Patents by Inventor Yoshihide Kiyosawa

Yoshihide Kiyosawa 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: 10309513
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers, and is flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by a wave generator. When the theoretical values of the radial flexing amounts at major-axis positions of the first and second external teeth flexed into the ellipsoidal shape are expressed by d1=m1n1 and d2=m2n2 (m1 and m2 represent the modules of the first and second external teeth, and n1 and n2 represent positive integers), the radial flexing amounts of the first and second external teeth flexed by the wave generator satisfy d1a=?d1 and d2a=?d2, where 1.25???3. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent mating states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kiyosawa, Jun Handa, Noboru Takizawa, XinYue Zhang
  • Patent number: 10295037
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different tooth numbers, and is flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by a wave generator. When the theoretical values of the radial flexing amounts at major-axis positions of the first and second external teeth flexed into the ellipsoidal shape are expressed by d1=m1n1 and d2=m2n2 (m1 and m2 represent the modules of the first and second external teeth, and n1 and n2 represent positive integers), the radial flexing amount of the first and second external teeth flexed by the wave generator satisfies d=(d1+d2)/?(1.4???2.6). Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent mating states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kiyosawa, Jun Handa, Noboru Takizawa, XinYue Zhang
  • Patent number: 10253862
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers, and is flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by a wave generator. When t(1) represents the tooth bottom rim wall thickness of the first external teeth, and t(2) represents the tooth bottom rim wall thickness of the second external teeth, the ratio of t(1)/t(2) is set to a value satisfying 0.5>t(1)/t(2)<1.5. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kiyosawa, Jun Handa, Noboru Takizawa, Xin Yue Zhang
  • Patent number: 10253863
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers. The first and second external teeth are flexed by a wave generator by the same flexing amount, into an ellipsoidal shape. The tooth depth of tooth profiles of the first external teeth having a low teeth number is smaller than the tooth depth of tooth profiles of the second external teeth having a high teeth number. A dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kiyosawa, Jun Handa, XinYue Zhang, Noboru Takizawa
  • Patent number: 10197145
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers. The first and second external teeth are flexed by a wave generator by the same flexing amount, into an ellipsoidal shape. The average pressure angle of main-tooth-surface sections of tooth profiles of the first external teeth having a low teeth number is less acute than the average pressure angle of main-tooth-surface sections of tooth profiles of the second external teeth having a high teeth number. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: HARMINIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Kiyosawa, Jun Handa, Xin Yue Zhang, Noboru Takizawa
  • Patent number: 10132398
    Abstract: A wave plug of a wave generator of a wave gear device includes: a metallic outer hollow body with an elliptical wave plug outer circumferential surface formed thereon; a metallic inner hollow body with a wave plug inner circumferential surface formed thereon; and an intermediate hollow body sandwiched between the outer hollow body and the inner hollow body. The intermediate hollow body includes CFRP layers. It is possible to implement a light wave plug in which a big hollow portion can be formed while assuring a required rigidity. Using the wave plug makes it possible to implement a light wave gear device which allows jumping to occur at a high load torque and which includes a big hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Publication number: 20180195433
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable compression ration mechanism in which a control shaft is rotated and driven by an electric motor through a wave gear reducer. The wave gear reducer includes: a first internal gear member; an external gear member arranged concentrically inside the internal gear member; a wave generator arranged inside the external gear member; and a second internal gear member, wherein a ratio of the number of teeth of a fixed gear portion of the first internal gear member to the number of teeth of a first gear portion of the external gear member is set lower than a ratio of the number of teeth of an output-side gear portion of the second internal gear member to the number of teeth of a second gear portion of the external gear member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC., HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIYOSHI, Yoshiaki TANAKA, Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, Kishiro NAGAI, Junichiro ONIGATA, Yoshihiko YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10006534
    Abstract: In this hollow strain wave gearing unit, a shaft end part of a hollow rotary shaft of a wave generator is located inside a cup-shaped flexible external gear. The shaft end part is supported by a bearing attached to a bearing holder that is fixed to a boss of the flexible external gear. In the bearing holder, an elastic leaf spring part that is displaceable in the axial direction constitutes a part that supports a holder body part that holds the bearing. A preload is applied by the leaf spring part to the bearing in the axial direction. Thus, there is no need to separately arrange a preload application member inside the flexible external gear, and the axial length of the hollow strain wave gearing unit can be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yuya Murayama, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Publication number: 20180163622
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable compression ration mechanism in which a control shaft is rotated and driven by an electric motor through a wave gear reducer. The wave gear reducer includes: a first internal gear member; an external gear member arranged concentrically inside the internal gear member; a wave generator having an oval outer shape and arranged inside the external gear member; and a second internal gear member, wherein a ratio of the number of teeth of a fixed gear portion of the first internal gear member to the number of teeth of a first gear portion of the external gear member is set greater than a ratio of the number of teeth of an output-side gear portion of the second internal gear member to the number of teeth of a second gear portion of the external gear member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC., HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIYOSHI, Yoshiaki TANAKA, Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, Kishiro NAGAI, Junichiro ONIGATA, Yoshihiko YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9989141
    Abstract: A press plate is tacked to a boss of a cup-shaped flexible externally toothed gear of a wave gear device unit. A second arm as a driven member is attached by a fastening bolt to an end surface on an outer side of an output flange of the wave gear device unit. The fastening bolt is screwed into and secured in a tap hole of the press plate from each bolt insertion hole of the second arm, via a flange-side bolt insertion hole and a boss-side bolt insertion hole. A fastening structure can be achieved in which a driven member is fastened to a wave gear device unit in which holes are easily machined into the output flange, and only a few fastening bolts are needed to fasten the boss, the output flange, and the driven member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Sotaro Miyake, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 9797497
