Patents by Inventor Toshio Nitta
Toshio Nitta 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: 20230250355Abstract: A lubricant composition containing a base oil, an alkyl benzene sulfonate metal salt, and an alkyl naphthalene sulfonate metal salt, wherein a total content of the alkyl benzene sulfonate metal salt and the alkyl naphthalene sulfonate metal salt is 1 to 2.2% by mass, and a mass fraction of the alkyl benzene sulfonate metal salt to a total mass of the alkyl benzene sulfonate metal salt and the alkyl naphthalene sulfonate metal salt is 0.3 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: NOK KLUEBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko SHIMURA, Toshio NITTA, Keita NAKASHI
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Patent number: 10633612Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a base oil and melamine cyanurate. The base oil includes a perfluoropolyether oil having a straight chain structure. The lubricant composition is for one of a resin-resin sliding section and a resin-metal sliding section. A melamine cyanurate content is within a range of 1-20% by mass with respect to a sum of the base oil and melamine cyanurate.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
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Publication number: 20160244690Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a base oil and melamine cyanurate. The base oil includes a perfluoropolyether oil having a straight chain structure. The lubricant composition is for one of a resin-resin sliding section and a resin-metal sliding section. A melamine cyanurate content is within a range of 1-20% by mass with respect to a sum of the base oil and melamine cyanurate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 9238784Abstract: A slide electricity structure according to the present invention uses grease for electrical contacts wherein contact resistance does not gradually increase even when exposed to sliding and lifetime is long, and has a silver-plated spring contact that contacts or separates by way of sliding and grease for electrical contacts that has been applied to the spring contact and contains perfluoropolyether oil having an average molecular weight between 2600 and 12500 as a base oil and PTFE having a primary particle diameter of 1 ?m or less as a thickener.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sato, Kazuhiro Sato, Ayumu Morita, Kenji Tsuchiya, Takao Kanno, Toshio Nitta
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Publication number: 20140038865Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a base oil and melamine cyanurate. The base oil includes a perfluoropolyether oil having a straight chain structure. The lubricant composition is for one of a resin-resin sliding section and a resin-metal sliding section. A melamine cyanurate content is within a range of 1-20% by mass with respect to a sum of the base oil and melamine cyanurate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2011Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 8501671Abstract: A process for producing a grease composition which is capable of homogeneously and surely dispersing a non-fluorine-based base oil blended with a thickening agent and a fluorine-based base oil blended with a thickening agent. A mixture of a non-fluorine-based base oil blended with a first thickening agent and a fluorine-based base oil blended with a second thickening agent that are not mutually compatible is homogeneously treated at a shear rate of 150 s?1 or higher to form a morphology structure in which one of the non-fluorine-based base oil and fluorine-based base oil is homogeneously dispersed in a particulate form having a mean particle diameter of not more than 25 ?m in the other base oil.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Hishinuma, Motoyuki Inai, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 8492320Abstract: A lubricant composition which is suitable as a fluorine oil, fluorine grease, and which is excellent in stabilizability, as well as a lubricant composition which is suitable as a fluorine oil, fluorine grease, and which has excellent rust prevention properties while keeping a heat resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuhiro Miyamoto, Akihiko Shimura, Toshio Nitta, Jiro Yurimoto
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Patent number: 8470748Abstract: Disclosed is an electroconductive grease comprising a fluorine oil, an electroconductive material, and a thickening agent, the electroconductive grease containing 5 to 20 wt. % of carbon black having a DBP oil absorption amount of 250 ml/100 g or less as the electroconductive material, and 2 to 15 wt. % of fluorine-containing resin particles having an average primary particle size of 1.0 ?m or less as the thickening agent. The electroconductive grease comprises carbon black having specific properties, and fluorine-containing resin particles, preferably PTFE particles, having an average primary particle size of 1.0 ?m or less, and therefore exhibits excellent oil separation characteristics, namely, a remarkably lower degree of oil separation, which can also be reduced to 10 wt. % or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 8394748Abstract: A grease composition, which comprises a mixture of mutually incompatible thickener-containing non-fluorine-based base oil and thickener-containing fluorine-based base oil, the base oils being in a morphological structure, where one of the base oils is homogeneously dispersed in a particulate state in the other base oil, can be produced by kneading the mixture through a three-roll mill at least twice. By forming a morphological structure, one of the mutually incompatible non-fluorine-based base oil and fluorine-based base oil is homogeneously dispersed in a particulate state in the other base oil, that is, by forming a microscopically dispersed state, the following effects can be obtained: (1) less oil separation (smaller degree of oil separation) at elevated temperatures, (2) distinguished shearing stability, (3) low and stable friction coefficient, and (4) less abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: NOK Kluber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Hishinuma, Toshio Nitta, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Takao Kanno
