Patents by Inventor Takafumi Uemoto

Takafumi Uemoto 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: 11022178
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a seal member and a slinger. The slinger has a slinger fixing part, a first radial part, a first axial part, a second radial part, and a second axial part facing a seal fixing part of the seal member in a radial direction across a first clearance. The seal member has a large-diameter part facing, in an axial direction, an end of the second axial part on the other side in an axial direction across a second clearance. An outer circumferential surface of the large-diameter part and an outer circumferential surface of the second axial part are included in a flow passage surface of a continuous outside flow passage that extends in a straight line along the axial direction. The first clearance and the second clearance communicate with each other, and the sealing device has a labyrinth clearance including the first clearance and the second clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Uemoto, Yuya Yamamoto, Takuya Toda, Suguru Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20210025453
    Abstract: A sealing structure includes a seal member and a slinger. The seal member includes a gutter positioned between a seal fixing portion and a seal lip in an axial direction. The gutter and the seal lip are positioned at different positions in the axial direction, and a first axially extending portion radially faces a whole of the seal lip and a part of the gutter on one axial side. A communication portion communicating with an outside of the sealing structure is formed between the seal fixing portion and the first axially extending portion. The communication portion radially faces a part of the gutter on the other axial side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takafumi UEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200347884
    Abstract: A seal assembly device is configured to attach an annular seal by press-fitting to an axial end portion of a first raceway member of a wheel bearing device. The seal assembly device includes: a columnar guide member including a contact surface configured to contact a plurality of rolling elements provided along a raceway surface formed on the first raceway member from a side opposite to the raceway surface, the contact surface being continuous in a circumferential direction; a pressing member configured to move in an axial direction along the guide member toward the axial end portion so as to press the seal in the axial direction and to press-fit the seal into the axial end portion; and a reference member configured to restrict a movement stroke of the pressing member with respect to the guide member in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi MORITA, Daisuke YAMASAKI, Mitsuru SAWANO, Takafumi UEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200292002
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a seal member and a slinger. A labyrinth clearance is provided in a part of a clearance between the seal member and the slinger. The labyrinth clearance includes an outer clearance that opens toward the outside, a central clearance which is continuous with the outer clearance and of which a flow passage direction intersects with that of the outer clearance, and an inner clearance which is continuous with the central clearance and of which a flow passage direction intersects with that of the central clearance. An opening of the outer clearance has a dimension of 0.3 mm or larger and 0.7 mm or smaller. The central clearance has a length of 3 mm or longer in the flow passage direction. The inner clearance has a clearance dimension of 0.3 mm or larger and 1.0 mm or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi UEMOTO, Yuya YAMAMOTO, Takuya TODA, Suguru NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200292001
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a seal member and a slinger. The slinger has a slinger fixing part, a first radial part, a first axial part, a second radial part, and a second axial part facing a seal fixing part of the seal member in a radial direction across a first clearance. The seal member has a large-diameter part facing, in an axial direction, an end of the second axial part on the other side in an axial direction across a second clearance. An outer circumferential surface of the large-diameter part and an outer circumferential surface of the second axial part are included in a flow passage surface of a continuous outside flow passage that extends in a straight line along the axial direction. The first clearance and the second clearance communicate with each other, and the sealing device has a labyrinth clearance including the first clearance and the second clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi UEMOTO, Yuya YAMAMOTO, Takuya TODA, Suguru NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10385922
    Abstract: A wheel bearing apparatus includes an outer ring, an inner shaft member, rolling elements, a cage, and a sealing device. The sealing device includes an annular slinger and a sealing member. The slinger has a first inclined surface provided on a radially outer side and on a side facing the sealing member such that a diameter of the first inclined surface increases toward a first side in an axial direction. The sealing member has a second inclined surface provided on the radially outer side and on a side facing the slinger such that a diameter of the second inclined surface increases toward a second side in the axial direction. The second inclined surface intersects with a virtual extension surface extending radially outwardly along the first inclined surface, and the second inclined surface is continuous with an inner peripheral surface of the radially outer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Inoue, Takuya Toda, Teruyuki Wakisaka, Takafumi Uemoto, Chiyoko Furuta
  • Publication number: 20190017551
    Abstract: A wheel bearing apparatus includes an outer ring, an inner shaft member, rolling elements, a cage, and a sealing device. The sealing device includes an annular slinger and a sealing member. The slinger has a first inclined surface provided on a radially outer side and on a side facing the sealing member such that a diameter of the first inclined surface increases toward a first side in an axial direction. The sealing member has a second inclined surface provided on the radially outer side and on a side facing the slinger such that a diameter of the second inclined surface increases toward a second side in the axial direction. The second inclined surface intersects with a virtual extension surface extending radially outwardly along the first inclined surface, and the second inclined surface is continuous with an inner peripheral surface of the radially outer portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya INOUE, Takuya TODA, Teruyuki WAKISAKA, Takafumi UEMOTO, Chiyoko FURUTA
