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F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages 49
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1.

LUBRICANT COMPOSITION FOR SHOCK ABSORBERS, SHOCK ABSORBER, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING FRICTION OF LUBRICANT FOR SHOCK ABSORBERS

      
Application Number 17766508
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-07-03
First Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kato, Shinji

Abstract

To provide a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a shock absorber, and a method for adjusting the friction of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both operational stability and ride comfort particularly at the time of a minute amplitude. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent, wherein the friction adjusting agent contains a pentaerythritol ester, the pentaerythritol ester contains a pentaerythritol tetraester at the highest proportion or in an amount of 50 mass % or more, and the pentaerythritol ester content is 0.5 mass % or more.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • C10M 125/24 - Compounds containing phosphorus, arsenic or antimony
  • C10M 129/74 - Esters of polyhydroxy compounds

2.

FLUID STATE DETECTION SENSOR

      
Application Number 18259376
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-20
First Publication Date 2024-02-22
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakamura, Ryohei
  • Kameda, Yukinori
  • Nagai, Yuki
  • Yoshida, Takahiro

Abstract

A fluid state detection sensor includes: an electrical conductivity calculation unit having an electrical conductivity calculation part configured to calculate an electrical conductivity of a fluid from a voltage value acquired in a first voltage acquisition part; and a relative dielectric constant calculation unit having a relative dielectric constant calculation part configured to calculate a relative dielectric constant of the fluid from a voltage value acquired in a second voltage acquisition part, wherein the first voltage acquisition part acquires an inter-electrode voltage value after a predetermined time period after a switching part above a connection target of a pair of electrodes to the electrical conductivity calculation unit, and the second voltage acquisition part acquires the inter-electrode voltage value after the predetermined time period after the switching part switched the connection target of the pair of electrodes to the relative dielectric constant calculation unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 27/07 - Construction of measuring vessels; Electrodes therefor
  • G01N 27/08 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating resistance of a liquid which is flowing continuously
  • G01N 33/28 - Oils

3.

LIQUID STATE DETECTION SENSOR

      
Application Number 18259502
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-20
First Publication Date 2024-02-22
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nagai, Yuki
  • Kameda, Yukinori
  • Yoshida, Takahiro
  • Nakamura, Ryohei

Abstract

A liquid state detection sensor includes: an electrode part, the electrode part having a pair of electrodes provided so as to be opposed to each other; a voltage value acquisition time period setting unit configured to set a voltage value acquisition time period, the voltage value acquisition time period being a length of a time period during which an inter-electrode voltage value of the pair of electrodes of the electrode part is acquired; a voltage value acquisition unit configured to acquire the inter-electrode voltage value in the voltage value acquisition time period; and an electrical conductivity calculation unit configured to calculate an electrical conductivity of the liquid on the basis of, among the inter-electrode voltage value acquired by the voltage value acquisition unit, the inter-electrode voltage value acquired after a predetermined time period has elapsed since a start of the voltage value acquisition time period.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 27/07 - Construction of measuring vessels; Electrodes therefor

4.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 18265809
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-10
First Publication Date 2024-02-15
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mochizuki, Takahisa
  • Kondo, Takuhiro

Abstract

A shock absorber according to the present invention includes: a cylinder, a rod movably inserted into the cylinder, and a partition member having a disk shape and inserted into the cylinder to partition an inside of the cylinder into two working chambers, in which the partition member includes a plurality of ports that communicates the working chambers with each other, and a choke passage having a portion communicating the working chambers with each other and passing through an inner peripheral side or an outer peripheral side of each port along a circumferential direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages

5.

VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 18269217
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-01-07
First Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kobayashi, Yoshifumi

Abstract

A valve of the present invention includes: a valve seat member that has a port, an annular window which communicates with an outlet end of the port, an inner-circumferential valve seat provided on an inner-circumferential side of the annular window, and an outer-circumferential valve seat of the annular window; a first valve body that are stacked on a valve seat member, that can seat on or come off the outer-circumferential valve seat to open or close the annular window, and that has a hole; a second valve body that is contained in the annular window so as to be movable in an axial direction and that closes the hole when abutting on a valve seat member side surface of the first valve body; a second valve body biasing member that is contained in the annular window and that biases the second valve body toward the first valve body; a regulating portion that restricts a movement of the second valve body in a direction in which the second valve body moves away from the first valve body; and a communication passage that secures communication between the hole and the port even when the second valve body abuts on the regulating portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/18 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein
  • F16K 15/14 - Check valves with flexible valve members

6.

RESIN MOLDED MEMBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

      
Application Number 18255705
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-10
First Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tanaka, Youji
  • Kurihara, Kenta

Abstract

A manufacturing method of a resin molded member includes: an insert member molding step of building an insert member by stacking layers of a base resin containing continuous fibers by using a 3D printer; an aligning step of aligning the insert member in a cavity of an injection molding mold; and a resin portion molding step of molding a resin portion integrated with the insert member by filling an injection molding resin into the cavity, wherein the insert member is arranged on a surface of a weld portion by the resin portion molding step, and the continuous fibers in the insert member are oriented in direction crossing over the weld portion, the weld portion being formed in the resin portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B29C 45/14 - Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mould; Apparatus therefor incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. injection moulding around inserts or for coating articles

7.

FRONT FORK

      
Application Number 18265359
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-10
First Publication Date 2024-02-01
Owner
  • KYB Motorcycle Suspension Co.,Ltd. (Japan)
  • KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugawara, Hidetoshi
  • Ito, Naoki
  • Hayashiguchi, Takumi
  • Maeda, Hirokatsu

Abstract

A front fork (1) according to the present invention includes: a fork main body (2) including a vehicle body side tube (3) and an axle side tube (4); a cap body (5) attached to a vehicle body side tube (3); a cylinder (6) provided in the axle side tube (4); a cylindrical rod (7) axially movably inserted into the cylinder (6); an electric device (8) housed in the cylinder (6); and a wire (9) that is inserted into the rod (7), passes through the cap (C), and is drawn out from the fork main body (2) and is connected to the electric device (8), in which the connection tube (13b) and the rod (7) in the cap (C) are connected by a connection nut (27) that is rotatably mounted on an outer circumference of one of the connection tube (13b) and the rod (7) and is restricted in movement in the axial direction toward the other, and screwed to the other.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62K 25/08 - Axle suspensions for mounting axles resiliently on cycle frame or fork with telescopic fork, e.g. including auxiliary rocking arms for front wheel
  • F16F 13/00 - Units comprising springs of the non-fluid type as well as vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or fluid springs
  • F16B 7/18 - Connections of rods or tubes, e.g. of non-circular section, mutually, including resilient connections using screw-thread elements

8.

FRONT FORK

      
Application Number 18265149
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-12-10
First Publication Date 2023-12-21
Owner
  • KYB Motorcycle Suspension Co.,Ltd. (Japan)
  • KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugawara, Hidetoshi
  • Ito, Naoki
  • Hayashiguchi, Takumi
  • Maeda, Hirokatsu

Abstract

A front fork (1) of the present invention includes: a fork main body (2) having a vehicle body side tube (3) and an axle side tube (4); a cap (5) placed in the vehicle body side tube (3); a cylinder (6) provided inside the axle side tube (4); a rod (7) inserted into the cylinder (6) so as to be movable in an axial direction; an electric device (6) mounted inside the cylinder (6); an electric wire (9) connected to the electric device (8); a suspension spring (10) biasing the fork main body (2) in an extending direction, and an adjuster (11) capable of adjusting a support position of a spring seat (12). The electric wire (9) is drawn from the cap (5) at a position misaligned from an axial center line of the fork main body (2) to an outside of the fork main body (2). An operational portion (17) of the adjuster (11) is provided in the cap (5) at a position misaligned from the axial center line (A).

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62K 25/08 - Axle suspensions for mounting axles resiliently on cycle frame or fork with telescopic fork, e.g. including auxiliary rocking arms for front wheel
  • F16F 13/00 - Units comprising springs of the non-fluid type as well as vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or fluid springs

9.

SEALING DEVICE AND DAMPER FOR HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT

      
Application Number 18032295
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-11-30
First Publication Date 2023-12-07
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Koyama, Masaki
  • Asano, Norihiro
  • Yasui, Takeshi

Abstract

A sealing device for hydraulic equipment according to the invention includes an outer member having an annular shape, an inner member inserted into the outer member, and a seal ring housed in an annular groove disposed in the outer circumference of the inner member and abutting on the outer member to prevent a liquid from passing through a gap between the outer member and the inner member. The annular groove of the inner member has a bottom portion including a recess for restraining axial displacement of the seal ring relative to the annular groove.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/36 - Special sealings, including sealings or guides for piston-rods
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/512 - Means responsive to load action on the damper or fluid pressure in the damper
  • F16J 15/16 - Sealings between relatively-moving surfaces
  • F16J 15/32 - Sealings between relatively-moving surfaces with elastic sealings, e.g. O-rings

10.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 18031526
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-11-30
First Publication Date 2023-11-23
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yasunori
  • Anai, Kenshirou

Abstract

A shock absorber in the present invention includes: a cylinder; a rod guide fitted to the inner circumference of an end portion of the cylinder; a piston rod movably inserted into the cylinder; a piston connected to the piston rod; and a seal member stacked on the rod guide and through which the piston rod is inserted, wherein the seal member includes: an annular seal case having an annular concave portion on the inner circumference; a seal ring including a base portion and a lip and accommodated in the annular concave portion; an annular seal holder stacked on the rod guide side of the base portion, accommodated in the annular concave portion, and supporting the outer circumference of the seal ring to suppress the diameter enlargement of the lip; and a stopper mounted on the seal case and preventing the seal holder and the seal ring from falling off.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16F 9/36 - Special sealings, including sealings or guides for piston-rods
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details

11.

ARITHMETIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

      
Application Number 18164437
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-02-03
First Publication Date 2023-11-02
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kenjo, Kazunori
  • Yoshida, Hiroshi

Abstract

An arithmetic device includes a communication unit that communicates with another instrument, a first activation unit to which a first address is set, and a second activation unit to which a second address is set and at which a computer program can be updated by the first activation unit. When having determined that information of update that can be performed by the first activation unit is included in information acquired by the communication unit, the second activation unit transmits the second address to the first activation unit. When having received the second address from the second activation unit, the first activation unit changes the first address to the second address, establishes communication with the other instrument based on the second address, and performs update at the second activation unit based on update information transmitted from the other instrument.

IPC Classes  ?

12.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 18023983
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-10-07
First Publication Date 2023-10-19
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tanaka, Kazumasa
  • Yasukouchi, Naoki
  • Li, Dawei

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a shock absorber that can use a single bracket regardless of difference in thickness of a knuckle bracket. A shock absorber according to the present invention includes: a shock absorber main body having an outer shell and a rod movably inserted into the outer shell; a knuckle bracket attached to an outer circumference on a bottom end side of the outer shell; and a bracket including a curved piece curved along a circumferential direction of an outer circumference of the outer shell and an attachment piece extending from the curved piece and to which a mounting component is attached, the curved piece including a bracket attached to the outer shell by being welded to the outer circumference of the outer shell and within a range from a top end to a bottom end of the knuckle bracket in an axial direction of the outer shell.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60G 13/00 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic

13.

NEUTRAL RETURN MECHANISM

      
Application Number 18205190
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-02
First Publication Date 2023-10-12
Owner
  • KUBOTA CORPORATION (Japan)
  • KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Horii, Hiroshi
  • Aoki, Tetsuya
  • Kobayashi, Hirotaka

Abstract

A neutral return mechanism includes an interlocking shaft to be pushed and pulled in an axial direction in conjunction with a swinging operation of an operation member; a housing member to support the interlocking shaft such that the interlocking shaft is movable in the axial direction and accommodate the interlocking shaft such that one of opposite end portions thereof protrudes; a neutral return spring to return the interlocking shaft from a post-movement position to an initial position, the neutral return spring being accommodated in the housing member such that the neutral return spring extends in the axial direction of the interlocking shaft, wherein the housing member includes a supported portion between a spring accommodation portion in which the neutral return spring is accommodated and a protrusion opening through which the interlocking shaft protrudes, the supported portion being supported at a bracket member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05G 5/06 - Means for preventing, limiting or returning the movements of parts of a control mechanism, e.g. locking controlling member for holding members in one or a limited number of definite positions only
  • G05G 5/05 - Means for returning or tending to return controlling members to an inoperative or neutral position, e.g. by providing return springs or resilient end-stops

14.

