| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D524223 |
Wiper blade |
July 4, 2006 |
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| D511735 |
Wiper blade |
November 22, 2005 |
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| 7626307 |
Short-circuit member for a commutator and an armature |
December 1, 2009 |
| The number of conductor members in a first conductor member group and the number of conductor members in a second conductor member group are equal to each other. An inner terminal of each conductor member is displaced from an outer terminal of the same conductor member with respect to th |
| 7626293 |
Motor having control circuit member |
December 1, 2009 |
| A first heat releasing member, which is made from a metal plate material, is fitted into a circuit receiving recess, which receives a control circuit member. A second heat releasing member, which is made from a metal plate material and includes a resilient contact portion, is placed |
| 7615955 |
Washer controller and washer system for vehicle |
November 10, 2009 |
| A washer controller controls a washer motor in accordance with a manipulation of a washer switch. A washer switch detector determines whether a manipulation of the washer switch is performed within a predetermined time period of a last manipulation of the washer switch. A spray time |
| 7615902 |
Motor having breathing hole |
November 10, 2009 |
| A motor includes: a motor element with a rotation shaft; a speed reduction element having a rotation speed reduction device for reducing a rotation speed and a gear housing for accommodating the reduction device; and a water proof sheet. The gear housing includes: an accommodation portio |
| 7605516 |
Motor, commutator, short-circuit member, and a method for manufacturing the commutator |
October 20, 2009 |
| A commutator connected to armature coils includes circumferentially arranged segments, short-circuit conductors, and a surge absorbing element. The number of the segments is a multiple of the number of the armature coils. The segments include a plurality of pairs of segments. The seg |
| 7605507 |
Motor apparatus |
October 20, 2009 |
| A drive rotor has a coupled portion to which a coupling portion extending from a rotary shaft is loosely fitted. A driven rotor can be engaged with the drive rotor with respect to a rotating direction of the drive rotor. A restricting member is fixed to the rotary shaft so as to be integ |
| 7603759 |
Method for manufacturing a motor having a control circuit board |
October 20, 2009 |
| A control circuit board is received in a circuit board receiving case without being directly joined to the circuit board receiving case and has a circuit board side connector. The circuit board side connector is installed to a main body side connector of a gear housing in an installa |
| 7603742 |
Wiper blade and wiper system having the same |
October 20, 2009 |
| A lever assembly holds a wiper strip, which directly wipes a wiping surface. The lever assembly includes a plurality of levers, which are connected together in tournament style. An axial length of the lever assembly is shorter than an axial length of the wiper strip. A cover member r |
| 7598634 |
Fan motor |
October 6, 2009 |
| In a fan motor, a fan boss of a fan is integrally rotatably connected to a housing of a drive motor unit. A plurality of fins axially extends from an inner surface of a bottom portion of the fan boss toward a bottom portion of the housing of the drive motor unit and radially inwardly |
| 7579730 |
Motor and manufacturing method thereof |
August 25, 2009 |
| A motor main body includes a brush holder, which holds a plurality of power supply brushes. A control circuit member includes a drive control IC, which controls rotation of the motor main body, and a base, which holds a plurality of terminals that electrically connects between the dr |
| 7579708 |
Opening/closing member control apparatus and method for detecting pinching |
August 25, 2009 |
| A power window device includes window glass, an elevating mechanism, and a control device for detecting pinching of a foreign object by the window glass. The control device calculates an amount (a rotation speed variation .SIGMA..DELTA..omega..sub..alpha.) of the pinching based on a |
| 7573222 |
Motor control apparatus |
August 11, 2009 |
| A motor control apparatus for controlling an operation of an electric motor has an operational temperature estimator and an operation controller. The operational temperature estimator estimates an estimated temperature of the electric motor. The operation controller disables to start |
| 7571660 |
Geared motor |
August 11, 2009 |
| In a geared motor, a worm wheel, an O-ring, a transmission plate and an output gear are installed to a support shaft. The O-ring is placed in an inner space of a receiving through hole of the transmission plate, through which the support shaft is received. Grease is applied to an out |
| 7569969 |
Armature, rotating electric machine, DC motor, and brushless motor |
August 4, 2009 |
| An insulator is mounted in an armature core. Coils are wound around teeth of the armature core by way of concentrated winding. A power feeding member, which supplies a current to the coils, includes a connecting portion. A separating portion, which is provided in the insulator, is lo |
| 7568751 |
Automatic sun visor device |
August 4, 2009 |
| An incident intensity L is categorized into a low illuminance range A1 for immediately moving a sun visor body toward a retracted position, a high illuminance range A2 for immediately moving the sun visor body in a target direction set based on an incident angle, and an intermediate |
| 7568257 |
Clutch device, motor apparatus and wiper system |
August 4, 2009 |