  • Patent number: 9097295
    Abstract: A one-way clutch used in a wind turbine generator connects an input rotor with an output rotor so that the input rotor and the output rotor are rotatable together with each other when a main shaft rotates in a forward direction and rotation speed of the input rotor is higher than rotation speed of the output rotor, and disconnects the input rotor and the output rotor from each other when the rotation speed of the input rotor is lower than the rotation speed of the output rotor. Further, the wind turbine generator includes a second one-way clutch that permits transmission of force caused by the rotation of the main shaft, to the input rotor when the main shaft rotates in the forward direction, and restricts the rotation of the main shaft when the main shaft tries to rotate in a reverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Fujiwara, Kazushige Ootsuka, Takafumi Uemoto, Nobuyuki Rito
  • Patent number: 8770053
    Abstract: A transmission has a simple structure and can be produced at a low cost. A second electromagnetic clutch is shut off at a timing when an electric motor is decelerated and before selecting motion is finished, and thereafter, a shift/select shaft is moved to a terminal end position of the selecting motion with an inertia of a driven part (a second output hub) of the second electromagnetic clutch. At a timing after a predetermined period has passed from the timing, a first electromagnetic clutch for the next shifting motion is connected. The electric motor is driven synchronously with the end of the selecting motion or immediately in response to the end, thereby to start the next shifting motion. In this manner, gear change can be rapidly conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Takafumi Uemoto
  • Patent number: 8714041
    Abstract: A transmission that is able to perform shift operation and select operation using the driving force of a single electric motor is provided. A shift/select actuating device includes: an electric motor; a first conversion mechanism; a second conversion mechanism; and a changing unit that changes a destination, to which the rotational driving force of the electric motor is transmitted, between the first conversion mechanism and the second conversion mechanism. The changing unit includes: a first electromagnetic clutch that transmits the rotational driving force of the electric motor to the first conversion mechanism or interrupts the rotational driving force; and a second electromagnetic clutch that transmits the rotational driving force to the second conversion mechanism or interrupts the rotational driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yukitake, Akiyoshi Tashiro, Hiroki Kagawa, Takafumi Uemoto
  • Publication number: 20140090945
    Abstract: A one-way clutch used in a wind turbine generator connects an input rotor with an output rotor so that the input rotor and the output rotor are rotatable together with each other when a main shaft rotates in a forward direction and rotation speed of the input rotor is higher than rotation speed of the output rotor, and disconnects the input rotor and the output rotor from each other when the rotation speed of the input rotor is lower than the rotation speed of the output rotor. Further, the wind turbine generator includes a second one-way clutch that permits transmission of force caused by the rotation of the main shaft, to the input rotor when the main shaft rotates in the forward direction, and restricts the rotation of the main shaft when the main shaft tries to rotate in a reverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki FUJIWARA, Kazushige OOTSUKA, Takafumi UEMOTO, Nobuyuki RITO
  • Publication number: 20130052058
    Abstract: A pump body is formed of a pump housing and a pump plate provided in front of the pump housing. A motor housing is fixed to a rear end of the pump housing, and accommodates a pump driving electric motor. A bearing device that supports a motor shaft includes a first bearing that is arranged in a closed-end hole formed in a rear face of the pump plate and supporting a front end portion of the motor shaft, and a second bearing that is arranged radially inward of a cylindrical bearing support portion formed in the pump housing and extending inside the motor housing and that supports a middle portion of the motor shaft. A pump rotor is arranged between the first bearing and the second bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobutsuna MOTOHASHI, Takafumi UEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120318089
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a transmission device which has a simple structure and can be produced at a low cost. A second electromagnetic clutch is shut off at a timing when an electric motor is decelerated and before selecting motion is finished, and thereafter, a shift/select shaft is moved to a terminal end position of the selecting motion with an inertia of a driven part (a second output hub) of the second electromagnetic clutch. At a timing after a predetermined period has passed from the timing, a first electromagnetic clutch for the next shifting motion is connected. The electric motor is driven synchronously with the end of the selecting motion or immediately in response to the end, thereby to start the next shifting motion. In this manner, gear change can be rapidly conducted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takafumi Uemoto
  • Publication number: 20120144942
    Abstract: A transmission that is able to perform shift operation and select operation using the driving force of a single electric motor is provided. A shift/select actuating device includes: an electric motor; a first conversion mechanism; a second conversion mechanism; and a changing unit that changes a destination, to which the rotational driving force of the electric motor is transmitted, between the first conversion mechanism and the second conversion mechanism. The changing unit includes: a first electromagnetic clutch that transmits the rotational driving force of the electric motor to the first conversion mechanism or interrupts the rotational driving force; and a second electromagnetic clutch that transmits the rotational driving force to the second conversion mechanism or interrupts the rotational driving force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yukitake, Akiyoshi Tashiro, Hiroki Kagawa, Takafumi Uemoto