SHOCK ABSORBER LUBRICANT COMPOSITION, SHOCK ABSORBER, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING FRICTIONAL PROPERTY OF SHOCK ABSORBER LUBRICANT

      
Application Number 18010601
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-06-15
First Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kato, Shinji

Abstract

Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting frictional property of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the steering stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and pentaerythritol esters and having frictional property represented by the following formula (1): Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting frictional property of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the steering stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and pentaerythritol esters and having frictional property represented by the following formula (1): RI > 1 .75 × F ave -   0 .05 ­­­(1) Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting frictional property of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the steering stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and pentaerythritol esters and having frictional property represented by the following formula (1): RI > 1 .75 × F ave -   0 .05 ­­­(1) supposing that a ratio ({Fsa - Fave} / Fave) of a difference, at the time of minute amplitude, between a peak frictional force Fsa in transition from a stationary state to a sliding state and an average frictional force Fave to the average frictional force Fave at the time of minute amplitude is responsiveness RI.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 129/74 - Esters of polyhydroxy compounds
  • C10M 169/04 - Mixtures of base-materials and additives
  • C10M 129/76 - Esters containing free hydroxy or carboxyl groups

15.

VALVE

      
Application Number 18191157
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-28
First Publication Date 2023-10-05
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Miura, Takuya

Abstract

A valve includes: a seat member having a supply passage through which working fluid is supplied; a valve body configured to be seated onto an annular seat portion of the seat member, the valve body being configured to close the supply passage; and a spring serving as a biasing member configured to bias the valve body towards the seat portion, wherein the valve body receives a biasing force from the spring, the biasing force containing a force component in the direction perpendicular to the center axis of the seat portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16K 29/00 - Arrangements for movement of valve members other than for opening or closing the valve, e.g. for grinding-in, for preventing sticking
  • F16K 1/38 - Valve members of conical shape

16.

DAMPING VALVE AND SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 18018183
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-08-17
First Publication Date 2023-09-21
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Mori, Toshihiro

Abstract

A damping valve includes: a disk with a port and a valve seat surrounding the port; a leaf valve that opens and closes the port by causing the front side to sit on and leave the valve seat; a tubular housing provided on the back side of the leaf valve; an annular spool that abuts on the back of the leaf valve and is slidably inserted into the inner circumference of the housing to form a back pressure chamber that causes back pressure to act on the leaf valve inwardly together with the housing; an annular spring support portion that is located on the back side of the leaf valve, faces the inside of the back pressure chamber, and has a smaller outer diameter than an inner diameter of the spool; and an annular leaf spring that is interposed between one end of the spool that is an opposite side end of the leaf valve and the spring support portion and presses the spool in a direction of abutting on the leaf valve.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16K 17/04 - Safety valves; Equalising valves closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded

17.

SOLENOID, SOLENOID VALVE, AND SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 18018164
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-08-17
First Publication Date 2023-09-07
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Mori, Toshihiro
  • Danshita, Naoaki
  • Iyatani, Masatoshi
  • Doi, Kohei

Abstract

A solenoid includes: a coil; a first fixed iron core disposed on an axial first-end side of the coil; a second fixed iron core disposed on an axial second-end side of the coil with a gap from the first fixed iron core; a tubular first movable iron core disposed between the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core: a second movable iron core having a tubular shape with a bottom, slidably inserted into the first movable iron core, disposed between the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core with a bottom portion facing the second fixed iron core; and a spring interposed between the first movable iron core and the first fixed iron core, and pressing the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01F 7/16 - Rectilinearly-movable armatures
  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet
  • F16F 9/46 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction allowing control from a distance
  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures

18.

MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

      
Application Number 18165824
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-02-07
First Publication Date 2023-08-24
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Kensuke
  • Kawano, Tomoyuki

Abstract

A motor control device according to the present disclosure is a motor control device configured to control voltage signals of a plurality of phases, the voltage signals being applied to an alternating-current motor, the motor control device including: a differential-value calculation unit configured to calculate the time differential value of a virtual line connecting peak values of each of phase voltage signals that are the voltage signals of the respective phases, the voltage signals being input to the alternating-current motor; a wavelength calculation unit configured to calculate the wavelength of each phase voltage signal input to the alternating-current motor from the time differential value; and a switching-signal generation unit configured to generate, based on the calculated wavelength, a signal that switches the phase of the alternating-current motor to which alternating-current voltage is applied.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 27/08 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of supply voltage using variable-frequency supply voltage, e.g. inverter or converter supply voltage using dc to ac converters or inverters with pulse width modulation

19.

TRANSMISSION-EQUIPPED MOTOR

      
Application Number 18002727
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-06-18
First Publication Date 2023-08-03
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Suzuki, Kenji
  • Matsuzaka, Keita
  • Suzuki, Jun

Abstract

In a transmission-equipped motor, a spline portion is formed at an end portion of a drive shaft of a transmission, and a spline hole with which the spline portion is engaged is formed on an end surface of a motor shaft of a hydraulic motor. A snap ring which contacts an end surface of the motor shaft having the spline hole is provided on an outer periphery of the drive shaft having the spline portion so that the snap ring positions the motor shaft and the drive shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 7/116 - Structural association with clutches, brakes, gears, pulleys or mechanical starters with gears
  • F16H 1/46 - Systems consisting of a plurality of gear trains, each with orbital gears
  • F16D 1/02 - Couplings for rigidly connecting two coaxial shafts or other movable machine elements for connecting two abutting shafts or the like

20.

Fluid pressure rotating machine

      
Application Number 17999488
Grant Number 11767832
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-03-11
First Publication Date 2023-06-29
Grant Date 2023-09-26
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takei, Gen
  • Iwanaji, Tetsuya
  • Kuboi, Hiroaki

Abstract

A piston pump includes: a tilting mechanism configured to bias a swash plate in accordance with a control pressure; a support spring configured to support the swash plate; and a regulator configured to control a control pressure guided to the tilting mechanism in accordance with a self-pressure of the piston pump. The regulator has an outer spring and an inner spring configured to be extended and compressed by following tilting of the swash plate; and a control spool configured to be moved in accordance with a biasing force from the outer spring and the inner spring, the control spool being configured to regulate the control pressure, and the outer spring and the inner spring and the support spring are provided adjacent to each other and in parallel with respect to the swash plate.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04B 1/2078 - Swash plates
  • F04B 1/32 - Control of machines or pumps with rotary cylinder blocks by varying the relative positions of a swash plate and a cylinder block
  • F04B 1/306 - Control of machines or pumps with rotary cylinder blocks by turning the swash plate, e.g. with fixed inclination

21.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17923423
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-05-06
First Publication Date 2023-06-22
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yasui, Takeshi

Abstract

A shock absorber includes: a shock absorber main body that has an outer tube and a rod movably inserted into the outer tube and can extend and contract; a main passage and a sub passage that communicate in parallel two working chambers provided in the shock absorber main body; a main damping force generation element provided in the main passage; and a sub damping force generation element provided in the sub passage. The main damping force generation element has only a main valve that opens and closes the main passage. The sub damping force generation element has an orifice provided in series with the sub passage, and a sub valve that opens and closes the sub passage and has a valve opening pressure lower than that of the main valve.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/512 - Means responsive to load action on the damper or fluid pressure in the damper
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder

22.

ELECTRIC FLUID PRESSURE CYLINDER AND MOVING STRUCTURE BODY

      
Application Number 17996274
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-04-06
First Publication Date 2023-06-22
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakano, Tomokazu
  • Tanaka, Daisuke
  • Masuta, Yuuzou

Abstract

An electric fluid pressure cylinder is provided with: a driving unit integrally provided with an electric motor, a pump configured to discharge working oil by being driven by the electric motor, and a tank; a hydraulic cylinder configured to be extended and contracted by the working oil supplied from the driving unit; and a first hose pipe and a second hose pipe configured to guide the working oil between the driving unit and the hydraulic cylinder. The driving unit is further provided with: a valve block configured to control the flow of working fluid between the fluid pressure cylinder and the pump; and a connecting plate attached to the valve block and formed with a connecting port to which the pipe member is connected, the connecting port being configured such that the working fluid supplied to and discharged from the fluid pressure cylinder passes through the connecting port.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F15B 11/10 - Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action with only one servomotor in which the servomotor position is a function of the pressure
  • F15B 13/00 - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - Details of servomotor systems
  • F15B 15/14 - Fluid-actuated devices for displacing a member from one position to another; Gearing associated therewith characterised by the construction of the motor unit of the straight-cylinder type
  • F04B 17/03 - Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors driven by electric motors

23.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17924584
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-05-06
First Publication Date 2023-06-15
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ando, Kazuma
  • Kimizu, Tomohiro

Abstract

A shock absorber according to the present invention includes: a shock absorber main body having an outer shell and a rod; and a knuckle bracket attached to an outer circumference of the bottom end of the outer shell. The knuckle bracket includes: a holding portion having a cylindrical shape with a C-shaped cross section, and that holds the outer circumference of the outer shell; a pair of attachment portions extending radially outwards, and in parallel with each other, from respective circumferential ends of the holding portion; and reinforcing portions formed by bending top ends of the attachment portions in directions approaching each other; and a C-shaped welded portion having a C-shaped surface that is formed by top ends of the reinforcing portions and a top end of the holding portion, the C-shaped welded portion being formed by welding the C-shaped surface to the outer shell, across a range from a position spaced from one circumferential end of the C-shaped surface, traversing across an upper part of a rear side of the holding portion, to the other circumferential end of the C-shaped surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60G 13/00 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers

24.

LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION AND SLIDING MECHANISM

      
Application Number 17996660
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-04-22
First Publication Date 2023-06-08
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kato, Shinji

Abstract

A lubricating oil composition according to the present embodiment is a lubricating oil composition to be used in a sliding member coated with hydrogen-containing diamond-like carbon, and contains a base oil and a friction modifier. The friction modifier contains a fatty acid ester of pentaerythritol.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 129/74 - Esters of polyhydroxy compounds
  • C10M 129/76 - Esters containing free hydroxy or carboxyl groups
  • C10M 169/04 - Mixtures of base-materials and additives
  • F16F 7/09 - Vibration-dampers; Shock-absorbers with friction surfaces rectilinearly movable along each other in dampers of the cylinder-and-piston type

25.

SHOCK ABSORBER LUBRICANT COMPOSITION, SHOCK ABSORBER, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING FRICTION CHARACTERISTICS OF SHOCK ABSORBER LUBRICANT

      
Application Number 17919810
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-16
First Publication Date 2023-05-25
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kato, Shinji

Abstract

Provided are a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a lubricant additive, and a method of adjusting friction characteristics of a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, each capable of satisfying both the operational stability and ride comfort. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent, the friction adjusting agent contains pentaerythritol esters, and the pentaerythritol esters contain a pentaerythritol tetraester and a pentaerythritol ester other than the pentaerythritol tetraester.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 129/74 - Esters of polyhydroxy compounds
  • C10M 169/04 - Mixtures of base-materials and additives
  • C10M 129/76 - Esters containing free hydroxy or carboxyl groups
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details

26.

FAILURE PREDICTION SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17918513
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-22
First Publication Date 2023-05-11
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyauchi, Yuki
  • Ohuchida, Shun

Abstract

A technique involves outputting not only the condition of hydraulic oil but also information on failure prediction of equipment by processing in real time. Such a technique utilizes an oil condition sensor attached to the equipment, a parameter calculator that calculates the values of a plurality of parameters indicating the state of the hydraulic oil based on the sensor output of the oil condition sensor and correlation information between the sensor output and the values of a plurality of parameters indicating the state of the hydraulic oil, and failure prediction determiner that predicts equipment failures based on parameter values and identifies and outputs parameters that are inferred as the cause of the failure prediction, and outputs not only the condition of hydraulic oil but also information on failure prediction of the equipment by processing in real time.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 27/06 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating resistance of a liquid
  • G01N 33/28 - Oils
  • G05B 23/02 - Electric testing or monitoring

27.

MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING LEARNING MODELS, AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number 17914024
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-26
First Publication Date 2023-04-27
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kikuchi, Takayoshi
  • Ohuchida, Shun

Abstract

The present invention improves accuracy in machine learning and reduce running costs by updating to a new learning model generated by selecting data, etc. The present invention improves accuracy in machine learning and reduce running costs by updating to a new learning model generated by selecting data, etc. The data collector collects data to perform machine learning. The data storage stores the collected data. The data selector selects data for updating existing learning models used for machine learning from the data stored in the data storage. The learning model generator generates a new learning model by machine learning based on the selected data, and the updater updates at least the existing learning model to the new learning model generated in the learning model generator.

IPC Classes  ?

28.

Fluid pressure rotating machine

      
Application Number 17906233
Grant Number 11952988
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-03-11
First Publication Date 2023-04-20
Grant Date 2024-04-09
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kuboi, Hiroaki
  • Iwanaji, Tetsuya

Abstract

A piston pump includes: a first biasing mechanism configured to bias a swash plate in accordance with control pressure supplied; a second biasing mechanism configured to bias the swash plate against the first biasing mechanism; and a regulator configured to control the control pressure in accordance with self-pressure of the piston pump. The regulator has: an outer spring and an inner spring configured to be extended and compressed by following tilting of the swash plate; a control spool configured to be moved in accordance with biasing forces exerted by the outer spring and the inner spring, the control spool being configured to adjust the control pressure; an auxiliary spring configured to exert biasing force to the control spool against the biasing forces exerted by the outer spring and the inner spring; and an adjusting mechanism configured to adjust the biasing force exerted by the auxiliary spring.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04B 1/324 - Control of machines or pumps with rotary cylinder blocks by varying the relative positions of a swash plate and a cylinder block by changing the inclination of the swash plate
  • F04B 1/2078 - Swash plates

29.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17434650
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-02-28
First Publication Date 2023-04-06
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Awano, Koichiro
  • Mochizuki, Takahisa
  • Uemura, Masashi

Abstract

A shock absorber includes a hard-side damping element for applying resistance to a flow of liquid from a compression side chamber to an extension side chamber, a solenoid valve capable of changing an opening area of a compression side bypass passage for communicating the compression side chamber and the extension side chamber by bypassing the hard-side damping element, and a soft-side damping element provided in the compression side bypass passage in series with the solenoid valve. The hard-side damping element has an orifice and a leaf valve provided in parallel with the orifice. The soft-side damping element has an orifice having an opening area larger than that of the orifice.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • F16F 9/18 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein
  • F16F 9/44 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction

30.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17434674
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-02-28
First Publication Date 2023-04-06
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hayashiguchi, Takumi
  • Awano, Koichiro
  • Mochizuki, Takahisa
  • Shimauchi, Sodai

Abstract

A shock absorber is provided with a cylinder, a piston inserted into the cylinder and demarcating an interior of the cylinder into an extension side chamber and a compression side chamber, a piston rod joined to the piston, a damping passage, provided in the piston rod, that communicates with the extension side chamber and the compression side chamber, and a damping force adjustment valve provided in the damping passage. The damping force adjustment valve includes a damping force adjustment unit and a solenoid that drives the damping force adjustment unit to adjust a flow channel resistance. The piston rod includes a yoke into which the damping force adjustment valve is inserted, and a piston holding member mounted on the yoke. The yoke includes a through-hole opening from a side of the yoke and leading to the interior, and a groove provided on a perimeter of the yoke, extending from an anti-piston end, and leading to the through-hole.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/18 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension

31.

SPRING GUIDE AND SUSPENSION DEVICE

      
Application Number 17760351
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-01-27
First Publication Date 2023-03-02
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kurihara, Kenta

Abstract

A spring guide includes: a main body portion of which a coil spring is placed on a vehicle side, the main body portion being formed of a resin material; and a covering portion that covers an anti-spring side of the main body portion opposite to the coil spring. The covering portion is formed of a material having a physical property different from that of the resin material forming the main body portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60G 15/06 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of combined spring and vibration- damper, e.g. telescopic type having mechanical spring and fluid damper

32.

VANE PUMP

      
Application Number 17904151
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-04-19
First Publication Date 2023-03-02
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Suzuki, Kazunari
  • Yakabe, Shinji
  • Kurita, Yusuke
  • Shindou, Shota

Abstract

A vane pump includes: a suction port configured to guide working oil to a pump chambers; a discharge port configured to guide the working oil discharged from the pump chambers; and a notch formed from an opening edge portion of the suction port towards a reversing direction of a rotation direction of a rotor, wherein the pump chambers each communicates with the suction port through the notch during a course of the transition from the state, in which the pump chamber is in communication with the discharge port, to the state, in which the communication with the discharge port is shut off, as the rotor is rotated.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member

33.

Gear manufacturing method and gear

      
Application Number 17758680
Grant Number 11959538
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-16
First Publication Date 2023-02-23
Grant Date 2024-04-16
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Ogura, Shogo

Abstract

A gear manufacturing method, the gear including an annular gear portion including teeth on an outer periphery, an annular support portion provided on an inner peripheral surface of the gear portion and supporting the gear portion, and a core portion provided inside the support portion, the method includes: a support portion molding step of molding the support portion by disposing the gear portion and the core portion in an annular mold and filling a resin between the gear portion and the core portion; and a support portion cooling step of cooling the support portion molded in the support portion molding step, a radial gap between the teeth of the gear portion and the mold before the support portion molding step is set to be smaller than a radial shrinkage amount of the support portion in the support portion cooling step.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 55/06 - Use of materials; Use of treatments of toothed members or worms to affect their intrinsic material properties
  • B29D 15/00 - Producing gear wheels or similar articles with grooves or projections, e.g. control knobs
  • F16H 55/22 - Toothed members; Worms for transmissions with crossing shafts, especially worms, worm-gears

34.

Working fluid supply system

      
Application Number 17756861
Grant Number 11820305
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-10-13
First Publication Date 2023-01-12
Grant Date 2023-11-21
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hironaka, Tsuyoshi
  • Nagashima, Midori
  • Tsukui, Ken
  • Murota, Kazuya

Abstract

A working fluid supply system is provided with: a first oil pump and a second oil pump driven by an engine; a switching valve configured to cause a discharge passage of the second oil pump to communicate with at least one of a supply passage and a first drain passage; and a controller configured to switch the switching valve. The controller is configured to switch the switching valve by spending a switching time that is set in accordance with a degree of pressure variation predicted to be caused in the supply passage when the switching valve is switched instantaneously.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F15B 11/17 - Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action with two or more servomotors using two or more pumps
  • B60R 16/08 - Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for fluid
  • F16H 61/66 - Control functions within change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion specially adapted for continuously variable gearings

35.

WORKING FLUID SUPPLY SYSTEM

      
Application Number 17755763
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-10-13
First Publication Date 2022-12-08
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hironaka, Tsuyoshi
  • Nagashima, Midori
  • Tsukui, Ken
  • Murota, Kazuya

Abstract

A working-fluid supply system includes: a first pump and a second pump driven by an engine; a first switching valve capable of switching a supply target of the second pump to either one of the discharge side and the suction side of the first pump; a first switching control unit configured to perform a switching control of the first switching valve; and a first pressure control unit configured to perform a control such that pressure on the suction side of the first pump becomes a predetermined first pressure when the first switching valve is switched such that the supply target of the second pump becomes the suction side of the first pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F15B 21/00 - Common features of fluid actuator systems; Fluid-pressure actuator systems or details thereof, not covered by any other group of this subclass
  • F15B 13/00 - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - Details of servomotor systems

36.

STEERING DEVICE

      
Application Number 17624220
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-02
First Publication Date 2022-11-03
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Takahashi, Kazuki

Abstract

A steering device includes a rack shaft that turns wheels, a bush slidably support the rack shaft, tie-rods joined to the rack shaft, boots that cover a joining portion that joins the rack shaft and the tie-rod. A protrusion part is formed on either one of the bush and a rack housing so as to protrude toward the other. A restriction groove into which the protrusion part is inserted is formed on the other. A space inside the first boot and a space inside the second boot constantly communicate with each other via the restriction groove.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 7/16 - Arrangement of linkage connections
  • B62D 3/12 - Steering gears mechanical of rack-and-pinion type

37.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17690752
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-03-09
First Publication Date 2022-10-06
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yasui, Takeshi
  • Koyama, Masaki
  • Yamamoto, Naoki

Abstract

A shock absorber is provided. The shock absorber of the present invention includes a shock absorber main body, a damping passage, a primary damping force generation component, and a secondary damping force generation component. The shock absorber main body has an outer tube and a rod and is stretchable. The damping passage communicates operating chambers with each other provided in the shock absorber main body. The primary and secondary damping force generation components are provided in series with the damping passage. The secondary damping force generation component includes a secondary valve, an annular facing portion, and a valve stopper. The annular facing portion faces the secondary valve with an annular gap between the annular facing portion and the secondary valve. The valve stopper has elasticity to allow bending, and when the secondary valve bends and comes in contact with the valve stopper, restricts the secondary valve from bending.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/06 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using both gas and liquid

38.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17630783
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-17
First Publication Date 2022-08-25
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yasui, Takeshi

Abstract

A shock absorber according to the present invention includes: a cylinder; a rod movably inserted into the cylinder; an extension side chamber (operation chamber) and a compression side chamber (operation chamber) provided in the cylinder; a valve disc that is provided to be movable in the axial direction on the outer circumference of the rod and has an annular valve seat and a port which is opened on the inner circumference of the annular valve seat and causes the extension side chamber (operation chamber) and the compression side chamber (operation chamber) to communicate with each other; and an annular leaf valve that opens and closes the port.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/06 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using both gas and liquid

39.

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE

      
Application Number 17630722
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-26
First Publication Date 2022-08-18
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsuda, Shun
  • Tomita, Haruki
  • Tsukada, Hirotaka

Abstract

In the rotary electric machine, the circuit board is divided into a first substrate portion fixed to the heat sink and a second substrate portion to which one end of first to third terminals are soldered, in the first direction. Here, the heat sink is formed with first and second recesses and a step portion separated upward from the second substrate portion, and displacement of the second substrate portion in the plate thickness direction is allowed. Thus, in the event that the first to third terminals are displaced vertically with respect to the circuit board when the environmental temperature of the rotary electric machine 10 changes, since the second substrate portion is displaced in the vertical direction following the first to third terminals, the stress generated in the soldered portion between the first to third terminals and the second substrate portion can be relaxed for enhanced reliability.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges

40.

SOLENOID, SOLENOID VALVE, AND SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17626710
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-02
First Publication Date 2022-08-11
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Furuta, Yuusuke
  • Danshita, Naoaki
  • Doi, Kohei
  • Iyatani, Masatoshi

Abstract

A solenoid includes a first fixed iron core and a second fixed iron core located on a first end side and a second end side of an axial direction of a coil, a first movable iron core and a second movable iron core located therebetween and attracted by the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core by passage of current through the coil, respectively, a spring that biases the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side, a leaf spring that regulates movement of the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side with respect to the second movable iron core, and a communication passage that causes the first fixed iron core side of the second movable iron core to communicate with the second fixed iron core side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
  • H01F 7/16 - Rectilinearly-movable armatures
  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16F 9/46 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction allowing control from a distance

41.

SOLENOID, SOLENOID VALVE, AND SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17626992
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-02
First Publication Date 2022-08-11
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Furuta, Yuusuke
  • Danshita, Naoaki
  • Doi, Kohei
  • Iyatani, Masatoshi

Abstract

A solenoid includes a first fixed iron core and a second fixed iron core located on one axial end side and the other axial end side of a coil, a first movable member and a second movable member located between those fixed iron cores and configured to be attracted to the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core, respectively, by energization of the coil, a spring configured to bias the first movable member toward the second fixed iron core, and a first regulating portion made from a non-magnetic material, provided integrally with the first movable member or the second movable member, and configured to regulate movement of the first movable member toward the second fixed iron core with respect to the second movable member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
  • H01F 7/16 - Rectilinearly-movable armatures
  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet

42.