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Publication number: 20120276755Abstract: A slide electricity structure according to the present invention uses grease for electrical contacts wherein contact resistance does not gradually increase even when exposed to sliding and lifetime is long, and has a silver-plated spring contact that contacts or separates by way of sliding and grease for electrical contacts that has been applied to the spring contact and contains perfluoropolyether oil having an average molecular weight between 2600 and 12500 as a base oil and PTFE having a primary particle diameter of 1 ?m or less as a thickener.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicants: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi SATO, Kazuhiro Sato, Ayumu Morita, Kenji Tsuchiya, Takao Kanno, Toshio Nitta
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Publication number: 20120264663Abstract: A lubricant composition which is suitable as a fluorine oil, fluorine grease, and which is excellent in stabilizability, as well as a lubricant composition which is suitable as a fluorine oil, fluorine grease, and which has excellent rust prevention properties while keeping a heat resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Tetsuhiro MIYAMOTO, Akihiko Shimura, Toshio Nitta, Jiro Yurimoto
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Patent number: 8247361Abstract: A fluorine-based lubricant composition comprising a base oil and a fluorine-containing compound represented by the general formula: CF3(CF2)n O(CF2O)p(C2F4O)q(C3F6O)rRfCONHAr (wherein, Ar is a 2-benzimidazole group, Rf is a fluorocarbon group of carbon number of from 1 or 2, n is 0, 1 or 2, p, q and r are an integer satisfying the condition p+q+r?100, where one or two of p, q and r may be 0, and the CF2O group, the CF2O4 group and the C3F6O group are the groups bound randomly in the main chain) as an additive containing in the base oil. The fluorine-based lubricant composition has an improved long term anti-rust property and thermal resistance property, and further the fluorine-based lubricant composition obtained by adding a thickening agent to the composition reduces abrasion of the sliding member such as electric contact having a noble metal surface including a gold or silver plating surface, a copper surface and a copper alloy surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: NOK Kluber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Ayumi Yamazaki, I, Wataru Sawaguchi, Masaki Tahara, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 8242065Abstract: A grease composition, which comprises a base oil selected from at least one of synthetic hydrocarbon oil, ester-based synthetic oil, and ether-based synthetic oil; a thickening agent selected from at least one of lithium-based soap, lithium-based complex soap, and a urea-based compound; polytetrafluoroethylene resin powders having a number average molecular weight Mn of 20,000-100,000; and zinc dialkyldithiophosphate having straight or branched alkyl groups of at least 3 carbon atoms, preferably 5-13 carbon atoms, and more preferably 8-12 carbon atoms, has not only a distinguished lubricability, when applied to plastic members, but also a distinguished durability as given by change in friction coefficient and wear loss, after the sliding test.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: NOK Kluber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Sawaguchi, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 8188018Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for use in oil-impregnated sintered bearings together with a resin member having C?C bonds or C?O groups in the molecules, which comprises a base oil comprising a synthetic hydrocarbon oil as the main component, and 0.1-30% by weight of an ester-based oil on the basis of total composition, and free from zinc dialkyldithiophosphate and molybdenum dialkyldithiocarbamate, where the synthetic hydrocarbon oil as the main component of the base oil has substantially no adverse effect on resin, can minimize an adverse effect on various metal species of sintered materials by suppressing a mixing amount of a wear inhibitor or an extreme pressure agent to a minimum, without deteriorating a good lubricability required for the lubricating oil in oil-impregnated sintered bearings.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: NOK Kluber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Hashida, Wataru Sawaguchi, Toshio Nitta
