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1.

IN-VEHICLE LENS, LENS UNIT, CAMERA MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LENS

      
Application Number 19565435
Status Pending
Filing Date 2026-03-12
First Publication Date 2026-07-30
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Damasco Ty, Jennifer Torres
  • Sugimoto, Takeru
  • Nakagawa, Sayuri
  • Kamoto, Takanori
  • Nishikawa, Masayuki
  • Kawakami, Masataka
  • Yamamoto, Akinori
  • Sawaki, Norihiko

Abstract

In an in-vehicle lens comprising a transparent base member mainly composed of a resin, a hard coat layer and an antireflection layer are provided on at least one surface of the base member, the antireflection layer is provided on a side opposite to the base member with respect to the hard coat layer, a region from a lens effective diameter to an edge portion in the base member is defined as an extra-effective-diameter region, and in the extra-effective-diameter region, the antireflection layer is covered by a functional film that absorbs ultraviolet rays. Also provided are a lens unit having the in-vehicle lens and a camera module having the lens unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 5/20 - Filters
  • C08J 7/04 - Coating
  • C08J 7/046 - Forming abrasion-resistant coatingsForming surface-hardening coatings
  • C08J 7/054 - Forming anti-misting or drip-proofing coatings
  • G02B 1/11 - Anti-reflection coatings
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/18 - Coatings for keeping optical surfaces clean, e.g. hydrophobic or photo-catalytic films
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

2.

TILT DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2026001214
Publication Number 2026/155217
Status In Force
Filing Date 2026-01-16
Publication Date 2026-07-23
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kondo Yuki

Abstract

A tilt device (1) comprises: a movable body (4) provided with a lens (2) and a lens frame (3); a support body (6) provided with a case (5) surrounding the movable body (4); and a gimbal mechanism (7) connecting the movable body (4) and the case (5). The gimbal mechanism (7) is provided with a gimbal frame (70), a pair of first thrust receiving members (71) that are in point contact with the gimbal frame (70) on a first axis (R1), and a pair of second thrust receiving members (72) that are in point contact with the gimbal frame (70) on a second axis (R2). The pair of first thrust receiving members (71) are disposed in the movable body (4), and the pair of second thrust receiving members (72) are disposed in the case (5). Each of the pair of second thrust receiving members (72) is provided with a first reference surface (S1) for positioning the lens frame (3) in an axial direction, and is held in the case (5) in a state in which the first reference surface (S1) is exposed toward one side (L1) in the axial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
  • H04N 23/50 - Constructional details
  • H04N 23/57 - Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices

3.

CARD READER AND CARD PULLING-OUT DETECTION METHOD

      
Application Number 18874093
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-13
First Publication Date 2026-07-16
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Momose, Munemasa

Abstract

A card reader is provided, in which a gate sensor detects that a card has been inserted into an insertion slot, and being conveyed along a conveyance path; a conveyance part has a drive part that conveys the card in an inside of the conveyance path; a conveyance detection sensor detects the card conveyed along the conveyance path; when the conveyance detection sensor is turned from “OFF” to “ON” and then to “OFF” in a state that the gate sensor is “ON”, a control part causes the drive part to rotate in a first direction for only a specific time and then rotate in a second direction for only a specific time, and determines the card being pulled out during insertion if a load when the drive part is rotated in the second direction is smaller than a load when the drive part is rotated in the first direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 13/067 - Checking presence, absence, correct position, or moving status of cards

4.

CARD READER AND CARD LOCKING MECHANISM THEREOF

      
Application Number 19002743
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-27
First Publication Date 2026-07-02
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Uchiyama, Ryo

Abstract

A card reader includes a card insertion port, a card transport path, a card locking mechanism. The card locking mechanism includes a motor, a locking member for contacting a card to prevent the card from being removed from the card insertion port. A power transmission mechanism includes a gear train, the gear train includes a worm gear, a first gear, a second gear, a clutch rotation shaft having a clutch rotation axis. The clutch rotation shaft is configured to rotate at least two gears included in the gear train around the clutch rotation axis. A clutch mechanism is configured to engage and disengage power transmission between the motor and the locking member. The clutch mechanism is configured such that one gear among the two gears rotating around the clutch rotation axis is decouplable from the clutch rotation shaft to disengage power transmission between the motor and the locking member.

IPC Classes  ?

5.

IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING APPARATUS

      
Application Number 19430263
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-12-23
First Publication Date 2026-07-02
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

An imaging optical system includes a front group, a diaphragm, and a rear group. The front group includes a first group and a second group. The second group includes a third lens and a fourth lens that is adjacent to the third lens on an image side and is disposed closest to the image side. The rear group includes a cemented lens disposed closest to the image side, which consists of a sixth lens and a seventh lens. Where ν21 is an Abbe number of the third lens, ν22 is an Abbe number of the fourth lens, Sag71 is a sag amount of a lens surface on the object side of the seventh lens, and sd71 is an effective radius of the lens surface on the object side of the seventh lens, the following conditional expressions are satisfied: ν21<30.000 44.000<ν 22, and 0.200<|Sag71/sd71|<0.750.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 13/00 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below

6.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number 19424122
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-12-18
First Publication Date 2026-06-25
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Matsue, Teruo

Abstract

An information processing device which is used for performing data communication with a communication object in a manual operation. The information processing device includes a data communication unit which performs data communication with the communication object, and an accessory unit which is separately formed from the data communication unit and is attached with the data communication unit and is capable of being separated from the data communication unit. The data communication unit includes an interface substrate which is a circuit board for electrically connecting the information processing device to a host apparatus of the information processing device, and the accessory unit includes an electric device which is electrically connected with the interface substrate.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier

7.

IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING DEVICE

      
Application Number 19399637
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-11-25
First Publication Date 2026-06-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side toward an image side, a front group, a diaphragm, and a rear group. The front group is constituted of, in order from the object side toward the image side, a first lens and a second lens. The rear group is constituted of, in order from the object side toward the image side, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. When it is assumed that a viewing angle in a horizontal direction is HFOV, the entire length between the lenses of the front group is df, and the entire length between the lenses of the rear group is dr, the imaging optical system satisfies the following conditional expressions: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side toward an image side, a front group, a diaphragm, and a rear group. The front group is constituted of, in order from the object side toward the image side, a first lens and a second lens. The rear group is constituted of, in order from the object side toward the image side, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. When it is assumed that a viewing angle in a horizontal direction is HFOV, the entire length between the lenses of the front group is df, and the entire length between the lenses of the rear group is dr, the imaging optical system satisfies the following conditional expressions: 100 < HFOV ( 1 ) df / dr < 0 . 6 ⁢ 0 ⁢ 0 ( 2 )

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 13/00 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
  • G02B 9/62 - Optical objectives characterised both by the number of the components and their arrangements according to their sign, i.e. + or – having six components only

8.

ACTUATOR

      
Application Number 19403578
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-11-28
First Publication Date 2026-06-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Hatano, Shinji

Abstract

Lead-out wires led out from coils of an actuator are housed in a guide groove extending from a coil arrangement hole to a substrate holding portion on a surface on a direction Z1 of a plate portion of a coil holder. A bottom surface of the guide groove includes a first region that is an end portion on the coil arrangement hole side, a second region that is an end portion on the substrate holding portion side, and a third region that connects the first region and the second region. The first region is a convex curved surface that is inclined to a direction toward a direction Z2 as the first region extends toward the coil arrangement hole side. The second region is a convex curved surface that is inclined to a direction toward a direction Z2 as the second region extends toward the substrate holding portion side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 33/18 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets
  • H02K 3/52 - Fastening salient pole windings or connections thereto

9.

ACTUATOR

      
Application Number 19403601
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-11-28
First Publication Date 2026-06-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Hatano, Shinji

Abstract

The yoke of the actuator includes a first connecting plate portion extending in the Z direction in the first through portion of the coil holder, and a second connecting plate portion extending in the Z direction in the second through portion. The power supply substrate is disposed at an end portion of the coil holder on the Y1 side. The lead-out wires led out from the coils extend to the side of the power supply substrate and are soldered to the power supply substrate. The distance in the Y1 direction between the inner surface of the first through portion located on the Y1 side and the first connecting plate portion is larger than the distance in the direction between the inner surface of the second through portion located on the Y2 side and the second connecting plate portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 33/18 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets

10.

TILT DEVICE

      
Application Number 19358437
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-10-15
First Publication Date 2026-04-23
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kasahara, Shogo

Abstract

A tilt device includes a gimbal mechanism that connects a holder to which a mirror being a swing target is fixed, and a support body. A gimbal frame includes a frame middle portion disposed inside the holder, a pair of first extension portions extending from the frame middle portion to both sides in a first axis direction within a plane including a first axis and a second axis, and a pair of second extension portions extending to both sides in a second axis direction within the same plane as that of the first extension portion. The pair of first extension portions are connected to the holder via a pair of first fulcrum portions provided inside the holder. The pair of second extension portions extend to an outside of the holder, and are connected to the support body via a pair of second fulcrum portions provided outside the holder.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16M 11/12 - Means for attachment of apparatusMeans allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand allowing pivoting in more than one direction

11.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING ANGULAR TRANSMISSION ERROR OF SPEED REDUCER, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING MOTOR

      
Application Number JP2025027435
Publication Number 2026/083675
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-08-01
Publication Date 2026-04-23
Owner
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yokokura Yuki
  • Ohishi Kiyoshi
  • Tsuruoka Takumi
  • Bo Xuan Thang
  • Hanaoka Masashi
  • Yamaguchi Shota

Abstract

According to the present invention, in a plant having a motor, a load, and a speed reducer in which an input shaft is driven by the motor and the load is connected to an output shaft, when an angular transmission error of the speed reducer is estimated by a calculation amount, it is assumed that the plant is divided into a load-side plant composed of the speed reducer and the load, and a motor-side plant that is a portion from the motor to the input shaft of the speed reducer, including the motor. On the basis of the acceleration measured in the load and the angular velocity of the rotation of the motor, an observer (speed reducer ATE observer) corresponding to the load-side plant is used to calculate an estimated value of a vibration component of the load-side speed due to an angular transmission error of the speed reducer.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G05B 11/36 - Automatic controllers electric with provision for obtaining particular characteristics, e.g. proportional, integral, differential
  • B25J 9/10 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by positioning means for manipulator elements
  • F16H 1/00 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion

12.

MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE, MOTOR, AND PUMP DEVICE

      
Application Number 19114459
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-08
First Publication Date 2026-04-16
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Tanimura, Satoshi
  • Karasawa, Toshiyuki

Abstract

In a multilayer substrate including a motor drive circuit, a second conductive layer being a common ground pattern is formed over a substrate entire region in a second layer. In a third layer, a third conductive layer being the common ground pattern is formed to surround an outer periphery of a power-related circuit by an entire periphery of the third conductive layer. In the fourth layer, a fourth conductive layer being the common ground pattern is formed to surround the outer periphery of the power-related circuit by an entire periphery of the fourth conductive layer. The third conductive layer includes a noise guard portion extending along the outer periphery of the power-related circuit to a substrate outer edge. The noise guard portion is connected to the second conductive layer and the fourth conductive layer by multiple through holes arranged on the substrate outer edge to surround the power-related circuit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 1/02 - Printed circuits Details
  • H02K 11/00 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection
  • H02K 11/02 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection for suppression of electromagnetic interference
  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
  • H02K 11/40 - Structural association with grounding devices

13.