SOLENOID, SOLENOID VALVE, AND SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17626011
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-02
First Publication Date 2022-08-11
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Furuta, Yuusuke
  • Danshita, Naoaki
  • Doi, Kohei
  • Iyatani, Masatoshi

Abstract

A solenoid includes a first fixed iron core and a second fixed iron core located on a first end side and a second end side of an axial direction of a coil, a first movable iron core and a second movable iron core located therebetween and attracted by the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core by passage of current through the coil, respectively, a spring housed in a spring chamber formed on the first fixed iron core side of the first movable iron core and biasing the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side, a leaf spring that regulates movement of the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side with respect to the second movable iron core, and a throttle passage that causes the spring chamber to communicate with outside.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • H01F 7/16 - Rectilinearly-movable armatures
  • H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16F 9/46 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction allowing control from a distance
  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet

43.

Suspension device

      
Application Number 17612318
Grant Number 11801722
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-05-20
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Grant Date 2023-10-31
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hanai, Makoto
  • Kondo, Takuhiro

Abstract

A suspension device includes a leaf spring and a buffer. The leaf spring applies an elastic force for relatively moving an unsprung member in a predetermined direction with respect to a body (sprung member) of a vehicle. The buffer includes a first expansion/contraction member, a second expansion/contraction member, an intermediate member, and a damping passage. The first and second expansion/contraction members form first and second gas chambers filled with gas therein and are expandable and contractible. An upper end and a lower end of the first and second expansion/contraction members are connected to the body. The intermediate member couples the first and second expansion/contraction members and is connected to the leaf spring. The damping passage allows the first and second gas chambers to communicate with each other, and applies resistance to flow of flowing gas. When one of the first and second expansion/contraction members expands, the other contracts.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60G 11/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or kind of springs having leaf springs only arranged substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle
  • B60G 7/04 - Buffer means for limiting movement of arms
  • B60G 3/10 - Resilient suspensions for a single wheel with a single pivoted arm the arm being essentially transverse to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle the arm itself being resilient, e.g. leaf spring
  • B60G 13/10 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type pneumatic

44.

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE

      
Application Number 17615731
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-26
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Eguchi, Yuu
  • Tomita, Haruki
  • Matsuda, Shun

Abstract

Increase the heat dissipation effect of the heat sink on the heat generating element. Increase the heat dissipation effect of the heat sink on the heat generating element. In the rotary electric machine, the portions of the circuit board that are installed in the first and the second installation portion of the heat-sink are configured as non-coated portions, and the non-coated portion is not coated with resist. Therefore, the circuit board can be installed in the first and the second installation portion of the heat-sink without being affected by the variation in the film thickness of the resist. Thus, the gap between the FET mounted on the circuit board and the first to third heat dissipating portion of the heat-sink can be set as small as possible. Therefore, the heat generated by the FET can be efficiently transferred to the heat-sink. As described above, the heat dissipation effect of the heat-sink on the FET can be enhanced.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • H02K 5/04 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof

45.

WORM SHAFT, WORM SPEED REDUCER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF WORM SHAFT

      
Application Number 17617551
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-03
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Masuda, Hiroki
  • Inaba, Yoshimasa

Abstract

A worm shaft includes: an insertion portion; a wall surface; a tapered portion; and a main body portion, the gear portion is formed on the main body portion and the tapered portion such that a bottom land of the gear portion is positioned at radially outer side of a line extending in parallel with a rotation center axis of the worm shaft and passing through a boundary between the wall surface and the tapered portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/021 - Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings
  • F16H 55/24 - Special devices for taking up backlash

46.

MODULE ROBOT

      
Application Number 17622903
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-06-29
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto, Shunichi
  • Hyon, Sang-Ho
  • Saitou, Yasushi
  • Kamikura, Sadayuki
  • Kobayashi, Nobuyuki
  • Nishizawa, Shinichi
  • Uchida, Setsuko

Abstract

A module robot 100 is configured by coupling a plurality of modules 101, the modules 101 each having a first link 1, a second link 2 movably linked to the first link 1 relatively, and a hydraulic cylinder 3 configured to move the first link 1 and the second link 2 relatively.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 9/08 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by modular constructions
  • F15B 13/02 - Fluid distribution or supply devices characterised by their adaptation to the control of servomotors

47.

Solenoid, electromagnetic valve, and buffer

      
Application Number 17626720
Grant Number 11846366
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-09-02
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Grant Date 2023-12-19
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Furuta, Yuusuke
  • Danshita, Naoaki
  • Doi, Kohei
  • Iyatani, Masatoshi

Abstract

A solenoid includes a first fixed iron core and a second fixed iron core located on a first end side and a second end side of an axial direction of a coil, a first movable iron core and a second movable iron core located therebetween and attracted by the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core by passage of current through the coil, respectively, a spring that biases the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side, and a leaf spring that regulates movement of the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side with respect to the second movable iron core. The movement of the first movable iron core in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the coil with respect to the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core is regulated.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16F 9/46 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction allowing control from a distance

48.

Swash-plate type piston pump

      
Application Number 17714477
Grant Number 11674505
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-04-06
First Publication Date 2022-07-21
Grant Date 2023-06-13
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Iwanaji, Tetsuya
  • Abe, Masaya
  • Kodama, Takeshi

Abstract

A swash-plate type piston pump includes a cylinder block configured to be rotated with rotation of a driving shaft, a plurality of pistons accommodated in a plurality of cylinders provided in the cylinder block, a swash plate configured to reciprocate the piston so that a volume chamber of the cylinder is expanded/contracted with the rotation of the cylinder block, an biasing mechanism configured to bias the swash plate in a direction where a tilting angle is made larger, a control pin configured to drive the swash plate in a direction where the tilting angle is made smaller in accordance with a rise in a load pressure of a pressure chamber, and a discharge channel configured to discharge the load pressure of the pressure chamber.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04B 1/2078 - Swash plates
  • F04B 1/324 - Control of machines or pumps with rotary cylinder blocks by varying the relative positions of a swash plate and a cylinder block by changing the inclination of the swash plate
  • F04B 53/14 - Pistons, piston-rods or piston-rod connections
  • F04B 53/16 - Casings; Cylinders; Cylinder liners or heads; Fluid connections
  • F04B 1/03 - Multi-cylinder machines or pumps characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders with cylinder axis arranged substantially tangentially to a circle centred on main shaft axis
  • F04B 1/146 - Swash plates; Actuating elements
  • F04B 49/12 - Control of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups by varying the length of stroke of the working members

49.

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE

      
Application Number 17614090
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-26
First Publication Date 2022-07-14
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tomita, Haruki
  • Eguchi, Yuu

Abstract

Improving the assemblability while improving the heat dissipation effect of the heat-sink. Improving the assemblability while improving the heat dissipation effect of the heat-sink. In the rotary electric machine, the ECU unit has the heat-sink that closes the opening of the housing of the motor portion, the circuit board fixed to the lower side of the heat-sink, and the connector assembly fixed to the upper side of the heat-sink with a part of the heat-sink exposed. Thus, the heat of the electronic components of the circuit board can be dissipated to the outside of the rotary electric machine by the heat-sink. Moreover, a connection terminal is provided on the lower surface of the circuit board, and the bus bar terminal portion of the motor portion is press-fitted into the connection terminal. Therefore, the bus bar terminal portion can be connected to the circuit board without being soldered to the circuit board. Therefore, the assemblability of the rotary electric machine can be improved.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
  • H02K 5/18 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof with ribs or fins for improving heat transfer
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes

50.

Rotary electric machine

      
Application Number 17614095
Grant Number 11929660
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-03-26
First Publication Date 2022-07-14
Grant Date 2024-03-12
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Matsuda, Shun

Abstract

Press-fitting the bus-bar into the connection terminal while improving reliability. In the rotary electric machine, the connection terminal comprises a terminal fixing portion fixed to the circuit board and held by the terminal holder, and a terminal connection portion arranged on the other side in the first direction with respect to the terminal fixing portion and for press-fitting the bus-bar. The terminal connection portion is arranged separately from the circuit board on the lower side. In the connection terminal, the connecting portion connecting the terminal fixing portion and the terminal connection portion is configured to be bendable and deformable vertically. This allows the terminal connection portion to be displaced when a press-fitting load above predetermined value is input to the terminal connection portion. Thus, since the press-fitting load is used as a load that bends and deforms the connecting portion, the load transmitted to the terminal fixing portion is reducible.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H02K 3/50 - Fastening of winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto
  • H02K 9/22 - Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges

51.

SPRING GUIDE AND SUSPENSION DEVICE

      
Application Number 17606261
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-04-27
First Publication Date 2022-07-07
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kurihara, Kenta

Abstract

A spring guide attached to a shock absorber, the shock absorber being provided between a vehicle body and a wheel, the spring guide being configured to support a coil spring for elastically supporting the vehicle body, and the spring guide includes: a main body portion formed of a resin material; and an elastic part provided between the main body portion and an end portion of the coil spring, the elastic part is formed of a material having elastic modulus lower than the material forming the main body portion, the elastic part being integrally molded on the main body portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • B60G 11/16 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or kind of springs having helical, spiral, or coil springs only characterised by means specially adapted for attaching the spring to axle or sprung part of the vehicle

52.

Cylinder device and method for manufacturing cylinder device

      
Application Number 17689628
Grant Number 11649871
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-03-08
First Publication Date 2022-07-07
Grant Date 2023-05-16
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Shibata, Yoshihiro
  • Inagaki, Yasuhiro

Abstract

A bracket of a cylinder device includes: a tubular portion having a C-shaped cross section, holding an outer periphery of the outer shell, and having a slit in a front portion; and a pair of mounting portions and protruding outward in the radial direction from both ends of the tubular portion in the circumferential direction. The tubular portion includes a hole formed to permit insertion of the protrusion, from at least one side portion to the back portion of the tubular portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • B60G 13/00 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers
  • F16F 9/54 - Arrangements for attachment
  • B23K 101/00 - Articles made by soldering, welding or cutting
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic

53.

LIQUID CONTAINING GAS BUBBLES PRODUCTION APPARATUS

      
Application Number 17594050
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-23
First Publication Date 2022-06-30
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Oota, Akihisa
  • Noguchi, Eishin
  • Mori, Terumi

Abstract

A production apparatus for a liquid containing gas bubbles includes a casing, a pump unit, and a gas bubble-mixing unit. The casing is provided with a main flow channel for a liquid, the main flow channel having a liquid inflow port and a liquid outflow port. The pump unit is disposed in the main flow channel and pumps the liquid to the liquid outflow port from the liquid inflow port. The gas bubble-mixing unit includes a first choke portion that is disposed in the main flow channel and has an inner diameter decreased and a gas supply channel that supplies the first choke portion with a gas.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01F 25/312 - Injector mixers in conduits or tubes through which the main component flows - Details thereof
  • B01F 23/231 - Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids by bubbling
  • B01F 35/75 - Discharge mechanisms
  • B01F 25/10 - Mixing by creating a vortex flow, e.g. by tangential introduction of flow components
  • F04C 2/356 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the outer member
  • F04C 15/06 - Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet

54.

Lubricant composition for shock absorbers, additive for friction adjustment, lubricant additive, shock absorber and friction adjustment method for lubricant composition for shock absorbers

      
Application Number 17601828
Grant Number 11932823
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-04-10
First Publication Date 2022-06-30
Grant Date 2024-03-19
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kato, Shinji

Abstract

To provide a lubricant composition for shock absorbers, a friction adjusting additive for a lubricant for shock absorbers, and a lubricant additive, each capable of satisfying both operational stability and ride comfort and improving the ride comfort further. The lubricant composition for shock absorbers contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent and the friction adjusting agent contains a first zinc dithiophosphate represented by the following formula 1: 14 are alkyl groups in which one or more and three or less is/are a primary alkyl group and the other(s) is/are a secondary alkyl group].

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 137/10 - Thio derivatives
  • C07F 9/165 - Esters of thiophosphoric acids
  • C10M 169/04 - Mixtures of base-materials and additives
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • C10N 40/08 - Hydraulic fluids, e.g. brake-fluids

55.

