is present on one side of an inner radial side and an outer radial side and a gas is present on the remaining side thereof. A sliding surface of a sliding component is provided with a dynamic pressure generation groove which communicates with the side of a gas in a radial direction and which is configured to generate a dynamic pressure between the sliding surfaces by the gas at the time of running the rotary machine. A sliding surface of a sliding component is provided with a groove which extends in a circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Hiroshi SUZUKI, Tadatsugu IMURA, Iwa OU, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220056956Abstract: A sliding surface of an annular sliding component disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotating machine is provided with a plurality of dynamic pressure generating groove groups arranged in a circumferential direction, each including a plurality of dynamic pressure generating grooves having a start point opening to one radial edge of the sliding surface S and an end point closing within the sliding surface while extending circumferentially, in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA
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Patent number: 11248706Abstract: In a pair of sliding components having respective sliding faces (S) which slide relative to each other, at least one of the sliding faces (S) is provided with a plurality of dimples (10), and the dimples (10) include a concave part (15), and a peripheral edge part (11) which is located at the outer peripheral part of the concave part (15) and is shallower than the concave part (15). Accordingly, the performance of the plurality of dimples formed on the sliding face can be sufficiently exploited, thereby improving their lubrication performance and sealing performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadatsugu Imura, Hideyuki Inoue, Yuichiro Tokunaga
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Patent number: 11248707Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a pair of sliding components has sliding surfaces that slide with respect to each other, wherein at least one of the sliding surfaces, sliding surface S, includes a random dimple group 11 in which plural dimples 10 are randomly arranged, and the random dimple group 11 is arranged to be biased in the circumferential direction of the sliding surface S. The sliding components have an improved lubricating property and reliability of a sealing property.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTDInventors: Tadatsugu Imura, Ayano Tanishima, Hideyuki Inoue, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Takeshi Hosoe, Yuta Negishi, Yuki Maetani
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Patent number: 11168793Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a pair of sliding components has sliding surfaces that slide with respect to each other, wherein at least the sliding surface S on one side includes a random dimple group 11 in which plural dimples 10 are randomly arranged, and at least one land portion 15 that partitions radial portions 11a, 11b of the random dimple group 11. According to the configurations, a lubricating effect and a sealing effect can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayano Tanishima, Tadatsugu Imura, Hideyuki Inoue, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Takeshi Hosoe, Yuta Negishi, Yuki Maetani
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Publication number: 20210301865Abstract: In a pair of sliding members (3, 5) sliding relative to each other on sliding surfaces (S), at least one of the sliding surfaces (S) includes a dynamic pressure generation mechanism (11), and the curvature of the dynamic pressure generation mechanism (11) is set to increase in proportion to the flow path length of the dynamic pressure generation mechanism (11). The sliding member can exhibit a pumping action even at low-speed rotation and can exhibit sealing function and lubrication function.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventor: Tadatsugu IMURA
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Patent number: 11053975Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a pair of sliding components has annular sliding surfaces that slide with respect to each other in which plural dimples 10 are arranged on at least sliding surface S on one side, wherein the plural dimples 10 are randomly arranged to form a random dimple group 11, and the dimples 10 are arranged in a manner that a radial-direction coordinate average of centers of the dimples 10 of the random dimple group 11 is smaller than a sliding radius 15 of the sliding surface S.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTDInventors: Tadatsugu Imura, Ayano Tanishima, Hideyuki Inoue, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Takeshi Hosoe, Yuta Negishi, Yuki Maetani
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Patent number: 11035411Abstract: A pair of sliding parts has sliding faces S that slide with respect to each other in which at least the sliding face S on one side includes dimple groups 20 formed by arranging plural dimples 10, and the dimples 10 are arranged in such a manner that a radial-direction coordinate average of center coordinates of the dimples 10 of the dimple group 20 is smaller than a sliding radius Rm of the sliding face S. The sliding parts can improve a characteristic of suctioning from the leakage side to sliding faces, thereby providing excellent sealing property.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadatsugu Imura, Ayano Tanishima, Hideyuki Inoue, Yuichiro Tokunaga, Yuta Negishi, Yuki Maetani