LENS SET AND LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 19348737
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-10-02
First Publication Date 2026-04-09
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakajima, Tomoaki
  • Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

A lens set includes a lens and a lens that are adjacent to each other while forming an air gap in an optical axis direction. The lens includes a flange portion. The lens includes a second flange portion and a concave portion provided on an object side of the second flange portion and accommodating the lens. An outer circumferential surface of the flange portion includes a first tapered surface that is tilted radially inward toward an image side. An inner circumferential surface of the concave portion includes a second tapered surface that is tilted radially outward toward the object side. When the lens is accommodated in the concave portion, the first tapered surface contacts the second tapered surface, whereby a position of the lens in the optical axis direction with respect to the lens and a position of a center thereof with respect to the optical axis are determined.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 1/04 - Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are madeOptical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics

14.

Card positioning method and card reader

      
Application Number 19111790
Grant Number 12657411
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-09-08
First Publication Date 2026-04-02
Grant Date 2026-06-16
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Momose, Munemasa
  • Kitazawa, Yasuhiro

Abstract

A card reader includes an IC contact block in electrical contact with a communication terminal of an IC card, and a plurality of sensors which are optical sensors provided in a conveyance path. When the IC card is positioned relative to the IC contact block, the card reader executes a first conveyance step for conveying the IC card inserted into an insertion opening to a farthest side of the conveyance path and a second conveyance step for reversing a conveyance direction after the first conveyance step, then further conveying the IC card by a predetermined distance when the first sensor detects an end portion of the IC card on an insertion opening side, and stopping conveying the IC card.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation

15.

TRANSPORT ROBOT

      
Application Number 19340747
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-09-25
First Publication Date 2026-04-02
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Nakae, Takao

Abstract

To provide a transport robot 1 including a first hand including a chuck mechanism to clamp and hold an outer peripheral end portion of a workpiece, and a first movement mechanism to move the first hand to an advancing position where the workpiece contained in the cassette case can be held and to a retreating position farther from a cassette case than the advancing position, in which when a direction connecting the retreating position and the advancing position is defined as an X direction, a direction from the retreating position toward the advancing position is defined as an X1 direction, and a direction from the advancing position toward the retreating position is defined as an X2 direction, a chuck mechanism includes a chuck portion openable and closable vertically, and a movement mechanism to move the chuck portion into the X direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 11/00 - Manipulators not otherwise provided for
  • H01L 21/677 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereofApparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components for conveying, e.g. between different work stations
  • H01L 21/687 - Apparatus specially adapted for handling semiconductor or electric solid state devices during manufacture or treatment thereofApparatus specially adapted for handling wafers during manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or electric solid state devices or components for supporting or gripping using mechanical means, e.g. chucks, clamps or pinches

16.

Card reader

      
Application Number 19344356
Grant Number 12694238
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-09-29
First Publication Date 2026-04-02
Grant Date 2026-07-28
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kamiyama, Ryotaro

Abstract

A card reader which is attached to an attaching face on an inner side of a case of an information apparatus and is capable of accessing information of a card includes a card reader main body part, a cover member which is fixed to a front side of the card reader main body part, and an antenna which is disposed inside the cover member and communicates with the card in a non-contact manner for accessing the information. The cover member is provided with a protruding part which is inserted into an attaching hole part provided in the case and protrudes to a front side from the case, and a flange part which is connected to an end part on a rear side of the protruding part and is fixed to the attaching face. The antenna is disposed in an internal space of the protruding part.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation

17.

TRANSPORT ROBOT

      
Application Number 19344415
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-09-29
First Publication Date 2026-04-02
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Mizutani, Takuya

Abstract

To provide a transport robot including a first hand including a chuck mechanism to clamp and hold an outer peripheral end portion of a workpiece, a first movement mechanism to move the first hand to an advancing position where the workpiece contained in a workpiece container of a cassette case is held and to a retreating position farther from the workpiece container than the advancing position, a second hand including a suction portion to suction a surface of the workpiece, a second movement mechanism to move the second hand to a delivery position vertically overlapped with the retreating position, and a lifting and lowering mechanism to lift and lower the second hand moved to the delivery position.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 15/06 - Gripping heads with vacuum or magnetic holding means
  • B25J 11/00 - Manipulators not otherwise provided for

18.

MOTOR

      
Application Number 19322598
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-09-08
First Publication Date 2026-03-26
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Imai, Kentaro

Abstract

A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a motor case in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated, and a power supply circuit board that is disposed outside the motor case. The circuit board is formed in a flat plate shape that protrudes toward an outer side in a radial direction of the rotor. In the motor, because the circuit board is formed in a flat plate shape that protrudes toward the outer side in the radial direction of the rotor, it is possible to reduce the size of the motor in the axial direction of the rotor, even if the length of the circuit board formed in a flat plate shape becomes long.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H02K 3/28 - Layout of windings or of connections between windings

19.

CARD READER

      
Application Number 19333355
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-09-19
First Publication Date 2026-03-26
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mizawa, Mamoru
  • Uchiyama, Ryo
  • Ohta, Keiji

Abstract

A card reader includes a main body frame formed with a card moving passage where a card inserted from a card insertion slot is moved. The main body frame is formed with a moving passage forming face which is a lower side face of the card moving passage, a receiving part which is recessed from the moving passage forming face toward a lower side and is disposed on the lower side in a vertical direction with respect to the card which is in contact with the moving passage forming face, and a liquid discharge passage for discharging liquid accumulated in the receiving part from the receiving part to an outside of the card reader.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation

20.

IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM

      
Application Number 19312302
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-08-28
First Publication Date 2026-03-05
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kasahara, Takuya

Abstract

An imaging optical system includes: in order from an object side to an image side, a front group; a diaphragm; and a rear group. The front group includes a plurality of lenses including a first lens arranged closest to the object side. The rear group includes a plurality of lenses. The first lens has a negative power. When a total track of an entire lens system is d0, an effective radius of a lens surface of the first lens on the object side is sd11, and a maximum image height is IH, the following conditional expressions: An imaging optical system includes: in order from an object side to an image side, a front group; a diaphragm; and a rear group. The front group includes a plurality of lenses including a first lens arranged closest to the object side. The rear group includes a plurality of lenses. The first lens has a negative power. When a total track of an entire lens system is d0, an effective radius of a lens surface of the first lens on the object side is sd11, and a maximum image height is IH, the following conditional expressions: 3. < d ⁢ 0 / sd ⁢ 11 < 4.5 ( 1 ) 2.5 < d ⁢ 0 / IH < 5. 000 ( 2 ) An imaging optical system includes: in order from an object side to an image side, a front group; a diaphragm; and a rear group. The front group includes a plurality of lenses including a first lens arranged closest to the object side. The rear group includes a plurality of lenses. The first lens has a negative power. When a total track of an entire lens system is d0, an effective radius of a lens surface of the first lens on the object side is sd11, and a maximum image height is IH, the following conditional expressions: 3. < d ⁢ 0 / sd ⁢ 11 < 4.5 ( 1 ) 2.5 < d ⁢ 0 / IH < 5. 000 ( 2 ) are satisfied.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 13/00 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
  • G02B 9/64 - Optical objectives characterised both by the number of the components and their arrangements according to their sign, i.e. + or – having more than six components

21.

STEREO CAMERA

      
Application Number JP2025027436
Publication Number 2026/038485
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-08-01
Publication Date 2026-02-19
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kasahara Shogo

Abstract

This stereo camera 100 comprises: a first camera unit 2 provided with a first optical element 21 and a first imaging element 22 that acquires, as a first image, an image formed by the first optical element 21; a first gyro sensor 3 that detects, as first attitude information, the attitude of the first imaging element 22; a second camera unit 4 provided with a second optical element 41 and a second imaging element 42 that acquires, as a second image, an image formed by the second optical element 41; a second gyro sensor 5 that detects, as second attitude information, the attitude of the second imaging element 42; a first attitude adjustment mechanism 6 that adjusts the attitude of the first camera unit 2; and a control unit 8 that controls the first attitude adjustment mechanism 6 to adjust the attitude of the first camera unit 2 on the basis of the first attitude information and the second attitude information such that the attitude of the first imaging element 22 becomes a predetermined attitude with respect to the attitude of the second imaging element 42.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
  • G03B 35/10 - Stereoscopic photography by simultaneous recording having single camera with stereoscopic-base-defining system

22.

LENS UNIT AND CAMERA UNIT INCLUDING THE SAME

      
Application Number 19099458
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-21
First Publication Date 2026-02-12
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Shirotori, Toshio

Abstract

A lens unit in a camera unit includes a first lens which is a lens, a lens holder in a tube shape which holds the first lens, and an O-ring which is a seal member. The first lens is fixed to the lens holder using a screw structure. The O-ring is sandwiched between the first lens and the lens holder in the optical axis direction,

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03B 17/08 - Waterproof bodies or housings
  • G02B 1/04 - Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are madeOptical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 17/12 - Bodies with means for supporting objectives, supplementary lenses, filters, masks, or turrets

23.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 19348746
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-10-02
First Publication Date 2026-01-29
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakajima, Tomoaki
  • Hoshina, Yasuhiro

Abstract

A lens unit includes a first lens barrel that houses a lens, and a second lens barrel that houses a lens and is held on an inner peripheral side of the first lens barrel. The second lens barrel includes, in an image-side portion of an outer peripheral surface, an outer peripheral surface image-side step portion having an annular surface that faces an image side. The first lens barrel has ribs that are in contact with the annular surface from the image side to position the second lens barrel in an optical axis direction, and object-side protrusions that are in contact with an end portion of the second lens barrel on an object side from outside in a radial direction to position the second lens barrel in the radial direction. An adhesive fixing portion is provided between the ribs and the object-side protrusions in the optical axis direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

24.

MOTOR CONTROL UNIT, MOTOR, AND PUMP DEVICE

      
Application Number 18878865
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-13
First Publication Date 2025-12-25
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Tanimura, Satoshi

Abstract

A motor control unit includes a drive voltage line that supplies a drive voltage to an inverter, a first capacitor electrically connected between a ground and a portion of the drive voltage line between the inverter and an inductor, a second capacitor electrically connected between the ground and a portion of the drive voltage line closer to an input side than the first capacitor, a third capacitor electrically connected between the second capacitor and the ground, a common line electrically connected to a neutral point of a three-phase coil and an intermediate point, and a resistor electrically connected in series to the second capacitor or the third capacitor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 23/04 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by a control method other than vector control specially adapted for damping motor oscillations, e.g. for reducing hunting
  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
  • H02P 25/16 - Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of AC motor or by structural details characterised by the circuit arrangement or by the kind of wiring
  • 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

25.

PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD

      
Application Number 19241374
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-06-18
First Publication Date 2025-12-25
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Hoshi, Tomohiro

Abstract

A printing system including a printing device and a higher-level device to transmit image data to the printing device, wherein the higher-level device includes a correction value calculation portion to calculate a correction value for correcting the image data based on a density of each line of the image data, and a transmitter to add the correction value calculated by the correction value calculation portion to the image data for each line and transmit the image data and the correction value to the printing device, and wherein the printing device includes a storage unit to associate the correction value with the image data received from the higher-level device for each line and to store the image data and the correction value, and a printing unit to perform printing by changing a time for energizing each heating element in a thermal head based on the correction value stored in the storage unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 2/36 - Print density control
  • G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers

26.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 19223031
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-05-30
First Publication Date 2025-12-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kasahara, Takuya

Abstract

A lens unit includes a first lens barrel accommodating a first lens, a second lens barrel accommodating a second lens, a spacer whose linear expansion coefficient is higher than those of the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel, and an elastic member. The first lens barrel has a first stepped part and the second lens barrel has a second stepped part, and they face each other in an optical axis direction. The spacer is disposed between the first stepped part and the second stepped part and the elastic member is disposed in an elastically deformed state on an opposite side to the spacer in the optical axis direction. When temperature becomes higher, the spacer thermally expands in the optical axis direction and pushes the second lens barrel to crush the elastic member and thus, deviation of a focus position due to heat is suppressed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

27.

PUMP DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2025017712
Publication Number 2025/249194
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-05-15
Publication Date 2025-12-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yazawa Takehiko
  • Yamamoto Naoki
  • Isaji Naoya

Abstract

A pump device 1 has a housing 8 that is provided with: a vibration-proof member 30 formed of an elastic body; and an attachment part 10 fixed to a pump attachment surface M by means of a spacer 40 mounted to the vibration-proof member 30. The vibration-proof member 30 is provided with a first end face 33 which faces the pump attachment surface M and a second end face 34 which is oriented toward the opposite side to the first end face 33, has provided therein a through-hole 31 extending from the first end face 33 to the second end face 34, and has provided in the outer circumference thereof an attachment groove 32 extending in the circumferential direction. The spacer 40 is provided with: a cylindrical part 41 that is fitted inside the through-hole 31; and a flange part 42 that overlaps either the first end face 33 or the second end face 34. The attachment part 10 includes a plate-like fitting section 14 that is fitted in the attachment groove 32. On the surface of the fitting section 14, a pedestal part 15 is formed integrally with the fitting section 14 in order to increase the thickness of the fitting section 14.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/66 - Combating cavitation, whirls, noise, vibration, or the likeBalancing
  • F04D 29/62 - MountingAssemblingDisassembling of radial or helico-centrifugal pumps

28.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18875155
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-13
First Publication Date 2025-12-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Nakajima, Tomoaki

Abstract

A lens unit is provided which includes a lens, an optical filter which is a filter in a flat plate shape, and a lens holder which holds the lens and the optical filter. The optical filter is disposed on an end face on one side in an optical axis direction of the lens holder, the end face is provided with an opening part where a lens face of the lens is exposed and a mounting surface which is a flat face part supporting the optical filter, the mounting surface is filled with an adhesive on a lateral side of a side face of the optical filter so that the adhesive adheres to the side face, and a step part forming a gap space between a plate face of the optical filter and the end face is provided between the opening part of the end face and the mounting surface.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 7/00 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements

29.

MOTOR DRIVE CIRCUIT BOARD, MOTOR, AND PUMP DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2025017713
Publication Number 2025/243926
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-05-15
Publication Date 2025-11-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Tanimura Satoshi

Abstract

A motor 2 for a pump device 1 comprises a motor drive circuit board 19 provided with a motor drive circuit 10 including: a power system circuit 170 including a motor driver IC 12 incorporating a switching element for generating a drive voltage to be applied to a three-phase coil 6; and a signal system circuit 160 including a motor control unit 11 for supplying a control signal to the motor driver IC 12. The motor driver IC 12 is mounted on a first board surface S1 of the motor drive circuit board 19. A ground pattern 100 formed on the first board surface S1 includes a noise guard part Gn disposed between a region of the first board surface S1 where the power system circuit 170 is disposed and the outer peripheral edge of the board. The noise guard part Gn extends continuously from one end in the circumferential direction of the region where the power system circuit 170 is disposed to the other end in the circumferential direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 1/02 - Printed circuits Details
  • F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • H02K 11/02 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection for suppression of electromagnetic interference
  • H02M 7/48 - Conversion of DC power input into AC power output without possibility of reversal by static converters using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode

30.

CARD READER

      
Application Number 19211281
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-05-19
First Publication Date 2025-11-20
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takita, Yukihiko

Abstract

A card reader for processing a card having an external connection terminal of an IC chip includes a card insertion slot, a card conveyance path in which the card inserted from the card insertion slot is conveyed, a card conveyance mechanism structured to convey the card along the card conveyance path, and a metal detecting mechanism for detecting the external connection terminal. The card conveyance mechanism includes one or more conveyance roller pairs which contact with the card and convey the card in a sandwiching state and, when the conveyance roller pair disposed on the most front side, i.e., the card insertion slot side, is referred to as a first conveyance roller pair, the metal detecting mechanism is disposed on a rear side with respect to the external connection terminal of the card when a rear end of the card is sandwiched between the first conveyance roller pair.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 13/08 - Feeding or discharging cards
  • G06K 7/00 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers

31.

INPUT DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM

      
Application Number 19211285
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-05-19
First Publication Date 2025-11-20
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Oguchi, Yosuke

Abstract

An input device for acquiring input information related to a medium includes a display part which is capable of displaying images including icons for inputting the input information, an input part which acquires a position of an icon of the display part as the input information when the position of the icon is instructed, and a control part which acquires the input information from the input part and controls the display part. The display part is formed with a protruded part in a portion indicating a boundary position and/or a center position of an icon, and the control part adjusts appearance of a portion corresponding to the protruded part of the image.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/04847 - Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
  • G06F 3/04817 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance using icons

32.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 19087585
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-03-24
First Publication Date 2025-10-02
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kasahara, Takuya

Abstract

A lens unit comprising: a first lens that is a resin-made lens; and a lens holder that holds the first lens, wherein the first lens has a cylindrical rib protruding toward an image side, the rib is formed outside an effective diameter of an image-side surface of the first lens and concentrically with an optical axis, an O-ring is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the rib, the O-ring is placed between the outer peripheral surface of the rib and an inner peripheral surface of the lens holder, and a deformation preventing portion that is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the rib and prevents deformation of the rib is provided in the lens holder.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

33.

Card reader and method of controlling card reader

      
Application Number 19079460
Grant Number 12554947
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-03-14
First Publication Date 2025-09-18
Grant Date 2026-02-17
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Momose, Munemasa

Abstract

In a card reader, in a card moving step performed when activation of an IC chip fails in a first activation attempt step, a card is transported and stopped within a range where IC contact springs in contact with external connection terminals do not come off the external connection terminals, with an IC contact block positioned in a contactable position where the IC contact springs are allowed to contact the external connection terminals of the card. In such a card reader, in a second activation attempt step after the card moving step, the card is stopped within a range where the card is moved in the card moving step, then to attempt to activate the IC chip.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/015 - Aligning or centring of the sensing device with respect to the record carrier

34.

Card insertion part and card reader

      
Application Number 19077061
Grant Number 12530547
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-03-12
First Publication Date 2025-09-18
Grant Date 2026-01-20
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyazawa, Shinya
  • Ohta, Keiji

Abstract

A card insertion part for a card reader includes a flange part, two separated protruding parts and a light-emitting part disposed on the front side with respect to the flange part. The light-emitting part includes light sources and an optical member such as a diffusion member. The optical member is formed with a recessed part in which the light sources are disposed and is formed so as to surround the two protruding parts and a cut-out part between the two protruding parts together. A front surface and an inner peripheral surface of the optical member are shone by lights emitted from the light sources. The front surface of the optical member is disposed on the front side with respect to a rear surface of the cut-out part, and the inner peripheral surface of the optical member is exposed between the two protruding parts.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/00 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers
  • G06K 7/08 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by means detecting the change of an electrostatic or magnetic field, e.g. by detecting change of capacitance between electrodes
  • G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation

35.

Card reader

      
Application Number 19057983
Grant Number 12561543
Status In Force
Filing Date 2025-02-20
First Publication Date 2025-08-21
Grant Date 2026-02-24
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Miyazawa, Shinya

Abstract

A card reader includes a data reading mechanism and a main body frame formed with a card moving passage and holding the data reading mechanism. The main body frame is formed with a moving passage forming surface, an accommodation part recessed from the moving passage forming surface toward a lower side, and a guide part for guiding a foreign matter inserted from a card insertion slot to the accommodation part. The accommodation part is disposed at a position displaced from the data reading mechanism in a width direction of a card and is disposed on a lower side in a vertical direction with respect to the card contacting the moving passage forming surface. The foreign matter is capable of being guided from the front side with respect to the data reading mechanism toward the accommodation part by the guide part.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/00 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers
  • G06K 13/08 - Feeding or discharging cards

36.

ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE AND ROBOT SYSTEM

      
Application Number 19046518
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-02-06
First Publication Date 2025-08-07
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Okumura, Hirokatsu

Abstract

A group of programs and data necessary to control the robot is referred to as an essential data set, the essential data set already stored in a non-volatile memory provided in a robot and the essential data set stored in a non-volatile storage unit of a robot control device are compared at a start-up of the robot control device, and when a mismatch is detected, the essential data set stored in the robot control device is overwritten with the essential data set on the robot side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 13/06 - Control stands, e.g. consoles, switchboards

37.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number 19023317
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-01-16
First Publication Date 2025-07-24
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takeuchi, Junro

Abstract

An information processing device includes a display with a touch panel to which secret information is inputted. The display includes a touch position detection mechanism which detects a touched position of the touch panel, and at least one of a flexible printed board formed with a detection circuit for detecting at least one of its own disconnection and short circuit and a signal circuit for transmitting an output signal of the touch position detection mechanism, and a disassembly detection mechanism for detecting that the display is disassembled. A control part which controls the display executes a predetermined tamper-resistant processing when the control part detects at least one of disconnection and a short circuit of the detection circuit or, the control part executes the tamper-resistant processing when the control part detects that the display is disassembled.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 21/86 - Secure or tamper-resistant housings
  • G06F 3/044 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means by capacitive means

38.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number 19026383
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-01-17
First Publication Date 2025-07-24
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyazawa, Shinya
  • Takeuchi, Junro

Abstract

An information processing device to perform non-contact and manual information communication with a communication target includes a front surface portion that constitutes a front surface of the information processing device and over which the communication target is held, and a flexible printed circuit on which a communication antenna is mounted and disposed on a back surface side of the front surface portion. The flexible printed circuit is formed in a rectangular frame shape, which is constituted by a pair of straight long side portions and a pair of straight short side portions shorter than the long side portions. The thickness direction of the short side portions coincides with the front-rear direction, and the long side portions are bent toward the back side with respect to the short side portions, and the short side portions are disposed further to the front side than the long side portions.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04B 5/40 - Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems characterised by components specially adapted for near-field transmission
  • H05K 1/02 - Printed circuits Details
  • H05K 1/18 - Printed circuits structurally associated with non-printed electric components
  • H05K 7/14 - Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack

39.

