| NIDEC COPAL CORPORATION Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20110291510 | SURFACE MOUNT MOTOR - A holder of a surface mount motor includes a bottom-raising piece formed so as to extend integrally from the bottom portion and bent at a predetermined bending angle with respect to the bottom portion. When the holder is attached to a motor body, there is a risk that a mounting surface of the bottom portion of the holder will not be in the same plane as a mounting surface of a terminal. In such a case, a fine adjustment may be performed simply by slightly raising or lowering the bottom-raising piece. Thus, an adjustment between the heights of the mounting surface of the bottom portion of the holder and the mounting surface of the terminal can be easily performed. A gap between the bottom portion of the holder and the motor casing can be easily changed simply by changing the bending angle of the bottom-raising piece. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110291509 | SURFACE MOUNT MOTOR - A holder of a surface mount motor includes a holder body that is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a motor casing and that is mounted on a circuit board, an extending portion that extends rearward from a rear end of the holder body in a direction of a rotational axis of a shaft, and a stopper that extends in a width direction of the extending portion at a rear end of the extending portion and that is press-fitted into a recess provided in a bracket fixed to the motor casing. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110109181 | MOTOR - In the invention, in order for a brush assembly to be easily built in a motor, the motor includes an aligning means for aligning a main body portion of the brush assembly relative to a lower case engaging the main body portion with the lower case and a guide means for guiding the brush assembly in a direction which is at right angles to a rotational axis L after the main body portion has been aligned relative to the lower case. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110101796 | VIBRATION ACTUATOR - A vibration actuator includes a coil that extends in a vibration direction and has a flat shape and a magnet that extends in the vibration direction and has a flat shape, so that a case can be made flat or low profile. A weight portion is supported by a shaft, so that, when a drop impact is applied, the weight portion can move along the shaft and the weight portion is not freely moved in the case. A coil spring is disposed between a spring receiving portion and a weight portion. Therefore there is no unnecessary space in the case, so that space can be saved and the vibration actuator can be made compact. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110050032 | MOTOR - A brush assembly applied to a motor includes a body portion attachable to a lower case, and an external connection substrate formed by a flexible substrate. A pair of brush pieces protrude from a front end of the body portion so as to be in contact with brush slide portions of commutator segments. The external connection substrate has a pair of terminals exposed from a housing and capable of being connected to spring terminals of an apparatus by crimping. The terminals are provided at a rear end of the external connection substrate, and protrude from the housing in the radial direction. First connecting portions electrically connected to the brush pieces are provided at a rear end of the body portion, and a pair of right and left second connecting portions are provided at a front end of the external connection substrate. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110043061 | VIBRATION MOTOR - A weight used in a vibration motor includes first and second weight parts that extend along adjacent wing parts to hold the wing parts therebetween; an insertion part that is formed between the first and second weight parts and into which the adjacent wing parts are inserted in the radial direction of the core; and a third weight part that is inserted between the adjacent wing parts (that is, slot) and connects the first weight part and the second weight part in a direction of the rotation axis line such that the insertion part is decoupled. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110001385 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR - Disclosed is a brushless motor which allows easy positioning of an air core coil and facilitates quick assembling of the coil because the air core coil is positioned by fitting an air core portion of the air core coil to bosses formed in a coil plate. Moreover, since no jig is required for the positioning of the coil, the positional precision of the coil can be stably attained, thereby enhancing the positional precision of the coil. Furthermore, although the positioning of the coil becomes difficult as the coil is reduced in size, the present invention is capable of easily coping with the thinning and miniaturization of the coils, i.e., thinning and miniaturization of the motor. In addition, the thinning and miniaturization of the motor can also be attained by arranging a circuit board and a coil plate in parallel to each other. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110001384 | MOTOR - A vibration motor includes: a core pivotally supported on a shaft; a commutator for supplying electric current to a coil; a commutator holder having through holes extending in an axial direction of the shaft; and chip type varistors fitted into the through holes. The commutator is provided with conductors extending in the axial direction of the shaft, and the conductors are inserted into the through holes and press-fixed to end electrodes of the chip type varistors. A first protrusion is provided on a first wall surface forming each through hole, and a second protrusion facing the first protrusion is provided on a second wall surface. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100284685 | Focal Plane Shutter For Cameras - A focal plane shutter for cameras includes: a shutter blade assembly; an electromagnet assembly; driving means that includes a mounting member mounted with an iron scrap member that cooperates with an iron core member of the electromagnet assembly; and a setting member that operates the driving means to a set position. The iron scrap member includes a shaft fitted in a mounting hole of the mounting member, an iron scrap portion provided at one end of the shaft and brought into contact with the iron core member, and a removal preventing flange provided at the other end of the shaft, a collar member is fitted to the shaft between the mounting hole and the flange, an edge of the mounting hole is formed to have an arcuate surface protruding toward the collar member, and the collar member is formed to have, on the edge side, an arcuate surface protruding toward the flange and substantially perpendicular to the arcuate surface. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20090140607 | Driving apparatus - A driving apparatus includes a piezoelectric element which expands and contracts when a voltage is applied thereto, a driving shaft fixed to one end of the piezoelectric element in an expanding-and-contracting direction, a friction part frictionally engaged with the driving shaft, a lens holder moved along a direction of an optical axis of a lens, and a direction-changing unit which reciprocates the lens holder in the front-rear direction along the optical axis. The direction-changing unit includes a translation cam mechanism including a moving member and a moved member, and converts a linear movement along the expanding-and-contracting direction into a linear movement along the direction of the optical axis. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20080259314 | Inspection Device - An inspection device includes a light source emitting ultraviolet light onto a banknote conveyed on a conveyance path, a light source emitting infrared light onto the banknote, a photosensor for detecting light from the banknote, a light source control processing portion for controlling the light sources while individually switching the light sources at high speed, and a discrimination processing portion. The discrimination processing portion first imports each of two detection signals (output signals) from the photosensor, which are obtained by detecting light substantially within an identical period of time when the banknote is illuminated with the light through sequential lighting of the light sources and calculates an output ratio of the photosensor. Then the calculated output ratio of the photosensor is compared and collated with reference data preliminarily stored in a memory determining authenticity and denomination of the banknote. | 10-23-2008 |