| Initiation of coupling between an input disk and a clutch disk at a maximum rotational coupling force without making relative rotation between the input disk and the clutch disk is enabled only when the output shaft is placed in a single engageable point within a normal reciprocal an |
| 7554239 |
Dynamo-electric machine and vehicular air blower having the same |
June 30, 2009 |
| Each brush box, which receives a corresponding brush, has a contact wall. The contact wall becomes deformable when the temperature of the contact wall reaches a predetermined temperature. A radially outer end surface of the brush is tilted relative to the contact wall, so that the brush |
| 7554230 |
Control circuit device for motor, method for manufacturing the device, and motor having the devi |
June 30, 2009 |
| A control circuit device for a motor is provided with a circuit board which has an electrically-conductive terminal for electrically connecting the motor with an exterior connector, a heat radiating unit which is connected with the circuit board to radiate heat generated by the circuit |
| 7550893 |
Armature, method for manufacturing the armature, and direct current motor |
June 23, 2009 |
| Coils are provided on a plurality of tooth sections of a core. The coils are formed by successively winding a conductor on the tooth sections with at least one tooth section between each successive windings, such that each portion of the conductor extending between two tooth sections |
| 7550888 |
Blower motor for vehicle air conditioning system |
June 23, 2009 |
| A motor holder receives a motor main body and includes a plurality of ribs, which are provided to an inner peripheral surface of the motor holder and are engaged with an outer peripheral surface of a motor yoke to hold the motor main body. The ribs are arranged symmetrically about a |
| 7541759 |
Panel member control system |
June 2, 2009 |
| A panel member control system for controlling a panel member includes a motor, a rotation detecting means, and a pinching detecting means. The rotation detecting means detects a rotational speed of the motor. The pinching detecting means detects an occurrence of pinching of an object |
| 7534957 |
Cord switch and detecting apparatus using the same |
May 19, 2009 |
| A cord switch 1 has wire electrodes 12A, 12B spirally arranged along an inner surface of a hollow part 10 of a hollowed insulator 11 in a longitudinal direction such that the wire electrodes do not electrically contact with each other, an outer electrode 13 provided around an outer p |
| 7526832 |
Wiper blade having a lever connected to wiper arm |
May 5, 2009 |
| A connecting arrangement of a lever is rotatably connected to a wiper arm. Arms of the lever are located on longitudinal sides, respectively, of the connecting arrangement and extend in the longitudinal direction of a wiper strip. Each arm of the lever includes a holding portion, which i |
| 7511393 |
Motor and brush holder thereof |
March 31, 2009 |
| A brush holder of a motor is provided with a holder body portion and a connector portion, which are integrally formed from a resin. The holder body portion is installed in a yoke housing of the motor to hold a brush to be in slide contact with a commutator. The connector portion is c |
| 7500331 |
Self-driving closure device |
March 10, 2009 |
| A self-driving closure device has a drive unit and a cable. The drive unit that is fixed to a closure device to open and close the closure device by moving together with the closure device along a guide rail. The cable connects the drive unit with a power supply connector to energize the |
| 7471021 |
Wiper motor for driving wiper |
December 30, 2008 |
| A connector part extends outward of a yoke housing from a holder base and is connectable with an external connector to receive an electric signal. A contact base extends from the holder base into an interior of the gear housing through a communication hole, which is formed in a yoke hous |
| 7463463 |
Motor controller and motor temperature estimation method for the same |
December 9, 2008 |
| A motor controller includes: an estimated temperature calculating section that calculates and stores an estimated temperature of a motor, and a control section that can perform a drive control of the motor only when this estimated temperature is not larger than a predetermined value. Whe |
| 7421755 |
Coupling device and wiper blade |
September 9, 2008 |
| A coupling device has a clip and a clip holder. A hook at a distal portion of a wiper arm is attached to the clip. The clip holder has a locking member and a cover. The cover extends along the longitudinal direction of the wiper arm. The cover has a first cover portion and a second cover |
| 7417352 |
Brush holder and manufacturing method thereof |
August 26, 2008 |
| A brush holder incorporates a terminal integral part, which has a coupling portion. The coupling portion couples the terminals with each other. The brush holder has a resin body and a plurality of terminals. The resin body has an opening. The terminals are embedded in the resin body. The |
| 7414345 |
Commutator and armature |
August 19, 2008 |
| A commutator including a commutator main body having a plurality of commutator pieces and a short-circuit member having a short-circuit conductor for short-circuiting commutator pieces. The short-circuit conductor includes superimposed first and second short-circuit member formation |
| 7414344 |
Commutator and an armature |
August 19, 2008 |
| A commutator main body 11 includes a plurality of commutator pieces 13 arranged along a circumference, the center of which is a rotation axis L of a motor, and a main body insulator 14 holding the commutator pieces. A short-circuit member 12 is arranged on an end portion of the commutato |
| 7402926 |
Actuator device |
July 22, 2008 |
