Patents by Inventor Yukitaka Hayakawa

Yukitaka Hayakawa 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: 8038350
    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 serving as a guide when a disc hub is press fitted into a shaft member is formed on the shaft member. Then, the guide face, an outer circumferential surface of the shaft member adjacent to the guide face, and a boundary portion between the guide face and the outer circumferential surface are ground simultaneously, thereby forming a blunting portion having a radius r in the boundary portion. Thus, no edge remains between the guide face and the outer circumferential surface. Therefore, press-fitting resistance when the disc hub is press fitted to an end of the shaft member can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Yukitaka Hayakawa, Jun Hirade, Tetsuya Kurimura
  • 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
  • Patent number: 5320433
    Abstract: A rolling contact bearing assembly comprises an inner race member adapted to be mounted on a rotatable element and including a spacer disposed axially adjacent the inner race. This inner race member is formed with a lubricant reservoir for accommodating a lubricant and a lubricant flow passage communicating the reservoir with a space defined between the inner and outer race, in which space rolling elements are accommodated. At least a portion of said lubricant flow passage is defined by minute interstices which are formed by surface roughness left by surface roughening at an interface between mutual contact faces of a plurality of component parts forming the inner race member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: NIN Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kimata, Kenji Hibi, Yukitaka Hayakawa, Yasuhiro Shimizu