OPTICAL UNIT

      
Application Number 19015503
Status Pending
Filing Date 2025-01-09
First Publication Date 2025-07-24
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kondo, Yuki

Abstract

An optical unit comprising: a fixed body; a movable body provided with a lens unit; and a gimbal mechanism which supports the movable body relative to the fixed body such that the movable body is rotatable about a direction intersecting an optical axis direction as an axis of rotation, in which: the gimbal mechanism includes a fixed-body-side leg portion connected to the fixed body, and a movable-body-side leg portion connected to the movable body; and in at least one of the fixed body and the fixed-body-side leg portion as a pair and the movable body and the movable-body-side leg portion as a pair, corresponding members of the pair are directly connected to each other without any other member interposed therebetween.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

40.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18851696
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-15
First Publication Date 2025-06-26
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Nakajima, Tomoaki

Abstract

A lens unit includes a first barrel member holding a first lens, and a second barrel member holding a lens group. The first barrel member includes a first cylindrical portion including a holding portion holding the first lens from an outer peripheral side and an annular protrusion protruding from the first cylindrical portion to an inner peripheral side. The annular protrusion includes a first lens support portion supporting the first lens from an image side. The second barrel member includes a second cylindrical portion surrounding the lens group from the outer peripheral side and a flange portion protruding from the second cylindrical portion to the outer peripheral side. The second barrel member is positioned in a radial direction by the second cylindrical portion inserted into the inner peripheral side of the annular projection and is positioned in an optical axis direction by the flange portion abutting the annular projection.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 27/00 - Optical systems or apparatus not provided for by any of the groups ,
  • G03B 17/12 - Bodies with means for supporting objectives, supplementary lenses, filters, masks, or turrets
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

41.

Information processing device

      
Application Number 18842027
Grant Number 12596851
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-14
First Publication Date 2025-05-29
Grant Date 2026-04-07
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyazawa, Shinya
  • Takeuchi, Junro
  • Fujimoto, Masaya
  • Oguchi, Yosuke

Abstract

An information processing device includes a control board, a housing in which the control board is accommodated, a display which is fixed to the housing on an outer side of the housing, a flexible printed board which is disposed inside the housing and covers a face on a first direction side of the control board, and a detection mechanism for detecting that the display has been detached from the housing. The flexible printed board formed with a tamper detection pattern is formed in a box shape whose second direction side is opened and is disposed on the second direction side with respect to the display. The detection mechanism includes a contact type detection switch and a rod-shaped member which presses the detection switch, and the rod-shaped member is pressed against the detection switch by the display which is fixed to the housing.

IPC Classes  ?

42.

ACTUATOR AND OPTICAL UNIT

      
Application Number 18777547
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-19
First Publication Date 2025-05-08
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kasahara, Shogo

Abstract

An actuator includes a movable body connected with a lens unit and a sensor unit, a fixed body holding the movable body in a turnable state with an intersecting direction intersecting an optical axis direction as a turning axis, and a gimbal mechanism. The gimbal mechanism includes a turnable member having a base plate in a frame shape into which the movable body is inserted and a plurality of leg parts extended from the base plate along the optical axis direction, and support parts engaged with the leg parts and supporting the leg parts in a turnable state. The leg parts have a first leg part which is protruded from the base plate to an inner side and then extended along the optical axis direction, and a second leg part which is protruded from the base plate to an outer side and then extended along the optical axis direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • H01F 7/08 - ElectromagnetsActuators including electromagnets with armatures

43.

Pump device

      
Application Number 18925021
Grant Number 12577956
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-10-24
First Publication Date 2025-05-08
Grant Date 2026-03-17
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Isaji, Naoya

Abstract

A pump device includes a motor having a rotor and a stator, and an impeller which is disposed in a pump chamber and is integrally rotated with the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor member having a first cylindrical part and a drive magnet surrounding the first cylindrical part. A radial bearing is held on an inner side of the first cylindrical part. The drive magnet has a second cylindrical part surrounding an outer periphery of the first cylindrical part and a ring-shaped rib which protrudes from an end of the second cylindrical part to an inner side. The rotor member has a seat part, which protrudes from the first cylindrical part to an outer side and supports an end of the second cylindrical part, and a caulked part which is enlarged from the first cylindrical part to an outer side and is overlapped with the ring-shaped rib.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 29/046 - Bearings
  • F04D 1/00 - Radial-flow pumps, e.g. centrifugal pumpsHelico-centrifugal pumps
  • F04D 13/02 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means
  • F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 25/02 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means
  • F04D 25/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • F04D 29/26 - Rotors specially adapted for elastic fluids
  • F04D 29/42 - CasingsConnections for working fluid for radial or helico-centrifugal pumps

44.

LENS UNIT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LENS UNIT

      
Application Number JP2024037764
Publication Number 2025/094790
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-10-23
Publication Date 2025-05-08
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Kawakami Masataka
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Sawaki Norihiko

Abstract

Provided is a lens unit comprising a plurality of lenses and a cylindrical accommodating member that accommodates the plurality of lenses therein, the accommodating member having a crimping part, and an outermost lens positioned on an opening side of the accommodating member from among the plurality of lenses being fixed by the crimping part, wherein the outermost lens has a crimped part that comes into contact with the crimping part, the outermost lens is provided with an antireflection film on at least the object-side surface of the outermost lens, and the expression Xc > Xar is satisfied, where Xar is the position of the outer periphery of the antireflection film in the radial direction with the optical axis of the outermost lens as the origin point, and Xc is the position of the crimped part of the outermost lens.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/113 - Anti-reflection coatings using inorganic layer materials only
  • G02B 3/00 - Simple or compound lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

45.

HAND OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOT AND INDUSTRIAL ROBOT

      
Application Number 18908819
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-08
First Publication Date 2025-04-24
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kaino, Shigeyuki
  • Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
  • Horiuchi, Ryota

Abstract

A hand of an industrial robot that conveys a conveyance object includes: a mounting section constituting a portion of the hand on a second direction side and having the conveyance object disposed on an upper side; a hand base constituting a portion of the hand on a third direction side and having an end of the mounting section on the third direction side attached thereto; a first support member fixed to an upper surface of the mounting section and supporting a portion of the conveyance object on the second direction side from below; a second support member supporting a portion of the conveyance object on the third direction side from below; and a first moving mechanism moving the second support member in the first direction. The first supporting member is formed with first and second support surfaces, and the second support member is formed with third and fourth support surfaces.

IPC Classes  ?

46.

CARD ISSUING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18905149
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-03
First Publication Date 2025-04-10
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yokoyama, Satoshi

Abstract

A card issuing device includes: a thermal head that prints onto a card by heating; a circular platen roller that is disposed opposite to the thermal head and conveys the card by rotating while holding the card between the thermal head and the platen roller; and an ink ribbon conveyed while being superposed on the card between the thermal head and the platen roller. In the platen roller, the outer diameter of the two end portions is larger than the outer diameter at the central portion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 11/057 - Structure of the surface
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
  • B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
  • B41J 35/04 - Ink-ribbon guides

47.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number JP2024033089
Publication Number 2025/070164
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-17
Publication Date 2025-04-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Nakajima Tomoaki

Abstract

Provided is a lens unit capable of regulating movement of a second lens barrel in the optical axis direction without applying a load on a lens housed in a first lens barrel. A lens unit (1) has: a lens L1; a lens L2 that is disposed on the image side X2 of the lens L1; a first lens barrel (3) that houses the lens L1; and a second lens barrel (4) that houses the lens L2 and is held on the inner circumferential side of the first lens barrel (3). The first lens barrel (3) is provided with a protruding part (102) protruding from an image-side portion to the inner circumferential side. The second lens barrel (4) is provided with: an image-side step part (224) that abuts the protruding part (102) from the object side X1; and a lens barrel fixation part (245) that is in contact with the protruding part (102) from the image side X2 and that sandwiches the protruding part (102) between itself and the image-side step part (224).

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

48.

OPTICAL MEMBER AND LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18857815
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-04-26
First Publication Date 2025-04-03
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto, Takeru
  • Kamoto, Takanori
  • Nakagawa, Sayuri
  • Damasco Ty, Jennifer Torres
  • Kawakami, Masataka
  • Mizushima, Yui
  • Yamamoto, Akinori

Abstract

An optical member includes a light-transmissive member, a hard coat layer covering the light-transmissive member, and an antireflection layer covering the hard coat layer. The antireflection layer is configured such that the high refractive index films and the low refractive index films are alternately stacked. The high refractive index film contains Si3N4. The low refractive index film contains SiO2. The total number of films of the high refractive index films and the low refractive index films is an even number. For each of the high refractive index film and the low refractive index film in the antireflection layer, of two adjacent films, a ratio of thickness of a thick film to thickness of a thin film is six times or less. An average reflectance of the antireflection layer in a wavelength range of 300 to 400 nm is 40% or more.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 1/115 - Multilayers
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

49.

LENS UNIT AND CAMERA MODULE

      
Application Number JP2024031544
Publication Number 2025/069952
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-03
Publication Date 2025-04-03
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Kawakami Masataka
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Hoshina Yasuhiro

Abstract

This lens unit includes a first lens disposed on a subject side, and a second lens disposed on an imaging surface side. The first lens and the second lens are disposed in a direction of an optical axis. The first lens and the second lens are in contact with each other at least at three or more locations and are in contact with each other outside optically effective regions of the lenses. In the lens unit, a cross section of a portion where at least one of the first lens and the second lens contacts the other of the first lens and the second lens, the cross section being taken along a plane including the optical axis and the portion, has a convex shape toward the other lens.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

50.

ROTATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023045342
Publication Number 2025/062664
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Aruga Hisayoshi

Abstract

In a rotation device 2, when the axial direction of a lead screw is defined as a Y direction, a direction orthogonal to the Y direction is defined as a Z direction, the direction orthogonal to the Y direction and the Z direction is defined as an X direction, one side in the Y direction is defined as a Y1 direction side and the opposite side is defined as a Y2 direction side, and one side in the X direction is defined as an X2 direction side and the opposite side is defined as an X1 direction side, the axial direction of an output shaft 20 is parallel to the Z direction, and the output shaft 20 is disposed on the X2 direction side relative to a slider rotatably coupled to one end part of a link member, the output shaft being formed on or fixed to the other end part of the link member. A case body 21 is provided with a link member accommodation part 21e that accommodates the link member. When viewed in the Z direction, a side surface on the Y1 direction side of the link member accommodation part 21e is inclined toward the Y1 direction side as going toward the X1 direction side, and a side surface on the Y2 direction side of the link member accommodation part 21e is inclined toward the Y2 direction side as going toward the X1 direction side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts

51.

ROTATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023045343
Publication Number 2025/062665
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Aruga Hisayoshi

Abstract

[Solution] In this rotation device, when the axial direction of a lead screw 14b is defined as a Y direction, the direction orthogonal to the Y direction is defined as a Z direction, the direction orthogonal to the Y direction and the Z direction is defined as an X direction, one side in the Y direction is defined as a Y1 direction side, one side in the X direction is defined as an X2 direction side, and the opposite side thereof is defined as an X1 direction side, the axial direction of an output shaft 20 is parallel to the Z direction, and the output shaft 20 is disposed further to the X2 direction side than a slider 18. A motor 13 is provided with a stator 16 disposed on the Y1 direction side of the lead screw 14b, and a flat plate-shaped circuit board 27 for drive-controlling the motor 13. The circuit board 27 is disposed on the X2 direction side of the stator 16 or on the X1 direction side of the stator 16.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts

52.

TURNING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023045344
Publication Number 2025/062666
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Aruga Hisayoshi

Abstract

In this turning device, an output shaft 20 has formed thereon a positioning part 20e that is for positioning, at a single location in the circumferential direction of the output shaft 20, an engagement part of an object to be turned that engages the output shaft 20. A case body has formed thereon or fixed thereto a first regulation part 30p for regulating the range of movement of a slider 18 toward a Y1 side and a second regulation part 30r for regulating the range of movement of the slider 18 toward a Y2 side, and the slider 18 is configured to be contactable with the first regulation part 30p and the second regulation part 30r. In this turning device, when the slider 18 is in contact with the first regulation part 30p, the output shaft 20 is positioned at a prescribed reference position in the circumferential direction of the output shaft 20.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts
  • H02K 7/06 - Means for converting reciprocating motion into rotary motion or vice versa

53.

ROTATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023045340
Publication Number 2025/062662
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito Akihiro
  • Agematsu Ikuo
  • Aruga Hisayoshi

Abstract

[Solution] In this rotation device, a link member 19 includes a first link member 36 on which an output shaft 20 is formed or fixed, and a second link member 37 rotatably connected to a slider 18 and capable of moving in the longitudinal direction of the link member 19 with respect to the first link member 36. Designating a portion that interconnects the second link member 37 and the slider 18 as a slider connection part 38, a first contact part 36j is formed in the first link member 36, the first contact part 36j extending to a side of the slider connection part 38 in the Y direction, which is the axial direction of a lead screw 14b, when the slider connection part 38 is arranged at the same position as the output shaft 20 in the Y direction and the link member 19 is maximally contracted. A second contact part 37c contacting the first contact part 36j from the Z1 direction side is formed in the second link member 37.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts

54.

ROTATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023045341
Publication Number 2025/062663
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Aruga Hisayoshi

Abstract

[Solution] In this rotation device, a motor 13 includes a metal motor frame 24 having a flat-plate-form stator-fixed part 24b fixed to the stator 16, a flat-plate-form screw-holding part 24c rotatably holding one end part of a lead screw 14b, and a flat-plate-form connection part 24d connecting the stator-fixed part 24b and the screw-holding part 24c. The thickness direction of the connection part 24d coincides with the Z direction which is parallel to the axial direction of an output shaft 20. The motor frame 24, which is housed in a case body, includes a flat-plate-form reinforcement part 24e rising from the connection part 24d toward one side in the Z direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts

55.

ROTATION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023045345
Publication Number 2025/062667
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito Akihiro
  • Aruga Hisayoshi
  • Agematsu Ikuo

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a rotation device that is for rotating a prescribed rotation target and that can be made thinner in the axial direction of an output shaft with which an engagement part of the rotation target is engaged. [Solution] This rotation device comprises: a slider 8 that is engaged with a lead screw 4a; a link member 9 that is connected to the slider 8 at one end part thereof such that the link member 9 can be rotated; and an output shaft 10 that is formed at the other end part of the link member 9, wherein the axial direction of the output shaft 10 is parallel to a Z direction that is orthogonal to the axial direction of the lead screw 4a. The one end part of the link member 9 is connected to the slider 8 on the X2 direction side of the lead screw 4a. The output shaft 10 is disposed to the X2 direction side of the one end part of the link member 9. The link member 9 is disposed to the X2 direction side of the lead screw 4a.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts
  • H02K 7/06 - Means for converting reciprocating motion into rotary motion or vice versa

56.

PIVOTING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2024033846
Publication Number 2025/063310
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-24
Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Aruga Hisayoshi

Abstract

In this pivoting device, one end of a link member 19 is connected to a slider 18 on an X2 direction side of a lead screw 14b, an output shaft 20 formed at the other end of the link member 19 is disposed on an X2 direction side of the one end of the link member 19, and the link member 19 is disposed on the X2 direction side of the lead screw 14b. A base portion 18q of a connecting portion 18d of the slider 18 is disposed on a Z2 direction side of one end of a second link member 37. A first link member 36 is formed with a first contacting surface 36k that faces a Z1 direction side and that comes into contact with the second link member 37 from the Z2 direction side, and the second link member 37 is formed with a second contacting surface that faces the Z2 direction side and that comes into contact with the first contacting surface 36k from the Z1 direction side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 21/10 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane
  • F16H 25/20 - Screw mechanisms
  • F16H 25/24 - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts

57.

ON-VEHICLE LENS, LENS UNIT, CAMERA MODULE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LENS

      
Application Number JP2024031545
Publication Number 2025/057808
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-03
Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Kawakami Masataka
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Sawaki Norihiko

Abstract

Provided are: an on-vehicle lens having a resin as a main component and a transparent base member, wherein a hard coat layer and an antireflection layer are provided on at least one surface of the base member, the antireflection layer is provided on the side opposite to the base member with respect to the hard coat layer, the region from a lens effective diameter to an edge part in the base member is defined as an effective diameter outer region, and the antireflection layer is covered with a functional film for absorbing ultraviolet rays in the effective diameter outer region; a lens unit having the on-vehicle lens; and a camera module having the lens unit.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 5/22 - Absorbing filters
  • G02B 1/04 - Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are madeOptical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
  • G02B 1/11 - Anti-reflection coatings
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/18 - Coatings for keeping optical surfaces clean, e.g. hydrophobic or photo-catalytic films
  • G02B 3/00 - Simple or compound lenses
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographsApparatus therefor

58.

OPTICAL UNIT

      
Application Number 18826132
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-05
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Minamisawa, Shinji

Abstract

An optical unit includes a movable body having an optical module, a fixed body which holds the movable body, and a drive mechanism for turning the movable body with respect to the fixed body so that an optical axis of the optical module is inclined. The drive mechanism includes a drive magnet attached to the movable body and a drive coil attached to the fixed body. The drive magnet and the drive coil face each other in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the optical module when the optical module is located at a predetermined reference position. The drive magnet is magnetized in the optical axis direction, and a magnetic pole of one face of the drive magnet in the optical axis direction and a magnetic pole of the other face of the drive magnet in the optical axis direction are different from each other.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G03B 5/00 - Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing of general interest for cameras, projectors or printers
  • H04M 1/02 - Constructional features of telephone sets

59.

LENS UNIT, CAMERA MODULE AND LENS UNIT MANUFACTURING METHOD

      
Application Number JP2024029899
Publication Number 2025/047589
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-08-22
Publication Date 2025-03-06
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Ikura Ryuhei

Abstract

The present invention improves, more than the prior art, the performance of a lens unit. A lens unit includes a first lens and a second lens. A section of the first lens and a section of the second lens contact each other with an antireflection film therebetween. When the space between surfaces of the first lens and the second lens is d, and the film thickness of the antireflection film between the section of the first lens and the section of the second lens is t, d < 100 μm and t < 1500 nm.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 1/11 - Anti-reflection coatings
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

60.

BOARD UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023028605
Publication Number 2025/032647
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-08-04
Publication Date 2025-02-13
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Ito, Ryosuke
  • Tokunaga, Takato

Abstract

This board unit (30) comprises: a first board (31) and a second board (32); a terminal block (50) fixed to the first board (31); and a busbar (60) electrically connecting the second board (32) and the first board (31) through the terminal block (50). The busbar (60) comprises: a first fixed section (61) fixed to a conductive terminal section (51) provided in the terminal block (50); and a second fixed section (62) fixed to the second board (32). This arrangement allows two boards to be connected by a wiring member (busbar) having a large current capacity, and thus even a high-voltage and high-current circuit can be divided and mounted on a plurality of boards. 

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 1/14 - Structural association of two or more printed circuits

61.

ACTUATOR AND OPTICAL UNIT

      
Application Number 18777549
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-19
First Publication Date 2025-01-23
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kasahara, Shogo
  • Sue, Takeshi

Abstract

An actuator capable of connecting a lens unit having a lens installation portion in which a lens is installed and a first connection portion with a diameter smaller than the lens installation portion, and a sensor unit having a large diameter portion with a diameter larger than the first connection portion and a second connection portion with a diameter smaller than the large diameter portion, includes a movable body having a first insertion port into which the first connection portion can be inserted from a first direction in an optical axis direction and a second insertion port into which the second connection portion can be inserted from a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a fixed body holding the movable body to be rotatable with at least one of intersecting directions intersecting the optical axis direction as a rotation axis.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

62.

ACTUATOR AND OPTICAL UNIT

      
Application Number 18777545
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-19
First Publication Date 2025-01-23
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kasahara, Shogo
  • Sue, Takeshi

Abstract

An actuator capable of connecting with a lens unit and a sensor unit including a movable body, a fixed body holding the movable body in a turnable state, a gimbal mechanism having a turnable member and support parts which support the turnable member in a turnable state, and a drive mechanism having magnets, coils and a flexible board connecting the coils for turning the movable body with respect to the fixed body. The turnable member has a base plate in a frame shape into which the movable body is inserted, and a plurality of leg parts extended from the base plate along the optical axis direction, and the support parts are engaged with the leg parts and support the leg parts in a turnable state. The support part of the gimbal mechanism is provided at two positions in the fixed body and at two positions in the movable body.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/00 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

63.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18708588
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-11-11
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Kanzaki, Yosuke

Abstract

A lens unit includes a first lens disposed on an object side and a second lens disposed on an image side. A second flange surface of a second lens is provided with a convex portion. A first flange surface of the first lens is provided with facing portion inclined along an inclined portion. When Ra is an effective radius of the cemented lens, Ga is a first interval between a lens surface of the first lens and a lens surface of the second lens at the effective radius, Gb is a second interval that is three times the first interval, and Rb is an outer peripheral side radius where the second interval exists between the facing portion and the convex portion, the following conditional expression is satisfied. 1.100

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

64.