    Abstract: A flat strain wave gearing device equipped with: a first internal gear and a second internal gear; a flexible tubular external gear; and an elliptically shaped wave generator. In the direction of a central axis, the center of support of the external teeth by the wave generator is offset, by an offset amount of ? along the direction of the central axis, with respect to the tooth-width center of the external teeth of the external gear. By setting the offset direction and the offset amount appropriately it is possible to achieve a strain wave gearing device which is suitable in terms of the operating conditions and the mechanical characteristics of the first and second internal gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Mizoguchi, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 9772021
    Abstract: A reduction drive-side mounting end face on a strain wave gearing reduction drive unit has a circular center hole, and a motor-side mounting end face on a motor has a circular projection. The strain wave gearing reduction drive unit and motor are coaxially mounted by the circular projection being fit into the circular center hole with a regulating ring therebetween. The regulating ring, which regulates the motion of a flexible external gear, can be easily mounted to the strain wave gearing reduction drive unit by using the motor. The strain wave gearing reduction drive unit can be mounted to a motor comprising a circular projection with a different outer diameter by using a regulating ring with a different inner diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Jun Handa, Yu Nakagawa, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Publication number: 20170219050
    Abstract: A relieving portion is formed between a first external tooth portion and a second external tooth portion in the external teeth of a flexible externally toothed gear of a flat strain wave gearing. The length L1 of the relieving portion in the tooth trace direction is within the range of 0.1 to 0.5 of the tooth width L of the external teeth. The maximum relieving amount t from the tooth top land of an external tooth in the relieving portion is 3.3×10?4<t/PCD<6.3×10?4 where the PCT is defined as the pitch circle diameter of the external teeth. The tooth face load distribution of the external tooth in the tooth trace direction can be equalized, and a flat strain wave gearing having a high transmitted-load capacity can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jun HANDA, Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Noboru TAKIZAWA, Xin Yue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170211677
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different tooth numbers, and is flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by a wave generator. When the theoretical values of the radial flexing amounts at major-axis positions of the first and second external teeth flexed into the ellipsoidal shape are expressed by d1=m1n1 and d2=m2n2 (m1 and m2 represent the modules of the first and second external teeth, and n1 and n2 represent positive integers), the radial flexing amount of the first and second external teeth flexed by the wave generator satisfies d=(d1+d2)/? (1.4???2.6). Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent mating states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, Noboru TAKIZAWA, XinYue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170211678
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers. The first and second external teeth are flexed by a wave generator by the same flexing amount, into an ellipsoidal shape. The tooth depth of tooth profiles of the first external teeth having a low teeth number is smaller than the tooth depth of tooth profiles of the second external teeth having a high teeth number. A dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, XinYue ZHANG, Noboru TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170211679
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers, and is flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by a wave generator. When the theoretical values of the radial flexing amounts at major-axis positions of the first and second external teeth flexed into the ellipsoidal shape are expressed by d1=m1n1 and d2=m2n2 (m1 and m2 represent the modules of the first and second external teeth, and n1 and n2 represent positive integers), the radial flexing amounts of the first and second external teeth flexed by the wave generator satisfy d1a=?d1 and d2a=?d2, where 1.25???3. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent mating states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC
    Inventors: YOSHIHIDE KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, Noboru TAKIZAWA, XinYue ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9709151
    Abstract: A wave generator of a strain wave gearing has a plug, a wave generator bearing mounted to an outer peripheral surface of the plug, an input shaft protruding from the center of the plug to a first side running along a center axis, and a bearing arrangement on which a support bearing supporting the input shaft is arranged. Relative to an outer ring end surface of the wave generator bearing that faces the first side, a center-side plug end surface of a plug end surface facing the same direction is in a position withdrawn from the first side toward the opposite direction. The bearing arrangement is provided between the center-side plug end surface and the outer ring end surface encircling the input shaft. The input shaft can be fitted within the width dimension of the wave generator, and a strain wave gearing having a short axial length can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Junichi Kurogi, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Publication number: 20170198802
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers. The first and second external teeth are flexed by a wave generator by the same flexing amount, into an ellipsoidal shape. The average pressure angle of main-tooth-surface sections of tooth profiles of the first external teeth having a low teeth number is less acute than the average pressure angle of main-tooth-surface sections of tooth profiles of the second external teeth having a high teeth number. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, Xin Yue ZHANG, Noboru TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170175869
    Abstract: An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers, and is flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by a wave generator. When t(1) represents the tooth bottom rim wall thickness of the first external teeth, and t(2) represents the tooth bottom rim wall thickness of the second external teeth, the ratio of t(1)/t(2) is set to a value satisfying 0.5>t(1)/t(2)<1.5. Accordingly, a dual-type strain wave gearing can be achieved with which the first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers can be suitably flexed to form excellent meshing states with respective internally toothed gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihide KIYOSAWA, Jun HANDA, Noboru TAKIZAWA, Xin Yue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170082187
    Abstract: A wave plug of a wave generator of a wave gear device includes: a metallic outer hollow body with an elliptical wave plug outer circumferential surface formed thereon; a metallic inner hollow body with a wave plug inner circumferential surface formed thereon; and an intermediate hollow body sandwiched between the outer hollow body and the inner hollow body. The intermediate hollow body includes CFRP layers. It is possible to implement a light wave plug in which a big hollow portion can be formed while assuring a required rigidity. Using the wave plug makes it possible to implement a light wave gear device which allows jumping to occur at a high load torque and which includes a big hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Masaru KOBAYASHI, Yoshihide KIYOSAWA