Rack bushing and steering device

      
Application Number 17603898
Grant Number 11878740
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-04-02
First Publication Date 2022-06-23
Grant Date 2024-01-23
Owner
  • MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION (Japan)
  • KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
  • OILES CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ikeyama, Gaku
  • Sato, Kazuya
  • Kuwagaki, Junya
  • Fumimoto, Yoshimitsu
  • Takahashi, Masaki
  • Taniguchi, Tomonori
  • Ito, Takuzo
  • Fujikake, Mitsuhiko
  • Masuda, Hiroki
  • Kikuchi, Hiroyuki
  • Ouchi, Jun
  • Akeda, Kazuhiko

Abstract

A clearance is created between an inner circumference of a bushing main body (2) which surrounds a rack (5) across a row of rack gear teeth (50) and an outer circumference of the rack (5), and two supporting surfaces (21A, 21B) which face each other with a bushing main body axis O therebetween and a supporting surface (21C) which faces a back surface of the rack (5), each extending along an x-axis direction, are formed on the inner circumference of the bushing main body (2). The rack (5) in a neutral state is supported by the two supporting surfaces (21A, 21B) so as to be displaceable along a z-axis direction, and the rack (5) in operation is stably supported by the three supporting surfaces (21A-21C) at three places. A groove bottom position of an annular elastic member attachment groove (24), which is formed on an outer circumference of the bushing main body (2), is offset toward the support surface (21B) only in an area on a support surface (21B) side from the bushing main body axis O, and therefore an elastic ring (3) attached to the elastic member attachment groove (24), protrudes above an outer circumferential surface of the bushing main body (2), but only in the area on the support surface (21B) side from the bushing main body axis O.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 3/00 - Steering gears
  • B62D 3/12 - Steering gears mechanical of rack-and-pinion type
  • F16C 29/02 - Sliding-contact bearings
  • F16C 35/02 - Rigid support of bearing units; Housings, e.g. caps, covers in the case of sliding-contact bearings

56.

PRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR A LIQUID CONTAINING GAS BUBBLES AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR A LIQUID CONTAINING GAS BUBBLES

      
Application Number 17593993
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-23
First Publication Date 2022-06-16
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Oota, Akihisa
  • Mori, Terumi
  • Yoshida, Futoshi
  • Ishikawa, Ryunosuke

Abstract

[Abstract] A production apparatus for a liquid containing gas bubbles according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a casing and a shearing mechanism unit. The casing includes an inlet, into which a liquid with a gas injected therein flows, and an outlet. The shearing mechanism unit is provided between the inlet and the outlet and applies shearing force to a liquid flowing to the outlet from the inlet. The shearing mechanism unit includes a rotor, a rotation applying unit, and a facing member. The rotor includes a rotary shaft and a tube portion having an outer peripheral portion including a first structure surface in which a plurality of recess portions is formed, and is rotatably disposed inside the casing. The rotation applying unit is provided in the rotary shaft and applies rotating force around the rotary shaft to the rotor. The facing member has an inner peripheral portion that faces the first structure surface via a predetermined clearance and is provided in an inner wall portion of the casing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01F 23/231 - Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids by bubbling
  • B01F 25/64 - Pump mixers, i.e. mixing within a pump of the centrifugal-pump type, i.e. turbo-mixers
  • B01F 27/74 - Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a horizontal or inclined axis with rotary cylinders

57.

CONNECTOR AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE

      
Application Number 17601162
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-03-25
First Publication Date 2022-06-09
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mochizuki, Takahisa
  • Kondo, Takuhiro

Abstract

Provided is a configuration capable of supplying compressed air to a pneumatic apparatus while supplying electric power to an electric vehicle. A connector is connected to a vehicle provided with an air suspension device to which compressed air is supplied, and supplies electric power supplied from an electric power supply unit to the vehicle. The connector includes a charging connection portion that supplies electric power to the vehicle, and an air supply connection portion that supplies compressed air to the air suspension device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60L 53/16 - Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
  • B60G 17/052 - Pneumatic spring characteristics
  • B60L 53/30 - Constructional details of charging stations

58.

Vane pump

      
Application Number 17600566
Grant Number 11959482
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-03-16
First Publication Date 2022-06-02
Grant Date 2024-04-16
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sugihara, Masamichi

Abstract

A vane pump includes: pump chambers formed by a rotor, a cam ring, and vanes; a first suction port that guides working fluid guided by a suction passage to the pump chambers; a second suction port that guides the working fluid guided from the suction passage through a communication passage to the pump chambers; and a return passage to which excessive fluid of the working fluid discharged from the pump chambers is guided. The return passage has: a body-internal passage through which the excessive fluid flows along an axis direction at an outer side of the cam ring in a radial direction; and a turning passage that reverses the excessive fluid guided through the body-internal passage towards the second suction port.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 14/26 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by using valves controlling pressure or flow rate, e.g. discharge valves using bypass channels
  • F01C 21/08 - Rotary pistons
  • F01C 21/10 - Outer members for co-operation with rotary pistons; Casings
  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member
  • F04C 2/356 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the outer member
  • F04C 15/06 - Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet

59.

Pump displacement control device having a feedback lever

      
Application Number 17439186
Grant Number 11879452
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-13
First Publication Date 2022-05-19
Grant Date 2024-01-23
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Iwanaji, Tetsuya
  • Kuboi, Hiroaki
  • Matsuda, Rintaro

Abstract

A pump displacement control device includes: a servo piston that changes a tilt angle; a flow rate control spool that is displaced corresponding to an input pressure; a power control spool that is displaced corresponding to a discharge pressure of the pump; a control pressure regulating spool that regulates a control pressure which controls the servo piston; and a feedback lever connected to the servo piston and the control pressure regulating spool. The feedback lever directly abut on either one of the flow rate control spool or the power control spool for regulating the control pressure.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04B 49/12 - Control of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups by varying the length of stroke of the working members
  • F04B 49/00 - Control of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups
  • F04B 1/122 - Multi-cylinder machines or pumps characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders having cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis - Details or component parts, e.g. valves, sealings or lubrication means
  • F04B 49/08 - Regulating by delivery pressure
  • F04B 49/22 - Control of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups by means of valves

60.

Sensor holder

      
Application Number 29671162
Grant Number D0951532
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-11-23
First Publication Date 2022-05-10
Grant Date 2022-05-10
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takahashi, Yusuke

61.

Shock absorber

      
Application Number 17434960
Grant Number 11879517
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-28
First Publication Date 2022-05-05
Grant Date 2024-01-23
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Shimauchi, Sodai
  • Awano, Koichiro
  • Uemura, Masashi

Abstract

A shock absorber includes a hard side damping element that imparts a resistance to a flow of liquid moving between an extension side chamber and a compression side chamber, a solenoid valve configured to change an aperture area of a bypass passage that bypasses the hard side damping element and communicates with the extension side chamber and the compression side chamber, a soft side damping element provided in series with the solenoid valve in the bypass passage, and a tank connected to the compression side chamber. The hard side damping element includes an orifice and leaf valves provided in parallel with the orifice. The soft side damping element includes an orifice having a larger aperture area than the orifice.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/46 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction allowing control from a distance
  • F16F 9/10 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using a fluid of which the nature is immaterial
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16F 9/44 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction
  • F16K 3/26 - Gate valves or sliding valves, i.e. cut-off apparatus with closing members having a sliding movement along the seat for opening and closing with sealing faces shaped as surfaces of solids of revolution with cylindrical valve members with fluid passages in the valve member

62.

SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17434973
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-02-28
First Publication Date 2022-04-28
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Awano, Koichiro
  • Mochizuki, Takahisa
  • Shimauchi, Sodai

Abstract

A shock absorber includes a hard-side damping element that gives resistance to a flow of liquid from an extension side chamber toward a compression side chamber, an electromagnetic valve capable of changing an opening area of an extension side bypass passage that bypasses the hard-side damping element and communicates the extension side chamber and the compression side chamber, and a soft-side damping element provided in the extension side bypass passage in series with the electromagnetic valve, in which the hard-side damping element includes an orifice and a leaf valve provided in parallel with the orifice, and in which the soft-side damping element includes an orifice having an opening area larger than an opening area of the orifice.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/46 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details such means combined with temperature correction allowing control from a distance
  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder

63.

FLUID PRESSURE SHOCK ABSORBER

      
Application Number 17414630
Status Pending
Filing Date 2019-12-05
First Publication Date 2022-03-03
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Funato, Hiroshi
  • Kubota, Tomoo
  • Omote, Masaya
  • Furukawa, Yuuta

Abstract

A fluid pressure shock absorber includes a piston connected to an end of a piston rod and slidably moving inside a cylinder tube and dividing the cylinder tube into a piston-side chamber and a rod-side chamber, a rod internal space formed inside the piston rod, a first communication passage communicating the rod-side chamber with the rod internal space, a second communication passage formed in the piston and communicating the piston-side chamber with the rod internal space, and a restrictor provided in the second communication passage to apply a resistance to a flow of a working fluid passing through the second communication passage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details

64.

ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 17421328
Status Pending
Filing Date 2019-11-22
First Publication Date 2022-02-24
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Chiba, Shuhei

Abstract

An electric power steering apparatus arranged in the vicinity of a heat source mounted on a vehicle includes: a rack shaft that turns a road wheel; an output shaft provided with a pinion gear engaged with a rack gear of the rack shaft; a worm wheel provided on the output shaft; a worm shaft engaged with the worm wheel; an electric motor that drives the worm shaft; and a controller that controls driving of the electric motor, and wherein at least a part of the controller is arranged on the opposite side of the heat source such that a rack housing is sandwiched between at least a part of the controller and the heat source, the rack housing accommodating the rack shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • B62K 5/01 - Motorcycles with four or more wheels 

65.

Hydraulic rotating machine

      
Application Number 17276353
Grant Number 11549497
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-09-24
First Publication Date 2022-02-17
Grant Date 2023-01-10
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takei, Gen
  • Iwanaji, Tetsuya

Abstract

A hydraulic rotating machine includes a case, a cylinder block housed in the case and having a plurality of cylinders, a piston reciprocatively inserted into the cylinder; a swash plate configured to reciprocate the piston as the cylinder block rotates, a tilt control piston configured to biase the swash plate and control a tilt angle of the swash plate, and a stopper mounted to the case, the stopper being configured to define a minimum tilt angle of the swash plate. The stopper has a sliding surface for slidably supporting the tilt control piston.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04B 1/324 - Control of machines or pumps with rotary cylinder blocks by varying the relative positions of a swash plate and a cylinder block by changing the inclination of the swash plate
  • F04B 1/2078 - Swash plates
  • F03C 1/40 - Control specially adapted therefor
  • F04B 1/2014 - Multi-cylinder machines or pumps characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders having cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis having rotary cylinder block - Details or component parts

66.

Electric oil pump

      
Application Number 17290305
Grant Number 11920591
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-09-20
First Publication Date 2022-02-03
Grant Date 2024-03-05
Owner
  • NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION (Japan)
  • KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Higuchi, Koji
  • Hashimoto, Yutaka
  • Maki, Yoshiyuki
  • Kubo, Kohei

Abstract

An electric oil pump includes a motor including a motor shaft, a pump assembly including a vane pump driven by the motor to suction and discharge oil, and an inverter to drive the motor. The motor includes a rotor, a stator on a side outward from the rotor in a radial direction, and a motor housing containing the rotor and the stator. The motor housing includes a suction port through which the vane pump suctions oil from outside, and a discharge port through which the vane pump discharges oil to outside. The motor housing includes flat surface portions in a portion of an outer periphery thereof. The suction port and the discharge port are located in a first surface of side surfaces which are the flat surface portions of the motor housing and are parallel or substantially parallel to the axial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 2/10 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of internal-axis type with the outer member having more teeth or tooth-equivalents, e.g. rollers, than the inner member
  • F04C 11/00 - Combinations of two or more machines or pumps, each being of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type; Pumping installations
  • F04C 13/00 - Adaptations of machines or pumps for special use, e.g. for extremely high pressures
  • F04C 15/06 - Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet

67.