ELECTRIC DEVICE AND PUMP DEVICE

      
Application Number 18709016
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-11-11
First Publication Date 2025-01-02
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yazawa, Takehiko
  • Yamamoto, Takashi

Abstract

In a motor of the pump device, a substrate includes a first terminal-soldered part to which a winding-wire terminal is connected and a second terminal-soldered part to which a connector terminal is connected. The substrate is fixed to the housing at two positions with a first fixing part and a second fixing part. When the distance between a first electric element, which is a maximum mass element having the largest mass on the substrate, and the second fixing part, which is a proximal fixing part closest to the first electric element among the two fixing parts, is taken as a first distance, and the distance between the proximal fixing part and a proximal soldering part closest to the proximal fixing part among multiple first terminal-soldered parts and multiple second terminal-soldered parts is taken as a second distance, the first distance is smaller than the second distance.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/00 - Structural association of dynamo-electric machines with electric components or with devices for shielding, monitoring or protection
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans
  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics

65.

Pump apparatus

      
Application Number 18751333
Grant Number 12345265
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-06-23
First Publication Date 2025-01-02
Grant Date 2025-07-01
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yazawa, Takehiko

Abstract

In this pump apparatus, each of plural gate marks formed in a second blade member is formed at an intermediate position in a circumferential direction of a rotor between two blades that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and the even number of blades are disposed between the gate marks in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The plural gate marks are disposed on an outer side, in the radial direction of the rotor, of an outer circumferential surface of a portion, which is connected to the second blade member, in a magnet holding member formed in a tubular shape.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • B29C 45/00 - Injection moulding, i.e. forcing the required volume of moulding material through a nozzle into a closed mouldApparatus therefor
  • B29C 45/26 - Moulds
  • F04D 29/18 - Rotors
  • F04D 29/22 - Rotors specially for centrifugal pumps
  • F04D 29/28 - Rotors specially adapted for elastic fluids for centrifugal or helico-centrifugal pumps
  • F04D 29/44 - Fluid-guiding means, e.g. diffusers
  • F04D 29/54 - Fluid-guiding means, e.g. diffusers
  • H02K 7/14 - Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans

66.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18747449
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-06-19
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Fujimori, Yuji
  • Ohta, Keiji

Abstract

An information processing device for performing communication with a medium in a non-contact manner includes a case having a first face part to which a medium is brought close, an antenna board which faces the first face part and includes an antenna for communicating with the medium, and a metal screw which is fastened to a screw hole formed in the case to fix the antenna board to the case. In an arrangement direction in which the first face part and the antenna board are arranged, when a side where the first face part is located is a first side, and a side where the antenna board is located is a second side, the screw is located on the second side with respect to the antenna board and, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction, the screw is not overlapped with the antenna board.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 5/00 - Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus
  • H01Q 1/20 - Resilient mountings

67.

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DAMPER MEMBER

      
Application Number 18675165
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-05-28
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Suyama, Hiroto

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a damper member for connecting a movable body with a support body, the damper member including a viscoelastic body, a first sheet joined to one face of the viscoelastic body, and a second sheet joined to the other face of the viscoelastic body, includes assembling a spacer in a frame shape between the first sheet and the second sheet so as to surround around a space between the first sheet and the second sheet except a filling port, filling molding material for molding the viscoelastic body to the space through the filling port, and hardening the molding material and, while filling is performed, a voltage is applied between a first electrode contacted with one ends of the first sheet and the second sheet, and a second electrode contacted with the other ends of the first sheet and the second sheet and insulated from the first electrode.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B29C 39/10 - Shaping by casting, i.e. introducing the moulding material into a mould or between confining surfaces without significant moulding pressureApparatus therefor for making articles of definite length, i.e. discrete articles incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. casting around inserts or for coating articles
  • B29C 39/00 - Shaping by casting, i.e. introducing the moulding material into a mould or between confining surfaces without significant moulding pressureApparatus therefor
  • B29C 39/22 - Component parts, details or accessoriesAuxiliary operations
  • B29C 39/24 - Feeding the material into the mould
  • B29C 39/36 - Removing moulded articles
  • B29K 83/00 - Use of polymers having silicon, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen or carbon only, in the main chain, as moulding material
  • B29L 31/00 - Other particular articles

68.

IMAGING LENS AND IMAGING DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2024019954
Publication Number 2024/248111
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-05-30
Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Komiyama Tadashi

Abstract

In the present invention, various types of aberration are favorably corrected, and miniaturization is achieved. An imaging lens 100 comprises, in order from the object side La to the image side Lb, a front group 110, an aperture 9, and a rear group 120. The front group lens 110 includes a plurality of lenses, and said plurality of lenses consist of, in order from the side closest to the object side La to the image side Lb, a first lens 10, a second lens 20, a third lens 30, and a fourth lens 40. The rear group 120 comprises a plurality of lenses, and said plurality of lenses consist of, in order from the side closest to the object side La to the image side Lb, a fifth lens 50, a sixth lens 60, and a seventh lens 70. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 13/04 - Reversed telephoto objectives
  • G02B 13/18 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below with lenses having one or more non-spherical faces, e.g. for reducing geometrical aberration

69.

CEMENTED LENS, IMAGING LENS, AND IMAGING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18675102
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-05-27
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

In a cemented lens, an object-side lens includes a concave first lens surface, a first flange surface, and a first boundary portion between the first lens surface and the first flange surface. An image-side lens includes a convex second lens surface, a second flange surface, and a second boundary portion between the second lens surface and the second flange surface. A cross section including an optical axis of the first boundary portion includes a plurality of circular arc shapes. If the cross section has a circular arc shape with a single radius and a position of an apex of the circular arc shape is a virtual position, a distance between an actual apex position of the cross section and the first flange surface in a direction of the optical axis is shorter than that between the virtual position and the first flange surface in the direction of the optical axis.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 13/00 - Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

70.

Information processing device

      
Application Number 18663075
Grant Number 12367355
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-05-14
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Grant Date 2025-07-22
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyazawa, Shinya
  • Takeuchi, Junro

Abstract

An information processing device includes a control board, a connector board having a connector to which an IC card is attached, and a protection board formed with a breakage detection circuit. The connector board is formed with a second breakage detection circuit for detecting its own disconnection and short circuit. The connector is mounted on a face on one side of the connector board, the protection board is disposed on the one side with respect to the connector board, and the protection board has an opening part for attaching and detaching the IC card. The second breakage detection circuit is formed in at least one of a face on the opposite side of the connector board and an internal layer of the connector board, and the second breakage detection circuit is formed in at least an area of the connector board which is overlapped with the opening part.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/00 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers

71.

Card reader

      
Application Number 18663076
Grant Number 12596893
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-05-14
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Grant Date 2026-04-07
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Miyazawa, Shinya

Abstract

A card reader includes an IC contact block having IC contact springs, a main body frame and a torsion coil spring which urges the IC contact block. The IC contact block has a card abutting part abutting with a card and a block side spring engaging part with which one end of the torsion coil spring is engaged and is movable between a contact position where the IC contact springs are contacted with the card and a retreated position where the IC contact springs are retreated from the card. The main body frame has a frame side spring engaging part with which the other end of the torsion coil spring is engaged. The torsion coil spring urges the IC contact block toward the retreated position and, when the IC contact block is pushed by the card, the IC contact block is moved from the retreated position against the torsion coil spring.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/00 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers

72.

REFLECTION ADJUSTMENT FILM, OPTICAL MEMBER, AND LENS UNIT

      
Application Number JP2024015033
Publication Number 2024/225101
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-04-15
Publication Date 2024-10-31
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Kawakami Masataka
  • Sawaki Norihiko

Abstract

A reflection adjustment film 30 is used for an optical member 100 provided with a hydrophilic layer 20 containing a plurality of photocatalytic particles. The reflection adjustment film 30 is disposed under the hydrophilic layer 20. The thickness of the reflection adjustment film 30 is 5 times or more the thickness of the hydrophilic layer 20. The thickness of the reflection adjustment film 30 is preferably 20-2000 nm. The reflection adjustment film 30 is preferably provided with a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer. The photocatalytic particles are preferably titanium oxide particles.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 1/115 - Multilayers
  • G02B 1/18 - Coatings for keeping optical surfaces clean, e.g. hydrophobic or photo-catalytic films
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographsApparatus therefor
  • G03B 17/08 - Waterproof bodies or housings

73.

HYDROPHILIC FILM AND OPTICAL MEMBER

      
Application Number JP2024015437
Publication Number 2024/225162
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-04-18
Publication Date 2024-10-31
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Kawakami Masataka
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Sawaki Norihiko

Abstract

A hydrophilic film 70 contains a plurality of titanium particles and a plurality of silica particles. The hydrophilic film 70 has a surface roughness of 2.0-7.5 nm. It is preferable that a first layer 20 and a second layer 60 disposed on the first layer 20 are provided, and that the first layer 20 contains a plurality of titanium particles, and the second layer 60 contains a plurality of silica particles. The average particle diameter of the titanium particles is preferably 15-100 nm, and the average particle diameter of the silica particles is preferably 5-20 nm.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 1/18 - Coatings for keeping optical surfaces clean, e.g. hydrophobic or photo-catalytic films
  • G02B 1/10 - Optical coatings produced by application to, or surface treatment of, optical elements
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/115 - Multilayers

74.

LENS SET AND LENS UNIT

      
Application Number JP2024009740
Publication Number 2024/209896
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-03-13
Publication Date 2024-10-10
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakajima Tomoaki
  • Komiyama Tadashi

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lens set in which a first lens is satisfactorily positioned with respect to a second lens when the first lens is assembled with the second lens. The lens set 8 comprises a lens 5 and a lens 6 adjacent to each other and between which an air interval is formed in the direction of the optical axis L. The lens 5 comprises an annular flange part 53. The lens 6 comprises an annular second flange part, and a recess 64 that is provided on the object side La of the second flange part and accommodates the lens 5. An outer peripheral surface 54 of the flange part 53 comprises a first tapered surface 541 inclined radially inward toward the image side Lb. An inner peripheral surface 65 of the recess 64 comprises a second tapered surface 651 inclined radially outward toward the object side La. When the lens 5 is accommodated in the recess 64, the first tapered surface 541 is brought into contact with the second tapered surface 651, and the position of the lens 5 in the direction of the optical axis L with respect to the lens 6 and the position of the center thereof with respect to the optical axis L are thereby determined.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

75.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number JP2024009741
Publication Number 2024/209897
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-03-13
Publication Date 2024-10-10
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakajima Tomoaki
  • Hoshina Yasuhiro

