Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080199120 | Wheel Support Bearing Assembly - Sealing structures ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080285901 | Wheel Support Bearing Assembly with Built-In Load Sensor - A wheel support bearing assembly comprises a stationary outer member and a rotatable inner member. The to-be-detected parts of angle detection sensors are fixed to the inner member and an outer race of a constant velocity joint connected to the inner member, respectively. Detecting parts of the angle detection sensors are fixed to the outer member in face-to-face relation with the to-be-detected parts. The bearing assembly also includes a load conversion unit detecting a relative angular difference between the inner member and the constant velocity universal joint by comparing the detection signals from the detecting parts to detect the load acting on the bearing assembly. | 11-20-2008 |
20090010582 | Sensor-Incorporated Wheel Support Bearing Assembly - A sensor-incorporated wheel support bearing assembly ( | 01-08-2009 |
20090038414 | Sensor-Equipped Bearing for Wheel - The wheel support bearing assembly is for rotatably supporting a vehicle wheel relative to an automotive vehicle body, which includes an outer member having an inner periphery formed with a plurality of rows of raceway surfaces, an inner member having raceway surfaces formed therein in face-to-face relation with the raceway surfaces in the outer member, and a plurality of rows of rolling elements interposed between those raceway surfaces, respectively; a sensor unit including a sensor mounting member and a strain sensor fitted to the sensor mounting member, the sensor unit being fitted to a stationary member, which is one of the outer member and the inner member; and wherein the sensor mounting member includes at least two contact fixing portion relative to the stationary member and the strain sensor is arranged at at least one location between the contact fixing portions. | 02-12-2009 |
20090080822 | Sensor-Equipped Bearing for Wheel - In a wheel support bearing assembly having rows of rolling elements ( | 03-26-2009 |
20090097791 | Sensor-Equipped Bearing for Wheel - To provide a sensor equipped wheel support bearing assembly, in which the sensor for detecting the load can be snugly and neatly installed in an automotive vehicle, the load acting on the vehicle wheel can be detected with high sensitivity and the cost of manufacture can be reduced during a mass production. The sensor unit | 04-16-2009 |
20090114004 | Wheel Support Bearing Assembly Equiped with Sensor - In a wheel support bearing assembly including a plurality of rolling elements ( | 05-07-2009 |
20090120184 | Sensor-Equipped Wheel Support Bearing Assembly - A sensor-equipped wheel support bearing assembly, enabling the cost during the mass production to be reduced, includes an outer member ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090129712 | Sensor-equipped bearing for wheel - A sensor-incorporated wheel support bearing assembly, enabling a load sensor to be compactly installed on the vehicle and capable of detecting a load on a wheel with good sensitivity includes a ring member, affixed to a stationary member, which has at an intermediate portion thereof a first non-contact ring portion not in contact with the stationary member, at one end a first contact ring portion in contact with the stationary member, and at the other end the following (A) or (B): (A) a second non-contact ring portion having a wall thickness greater than that of the first non-contact ring portion; (B) a second contact ring portion in contact with the stationary member. A strain sensor is fitted to; in (A), the first non-contact ring portion, and in (B), the first non-contact ring portion or first contact ring portion, which has smaller wall thickness. | 05-21-2009 |
20090175568 | Sensor-Equipped Bearing for Wheel - To provide a sensor equipped wheel support bearing assembly, in which a load sensor can be snugly and neatly installed in automotive vehicle and which detects the load or the like acting on a vehicle wheel and requires an inexpensive cost in mass production. A sensor unit is fitted to an outer member as a stationary member of the bearing assembly. The sensor unit includes a sensor mounting member having bolt insertion holes alignable with vehicle body fitting holes of the outer member, and a strain sensor fitted to the sensor mounting member. This sensor unit is sandwiched between the outer member and a knuckle and is fitted by means of bolts inserted through the vehicle body fitting holes and the bolt insertion holes. The sensor unit has a portion that is greater in a radial direction than a flange of the outer member. | 07-09-2009 |