Spring guide and suspension device

      
Application Number 17311549
Grant Number 11919350
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-12-04
First Publication Date 2022-01-27
Grant Date 2024-03-05
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kurihara, Kenta

Abstract

A spring guide includes: a base portion configured to support a coil spring; and an opening portion provided so as to penetrate through the base portion, the opening portion being configured such that a shock absorber is inserted into the opening portion, the opening portion is provided with: protruded portions protruding out from an inner circumferential surface of the opening portion, the protruded portions being configured to support the shock absorber; and a recessed portion recessed in the inner circumferential surface of the opening portion, a plurality of the protruded portions are arranged along a circumferential direction of the opening portion, and a gate trace of an injection mold is formed in the recessed portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60G 15/06 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of combined spring and vibration- damper, e.g. telescopic type having mechanical spring and fluid damper
  • B60G 11/16 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or kind of springs having helical, spiral, or coil springs only characterised by means specially adapted for attaching the spring to axle or sprung part of the vehicle
  • F16F 1/12 - Attachments or mountings
  • F16F 9/54 - Arrangements for attachment
  • F16F 9/58 - Stroke limiting stops, e.g. arranged on the piston rod outside the cylinder

68.

Vane pump with tip-end-side guide surfaces provided between inner and outer notches of the discharge port and base-end-side guide surface provided in the back pressure port

      
Application Number 17283668
Grant Number 11644031
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-29
First Publication Date 2022-01-13
Grant Date 2023-05-09
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ohmori, Yusuke
  • Nakagawa, Tomoyuki
  • Sugihara, Masamichi
  • Takahashi, Atsumi
  • Watanabe, Satoshi

Abstract

A vane pump includes: a rotor; vanes freely slidably received in the rotor; a cam ring having a cam face with which the vanes come into sliding contact; a side member having a sliding contact surface with which side surfaces of the rotor and the vanes come into sliding contact; pump chambers; and a discharge port configured to guide working fluid discharged from the pump chambers. The side member has a guide surface that is provided on an end portion side of the opening portion, the guide surface being configured to push the end portions of the vanes upward and guide them toward the sliding contact surface of the side member as the rotor is rotated in the reverse rotation direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member
  • F04C 14/04 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for reversible machines or pumps
  • F01C 21/10 - Outer members for co-operation with rotary pistons; Casings
  • F04C 15/06 - Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet

69.

LUBRICATING OIL COMPOSITION FOR SHOCK ABSORBER, ADDITIVE FOR FRICTION ADJUSTMENT, LUBRICATING OIL ADDITIVE, SHOCK ABSORBER, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING FRICTION OF SHOCK ABSORBER LUBRICATING OIL

      
Application Number 17285175
Status Pending
Filing Date 2019-12-24
First Publication Date 2021-12-09
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Kato, Shinji

Abstract

To provide a lubricating oil composition for a shock absorber, an additive for friction adjustment, a lubricating oil additive, a shock absorber, and a method for adjusting friction of a shock absorber lubricating oil, capable of achieving both operation stability and riding comfort. A lubricating oil composition for a shock absorber contains a base oil and a friction adjusting agent, in which the friction adjusting agent contains zinc dithiophosphate and pentaerythritol.

IPC Classes  ?

  • C10M 137/10 - Thio derivatives
  • C10M 169/04 - Mixtures of base-materials and additives
  • C10M 129/08 - Hydroxy compounds having hydroxy groups bound to acyclic or cycloaliphatic carbon atoms containing at least 2 hydroxy groups

70.

Vehicle height adjustment device

      
Application Number 17288299
Grant Number 11458793
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-09-30
First Publication Date 2021-12-09
Grant Date 2022-10-04
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Watanabe, Hirotomo
  • Kondo, Takuhiro
  • Wataya, Shigeo

Abstract

A vehicle height adjustment device of the present invention includes a motion conversion unit that includes a rotating member and a linear motion member, and that converts a rotational motion of the rotating member into a linear motion of the linear motion member, a plurality of motors, a driven gear coupled to the rotating member, a plurality of drive gears that meshes with the driven gear, and a spring seat that is coupled to the linear motion member, and that supports one end of a suspension spring interposed between a vehicle body and an axle of a vehicle, wherein after driving the spring seat and then stopping the spring seat, some drive gears of the drive gears are driven in a direction opposite a drive direction of the spring seat.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B60G 17/015 - Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or s the regulating means comprising electric or electronic elements
  • F16F 1/12 - Attachments or mountings

71.

Electric pump

      
Application Number 17268926
Grant Number 11536268
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-29
First Publication Date 2021-11-11
Grant Date 2022-12-27
Owner
  • KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kubo, Kohei
  • Fujita, Tomoyuki
  • Akatsuka, Koichiro
  • Maki, Yoshiyuki
  • Higuchi, Koji
  • Hashimoto, Yutaka

Abstract

An electric pump provided with a pump unit configured to discharge working oil by being rotationally driven by an electric motor includes: a drive shaft configured to transmit rotational driving force from the electric motor to a rotor of the pump unit; a rotation-detection shaft provided coaxially with the drive shaft, the rotation-detection shaft being configured to be rotated together with the rotor; and a rotation detector unit configured to detect rotation of the rotation-detection shaft. The rotation-detection shaft has: an engagement portion configured to engage with the rotor; and a detection-target portion facing the rotation detector unit, and an outer diameter of the detection-target portion is set so as to be larger than an outer diameter of the engagement portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 15/00 - Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups
  • F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 29/043 - Shafts
  • F04D 29/053 - Shafts
  • F04D 27/00 - Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 27/02 - Surge control
  • F04C 15/06 - Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet
  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member
  • F04C 28/28 - Safety arrangements; Monitoring

72.

Manufacturing method of joined body

      
Application Number 17278213
Grant Number 11958125
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-09-17
First Publication Date 2021-11-11
Grant Date 2024-04-16
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Nagai, Yasuyuki

Abstract

A manufacturing method includes a joining step of abutting and joining an end surface of a tube main body and a projecting portion of a head member by frictional welding in a state in which a through hole of the tube main body and the projecting portion of the head member are fitted with a fitting clearance. In the joining step, flow material which is practically flowed from an end surface of the tube main body and the flange portion of the head member is filled in the fitting clearance from the root side until the tip portion is located within the range in the direction of the rotation axis, thereby joining between a non-contact portion and the tube main body and between an inclined inner peripheral surface of the tube main body and an outer peripheral surface of the projecting portion by the flow material.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B23K 20/12 - Non-electric welding by applying impact or other pressure, with or without the application of heat, e.g. cladding or plating the heat being generated by friction; Friction welding
  • F16B 7/00 - Connections of rods or tubes, e.g. of non-circular section, mutually, including resilient connections
  • B23K 101/06 - Tubes

73.

Working fluid supply device

      
Application Number 17285004
Grant Number 11415218
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-21
First Publication Date 2021-11-04
Grant Date 2022-08-16
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Murota, Kazuya

Abstract

A working fluid supply device is provided with: a first oil pump and a second oil pump driven by an engine; a third oil pump driven by an electric motor; a first unloading valve configured to shift the second oil pump to a no-load operation state; and a controller configured to control a supply state of working oil to an automatic transmission. The controller sets the supply state to a supply state selected from: a first supply state in which the working oil is supplied only from the first oil pump; a second supply state in which the working oil is supplied from the first oil pump and the third oil pump; a third supply state in which the working oil is supplied from the first oil pump and the second oil pump; and a fourth supply state in which the working oil is supplied from the first oil pump, the second oil pump, and the third oil pump.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 61/02 - Control functions within change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion characterised by the signals used
  • F16H 61/12 - Detecting malfunction or potential malfunction, e.g. fail safe

74.

Shock absorber

      
Application Number 17277494
Grant Number 11892055
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-08-01
First Publication Date 2021-10-14
Grant Date 2024-02-06
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hayase, Tomomi
  • Arahata, Tetsuo
  • Iwahara, Seiji
  • Tomita, Kouhei

Abstract

Provided is a shock absorber capable of improving the dimensional quality and ensuring the sealing performance of a seal ring. The shock absorber includes a cylinder, an outer tube, an intermediate tube, and a discharge passage defined between the intermediate tube and the cylinder, a reservoir defined between the intermediate tube and the outer tube. The intermediate tube includes, on its inner circumferential surface, a groove having a concave shape in cross section to be capable of accommodating a seal ring that closes the discharge passage. A relationship of θ1<θ2 is satisfied, where θ1 represents an angle formed between one side surface, out of both side surfaces of the groove of the intermediate tube, that is located on an axial end side of the intermediate tube, and a plane orthogonal to an axial direction of the intermediate tube, and θ2 represents an angle formed between the other side surface that is located on an axial center side of the intermediate tube and the plane.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/36 - Special sealings, including sealings or guides for piston-rods
  • F16F 9/18 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein
  • F16F 9/06 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using both gas and liquid
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details

75.

ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, INSULATOR, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREFOR

      
Application Number 17264392
Status Pending
Filing Date 2019-05-08
First Publication Date 2021-09-23
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ueno, Sayaka
  • Miyoshi, Hiroyuki
  • Takimoto, Tohru

Abstract

A rotating electric machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a rotor; a stator; an insulator; and a coil. The rotor rotates about a first axis. The stator includes teeth projecting toward the rotor. The insulator is attached to each of the teeth. The coil is wound around the insulator. The insulator includes a pair of side surface portions that are mounted on the teeth to generate a biasing force against the teeth in a twisting direction with respect to a direction of the first axis.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 3/34 - Windings characterised by the shape, form or construction of the insulation between conductors or between conductor and core, e.g. slot insulation
  • H02K 15/10 - Applying solid insulation to windings, stators or rotors
  • H02K 1/14 - Stator cores with salient poles

76.

Swash-plate type piston pump

      
Application Number 16316131
Grant Number 11319938
Status In Force
Filing Date 2017-03-31
First Publication Date 2021-09-16
Grant Date 2022-05-03
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Iwanaji, Tetsuya
  • Abe, Masaya
  • Kodama, Takeshi

Abstract

A swash-plate type piston pump includes a cylinder block configured to be rotated with rotation of a driving shaft, a plurality of pistons accommodated in a plurality of cylinders provided in the cylinder block, a swash plate configured to reciprocate the piston so that a volume chamber of the cylinder is expanded/contracted with the rotation of the cylinder block, an biasing mechanism configured to bias the swash plate in a direction where a tilting angle is made larger, a control pin configured to drive the swash plate in a direction where the tilting angle is made smaller in accordance with a rise in a load pressure of a pressure chamber, and a discharge channel configured to discharge the load pressure of the pressure chamber.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04B 1/2078 - Swash plates
  • F04B 1/324 - Control of machines or pumps with rotary cylinder blocks by varying the relative positions of a swash plate and a cylinder block by changing the inclination of the swash plate
  • F04B 53/14 - Pistons, piston-rods or piston-rod connections
  • F04B 53/16 - Casings; Cylinders; Cylinder liners or heads; Fluid connections
  • F04B 1/03 - Multi-cylinder machines or pumps characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders with cylinder axis arranged substantially tangentially to a circle centred on main shaft axis
  • F04B 1/146 - Swash plates; Actuating elements
  • F04B 49/12 - Control of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups by varying the length of stroke of the working members

77.

Fluid leakage detection system and fluid pressure system

      
Application Number 16967615
Grant Number 11466707
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-04-23
First Publication Date 2021-09-02
Grant Date 2022-10-11
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Takahashi, Yusuke
  • Iwamoto, Takahiro
  • Yoshida, Keitaro
  • Kikuchi, Takayoshi

Abstract

A fluid leakage detection system has a detection space to which working oil leaked out through a rod seal is guided; the rod seal being configured to seal an annular gap between a piston rod and a cylinder head; a sensor unit configured to detect pressure in the detection space; and a controller configured to acquire detected result from the sensor unit, wherein the controller has: a calculation unit configured to calculate a pressure parameter representing a pressure fluctuation in the detection space; a determination unit configured to determine occurrence of leakage of the working oil based on the pressure parameter; and the pressure parameter includes an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the pressure fluctuation obtained from the detected result detected by the sensor unit within a predetermined detection period.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F15B 20/00 - Safety arrangements for fluid actuator systems; Applications of safety devices in fluid actuator systems; Emergency measures for fluid actuator systems
  • F15B 15/14 - Fluid-actuated devices for displacing a member from one position to another; Gearing associated therewith characterised by the construction of the motor unit of the straight-cylinder type
  • G01M 3/26 - Investigating fluid tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by measuring rate of loss or gain of fluid, e.g. by pressure-responsive devices, by flow detectors

78.

