Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kurimura
Tetsuya Kurimura 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: 20100166346Abstract: A dynamic bearing device is provided, which can prevent abrasion powder generated when a sealing member is pushed into an inner circumference of a housing from entering the housing. A sealing member is inserted into an inner circumference of an opening of a housing with an adhesive interposed therebetween The adhesive moving forward in a pushing direction of the sealing member is retained by a capillary action in a lower tapered space between an outer circumference of the sealing member and the inner circumference of the housing. Abrasion powder is captured by the adhesive in the tapered space so as to be confined in the adhesive as a result of the setting of the adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu HORI, Tetsuya KURIMURA
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Patent number: 7699528Abstract: A dynamic bearing device is provided, which can prevent abrasion powder generated when a sealing member is pushed into an inner circumference of a housing from entering the housing. A sealing member is inserted into an inner circumference of an opening of a housing with an adhesive interposed therebetween The adhesive moving forward in a pushing direction of the sealing member is retained by a capillary action in a lower tapered space between an outer circumference of the sealing member and the inner circumference of the housing. Abrasion powder is captured by the adhesive in the tapered space so as to be confined in the adhesive as a result of the setting of the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Masaharu Hori, Tetsuya Kurimura
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Publication number: 20100034493Abstract: Provided is a fluid bearing device in which run-out of another member fixed to a shaft member is suppressed. At one end of a shaft member (2), there is provided a press-fitting fixation surface (2a4) to which a hub (3) can be press-fitted and fixed. Further, between the press-fitting fixation surface (2a4) and an end surface (2d), there is provided a guide portion (10) to be used when press-fitting the hub (3) onto the press-fitting fixation surface (2a4). The guide portion (10) is provided with a cylindrical surface (11) of a smaller diameter than an inner peripheral surface (3b) of the hub (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2006Publication date: February 11, 2010Inventors: Masaharu Hori, Tetsuya Kurimura
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Patent number: 7604410Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Patent number: 7604411Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Patent number: 7566174Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Patent number: 7556433Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing device is mainly composed of a housing, a bearing sleeve, and a rotary member. The housing is formed by a side portion formed through injection molding of a resin material, and a bottom member fixed to a fixing portion provided in the inner periphery at one axial end of the side portion and adapted to close an opening at one axial end of the side portion. The fixing portion is a molding surface formed through solidification, in conformity with the inner surface of the mold, of the resin injected by the injection molding.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2006Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignees: NTN Corporation, Nidec CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yoshiharu Inazuka, Takehito Tamaoka
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Publication number: 20090016655Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing device in which leakage of a lubricating oil can be prevented is provided at low costs. A minute amount of an ink is provided on a first outer circumferential surface 8b2 of a bearing member 8 made of a sintered metal and a pore sealing portion 17 consisting of aggregates of a minute amount of the ink is formed to seal a portion of the fluid dynamic bearing device 1 of the bearing member 8 which is exposed to the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Nakajima, Tetsuya Kurimura
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Publication number: 20080212906Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: TETSUYA KURIMURA, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Publication number: 20080187258Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2007Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Publication number: 20080107368Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Publication number: 20080037918Abstract: In order to prevent degradation of accuracy and decrease of strength when a hydrodynamic bearing device is assembled and to reduce a cost of the hydrodynamic bearing device, a guide face 2c serving as a guide when a disc hub 3 is press fitted into a shaft member 2 is formed on the shaft member 2. Then, the guide face 2c, an outer circumferential surface 2a3 of the shaft member 2 adjacent to the guide face 2c, and a boundary portion between the guide face 2c and the outer circumferential surface 2a3 are ground simultaneously, thereby forming a blunting portion 2d having a radius r in the boundary portion. Thus, no edge remains between the guide face 2c and the outer circumferential surface 2a3. Therefore, press-fitting resistance when the disc hub is press fitted to an end of the shaft member 2 can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2005Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventors: Yukitaka Hayakawa, Jun Hirade, Tetsuya Kurimura
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Publication number: 20070274617Abstract: The present invention provides a fluid dynamic bearing device having high durability and capable of being produced at low cost. In the fluid dynamic bearing device, a housing (7) and a disc hub (3) are resin molded parts, and a thrust bearing gap is formed between an upper end surface (7d) of the housing (7) and a lower end surface (3e) of the disc hub (3). In this case, the surfaces (7d, 3e) function as sliding portions (P) temporarily in sliding contact with each other during operation of the bearing. A diameter of PAN-based carbon fibers blended as reinforcement fibers in the resin housing (7) is 12 ?m or less, and the blending amount is within a range of 5 to 20 vol %, thereby making it possible to prevent occurrence of flaws and wear in the sliding portions (P).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2005Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuo Shibahara, Kenji Ito, Isao Komori, Ryouichi Nakajima, Tetsuya Kurimura
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Patent number: 7296931Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Publication number: 20070230843Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Patent number: 7146733Abstract: The thrust member is inserted into the inner circumferential surface of the housing, to make the end face of the thrust member contact with the lower side end face of the flange portion, and at the same time, to make the upper side end face of the flange portion contact with the lower side end face of the bearing sleeve. This stated is that the thrust bearing gap is zero. Then, the thrust member is made to relatively move with respect to the housing and the bearing sleeve in the axial direction together with the axis member, with a dimension ?(?=?1+?2) that is equivalent to the sum of the thrust bearing gap (size is ?1) of the first thrust bearing portion and the thrust bearing gap (size is ?2) of the second thrust bearing portion. Then, as the thrust member is fixed to the housing at that position, the predetermined thrust bearing gap ?(?=?1+?2) is formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Tetsuya Kurimura
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Publication number: 20060188187Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing device is mainly composed of a housing, a bearing sleeve, and a rotary member. The housing is formed by a side portion formed through injection molding of a resin material, and a bottom member fixed to a fixing portion provided in the inner periphery at one axial end of the side portion and adapted to close an opening at one axial end of the side portion. The fixing portion is a molding surface formed through solidification, in conformity with the inner surface of the mold, of the resin injected by the injection molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yoshiharu Inazuka, Takehito Tamaoka
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Publication number: 20060120643Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2006Publication date: June 8, 2006Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Patent number: 7048444Abstract: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Patent number: 7008112Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing device with reduced costs is provided. A housing with a bearing sleeve housed therein is formed by drawing. A cup shaped thrust member is positioned in a bottom part of the housing, and by bringing this thrust member into contact with a lower end surface of the bearing sleeve, the widths of thrust bearing gaps within first and second thrust bearing parts are set to prescribed values.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Tetsuya Kurimura