Patents by Inventor Yuzuru Suzuki

Yuzuru Suzuki 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: 6717319
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine comprises a cylindrical pole tooth ring and a plurality of salient poles each including a pole tooth. The salient poles are each positioned and fixed such the pole tooth makes firm contact with the pole tooth ring by means of each of a plurality of mechanisms, which are arrayed circumferentially on the pole tooth ring, and which each comprise bend-ups adapted to be elastically deformed when the pole tooth is fitted into the mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiichi Matsuura, Kunitake Matsushita, Masato Hata, Sakae Fujitani
  • Publication number: 20040058777
    Abstract: A planetary gear reduction device with a torque limiter function includes a housing, an input shaft rotatably supported by one end of the housing and connected to a power source so as to input a torque from the power source, an output shaft rotatably supported by the other end of the housing so as to output the torque from the power source, a reduction gear train provided between the input shaft and the output shaft and constituted of a plurality of gears meshing with one another, and a torque limiting mechanism mounted in the reduction gear train. In this device, when an excessive torque is generated in the output shaft, torque transmission from the input shaft to the output shaft is disconnected by the action of the torque limiting mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Kunitake Matsushita, Kazuo Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20040041495
    Abstract: A stator sub-assembly comprises: a coil bobbin which is composed of a cylinder having a winding of a magnet wire therearound, and a terminal block provided with terminal pins connected to lead wires of the winding and coupled stator yokes housing said coil bobbin therein and having a cutout for allowing the terminal block to protrude therethrough. The cutout has a width adapted to allow the terminal block to circumferentially shift rotationally about the center of an axial direction of the coil bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Taketoshi Ohyashiki
  • Publication number: 20040041494
    Abstract: A bobbin comprises: a bobbin body consisting generally of a cylinder having a winding of a magnet wire therearound, and two flanges; and a bobbin cover formed generally into a cylindrical ring. The bobbin body includes a coil termination block protruding radially from an inner flange of the two and having terminal pins for external connection, and the bobbin cover includes a termination protector protruding radially from the bobbin cover and adapted to mate with the coil termination block when the bobbin cover is put over the bobbin body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Taketoshi Ohyashiki, Hiroshi Sano, Hideki Sakiyama, Kunitake Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6682454
    Abstract: A planetary gear reduction device with a torque limiter function includes a housing, an input shaft rotatably supported by one end of the housing and connected to a power source so as to input a torque from the power source, an output shaft rotatably supported by the other end of the housing so as to output the torque from the power source, a reduction gear train provided between the input shaft and the output shaft and constituted of a plurality of gears meshing with one another, and a torque limiting mechanism mounted in the reduction gear train. In this device, when an excessive torque is generated in the output shaft, torque transmission from the input shaft to the output shaft is disconnected by the action of the torque limiting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Kunitake Matsushita, Kazuo Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20040012273
    Abstract: A motor has a hollow-cylindrical shaped rotary shaft provided with a hollow therein and is mounted on a PCB having an LED as light source. Light emitted from the LED passes through the hollow from one end of the rotary shaft to the other end, and irradiates an indicating needle attached to the other end of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Kunitake Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20040000837
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine is provided, in which a stator armature includes a stator ring that encloses a plurality of salient poles each with a pole tooth thereby forming a magnetic circuit, and in which the inner surface of the stator ring is made flat at portions to be in contact with the outer end faces of the pole teeth so that the stator ring can make surface-to-surface contact with the pole teeth without any air gap therebetween so as to secure a well-balanced magnetic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Kunitake Matsushita, Seiichi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20030205941