Rotary electric machine and manufacturing method of rotary electric machine

      
Application Number 17182197
Grant Number 11569705
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-02-22
First Publication Date 2021-08-26
Grant Date 2023-01-31
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ueno, Sayaka
  • Kawaguchi, Takayuki
  • Matsuda, Shun
  • Matsumae, Tarou

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to hold a holding member appropriately in a casing. A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a drive shaft, a stator provided on an outer periphery of the rotor, a bearing B2 that rotatably supports the drive shaft, a holding member that contains an aluminum alloy member and holds the bearing, and a casing that houses the rotor, the stator, the bearing, and the holding member. The casing is made of a member that does not grow permanently or an aluminum alloy member that is permanently grown when the holding member is fixed to the casing. The holding member is in a state before permanent growth before being fixed in the casing, and the holding member grows permanently to be fixed more firmly to the casing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/16 - Means for supporting bearings, e.g. insulating supports or means for fitting bearings in the bearing-shields
  • H02K 5/173 - Means for supporting bearings, e.g. insulating supports or means for fitting bearings in the bearing-shields using bearings with rolling contact, e.g. ball bearings
  • F16C 17/02 - Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement for radial load only
  • H02K 7/08 - Structural association with bearings

79.

Fluid pressure drive device

      
Application Number 16760800
Grant Number 11181194
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-09-12
First Publication Date 2021-07-22
Grant Date 2021-11-23
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Matsuzaka, Keita
  • Suzuki, Kenji

Abstract

A fluid pressure drive device includes a flushing circuit configured to discharge a working fluid from one of the pair of main passages to a tank. The flushing circuit has a low pressure selection valve provided between the pair of main passages and configured to be switched by a pressure difference between the pair of main passages, the low pressure selection valve being configured to select the main passage on the low pressure side; and a flushing passage configured to lead the working fluid passing through the low pressure selection valve to the tank. The flushing passage has a first orifice and a bent portion formed on the downstream side of the first orifice.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 61/4104 - Flushing, e.g. by using flushing valves or by connection to exhaust
  • F15B 21/0423 - Cooling
  • F15B 11/08 - Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action with only one servomotor

80.

Shock absorber

      
Application Number 16976695
Grant Number 11536346
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-08
First Publication Date 2021-05-13
Grant Date 2022-12-27
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Cho, Gai
  • Kubota, Naoki
  • Miwa, Masahiro

Abstract

A shock absorber includes a bearing unit having a bearing and a bearing holding member, and a seal unit having a seal member and a seal holding member. The seal holding member includes a seal accommodating portion being configured to accommodate the seal member, and an insertion hole through which a piston rod is inserted. The seal member is pressed against an outer circumferential surface of the piston rod and the seal accommodating portion by working-fluid pressure in the extension-side chamber. And the bearing is provided such that a first end surface of the bearing facing the seal member matches an aperture plane of a through hole of the bearing holding member or such that the first end surface of the bearing projects out from the aperture plane of the through hole.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/36 - Special sealings, including sealings or guides for piston-rods
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16F 9/06 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using both gas and liquid
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic
  • F16F 9/58 - Stroke limiting stops, e.g. arranged on the piston rod outside the cylinder

81.

Valve and shock absorber

      
Application Number 17088748
Grant Number 11542999
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-04
First Publication Date 2021-05-06
Grant Date 2023-01-03
Owner
  • KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
  • TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yasui, Takeshi
  • Mizuno, Kazuyuki

Abstract

A damping valve includes: a ring-shaped leaf valve having either one of an outer circumference and an inner circumference as a free end, the free end being allowed to be deflected toward both sides in the axial direction; a ring-shaped opposing portion that opposes the free end of the leaf valve with a gap; a first sub leaf valve stacked on one side of the leaf valve in the axial direction; and a first passage formed in the leaf valve so as to extend in parallel with the gap, the first passage being configured to be opened when the leaf valve is deflected in the direction away from the first sub leaf valve.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details

82.

Power steering device

      
Application Number 16638474
Grant Number 11192577
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-24
First Publication Date 2021-04-29
Grant Date 2021-12-07
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Yagyu, Takaya

Abstract

A power steering device includes a bearing configured to rotatably support the tip side of a worm shaft, the gear case housing the worm shaft and a holder housed in a housing hole provided in the gear case and configured to house the second bearing. The holder includes the first holder having a holding part configured to hold the outer periphery of the bearing and the opening part configured to expose a part of the outer periphery of the bearing, the second holder having a guide part configured to guide a movement of the bearing toward a worm wheel as the outer periphery of the bearing comes into contact with the guide part through the opening part and a spring configured to bias the bearing toward the worm wheel via the first holder.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • F16H 1/16 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion without gears having orbital motion involving only two intermeshing members with non-parallel axes comprising worm and worm-wheel
  • F16H 57/021 - Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings
  • F16H 57/12 - Arrangements for adjusting or for taking-up backlash not provided for elsewhere

83.

Cartridge vane pump and pump device

      
Application Number 16611982
Grant Number 11231033
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-25
First Publication Date 2021-04-01
Grant Date 2022-01-25
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Sugihara, Masamichi

Abstract

A cartridge vane pump includes a rotor, a plurality of vanes, a cam ring, a side member brought into contact with a first end surface of the cam ring, a cover member brought into contact with a second end surface of the cam ring, the cover member being attached to the body, and a linkage member provided to extend between the side member and the cover member over an outer circumferential surface of the cam ring, the linkage member being configured to link the side member and the cover member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F03C 2/00 - Rotary-piston engines
  • F03C 4/00 - Oscillating-piston engines
  • F04C 18/00 - Rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04C 2/00 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps
  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member
  • F01C 21/10 - Outer members for co-operation with rotary pistons; Casings
  • F04C 15/00 - Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups

84.

Pressure resistant device and fluid pressure cylinder

      
Application Number 16642746
Grant Number 11174881
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-27
First Publication Date 2021-03-18
Grant Date 2021-11-16
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Toshio
  • Matsumoto, Kazuhiko
  • Imai, Norifumi
  • Hikasa, Takahiro

Abstract

A pressure resistant device includes a tubular main body portion, a lid portion having a wall portion joined to the main body portion, a positioning portion provided to oppose an inner peripheral surfaces of the main body portion and the wall portion, and a groove portion formed on the inner peripheral surface, and the positioning portion is provided to oppose an edge of the groove portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F15B 15/14 - Fluid-actuated devices for displacing a member from one position to another; Gearing associated therewith characterised by the construction of the motor unit of the straight-cylinder type
  • B23K 26/282 - Seam welding of curved planar seams of tube sections
  • F16J 12/00 - Pressure vessels in general

85.

Fluid leakage detection device and reciprocating fluid pressure device

      
Application Number 16961607
Grant Number 11225985
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-01-18
First Publication Date 2021-03-18
Grant Date 2022-01-18
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takahashi, Yusuke

Abstract

A fluid leakage detection device includes: an annular member attached to a cylinder head, the annular member being configured such that a piston rod is inserted through the annular member; a passage formed in the annular member, the passage being configured such that a working fluid is guided to the passage from a gap between an outer circumference of the piston rod and an inner circumference of the cylinder head; and a detector configured to detect the working fluid guided through the passage, wherein the annular member includes a press-fitted portion, the press-fitted portion being configured to be press-fitted to an annular groove formed in the cylinder head.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F15B 15/14 - Fluid-actuated devices for displacing a member from one position to another; Gearing associated therewith characterised by the construction of the motor unit of the straight-cylinder type
  • F16J 15/3236 - Sealings between relatively-moving surfaces with elastic sealings, e.g. O-rings with at least one lip having two or more lips with at least one lip for each surface, e.g. U-cup packings

86.

Fluid-property detection device

      
Application Number 16639443
Grant Number 11231380
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-05-14
First Publication Date 2021-02-04
Grant Date 2022-01-25
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kameda, Yukinori
  • Yoshida, Takahiro

Abstract

A fluid-property detection device includes a housing attached to the external device, the housing being configured to hold the outer electrode and the inner electrode, an outer insulating member provided between the housing and the outer electrode, the outer insulating member being configured to insulate between the housing and the outer electrode, and an inner insulating member provided between the outer electrode and the inner electrode, the inner insulating member being configured to insulate between the outer electrode and the inner electrode, being configured to insulate between the housing and the inner electrode. The outer electrode and the inner electrode respectively have tip end portions, the tip end portions projecting out from the housing and being configured to expose to the detection target fluid contained in the external device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 27/07 - Construction of measuring vessels; Electrodes therefor
  • G01N 27/22 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating capacitance

87.

Damping valve and shock absorber

      
Application Number 16968074
Grant Number 11655875
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-02-12
First Publication Date 2021-01-28
Grant Date 2023-05-23
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kobayashi, Yoshifumi
  • Abe, Tomoyasu
  • Furuta, Yuusuke

Abstract

A damping valve includes a valve seat member, a first valve element stacked on the valve seat member, a second valve element provided between an inner circumference valve seat of the valve seat member and the first valve element, the second valve element being configured to open and close a hole of the first valve element, and a biasing member configured to bias the first valve element towards the second valve element, wherein a surface of the second valve element on an opposite side from the valve seat member is higher than the outer circumference valve seat of the valve seat member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16F 9/18 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic
  • B60G 17/08 - Characteristics of fluid dampers
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • F16K 15/14 - Check valves with flexible valve members
  • F16K 27/02 - Construction of housings; Use of materials therefor of lift valves

88.

Electronic apparatus

      
Application Number 16616123
Grant Number 11522407
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-06-19
First Publication Date 2021-01-28
Grant Date 2022-12-06
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ueno, Sayaka
  • Eguchi, Yuu
  • Matsuda, Syun

Abstract

[Object] To provide an electronic apparatus capable of inhibiting a failure due to dropping of a screw from occurring. s being screwed into the screw hole 203. The facing member is to be disposed inside the casing 10 and faces the head portion 81 with a distance (L1) smaller than a length (L2) of the shank 82.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/24 - Casings; Enclosures; Supports specially adapted for suppression or reduction of noise or vibrations
  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
  • H02K 11/01 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection for shielding from electromagnetic fields
  • H02K 5/173 - Means for supporting bearings, e.g. insulating supports or means for fitting bearings in the bearing-shields using bearings with rolling contact, e.g. ball bearings
  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H02K 7/08 - Structural association with bearings
  • H02K 21/14 - Synchronous motors having permanent magnets; Synchronous generators having permanent magnets with stationary armatures and rotating magnets with magnets rotating within the armatures
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • H02K 3/50 - Fastening of winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto
  • H05K 7/14 - Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
  • H05K 7/20 - Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating

89.

Solenoid, solenoid valve, and damper

      
Application Number 16979456
Grant Number 11721464
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-06
First Publication Date 2021-01-14
Grant Date 2023-08-08
Owner
  • KYB Corporation (Japan)
  • TAKAKO INDUSTRIES, INC. (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kamakura, Ryosuke
  • Danshita, Naoaki
  • Doi, Kohei

Abstract

To provide a solenoid, a solenoid valve, and a damper in which when the amount of current supplied to the solenoid is small, the thrust of the solenoid to bias an object in one direction can be made small, and at the same time, even when the solenoid is not energized, the object can be biased in the same direction as that of the thrust. The solenoid includes a coil, a first movable iron core and a second movable iron core that are attracted in a direction away from each other by energizing the coil, a coil spring that biases the first movable iron core toward the second movable iron core, and a leaf spring that restricts the approach of the first movable iron core and the second movable iron core.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H01F 7/08 - Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet
  • H01F 7/16 - Rectilinearly-movable armatures
  • H01F 27/24 - Magnetic cores
  • H01F 27/28 - Coils; Windings; Conductive connections
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic
  • B60G 17/015 - Resilient suspensions having means for adjusting the spring or vibration-damper characteristics, for regulating the distance between a supporting surface and a sprung part of vehicle or for locking suspension during use to meet varying vehicular or s the regulating means comprising electric or electronic elements
  • B60G 17/08 - Characteristics of fluid dampers
  • F16F 9/06 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using both gas and liquid

90.