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lens unit in which the occurrence of tilt between a first lens barrel and a second lens barrel held by the first lens barrel can be prevented or suppressed. A lens unit 1 comprises: a first lens barrel 3 that accommodates a lens L1; and a second lens barrel 4 that accommodates a lens L2 and is held on the inner peripheral side of the first lens barrel 3. The second lens barrel 4 is provided with an outer peripheral surface image-side step part 224 having an annular surface 225 facing an image side X2 in an image-side portion of an outer peripheral surface. The first lens barrel 3 has a rib 114 abutting on the annular surface 225 from the image side X2 and locating the second lens barrel 4 in an optical axis direction X, and an object-side projection 110 abutting on an end portion on an object side X1 of the second lens barrel 4 from the outside in the radial direction and locating the second lens barrel 4 in the radial direction. An adhesive fixing part connecting the first lens barrel 3 and the second lens barrel 4 via an adhesive layer is provided between the rib 114 and the object-side projection 110 in the optical axis direction X.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G03B 15/00 - Special procedures for taking photographsApparatus therefor
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles
  • H04N 23/57 - Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices

76.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18623046
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakajima, Tomoaki
  • Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

A lens unit includes a second lens barrel (lens barrel) made of a resin and a lens held on an inner peripheral side of the second lens barrel. On an inner peripheral surface of the second lens barrel, an inner peripheral-surface portion located on an outer side in a radial direction of the lens is a tapered surface inclined to an outer peripheral side toward an object side, and a first inner peripheral-surface portion includes fitting protrusions which are pressure-joined to the lens at a plurality of spots separated in a circumferential direction. The plurality of fitting protrusions position the lens in the radial direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 27/62 - Optical apparatus specially adapted for adjusting optical elements during the assembly of optical systems

77.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18623052
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kasahara, Takuya
  • Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

A lens unit includes a lens, a lens, a second O-ring disposed between the lens and the lens in an optical axis direction, and a second lens barrel that accommodates them. The second lens barrel includes an annular caulking portion which is brought into contact with an outer peripheral-edge portion of the lens from the object side and includes an object-side stepped portion on an inner peripheral surface. The lens is located between the caulking portion and the seating surface of the object-side stepped portion. The second O-ring is compressed in the optical axis direction at a position adjacent to an annular wall surface of the object-side stepped portion in a radial direction. The second O-ring exerts an urging force to urge the lens toward the object side and to urge the lens toward the image side.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

78.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18624037
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Kasahara, Takuya
  • Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

A lens unit has a first lens barrel including an annular accommodating portion which accommodates an outer peripheral-edge portion of a lens, a second lens barrel which accommodates a lens and is held on an inner peripheral side of the first lens barrel, and a first O-ring. The lens has an end surface facing the image side on an outer peripheral side of a lens surface. An accommodating portion includes a support surface facing the end surface of the lens on an outer peripheral side of the second lens barrel from the image side. The lens includes an annular contact portion in surface contact with the end surface of the lens on an inner peripheral side of the support surface. The first O-ring is compressed between the lens and the support surface in an optical axis direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

79.

LENS UNIT AND LENS ALIGNMENT METHOD

      
Application Number 18624047
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hoshina, Yasuhiro
  • Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

A lens unit includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in this order from an image side toward an object side. The second lens includes an annular contacting portion in contact with the first lens on an outer peripheral side of a lens surface on the image side. The first lens includes an annular contacted portion in contact with the contacting portion on an outer peripheral side of a lens surface on the object side. The contacting portion and the contacted portion are in line contact with each other. A contact line along which the contacting portion and the contacted portion are in contact with each other has an annular shape coaxial with an optical axis of the first lens and is located on a virtual perpendicular plane that is perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 7/00 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements

80.

UPDATE METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA FOR SETTLEMENT TERMINAL

      
Application Number 18624058
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yokomizu, Ryoichi

Abstract

By setting an update target program as a target program, an attachment confirmation step of confirming whether a recording medium is attached to a settlement terminal is executed. When the recording medium is not attached, first update data is downloaded from a program server via a network to execute an update When the recording medium is attached, second update data is downloaded from the recording medium to execute an update. The steps are executed by an application program.

IPC Classes  ?

81.

ACTUATOR

      
Application Number 18624118
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-02
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sasaki, Shun
  • Mori, Akira

Abstract

An actuator includes a support having a tubular case, a movable body having a shaft at a center of the case, a connection member connecting the support with the movable body, and a magnet and a coil structured to relatively move the movable body along the shaft with respect to the support. The connection member includes a ring-shaped inner frame having a through-hole to which the shaft is fitted, a ring-shaped outer frame which is held on an inner side of the case and is disposed on an outer peripheral side with respect to the inner frame, and a connection body which is connected with the outer frame and the inner frame and is provided with at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity. The inner frame is made of brass, and arithmetic surface roughness of an outer face of the inner frame is not less than 1.0 μm.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes
  • H04R 9/06 - Loudspeakers

82.

SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD, POSITION DETECTION METHOD, AND POSITION DETECTION DEVICE

      
Application Number JP2023019991
Publication Number 2024/202082
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-05-29
Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Mizunuma Daisuke
  • Yazawa Shunya
  • Fujita Atsushi
  • Ishigami Shota

Abstract

This signal conversion method converts each of a plurality of analog signals into a digital signal, and includes: a first step in which a sampling process for sampling the value of an analog signal at least once is sequentially performed a plurality of times; and a second step that is performed following the first step, and in which the sampling process is sequentially performed a plurality of times. The plurality of instances of the sampling process performed in the first step include at least one instance of the sampling process for each of the plurality of analog signals. In the second step, the plurality of instances of the sampling process performed in the first step are performed in the opposite order from that of the first step.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02P 6/16 - Circuit arrangements for detecting position

83.

OPTICAL ELEMENT, LENS UNIT, AND CAMERA MODULE

      
Application Number JP2024010433
Publication Number 2024/203501
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-03-18
Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Kawakami Masataka

Abstract

This optical element has an optical axis Lx. The optical element comprises a plastic lens, a hard coat layer, and an anti-reflection film. The hard coat layer is positioned between the plastic lens and the anti-reflection film. The anti-reflection film is disposed on at least one surface side of the plastic lens. The thickness of the hard coat layer on the optical axis is 2-20 μm. The minimum thickness of the hard coat layer is 2 μm or more, and the maximum thickness of the hard coat layer is 20 μm or less.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/115 - Multilayers
  • G02B 3/00 - Simple or compound lenses
  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

84.

LENS UNIT AND CAMERA MODULE

      
Application Number JP2024010434
Publication Number 2024/203502
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-03-18
Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Kawakami Masataka

Abstract

This lens unit comprises a plurality of lenses and a cylindrical housing member that houses the plurality of lenses. The plurality of lenses are arranged in order from an opening in the housing member, and the outermost lens positioned on the opening side of the housing member among the plurality of lenses includes a plastic lens, an antireflection film arranged on at least one surface side of the plastic lens, and a hard coat layer positioned between the plastic lens and the antireflection film. The lens unit further comprises a light shielding member that shields the outer edge of the outermost lens from light.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 1/04 - Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are madeOptical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/115 - Multilayers
  • G02B 3/00 - Simple or compound lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

85.

LENS UNIT

      
Application Number 18623042
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Nakajima, Tomoaki
  • Komiyama, Tadashi

Abstract

A lens unit has a lens and a lens disposed from an image side toward an object side and a second lens barrel accommodating them, and the lens includes a fitting portion fitted to the lens on an image side. A fitted portion to which the fitting portion is fitted from the object side is provided on a surface on the object side of the lens. An inner peripheral-surface portion on an outer side in a radial direction of the lens on an inner peripheral surface of the second lens barrel includes fitting protrusions pressure-joined to the lens at plural spots separated in a circumferential direction. An inner peripheral-surface portion on the outer side in the radial direction of the lens includes guide protrusions for guiding the lens in an optical axis direction at plural spots separated in the circumferential direction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses

86.

SWINGING UNIT

      
Application Number 18624077
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-01
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Arai, Tsutomu
  • Sue, Takeshi
  • Minamisawa, Shinji

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a swinging unit is provided with a movable body, a support body which supports the movable body via fulcrum portions in such a state that the movable body is swingably displaceable, and a swing drive portion which swings the movable body. The swing drive portion is constituted by a pair of a coil, which is fixed to a coil fixed portion at one of the movable body and the support body, and a magnet, which is fixed to a magnet fixed portion at the other one of the movable body and the support body. The coil fixed portion is provided with a positioning portion which performs positioning of the coil relative to the coil fixed portion by being in contact with an inner surface of the coil.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 33/18 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets

87.

Actuator

      
Application Number 18624116
Grant Number 12640612
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-04-02
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Grant Date 2026-05-26
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Mori, Akira

Abstract

An actuator including a support having a tubular case and an outer frame inside the case, a movable body having a shaft at a center of the case and an inner frame holding the shaft from an outer peripheral side, a connection body connected with the outer frame and the inner frame and having at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnet and a coil structured to relatively move the movable body along the shaft with respect to the support. The inner frame includes a first member made of resin whose outer peripheral face is connected with the connection body and a second member made of metal which is fitted to an inner side of the first member, and the shaft is fixed to the first member through the second member by press-fitting the shaft to a center hole of the second member.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/04 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof
  • H02K 1/2706 - Inner rotors

88.

Card reader

      
Application Number 18625133
Grant Number 12481845
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-04-02
First Publication Date 2024-10-03
Grant Date 2025-11-25
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Miyazawa, Shinya
  • Takita, Yukihiko

Abstract

In this card reader, an IC contact block includes a resin block body to hold a plurality of IC contact springs, and card abutting members formed with card abutting surfaces on which an end surface on a back side of a card abuts, formed separately from the block body, and mounted on the block body. Each card abutting member is made of a material harder than resin.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
  • G06K 7/00 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers
  • G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier

89.

LENS UNIT AND CAMERA MODULE

      
Application Number JP2024010435
Publication Number 2024/203503
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-03-18
Publication Date 2024-10-03
Owner
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Sugimoto Takeru
  • Kamoto Takanori
  • Nishikawa Masayuki
  • Nakagawa Sayuri
  • Damasco Ty Jennifer Torres
  • Yamamoto Akinori
  • Kawakami Masataka

Abstract

A lens unit according to the present invention is provided with: a plurality of lenses; and a cylindrical housing member for housing the plurality of lenses. The plurality of lenses are arranged in order from an opening of the housing member. An outermost lens positioned on the opening side of the housing member among the plurality of lenses includes: a plastic lens having a surface provided with an inflection section; an antireflection film disposed on the surface side of the plastic lens; and a hard coat layer positioned between the plastic lens and the antireflection film. The lens unit is further provided with a light shielding member that shields the inflection section of the plastic lens from light.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G02B 7/02 - Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements for lenses
  • G02B 1/04 - Optical elements characterised by the material of which they are madeOptical coatings for optical elements made of organic materials, e.g. plastics
  • G02B 1/14 - Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings
  • G02B 1/115 - Multilayers
  • G02B 3/00 - Simple or compound lenses
  • G03B 30/00 - Camera modules comprising integrated lens units and imaging units, specially adapted for being embedded in other devices, e.g. mobile phones or vehicles

90.