| An actuator device includes a drive motor, a reduction mechanism, which includes gears, an output shaft coupled to the reduction mechanism, and a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a sensor accommodating portion for accommodating a sensor, which detects the rotation |
| 7401534 |
Actuator device |
July 22, 2008 |
| An actuator device includes a drive motor, gears and pairs of rotary shafts. The gears are rotated by torque outputted from the drive motor. Each pair of rotary shafts corresponds to one of the gears. The rotary shafts in each pair extend from both axial sides of the corresponding ge |
| 7389711 |
Gear housing of driving device equipped with motor |
June 24, 2008 |
| A driving device includes a motor, and a gear housing secured to the motor. The gear housing accommodates reduction gears. Rotation of the motor is reduced by the reduction gears before being transmitted to an output shaft supported by the gear housing. A support cylinder extends fro |
| 7373688 |
Wiper blade provided with detachable blade rubber and wiper system having the same |
May 20, 2008 |
| A wiper blade of a wiper system of a vehicle includes a blade rubber, two backing plates, a holder and a resilient fin. The backing plates are received in backing grooves of the blade rubber. The holder is rotatably connected to a wiper arm of the wiper system and detachably holds the |
| 7362068 |
Closing member control system |
April 22, 2008 |
| A controller reduces an output of the drive motor when a window glass reaches a speed shift position, which is between a fully open position and a fully closed position of the window glass, in a closing operation of the window glass. The controller increases the output of the drive m |
| 7360389 |
Manufacturing method of armature shaft, armature shaft and rotary electric machine |
April 22, 2008 |
| In a forging process step, a small diameter portion 12 is formed in the leading end portion of a cylindrical shaft material 30, and an installation depressed portion 11d is formed on a base end face of the shaft material 30 for installing a ball 15 therein to receive thrust force, by |
| 7352100 |
Direct-current motor |
April 1, 2008 |
| A stator of a direct current motor includes six magnetic poles. An armature of the direct current motor includes an armature core having eight slots, a plurality of windings wound around the armature core as concentrated windings, and a commutator having twenty-four segments connecte |
| 7347479 |
Sunvisor device for a vehicle |
March 25, 2008 |
| Assume that the position of a sun visor main body is adjusted by an occupant when incident light having the incident angle .theta.1 has entered a vehicle passenger compartment. Then, a straight line L1 is obtained that passes through the distal end position S1 of the moved sun visor |
| 7332843 |
Motor |
February 19, 2008 |
| A pump apparatus includes a motor unit and a pump unit. The motor unit includes a cylindrical yoke housing and a rotor accommodated in the yoke housing. A rotary shaft of the rotor is supported by a first bearing and a second bearing. In a direction from a bottom wall of the yoke housing |
| 7328931 |
Vehicle sun visor apparatus |
February 12, 2008 |
| A sun visor apparatus for vehicle including a wiper apparatus that wipes a wipe area defined on an outer surface of a windshield. A light receiving sensor is arranged in the vehicle compartment facing toward the wipe area. When the windshield is stained by mud or bird feces, this does no |
| 7321214 |
Motor control system |
January 22, 2008 |
| A controller is operable in one of a plurality of operational modes, which include an estimated temperature computation performing mode for performing computing of an estimated temperature of the motor and an estimated temperature computation non-performing mode for stopping the comp |
| 7321213 |
Motor controller |
January 22, 2008 |
| A motor controller is provided with: an estimated temperature calculating means that calculates an estimated temperature of a motor; and a control unit that can perform a driving control of the motor only when the estimated temperature is not larger than a predetermined value. A mode |
| 7314079 |
Sunshade system having blind sheet |
January 1, 2008 |
| A rotatable rod includes a plurality of cylindrical center rods and a plurality of joints. Each joint connects between corresponding two of the plurality of center rods. Each of opposed ends of each center rod has at least one engaging projection, which projects from the end of the cente |
| 7304447 |
Motor controller |
December 4, 2007 |
| A motor controller includes: a motor control part for driving and controlling a motor; an estimated temperature computing part for computing an estimated temperature of a winding of the motor; and a motor protecting part for protecting the motor from being burned when the estimated t |
| 7302731 |
Washer equipment |
December 4, 2007 |
| Washer equipment jets washings to each sweeping area of driver's side and passenger's side windshield of a vehicle, which are swept by driver's side and passenger's side wiper blades, respectively, in such a manner that they synchronize together and move to a same direction. The washer |
| 7298062 |
Motor, control circuit member and manufacturing method of motor |
November 20, 2007 |
| A brush holder is installed to a motor main body and has a connector arrangement, which is directly connectable with an external connector to receive electric power. The brush holder holds a plurality of power supply brushes. A control circuit member is installed in a gear housing th |
| 7279817 |
Motor and method of manufacturing the same |
October 9, 2007 |
| A connector housing 45 is formed separately from a gear housing 20 and a closing and fixing member 21. The connector housing 45 includes a retainer 49, which supports an external connector 48 relative to the closing and fixing member 21, and an elastically deformable grommet 50. A re |