Valve and shock absorber

      
Application Number 16982917
Grant Number 11536344
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-04-02
First Publication Date 2021-01-14
Grant Date 2022-12-27
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kimishima, Kazuyuki
  • Yasui, Takeshi

Abstract

The valve includes a valve case; an annular valve body, an outer peripheral end of which is a free end movable to both sides in an axial direction with respect to the valve case; a facing portion provided in the valve case, the facing portion including an annular facing surface which is located on an outer peripheral side of the valve body and is configured to face the free end with a gap; and first and second valve stoppers which are located on both sides respectively in the axial direction of the valve body. The first and second valve stoppers, respectively, have a plurality of support portions that are configured to support different positions of the valve body in a radial direction at different heights when the valve body deflects.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16K 1/22 - Lift valves, i.e. cut-off apparatus with closure members having at least a component of their opening and closing motion perpendicular to the closing faces with pivoted closure members with pivoted discs or flaps with axis of rotation crossing the valve member, e.g. butterfly valves
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16K 1/226 - Shape or arrangement of the sealing

91.

Valve device and shock absorber

      
Application Number 16979426
Grant Number 11566680
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-06
First Publication Date 2021-01-14
Grant Date 2023-01-31
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kato, Hidemasa
  • Kamakura, Ryosuke

Abstract

Provided is a valve device and a shock absorber that can prevent them from being in a failure state at the normal time and can freely set a passive valve even when both pressure control and passage opening/closing are performed by a solenoid valve. For this reason, the valve device includes a first passage and a second passage connected downstream of the pressure introducing passage, a solenoid valve that opens the first passage to control the upstream pressure and closes the second passage when energized, and that closes the first passage and opens the second passage when not energized, and a passive valve provided downstream of the solenoid valve in the second passage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • F16K 15/18 - Check valves with actuating mechanism; Combined check valves and actuated valves
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic
  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/516 - Special means providing automatic damping adjustment resulting in the damping effects during contraction being different from the damping effects during extension
  • F16K 31/06 - Operating means; Releasing devices magnetic using a magnet
  • B60G 17/08 - Characteristics of fluid dampers
  • F16F 9/06 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium using both gas and liquid

92.

Cartridge vane pump and pump device including same

      
Application Number 16612243
Grant Number 11773848
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-24
First Publication Date 2021-01-07
Grant Date 2023-10-03
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kondou, Hirotoshi
  • Sugihara, Masamichi

Abstract

A cartridge vane pump includes: a side plate brought into contact with first end surfaces of the rotor and the cam ring; a cover brought into contact with second end surfaces of the rotor and the cam ring, the cover attached to the body; and an O-ring provided in an outer circumference of the side plate, the O-ring being configured to seal a gap between the outer circumference of the side plate and an inner circumference of the body. The side plate has: a first flange portion configured to restrict movement of the O-ring towards the rotor side; a second flange portion configured to restrict movement of the O-ring towards an opposite side from the rotor. The first flange portion is formed to be able to compress the O-ring with the body in an axial direction of the driving shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 15/00 - Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups
  • F16J 15/10 - Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces with solid packing compressed between sealing surfaces with non-metallic packing
  • F16J 15/06 - Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces with solid packing compressed between sealing surfaces
  • F16J 15/02 - Sealings between relatively-stationary surfaces
  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member
  • F04B 53/22 - Arrangements for enabling ready assembly or disassembly

93.

Seal member and shock absorber

      
Application Number 16978034
Grant Number 11530730
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-12
First Publication Date 2020-12-31
Grant Date 2022-12-20
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Kiyoaki
  • Takimoto, Naohide

Abstract

A seal member includes a base portion held by a cylinder, the base portion being configured such that a rod is inserted through the base portion, and a lip portion provided on the base portion, the lip portion being brought into sliding contact with an outer circumference of the rod, wherein the lip portion is formed of an elastic body containing fibers oriented in the axial direction of the rod.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/36 - Special sealings, including sealings or guides for piston-rods
  • F16F 9/19 - Devices with one or more members, e.g. pistons, vanes, moving to and fro in chambers and using throttling effect involving only straight-line movement of the effective parts with a closed cylinder and a piston separating two or more working spaces therein with a single cylinder
  • B60G 13/08 - Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location, or type of vibration-dampers having dampers dissipating energy, e.g. frictionally of fluid type hydraulic

94.

Valve seat member, valve, and shock absorber

      
Application Number 16979106
Grant Number 11536345
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-28
First Publication Date 2020-12-24
Grant Date 2022-12-27
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ishimaru, Kenta
  • Kimishima, Kazuyuki
  • Mori, Hirohito
  • Miwa, Masahiro
  • Cho, Gai
  • Shii, Hisato
  • Yasukouchi, Naoki
  • Owa, Takahiro

Abstract

A valve seat member is provided with: a first seat arranged so as to be spaced apart from an opening of a port; a second seat connected to the first seat at both ends so as to surround the opening of the port; an island portion arranged on the first seat side of the opening of the port in a region surrounded by the first seat and the second seat such that a hollow space is formed between the island portion and the first seat; and a passage configured to extend through the island portion to allow communication between the port and the hollow space.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16F 9/348 - Throttling passages in the form of annular discs operating in opposite directions
  • F16F 9/32 - Springs, vibration-dampers, shock-absorbers, or similarly-constructed movement-dampers using a fluid or the equivalent as damping medium - Details
  • F16F 9/34 - Special valve constructions; Shape or construction of throttling passages
  • F16F 9/512 - Means responsive to load action on the damper or fluid pressure in the damper

95.

Fluid-property detection device

      
Application Number 16641327
Grant Number 11156578
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-05-14
First Publication Date 2020-12-10
Grant Date 2021-10-26
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kameda, Yukinori

Abstract

A fluid-property detection device includes a first electrode, a second electrode provided so as to face the first electrode, and an insulating member provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the insulating member being configured to insulate between the first electrode and the second electrode. The insulating member is provided with a reduced-thickness portion for forming a hollow portion between the first electrode and the second electrode in a region in which the first electrode and the second electrode are not exposed to the detection target fluid.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01N 27/22 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of electric, electrochemical, or magnetic means by investigating impedance by investigating capacitance

96.

Electric hydraulic actuator

      
Application Number 16767865
Grant Number 11560891
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-12-13
First Publication Date 2020-11-26
Grant Date 2023-01-24
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Tanaka, Daisuke

Abstract

An electric hydraulic actuator is provided with an electric motor and a gear pump driven in rotation by the electric motor. The electric motor includes a motor housing and a rotating shaft supported by the motor housing so as to be freely rotatable. The gear pump has a drive gear into which the rotating shaft of the electric motor is inserted and a driven gear meshed with the drive gear. A pump housing is configured to accommodate the drive gear and the driven gear on one end and has an installation concave portion open at the other end for accommodating part of the motor housing. The motor housing is attached to the pump housing with a gap formed between the motor housing and the pump housing in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. The gap includes an O-ring to elastically support the motor housing in the radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 2/18 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with similar tooth forms
  • F04C 15/00 - Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups
  • F04C 2/14 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons

97.

Power steering device

      
Application Number 16638472
Grant Number 11536348
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-24
First Publication Date 2020-11-19
Grant Date 2022-12-27
Owner KYB Corporation (Japan)
Inventor Yagyu, Takaya

Abstract

A power steering device includes a bearing rotatably supporting the tip side of a worm shaft, a gear case provided with the housing hole for housing the worm shaft and a holder housing the bearing. The holder includes a first holder holding the bearing, a second holder having the guide part configured to guide a movement of the second bearing toward a worm wheel, and a spring provided in a compressed state between the first holder and the second holder and configured to bias the first holder toward the worm wheel. The second holder includes a holder opening part configured to allow the bearing and the first holder to pass through thereof in the guiding direction of the guide part to guide the bearing, and the first holder faces an inner peripheral surface of the housing hole through the holder opening part.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/16 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion without gears having orbital motion involving only two intermeshing members with non-parallel axes comprising worm and worm-wheel
  • F16H 57/022 - Adjustment of gear shafts or bearings
  • B62D 5/04 - Power-assisted or power-driven steering electrical, e.g. using an electric servo-motor connected to, or forming part of, the steering gear
  • F16H 57/021 - Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings

98.

Cap with electromagnetic proportional valve

      
Application Number 16758718
Grant Number 11262768
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-03-22
First Publication Date 2020-11-19
Grant Date 2022-03-01
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kitani, Toshiyuki
  • Yoshida, Nobuyoshi

Abstract

A cap with electromagnetic proportional valve, includes a pilot cap mounted on a valve housing and defining a pilot chamber, and an electromagnetic proportional valve mounted on the pilot cap and adapted to control a pressure of a working fluid supplied to the pilot chamber. The pilot cap includes a supply port into which a working fluid of a fluid pressure supply source is supplied, a discharge port from which the working fluid is discharged to the tank, a primary pressure passage which leads the working fluid at a primary pressure to the electromagnetic proportional valve from the supply port, a secondary pressure passage which leads the working fluid whose pressure is reduced to a secondary pressure by the electromagnetic proportional valve to the pilot chamber, and a drain passage which leads the working fluid discharged from the electromagnetic proportional valve to the discharge port.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16K 31/42 - Operating means; Releasing devices actuated by fluid by means of electrically-actuated members in the supply or discharge conduits of the fluid motor
  • G05D 11/13 - Controlling ratio of two or more flows of fluid or fluent material characterised by the use of electric means

99.

Valve device

      
Application Number 16755003
Grant Number 10969026
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-05-15
First Publication Date 2020-11-05
Grant Date 2021-04-06
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Matsuura, Akio

Abstract

In a valve device, travel control valve unit has a communication path causing the lead-out passages of the left and right travel control valve units to communicate with each other, and a spool has a lead-out side land portion configured to cause communication or shut-off of the communication between the lead-out passage and the communication path, a discharge-side land portion configured to cause communication or shut-off of the communication between the actuator passage and the discharge passage, a discharge portion configured to discharge a part of the working fluid led from the supply passage to the lead-out passage to the discharge passage at a movement initial stage of the spool, and a communication portion configured to cause the lead-out passage and the communication path to communicate with each other at a movement final stage of the spool.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16K 11/07 - Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves; Arrangement of valves and flow lines specially adapted for mixing fluid with all movable sealing faces moving as one unit comprising only sliding valves with linearly sliding closure members with cylindrical slides
  • F16K 3/24 - Gate valves or sliding valves, i.e. cut-off apparatus with closing members having a sliding movement along the seat for opening and closing with sealing faces shaped as surfaces of solids of revolution with cylindrical valve members
  • E02F 9/02 - Travelling gear
  • F16K 31/122 - Operating means; Releasing devices actuated by fluid the fluid acting on a piston
  • G05D 7/01 - Control of flow without auxiliary power

100.

Vane pump having a side member including a triangular-shaped protruding opening portion in communication with a back pressure opening portion for preventing wear of an inner circumference cam face

      
Application Number 16765133
Grant Number 11598334
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-11-09
First Publication Date 2020-11-05
Grant Date 2023-03-07
Owner KYB CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kato, Fumiyasu
  • Akatsuka, Koichiro

Abstract

A vane pump includes a rotor having slits, vanes received in the slits, a cam ring having an inner circumference cam face with which the vanes are brought into sliding contact, a side member, pump chambers formed by the rotor, the cam ring, and adjacent vanes, and back pressure chambers formed in the slits by the vanes. In the vane pump, the side member is provided with a back pressure opening portion opening at a sliding-contact surface in sliding contact with the rotor, the back pressure opening portion being configured to communicate with the back pressure chambers, and a protruding opening portion protruding along the rotating direction of the rotor from an end portion of the back pressure opening portion on the communication-finishing side. An inner-side inner circumferential surface of the protruding opening portion is connected to an inner-side inner circumferential surface of the back pressure opening portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04C 2/344 - Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more of groups , , , or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in group or and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member
  • F04C 14/22 - Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations characterised by varying the volume of the working chamber by changing the eccentricity between cooperating members
  • F01C 21/08 - Rotary pistons
  • F01C 21/10 - Outer members for co-operation with rotary pistons; Casings
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