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公开(公告)号:US20230304558A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-28
申请号:US18321447
申请日:2023-05-22
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Shinichi NISHIZAWA , Daisuke IBANO , Tsuyoshi MATSUDA , Norifumi ARISAKA , Shun MURAMATSU , Chihiro ITO , Takuto SUZUKI , Masatake KINOSHITA , Asuka KAWASAKI
Abstract: A coil spring includes a wire rod and an elastic coat provided on the wire rod. The coil spring includes a coil section including a plurality of coil portions. The wire rod includes a round cross-sectional portion, a cross-section varying portion, and a rectangular cross-sectional portion along the longitudinal direction of the wire rod. The cross section of the rectangular cross-sectional portion is substantially square and has a first plane and a second plane. The first plane and the second plane oppose each other in the coil section. The elastic coat is provided on at least one of the first plane and the second plane. The elastic coat is continuous from the round cross-sectional portion to the cross-sectional variation portion and the rectangular cross-sectional portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20230251286A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-10
申请号:US18161161
申请日:2023-01-30
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Hajime Arai , Kazuya Soma
IPC: G01R1/067
CPC classification number: G01R1/06738 , G01R1/06722
Abstract: A contact probe includes: a first plunger; a second plunger; and a coil spring provided between the first and second plungers and configured to connect the first and second plungers to each other so as to freely advance and retreat. The first plunger is provided with a groove portion formed on a side surface of the first plunger.
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公开(公告)号:US11701943B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-18
申请号:US17696971
申请日:2022-03-17
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Masahiro Umezawa , Daisuke Takeda
IPC: B60G21/055 , B60G11/14 , F16F1/06 , F16F1/14 , F16F1/02 , B60G21/045 , C21D7/06 , C21D9/02
CPC classification number: B60G21/055 , B60G11/14 , B60G21/045 , F16F1/02 , F16F1/06 , F16F1/14 , B60G2206/012 , B60G2206/427 , B60G2206/724 , B60G2206/81 , B60G2206/8403 , C21D7/06 , C21D9/02 , F16F2224/0208 , F16F2226/02 , F16F2234/02
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hollow spring member having a hollow steel spring rod having terminal sealed portions at both ends thereof. Each terminal sealed portion has a rotationally symmetric shape in which an axis passing through a center of the spring rod is an axis of symmetry. Each terminal sealed portion has an end wall portion including an end face; an arc-shaped smoothly curved surface between an outer peripheral surface of the spring rod and the end face, and a hermetically closed distal-end-center closure portion on the axis passing through the center of the spring rod. The method includes forming each of the end portions of the spring rod by forming a chamfered portion on an inner or outer peripheral side of the end portion of a hollow wire, the end portion having an opening portion at a distal end, heating the end portion of the hollow wire having the chamfered portion, and spinning the heated end portion to be gathered toward the axis from the outer peripheral side by a jig. The end wall portion, which includes the distal-end-center closure portion, is formed by the distal end of the end portion being joined together on the axis.
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公开(公告)号:US20230223044A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-13
申请号:US18093769
申请日:2023-01-05
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Mikio ARAI , Hiroshi DAIFUKU
IPC: G11B5/48
CPC classification number: G11B5/4846 , G11B5/4833
Abstract: A base plate includes a plate body and a connection portion provided at the plate body. The connection portion includes a through hole gassing through the plate body in a thickness direction of the plate body, a plurality of protrusions provided along an edge of the through hole in a circumferential direction about a central axis of the through hole and inserted into an attachment hole provided in the arm, and an inner circumferential surface formed by the plurality of protrusions and the through hole. The inner circumferential surface includes a plurality of recesses formed between the plurality of protrusions.
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公开(公告)号:US20230211859A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-06
申请号:US18008845
申请日:2021-06-08
Applicant: NHK SPRING Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Masato SHIRAO , Marino AKITA , Takafumi OSHIMA
CPC classification number: B63C9/0011 , B63C9/20 , B63H21/21 , B63H25/04
Abstract: This automatic ship handling system includes a ship and a communication device, the ship includes an actuator that has a function of generating a propulsion force for the ship and a function of generating a turning moment on the ship, an operation unit that receives an input operation for activating the actuator, and a ship control device that activates the actuator on the basis of at least the input operation received by the operation unit, the ship control device has a manual ship handling mode in which the actuator is activated on the basis of the input operation received by the operation unit, and an automatic ship handling mode in which the actuator is activated without a need for the operation unit to receive the input operation, and in the automatic ship handling mode, the ship control device controls a speed of the ship on the basis of a relative distance between the ship and the communication device.