20090199660 | Bearing for Wheel with Sensor - To provide a sensor incorporated wheel support bearing assembly, in which a load sensor can be compactly installed in an automotive vehicle, the load acting on the vehicle wheel can be detected with high sensitivity and the manufacturing cost can be reduced, the bearing assembly having a plurality of rows of rolling elements interposed between an outer member and an inner member includes a sensor unit fitted to one of the outer member and the inner member, which serves as a stationary member. The sensor unit includes a sensor mounting member and a strain sensor fitted thereto. The sensor mounting member has two contact fixing portions fixed to the outer member and a first contact fixing portion is fixed to a flange surface of the outer member and a second contact fixing portion is fixed to a peripheral surface of the outer member. | 08-13-2009 |
20090320567 | Broken piece detecting sensor - To provide a broken piece detecting sensor assembly capable of stably detecting broken piece admixed in a fluid, which broken piece is made of material characterized by non-metal, non-magnetic and non-electroconductive characteristics such as ceramics. This broken piece detecting sensor assembly is a sensor for detecting broken piece admixed in a fluid. Provided are two opposed flat plates, a shift mechanism for moving at least one of the two flat plates in a confronting direction to allow the broken piece to be sandwiched between those two flat plates, and measuring and determining section. The measuring and determining section is operable to measure the distance between the two flat plates to thereby detect the presence or absence of the broken piece, the size of the broken piece or the amount of the broken piece accumulated. | 12-31-2009 |
20090324152 | WHEEL SUPPORT BEARING ASSEMBLY EQUIPPED WITH SENSOR - In a wheel support bearing assembly including double row rolling elements ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100040315 | Rotation detector,wheel bearing equipped therewith and process for manufacturing the same - A sensor assembly ( | 02-18-2010 |
20100053986 | VEHICULAR LAMP - A vehicular lamp with an opening portion extending in a left-right direction provided on a side that wraps around toward a rear of a vehicle on an end side of an outer side wall of a mirror housing that supports a side mirror body includes a main lamp body including a lamp body and a front lens. The main lamp body is formed into a shape that generally follows the curved opening portion. The front lens is attached to the mirror housing so as to slightly project from or be on generally the same plane as the opening portion. The vehicular lamp includes a surface-emitting light guide inner lens provided along the front lens in a curved lamp chamber space and an LED used as a light source provided behind the light guide inner lens. The lamp chamber space is defined by the lamp body and the front lens. The lamp chamber space is elongated in the left-right direction. The LED is formed from: a first LED provided on the curved wrap-around side of the lamp chamber space such that an illumination axis thereof faces diagonally rearward of the vehicle, and a second LED provided adjacent to and on an inner side in a vehicle width direction of the first LED such that an illumination axis thereof faces diagonally forward of the vehicle. A concave portion for light source installation is provided in an area of the light guide inner lens corresponding to the first and second LEDs, and respectively forms light incident surfaces generally opposite to the first and second LEDs. | 03-04-2010 |
20100135604 | Sensor-Equipped Bearing for Wheel - A sensor-equipped bearing for a wheel rotatably supporting the wheel relative to a vehicle body includes an outer member ( | 06-03-2010 |
20110170307 | VEHICLE LAMP - In a vehicle lamp ( | 07-14-2011 |
20120113660 | DOOR MIRROR LAMP - A door mirror lamp that is attached to an opening portion formed in an outer side surface of a mirror housing, has a light guide member having an incident-side end surface, an output-side end surface, and first and second side surfaces that are formed as substantially opposite surfaces of the light guide member, wherein the light guide member is attached to the mirror housing such that the output-side end surface and of the first side surface are exposed at the opening portion, and a semiconductor light emitting element that is disposed in a vicinity of the incident-side end surface and that emits light that enters an inside of the light guide member from the incident-side end surface. The second side surface is provided with visual identification prevention portion that prevents a configuration inside the mirror housing from being visually identified through the second side surface from outside. | 05-10-2012 |