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator with high performance such as high speed and high resolution is inexpensively provided with solutions to problems associated with power supply and leakage flux, which have been involved in the structure of a moving coil type and have been shortcomings of a VCM type actuator. A composite electromagnetic actuator apparatus employs the foregoing electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic actuator is equipped with a stationary assembly that includes two coils disposed coaxially with each other inside a hollow stator yoke composed of a soft magnetic material, and a movable assembly composed of a movable magnet unit and a movable yoke unit both disposed inside the coils with a very small clearance therefrom so as to be movable in the axial direction, wherein the movable assembly travels in the axial direction by the interaction between a magnetic field generated by the movable magnet unit and a current passing through the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Sakae Fujitani, Naoyuki Harada, Kunitake Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20030182385
    Abstract: Portable terminal equipment according to the invention is provided with registering means for registering a predetermined character string and specific notifying operation corresponding to the character string. When the terminal receives an electronic mail, it retrieves the registered character string. In case the received electronic mail includes the character string, the registered notifying operation is executed when the electronic mail is received, when it is displayed or both. If a user of the portable terminal equipment arranges the input of a specific character string to an electronic mail with a specific partner, an electronic mail from the partner can be easily discriminated when an electronic mail is received or displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuzuru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20030160523
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a stator armature which comprises: a stator ring; a plurality of discrete salient poles each including a pole tooth and a coil, disposed inside the stator ring thereby forming a magnetic circuit, and fixed by a molding resin injected inside the stator ring from an injection port of a molding die; and a plurality of barrier walls. Each of the barrier walls is disposed between the injection port of the molding die and two coil terminal pins to which the coil has its both wire terminations connected respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiichi Matsuura, Kunitake Matsushita, Kazuo Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20030160532
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a stator comprising: a stator ring; a plurality of discrete salient poles each comprising a pole tooth, disposed inside the stator ring thereby forming a magnetic circuit, and fixed by a molding resin injected inside the stator ring; and a plurality of bobbins each constituting the salient pole, adapted to lodge the pole tooth fitted tehreinto and to have a magnet wire wound thereon, and each including its outward-positioned flange having at its respective both ends two flexible thin-walled extensions which are adapted to securely hold the wound magnet wire in place, stay unbent during winding operation, and which are bent when the salient poles are put inside the stator ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiichi Matsuura, Masato Hata
  • Publication number: 20030160533
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a stator comprising: a stator ring; a plurality of discrete salient poles each comprising a bobbin with guide grooves and a pole tooth with a groove, disposed inside the stator ring, and fixed by a molding resin injected inside the stator ring; and a positioning ring having protrusions at its outer circumference and engaging with the discrete salient poles such that the protrusions are each fitted into the groove of the pole tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiichi Matsuura, Sakae Fujitani, Kazuo Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 6603635
    Abstract: An inner rotor type motor has a plurality of stator magnetic poles projecting inwardly from a stator yoke surrounding the outer periphery of a shaft, of which a plurality of stator magnetic poles, some, at least the same number as the number of the phases of the driving voltage, are each provided with a driving coil and a decelerating coil wound around the same and form long stator magnetic poles (26), while the remaining stator magnetic poles are each made shorter than the long stator magnetic poles, not provided with a winding, and form short stator magnetic poles. Further, the motor has a rotor rotating centering around the shaft and having rotor magnets made up of permanent magnets disposed in a confronting relationship with salient poles of the stator magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Taketoshi Ohyashiki, Taichi Nishio
  • Publication number: 20030141781
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine comprises: a cylindrical pole tooth ring provided with a plurality of slits; and a plurality of salient poles each including a pole tooth. The salient poles are each positioned and fixed such that the pole tooth is fitted into the slit, which, by means of openings formed on the pole tooth ring along and close to the side wall of the slit, is adapted to be elastically deformed when receiving the pole tooth fitted thereinto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: Minebea Co. , Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiichi Matsuura, Sakae Fujitani