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公开(公告)号:US20230202360A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-29
申请号:US18145760
申请日:2022-12-22
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD. , SUBARU CORPORATION
Inventor: Syunichirou OSA , Hiroki MATSUDA , Jun SHIRAI , Masafumi TAKANO , Kenji NAGUMO , Fumito KITANAKA , Suguru ISHIKAWA , Naoki HAYASHI
CPC classification number: B60N2/427 , B60N2/4221
Abstract: In a vehicle seat frame, a connection member that connects left and right links together in a seat left-right direction is disposed below a rear portion of a cushion pan included in a seat cushion frame. A sloped surface sloped with a downward gradient toward a seat rear side is formed at a lower surface of the rear portion of the cushion pan. The sloped surface of the cushion pan slides in a seat rearward and diagonally downward direction relative to the connection member when the cushion pan deforms in a seat downward direction under load from the occupant during a head-on collision of the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US20230166822A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-01
申请号:US18160676
申请日:2023-01-27
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Daisuke IGARASHI
Abstract: In an embodiment, a helm device comprises a steering shaft extending in a first direction, a housing, a tilt base, a pair of tilt mechanisms which supports the housing to make the housing rotatable with respect to the tilt base about a tilt axis, and a lock mechanism which fixes an angle of the steering shaft. Each of the pair of tilt mechanisms comprises a shaft member projecting from a side portion of the housing, a bracket provided on the tilt base and comprising a hole portion into which the shaft member is inserted rotatably, and a bushing disposed between the shaft member and the hole portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20230138105A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-04
申请号:US17911827
申请日:2021-03-17
Applicant: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Tsuyoshi Inuma , Shuji Takahashi , Kazuya Soma , Takashi Nidaira , Yuya Hironaka
Abstract: A probe unit includes: a plurality of first contact probes each coming into contact with an electrode to be contacted on one end side in a longitudinal direction; a second contact probe connected to an external ground; and a probe holder configured to hold the first and second contact probes, the probe holder including a first hollow portion configured to allow the first contact probes to be inserted therethrough and hold the first contact probes, a second hollow portion configured to allow the second contact probe to be inserted therethrough and hold the second contact probe, and a through-hole provided around the first hollow portion, wherein the probe holder includes a conductive portion that constitutes the through-hole and electrically connects the through-hole and the second contact probe.
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公开(公告)号:US11585372B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-21
申请号:US16497657
申请日:2018-03-23
Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Shigeru Kuroda
Abstract: The ball joint includes a metal ball stud which includes a ball section and a resin housing which rotatably supports the ball section of the ball stud. A limiting member configured to limit molding shrinkage of the housing is embedded in the housing at an interval with respect to an equatorial section of the ball section such that the limiting member is positioned to surround at least the equatorial section of the ball section.
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公开(公告)号:US20230026766A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-26
申请号:US17952932
申请日:2022-09-26
Applicant: NHK SPRING Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Taisuke SUWA , Yuichi SHIBATA , Ippei KOKUBUN , Tomoya SUGITANI
IPC: F16F1/12 , F16F15/067
Abstract: A coil spring device includes: a main body spring and an insulator, the insulator is provided with a support groove which extends around a coil axis and into which a lower end portion of the main body spring is fitted, the lower end portion of the main body spring adheres to an inner surface of the support groove, the inner surface of the support groove is provided with a plurality of spacer protrusions which support an outer peripheral surface of a wire rod, a plurality of adjacent spacer protrusions adjacent to an open end edge of the support groove of the plurality of spacer protrusions each includes a pair of side wall surfaces extending toward the open end edge and are provided at intervals therebetween in an extension direction of the open end edge in a plan view of a part including the open end edge in the inner surface of the support groove, and inclination angles of the side wall surfaces adjacent to each other in the extension direction with the interval therebetween with respect to an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the open end edge are different from each other in the plan view.
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