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).

  • Publication number: 20100166346
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu HORI, Tetsuya KURIMURA
  • Patent number: 7699528
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Hori, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • Publication number: 20100034493
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Masaharu Hori, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • Patent number: 7604410
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Patent number: 7604411
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Patent number: 7566174
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Patent number: 7556433
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignees: NTN Corporation, Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yoshiharu Inazuka, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20090016655
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nakajima, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • Publication number: 20080212906
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: TETSUYA KURIMURA, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Publication number: 20080187258
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Publication number: 20080107368
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Publication number: 20080037918
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Yukitaka Hayakawa, Jun Hirade, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • Publication number: 20070274617
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuo Shibahara, Kenji Ito, Isao Komori, Ryouichi Nakajima, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • Patent number: 7296931
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Publication number: 20070230843
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Patent number: 7146733
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • Publication number: 20060188187
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yoshiharu Inazuka, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20060120643
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Patent number: 7048444
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
  • Patent number: 7008112
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Tetsuya Kurimura