  • Publication number: 20030141780
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine comprises a cylindrical pole tooth ring and a plurality of salient poles each including a pole tooth. The salient poles are each positioned and fixed such the pole tooth makes firm contact with the pole tooth ring by means of each of a plurality of mechanisms, which are arrayed circumferentially on the pole tooth ring, and which each comprise bend-ups adapted to be elastically deformed when the pole tooth is fitted into the mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Seiichi Matsuura, Kunitake Matsushita, Masato Hata, Sakae Fujitani
  • Patent number: 6505001
    Abstract: In a rotor structure of a spindle motor, an underside of a turntable and a top surface of a rotary yoke are integrated with each other by insert molding to eliminate an air gap therebetween in prior arts to thereby allow a stator assembly within the rotary yoke to increase its thickness and also enhance the rigidity of the integrated components while dimensions of the motor remaining unchanged, moreover, simultaneous integration with any components of a rotary shaft, a chucking magnet and a rotary magnet being advantageous in reduction of the assembling steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Minebea Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Taketoshi Ohyashiki, Naoyuki Harada
  • Publication number: 20020180282
    Abstract: The stator assembly of a PM stepping motor having a two-phase structure in which two stators arranged along the circumferential direction in such a manner that respective pole teeth are intermeshed together are combined back to back so as to phase-shift the respective pole teeth in the two stators at an electrical angle of 90°. The field rotor magnet is so arranged as to face the respective pole teeth at a small distance, and is magnetized on its circumferential surface along the circumferential direction with a plurality of alternating N- and S-poles having a preset width not matching the pole tooth pitch of each stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Taketoshi Ohyashiki, Sakae Fujitani
  • Patent number: 6467962
    Abstract: A high-quality bearing with improved controllability which is capable of performing a smooth movement with low vibration, low noise, and high rotation accuracy is provided stably in a short time and at low cost. Grooves 25 of a desired configuration are provided in the outer circumferential surface of a mandrel 12 having an outer diameter slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the metal bearing 10. The mandrel 12 is inserted into the inner circumferential surface of the metal bearing 10. The metal bearing 10 is inserted into a reducing jig or housing 7 having an inner diameter slightly smaller than the outer diameter of the metal bearing 10, thereby causing plastic deformation of metal and forming desired ridges 19 on the inner circumferential surface of the metal bearing 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Naoyuki Harada, Taketoshi Ohyashiki
  • Patent number: 6455962
    Abstract: A terminal of a motor is provided, in which a connection between a coil and an external circuit can be carried out securely and with a good workability, while saving material resources and enhancing safety relating to environmental pollution. A terminal (23) consists integrally of a magnet wire binding section (20) to connect to a magnet wire (4) of a coil (6), an external connection section (21) to connect to an external circuit and a support base section (22) to press-fit into a terminal block (19) of a bobbin (5) and hold the terminal (23), and the magnet wire (4) is plasma welded for connection through to the external connection section (21) (terminal 23). The connection of the terminal is carried out by welding (plasma welding), thus the end of the magnet wire of a motor (1) is connected without using solder containing lead. As a result, since lead is not used, material resources can be saved and safety relating to the environmental pollution can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Kunitake Matsushita, Hiroichi Shibata, Naoyuki Harada, Taketoshi Ohyashiki, Sakae Fujitani, Hirohito Nakamata
  • Publication number: 20020130577
    Abstract: A DC motor of the present invention includes a rotor unit which is rotatably arranged within the motor and has a cylindrical field magnet fixed to an outer surface of a holder into which a rotating shaft is press-fitted at a center thereof, said cylindrical field magnet being magnetized such that S and N poles alternate with each other in a circuferential direction thereof, and a stator unit which is circumferentially arranged around the rotor unit and is comprised of a plurality of stator yokes so arranged as to oppose the field magnet with a small gap, each of the stator yokes being formed by circumferentially stacking a large number of thin plates, each consisting a salient pole, and a plurality of coil units, each being formed by winding a magnet wire on a bobbin and mounted on each of the stator yokes. Thus, each of the S and N poles has a plurality of stages formed in an axial direction and shifted from each other in the circumferential direction of said field magnet with a predetermined shift amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Suzuki, Sakae Fujitani, Seiichi Matsuura