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Publication number: 20210054934Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a pair of sliding components has sliding surfaces that slide with respect to each other, wherein at least one of the sliding surfaces, sliding surface S, includes a random dimple group 11 in which plural dimples 10 are randomly arranged, and the random dimple group 11 is arranged to be biased in the circumferential direction of the sliding surface S. The sliding components have an improved lubricating property and reliability of a sealing property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Ayano TANISHIMA, Hideyuki INOUE, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Takeshi HOSOE, Yuta NEGISHI, Yuki MAETANI
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Publication number: 20210048106Abstract: In a pair of sliding components having respective sliding faces (S) which slide relative to each other, at least one of the sliding faces (S) is provided with a plurality of dimples (10), and the dimples (10) include a concave part (15), and a peripheral edge part (11) which is located at the outer peripheral part of the concave part (15) and is shallower than the concave part (15). Accordingly, the performance of the plurality of dimples formed on the sliding face can be sufficiently exploited, thereby improving their lubrication performance and sealing performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2018Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Hideyuki INOUE, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20210041026Abstract: Low-torque sliding components have sliding surfaces rotated relative to each other with an annular mating ring and an annular seal ring facing each other. The sliding surface of at least one of the mating ring and the seal ring has therein a plurality of multi-stepped recess portions formed in a circumferential direction. Relative rotation and sliding of the mating ring and the seal ring causes the multi-stepped recess portions to generate a dynamic pressure, and the multi-stepped recess portion is formed in a stepwise shape in a cross-sectional view by a dynamic pressure recess portion and a static pressure recess portion with the dynamic pressure recess portion surrounding the static pressure recess portion deeper than the dynamic pressure recess portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Hiroyuki HASHIMOTO, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Hideyuki INOUE
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Publication number: 20200378501Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a pair of sliding components has sliding surfaces that slide with respect to each other, wherein at least the sliding surface S on one side includes a random dimple group 11 in which plural dimples 10 are randomly arranged, and at least one land portion 15 that partitions radial portions 11a, 11b of the random dimple group 11. According to the configurations, a lubricating effect and a sealing effect can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Ayano TANISHIMA, Tadatsugu IMURA, Hideyuki INOUE, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Takeshi HOSOE, Yuta NEGISHI, Yuki MAETANI
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Publication number: 20200332901Abstract: A sliding component has an annular mating ring and an annular seal ring opposite to each other and causing respective sliding surfaces thereof to slidably rotate relative to each other, to seal a sealed fluid present on radially inner or outer side of the sliding surfaces. In the sliding surface of the seal ring, a plurality of dynamic pressure recesses is formed separately arranged in a circumferential direction, the dynamic pressure recesses generating a dynamic pressure by a relative sliding rotation between the mating ring and the seal ring. In the sliding surface of the mating ring, a plurality of static pressure recesses is formed in the circumferential direction at positions where the static pressure recesses cooperate with the dynamic pressure recesses to enable the sealed fluid to flow the static pressure recesses to the dynamic pressure recesses. The static pressure recesses is deeper than the dynamic pressure recesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventor: Tadatsugu IMURA
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Publication number: 20200224722Abstract: A pair of sliding parts has sliding faces S that slide with respect to each other in which at least the sliding face S on one side includes dimple groups 20 formed by arranging plural dimples 10, and the dimples 10 are arranged in such a manner that a radial-direction coordinate average of center coordinates of the dimples 10 of the dimple group 20 is smaller than a sliding radius Rm of the sliding face S. The sliding parts can improve a characteristic of suctioning from the leakage side to sliding faces, thereby providing excellent sealing property.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Ayano TANISHIMA, Hideyuki INOUE, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yuta NEGISHI, Yuki MAETANI
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Publication number: 20200224768Abstract: A pair of sliding components have sliding faces (S) that slide with respect to each other, wherein at least one of the sliding faces (S) includes at least one dimple group (11) constituted by plural dimples (12), and each dimple group (11) includes at least one opening portion (11a) that is arranged in the one of the sliding faces (S) and radially open to the outside the one of the sliding faces (S). In the sliding components, a dynamic pressure generation mechanism can easily be formed, and a lubricating performance and a sealing performance can improve.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Tadatsugu IMURA, Hideyuki INOUE, Yuichiro TOKUNAGA, Yuta NEGISHI, Yuki MAETANI, Ayano TANISHIMA