ACTUATOR AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREOF

      
Application Number 18586545
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-02-26
First Publication Date 2024-08-29
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Tanaka, Shogo

Abstract

An actuator includes a support body having a coil holder, a movable body having one side magnet facing a coil on one side, the other side magnet facing the coil on the other side, and a yoke to which the one side magnet and the other side magnet are fixed, and a connection body which relatively movably connects the support body and the movable body. The yoke is formed of one yoke member which is formed with a first yoke portion, a second yoke portion fixed with the one side magnet, a third yoke portion, a fourth yoke portion fixed with the other side magnet by bending the one yoke member so as to surround the coil. The yoke is formed of one yoke member and thus, an end portion of the fourth yoke portion and an end portion of the first yoke portion are fixed to each other.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 33/18 - Motors with reciprocating, oscillating or vibrating magnet, armature or coil system with coil systems moving upon intermittent or reversed energisation thereof by interaction with a fixed field system, e.g. permanent magnets
  • H02K 15/00 - Processes or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines

91.

Fixing structure of circuit board and pump device

      
Application Number 18421995
Grant Number 12419002
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-01-25
First Publication Date 2024-08-15
Grant Date 2025-09-16
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Yazawa, Takehiko
  • Yanagisawa, Kazuhiko

Abstract

A fixing structure of a circuit board includes a circuit board, a board fixing member, and a fixing screw for fixing the circuit board to the board fixing member. The circuit board is formed with a cut-out part in a “U”-shape recessed from its outer peripheral face, the board fixing member is formed with a protruding part. The protruding part is formed with a flat board contact face with which the circuit board is contacted, a screw hole with which the fixing screw is engaged, and a positioning protruded part engaged with the cut-out part for positioning the circuit board. The screw hole is recessed from the board contact face, the positioning protruded part protrudes from the board contact face, and the positioning protruded part is disposed on an opening side of the cut-out part with respect to the screw hole.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 7/14 - Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
  • F04D 13/06 - Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
  • H02K 11/33 - Drive circuits, e.g. power electronics
  • H05K 5/00 - Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus
  • H02K 5/02 - Casings or enclosures characterised by the material thereof
  • H02K 5/08 - Insulating casings
  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes

92.

Optical unit

      
Application Number 18430658
Grant Number 12474622
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-02-02
First Publication Date 2024-08-15
Grant Date 2025-11-18
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Minamisawa, Shinji

Abstract

An optical unit includes a movable body, a fixed body, and a gimbal mechanism. The gimbal mechanism includes a flat plate portion on an opposite subject side with respect to the movable body, two fixed body-side arm portions extending from base end portions to tip end portions in a first intersecting direction, and two movable body-side arm portions extending from base end portions to tip end portions in a second intersecting direction, the fixed body-side arm portions and the movable body-side arm portions are inclined with respect to the flat plate portion as viewed from the intersecting directions, and an inclination direction of the fixed body-side arm portions and an inclination direction of the movable body-side arm portions are opposite to each other as viewed from the intersecting directions.

IPC Classes  ?

93.

Control device

      
Application Number 18268593
Grant Number 12563687
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-12-13
First Publication Date 2024-08-15
Grant Date 2026-02-24
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Takagi, Hajime

Abstract

A control circuit board includes a signal output connector having an output terminal for outputting a control signal, a DC voltage input connector to which power generated by a power supply circuit board is input, and a power output connector including an output terminal for outputting the power. A drive circuit board includes a signal input connector having an input terminal for inputting a control signal, and a power input connector having an input terminal for inputting the power. The power supply circuit board includes a power output part for outputting power. The drive circuit board is held on the control circuit board in such a posture as to rise from a board surface of the control circuit board by connection between the signal input connector and the signal output connector, and connection between the power input connector and the power output connector.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H05K 7/14 - Mounting supporting structure in casing or on frame or rack
  • H05K 7/20 - Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating

94.

MOTOR

      
Application Number JP2023016227
Publication Number 2024/161668
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-04-25
Publication Date 2024-08-08
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yajima, Katsuhide

Abstract

This motor (1) comprises a resin sealing body (70) that covers a motor body (5). A connector part (72) of the resin sealing body (70) comprises a pin base holding part (75) that is pierced by a connection part adjoining portion (84b) that is adjacent to a connection section (82) in an embedded section (84) of each terminal pin (80). The pin base holding part (75) comprises a base surface (76) that is set back from a wall surface (74) in an X2 direction, and a protruding section (77) that protrudes from the base surface (76) in an X1 direction and is tapered toward the tip thereof. The connection section (82) of each terminal pin (80) protrudes from the tip of the protruding section (77) in the X1 direction. The protruding section 77 comprises at the tip an opening through which the connection section (82) protrudes. The tip of the protruding section 77 is positioned at the same height as the wall surface 74 in the X axis direction or is positioned further in the X2 direction than the wall surface 74.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 5/22 - Auxiliary parts of casings not covered by groups , e.g. shaped to form connection boxes or terminal boxes

95.

CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOT AND ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE

      
Application Number 18423295
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-01-26
First Publication Date 2024-08-01
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Okumura, Hirokatsu
  • Shiraki, Takahiro

Abstract

For each axis of a robot, a resonance avoidance speed range is determined in advance based on a natural vibration frequency or the like of the robot. When an operation plan of the robot is created based on an operation command (step 101), a maximum speed of a motor in the operation plan is acquired (step 102), whether or not the maximum speed is included in a resonance avoidance speed range is determined (step 103), and when it is included, the operation plan is recreated such that the maximum speed is equal to or lower than a lower limit speed of the resonance avoidance speed range (step 104).

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 9/16 - Programme controls
  • B25J 9/06 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by multi-articulated arms
  • B25J 9/12 - Programme-controlled manipulators characterised by positioning means for manipulator elements electric

96.

Medium issuing device, medium issuing system and medium issuing method

      
Application Number 18490055
Grant Number 12623471
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-10-19
First Publication Date 2024-07-11
Grant Date 2026-05-12
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Hoshi, Tomohiro

Abstract

A medium issuing device includes a medium conveyance part, a print head, a sensor disposed on an upstream side of a conveyance passage with respect to the print head, a head drive part which moves the print head between a standby position and a printing position, a ribbon feeding part, and a control part. The control part controls so that, when detected that the sensor is turned on by a medium, the medium is conveyed at a first speed by the medium conveyance part, and the print head is started to move to the printing position by the head drive part and, in a case that a high speed mode is set, after the print head is contacted with the medium, the medium conveyance part and the ribbon feeding part are synchronously driven so that printing to the medium is performed at the second speed higher than the first speed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B41J 11/42 - Controlling
  • B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet

97.

Industrial robot

      
Application Number 18278399
Grant Number 12370669
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-02-16
First Publication Date 2024-07-11
Grant Date 2025-07-29
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Horiuchi, Ryota

Abstract

Provided is an industrial robot including a lifting mechanism which lifts and lowers an arm support member and a housing inside which the lifting mechanism is disposed, and an opening part for connecting the arm support member disposed outside the housing with the lifting mechanism is formed in a side face of the housing. In the industrial robot, even when dust generated inside the housing can be prevented from flowing out from the opening part, the cost can be reduced. In the industrial robot, the lifting mechanism which lifts and lowers the arm support member is disposed inside the housing. A side face of the housing is formed with the opening part for connecting the arm support member disposed outside the housing with the lifting mechanism disposed inside the housing, and the arm support member is fixed with the flat plate-shaped cover members and for closing the opening part.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B25J 5/00 - Manipulators mounted on wheels or on carriages
  • B25J 9/00 - Programme-controlled manipulators

98.

DOWNLOAD METHOD OF PROGRAM TO SETTLEMENT TERMINAL AND SETTLEMENT TERMINAL

      
Application Number 18490037
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-10-19
First Publication Date 2024-07-11
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor Yokomizu, Rryoichi

Abstract

A download method of a program to a settlement terminal which includes a processor operated based on the program, a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory and a touch screen and executes an on-line settlement. The download method includes a determination operation determining whether a specific operation to the touch screen is executed or not when power of the settlement terminal is turned on, a download operation in which, when the specific operation has been executed, a memory data rewriting program is downloaded from a program server to the volatile memory, and an update operation in which the processor executes the memory data rewriting program and thereby, a program to be updated is downloaded from the program server and is stored to the volatile memory and then, a program in the nonvolatile memory is rewritten by the program to be updated which is stored in the volatile memory.

IPC Classes  ?

99.

POSITION DETECTION DEVICE, POSITION DETECTION METHOD, AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE, AND SEWING DEVICE

      
Application Number 18547330
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-01-21
First Publication Date 2024-07-11
Owner
  • NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
  • NIDEC CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Saito, Yutaka
  • Fujita, Atsushi

Abstract

A position detection device includes: a first group including N (a multiple of 3) first magnetic sensors facing a magnet that rotates in synchronization with a rotation shaft of a motor and arranged at intervals along a rotation direction of the magnet, and a second group including N second magnetic sensors arranged opposite respectively to the N first magnetic sensors across the rotation shaft in a radial direction of the magnet; and a signal processing device processing output signals respectively output from the first and second magnetic sensors. The signal processing device executes averaging processing of generating N average signals by averaging an output signal of the first magnetic sensor and an output signal of the second magnetic sensor arranged at the position opposite to the first magnetic sensor across the rotation shaft, and estimation processing of estimating a rotational position of the motor based on the N average signals.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H02K 11/215 - Magnetic effect devices, e.g. Hall-effect or magneto-resistive elements
  • D05B 19/04 - Sewing machines having electronic memory or microprocessor control unit characterised by memory aspects
  • H02K 29/08 - Motors or generators having non-mechanical commutating devices, e.g. discharge tubes or semiconductor devices with position sensing devices using magnetic effect devices, e.g. Hall-plates or magneto-resistors
  • H02P 6/16 - Circuit arrangements for detecting position

100.

ACTUATOR

      
Application Number JP2023045253
Publication Number 2024/143034
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-12-18
Publication Date 2024-07-04
Owner NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION (Japan)
Inventor
  • Hatano Shinji
  • Ando Masaaki

Abstract

The present invention avoids a collision between a movable body and a support body while making it possible to obtain a large acceleration over a wide frequency range. An actuator 1 selects, as a connector 9 that is connected to a movable body 3 and a support body 2, a viscoelastic body having a high damping coefficient such that an acceleration equal to or greater than a target acceleration At (for example, At = 2.5 Gal) can be obtained at a target frequency band (for example, 50 to 100Hz, inclusive). A controller 1A for the actuator 1 makes it possible to obtain a large acceleration by supplying a current at a first voltage VH unless the amplitude of the movable body 3 exceeds an upper limit amplitude Wmax, where the first voltage VH is a voltage with which the target acceleration At is obtained at the target frequency band. On the other hand, at a frequency band at which the amplitude of the movable body 3 exceeds the upper limit amplitude Wmax through driving at the first voltage VH, a collision between the movable body 3 and the support body 2 is avoided by making the voltage of a drive current lower than the first voltage VH.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B06B 1/04 - Processes or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic frequency making use of electrical energy operating with electromagnetism
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