Patents by Inventor Yuji Shimomura
Yuji Shimomura 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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Patent number: 12173777Abstract: A linear motion actuator has a ball screw device having a screw shaft, a nut, and a plurality of balls, a piston mounted on one end of the screw shaft, and a stroke limiting mechanism setting an operation starting point in time of the screw shaft toward a first direction pointed by the one end. The nut has one end face directed to the first direction and a protruding part protruding from the one end face.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Reona Umei, Yasumi Watanabe, Yuji Shimomura
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Publication number: 20230349453Abstract: A linear motion actuator has a ball screw device having a screw shaft, a nut, and a plurality of balls, a piston mounted on one end of the screw shaft, and a stroke limiting mechanism setting an operation starting point in time of the screw shaft toward a first direction pointed by the one end. The nut has one end face directed to the first direction and a protruding part protruding from the one end face.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Reona UMEI, Yasumi WATANABE, Yuji SHIMOMURA
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Patent number: 11680628Abstract: In the ball screw device, the circulation path that returns balls from the end point to the start point of the load path includes a return path, scooping paths, and connecting paths. The scooping path has an arc-shaped center line that is curved outward in the radial direction as going toward the reference imaginary flat plane including the center axis of the screw shaft and the center line of the return path in the circumferential direction. The connecting path is arranged on the reference imaginary flat plane and includes a straight path having a linear center line extending in a direction orthogonal to the center axis of the screw shaft. When the radius of curvature of the center line of the scooping path is R1, the scooping angle is ?, and the entire length of the straight path is S, R1 cos(90°??)+S is made larger than the diameter of the balls.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Yamada, Yuji Shimomura, Kanta Sato, Yasuaki Abe
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Patent number: 11662003Abstract: A ball screw device has a screw shaft; a nut; a circulation part; and balls; a housing concave groove provided on the outer circumferential surface of the nut and linearly extending in the axial direction and opening to end surfaces on both outer sides in the axial direction of the nut, a circulation part arranged inside the housing concave groove, and the circulation part being prevented from displacing toward the outer side in the radial direction and displacing in the circumferential direction with respect to the nut by engaging an engaging convex portion of a fixing portion provided in the end portion on each of both outer sides in the axial direction of the circulation part with an engaging recess portion provided in the end portion of each of both outer sides in the axial direction of the housing concave groove.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Yamada, Yuji Shimomura, Yasuaki Abe, Kanta Sato
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Publication number: 20230087898Abstract: In the ball screw device, the circulation path that returns balls from the end point to the start point of the load path includes a return path, scooping paths, and connecting paths. The scooping path has an arc-shaped center line that is curved outward in the radial direction as going toward the reference imaginary flat plane including the center axis of the screw shaft and the center line of the return path in the circumferential direction. The connecting path is arranged on the reference imaginary flat plane and includes a straight path having a linear center line extending in a direction orthogonal to the center axis of the screw shaft. When the radius of curvature of the center line of the scooping path is R1, the scooping angle is ?, and the entire length of the straight path is S, R1 cos(90°??)+S is made larger than the diameter of the balls.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kazuya YAMADA, Yuji SHIMOMURA, Kanta SATO, Yasuaki ABE
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Publication number: 20230015290Abstract: A ball screw device has a screw shaft; a nut; a circulation part; and balls; a housing concave groove provided on the outer circumferential surface of the nut and linearly extending in the axial direction and opening to end surfaces on both outer sides in the axial direction of the nut, a circulation part arranged inside the housing concave groove, and the circulation part being prevented from displacing toward the outer side in the radial direction and displacing in the circumferential direction with respect to the nut by engaging an engaging convex portion of a fixing portion provided in the end portion on each of both outer sides in the axial direction of the circulation part with an engaging recess portion provided in the end portion of each of both outer sides in the axial direction of the housing concave groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Kazuya YAMADA, Yuji SHIMOMURA, Yasuaki ABE, Kanta SATO
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Patent number: 10359102Abstract: A friction roller-type reduction gear includes a sun roller concentric with an input shaft, a ring roller having a stationary ring roller element and a moveable ring roller element, intermediate rollers in rolling contact with an outer peripheral surface of the sun roller and an inner peripheral surface of the ring roller, a coupling part coupling the ring roller and the output shaft, and a loading cam mechanism having a cam ring for changing contact surface pressure of each rolling contact surface. The outer surface of the sun roller is a concave curved surface of which a shape of an outer edge in an axial cross-section is a single circular arc-shaped concave curve, and an outer surface of the intermediate roller is a convex curved surface of which a shape of an outer edge in an axial cross-section is a single circular arc-shaped convex curve.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Kawahara, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Tetsu Takehara, Yuji Shimomura
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Patent number: 10214671Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and by being used together with a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Shimomura, Katsuya Takigawa
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Publication number: 20180347675Abstract: A friction roller-type reduction gear includes a sun roller arranged concentrically with an input shaft, a ring roller having a stationary ring roller element and a moveable ring roller element, a plurality of intermediate rollers configured to be in rolling contact with an outer peripheral surface of the sun roller and an inner peripheral surface of the ring roller, a coupling part configured to couple the ring roller and the output shaft, and a loading cam mechanism having a cam ring and configured to change a contact surface pressure of each rolling contact surface. The outer peripheral surface of the sun roller is a concave curved surface of which a shape of an outer edge in an axial cross-section is a single circular arc-shaped concave curve, and an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate roller is a convex curved surface of which a shape of an outer edge in an axial cross-section is a single circular arc-shaped convex curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAHARA, Hiroyasu YOSHIOKA, Tetsu TAKEHARA, Yuji SHIMOMURA
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Publication number: 20160208154Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and by being used together with a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuji Shimomura, Katsuya Takigawa