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Publication number: 20110218128Abstract: Disclosed is a lubricating grease composition comprising a complex metal soap thickener of aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and monoamide monocarboxylic acid, and a fluororesin powder contained in a base oil mixture of a non-fluorine-based base oil and a fluorine-based base oil, which are incompatible with each other. The lubricating grease composition can be produced by kneading, preferably kneading by a three-roll mill, a non-fluorine-based grease and a fluorine-based grease, the non-fluorine-based grease being prepared by stirring a non-fluorine-based base oil, aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, and monoamide monocarboxylic acid under heating, and adding metal hydroxide thereto to form a complex metal soap in the non-fluorine-based base oil; and the fluorine-based grease being prepared from a fluorine-based base oil and a fluororesin powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: NOK KLUBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hishinuma, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Toshio Nitta
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Publication number: 20110111993Abstract: Disclosed is an electroconductive grease comprising a fluorine oil, an electroconductive material, and a thickening agent, the electroconductive grease containing 5 to 20 wt. % of carbon black having a DBP oil absorption amount of 250 ml/100 g or less as the electroconductive material, and 2 to 15 wt. % of fluorine-containing resin particles having an average primary particle size of 1.0 ?m or less as the thickening agent. The electroconductive grease comprises carbon black having specific properties, and fluorine-containing resin particles, preferably PTFE particles, having an average primary particle size of 1.0 ?m or less, and therefore exhibits excellent oil separation characteristics, namely, a remarkably lower degree of oil separation, which can also be reduced to 10 wt. % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: NOK KLUBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
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Patent number: 7939477Abstract: A lubricant composition for oil-impregnated sintered bearings, which comprises at least one base oil selected from a perfluoropolyether oil represented by the following general formula: RfO(CF2CF2O)m(CF2O)nRf (where Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, m+n=3-200, m:n=10-90:90-10), a perfluoropolyether oil represented by the following general formula: RfO[CF(CF3)CF2O]p(CF2CF2O)q(CF2O)rRf (where Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group having 1-5 carbon atoms, p+q+r=3-200, q and r each may be 0, and (q+r)/p=0-2), and a polyfluoropolyether oil represented by the following general formula: F(CF2CF2CF2O)sC2F5 (where s=2-100), and a fluorine-containing di- or mono-amide-based compound, has further improved lubrication characteristics, particularly wear resistance and friction coefficient characteristics, of perfluoropolyether oil.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: NOK Kluber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Hashida, Toshio Nitta
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Publication number: 20100305012Abstract: A lubricant composition which is suitable as a fluorine oil, fluorine grease, and which is excellent in stabilizability, as well as a lubricant composition which is suitable as a fluorine oil, fluorine grease, and which has an excellent rust prevention property while keeping a heat resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuhiro Miyamoto, Akihiko Shimura, Toshio Nitta, Jiro Yurimoto
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Publication number: 20100267597Abstract: A fluorine-based lubricant composition comprising a base oil and a fluorine-containing compound represented by the general formula: CF3(CF)n(CF2O)p(C2F4O)q(C3F6O)rRfCONHAr (wherein, Ar is a 2-benzimidazole group, Rf is a fluorocarbon group of carbon number of from 1 or 2, n is 0, 1 or 2, p, q and r are an integer satisfying the condition p+q+r?100, where one or two of p, q and r may be 0, and the CF2O group, the CF2O4 group and the C3F6O group are the groups bound randomly in the main chain) as an additive containing in the base oil. The fluorine-based lubricant composition has an improved long term anti-rust property and thermal resistance property, and further the fluorine-based lubricant composition obtained by adding a thickening agent to the composition reduces abrasion of the sliding member such as electric contact having a noble metal surface including a gold or silver plating surface, a copper surface and a copper alloy surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: NOK KLUBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiko SHIMURA, Ayumi YAMAZAKI, I, Wataru SAWAGUCHI, Masaki TAHARA, Yoshihito TANI, Toshio NITTA
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Publication number: 20100240557Abstract: A perfluoropolyether oil composition, which comprises a perfluoro-polyether base oil, preferably a thickener-containing perfluoropolyether base oil, and a fluorine-containing di- or mono-amide-based compound having a perfluoropolyether group, where 0.01 to 50% by weight of the amide-based compound, based on total weight of the base oil and the amide-based compound, is contained when the perfluoropolyether oil composition is used as a lubricating oil composition, particularly grease, and 0.01 to 90% by weight thereof is contained, when the perfluoropolyether oil composition is used as an electrode-coating agent for a cell. The perfluoropolyether oil composition shows a metal surface protective action against corrosive gases such as sulfide gases, etc. without deteriorating the abrasion resistance, and also shows a distinguished high temperature durability even in the presence of graphite or molybdenum disulfide.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: NOK KLUBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji WATANABE, Yasumichi KIDO, You DOI, Miyuki HASHIDA, Toshio NITTA, Tatsuya HASHIMOTO, Akira OTANI, Jiro YURIMOTO