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Patent number: 9321948Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, and by being used together with a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuji Shimomura, Katsuya Takigawa
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Patent number: 9090806Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of this invention comprises a base oil containing an ether-based compound, an amine salt of an acidic phosphoric acid ester, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amine-based antioxidants, metal inactivating agents and alicyclic epoxy compounds, and an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention comprises a base oil containing an ether-based compound, an amine salt of an acidic phosphoric acid ester, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amine-based antioxidants, metal inactivating agents and alicyclic epoxy compounds, and it is to be used together with an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Takigawa, Yuji Shimomura, Masanori Saito, Ken Sawada, Takeshi Okido
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Patent number: 8876654Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission of the present invention comprises: input side disks (1a, 1b) and output side disks (6) being supported concentric with each other such that the disks can rotate freely; a trunnion (9) that comprises end sections (36) on both ends on which tilt shafts (13) that are concentric with each other are provided, and a support beam section (15) that extends between both end sections (36), the trunnion (9) being capable of pivotally displacing around the tilt shafts (13); a thrust rolling bearing (17); and a power roller (8) that is supported to the inside surface of the trunnion (9) by way of the thrust rolling bearing (17) such that it rotates freely; wherein the support beam section (15) comprises an inside surface having a cylindrical convex surface (14); the thrust rolling bearing (17) comprises an outer race (18a) having an outside surface with a concave section (19a) that fits with the cylindrical convex surface (14) of the support beam section (15), and a pluralityType: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Nishii, Toshihiko Sato, Eiji Inoue, Toshiro Toyoda, Hiroyasu Yoshioka, Yuji Shimomura, Shin Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8796193Abstract: The first refrigerating machine oil composition of the invention comprises a predetermined base oil, and at least one ester additive selected from esters of a monobasic fatty acid having 12 or more carbon atoms and a monohydric alcohol having 1-24 carbon atoms, and an ester of a chain-like dibasic acid and a monohydric alcohol. The second refrigerating machine oil composition of the invention comprises a predetermined base oil, and at least one oxygen-containing compound selected from the following (A1)-(A6). The third refrigerating machine oil composition of the invention comprises a predetermined base oil, and at least one oxygen-containing compound selected from the following (A1), (A2), (A4), (A7) and (A8).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2004Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Kazuo Tagawa, Yuji Shimomura, Toshiyuki Obata, Katsuya Takigawa
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Publication number: 20140209830Abstract: The refrigerator oil of the invention comprises an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and a fatty acid with a content of a C5-C9 fatty acid of 50-100% by mole, a content of a C5-C9 branched fatty acid of at least 30% by mole and a content of a C5 or lower straight-chain fatty acid of not greater than 40% by mole, and it is used with a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant. The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine according to the invention comprises the ester and a fluoropropene refrigerant and/or trifluoroiodomethane refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji SHIMOMURA, Katsuya TAKIGAWA
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Patent number: 8318040Abstract: The refrigerating machine oil of the invention is characterized by comprising an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and fatty acids with a content of a C10-C13 branched fatty acid of 50% by mole or greater. The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of the invention is characterized in that the working fluid composition comprises an ester of a polyhydric alcohol and fatty acids with a content of a C10-C13 branched fatty acid of 50% by mole or greater, and a refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Ken Sawada, Yuji Shimomura, Katsuya Takigawa
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Patent number: 8299006Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil, a compressor oil composition, a hydraulic oil composition, a metalworking oil composition, a heat treating oil composition, a lubricating oil composition for machine tools and a lubricating oil composition which comprise a lubricating oil base oil having % CA of not more than 2, % CP/% CN of not less than 6 and an iodine value of not more than 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Kazuo Tagawa, Yuji Shimomura, Ken Sawada, Katsuya Takigawa, Toshio Yoshida, Shinichi Mitsumoto, Eiji Akiyama, Junichi Shibata, Satoshi Suda, Hideo Yokota, Masahiro Hata, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Hajime Nakao, Shozaburo Konishi
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Publication number: 20120228541Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of this invention comprises a base oil containing an ether-based compound, an amine salt of an acidic phosphoric acid ester, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amine-based antioxidants, metal inactivating agents and alicyclic epoxy compounds, and an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention comprises a base oil containing an ether-based compound, an amine salt of an acidic phosphoric acid ester, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amine-based antioxidants, metal inactivating agents and alicyclic epoxy compounds, and it is to be used together with an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Takigawa, Yuji Shimomura, Masanori Saito, Ken Sawada, Takeshi Okido
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Patent number: 8247360Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil, a compressor oil composition, a hydraulic oil composition, a metalworking oil composition, a heat treating oil composition, a lubricating oil composition for machine tools and a lubricating oil composition which comprise a lubricating oil base oil having % CA of not more than 2, % CP/% CN of not less than 6 and an iodine value of not more than 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Kazuo Tagawa, Yuji Shimomura, Ken Sawada, Katsuya Takigawa, Toshio Yoshida, Shinichi Mitsumoto, Eiji Akiyama, Junichi Shibata, Satoshi Suda, Hideo Yokota, Masahiro Hata, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Hajime Nakao, Shozaburo Konishi
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Patent number: 8236740Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigerating machine oil, a compressor oil composition, a hydraulic oil composition, a metalworking oil composition, a heat treating oil composition, a lubricating oil composition for machine tools and a lubricating oil composition which comprise a lubricating oil base oil having % CA of not more than 2, % CP/% CN of not less than 6 and an iodine value of not more than 2.5.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Kazuo Tagawa, Yuji Shimomura, Ken Sawada, Katsuya Takigawa, Toshio Yoshida, Shinichi Mitsumoto, Eiji Akiyama, Junichi Shibata, Satoshi Suda, Hideo Yokota, Masahiro Hata, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Hajime Nakao, Shozaburo Konishi