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Patent No. 6060700

Microwave Oven With Removable Storage Cassette in Dashboard of Motor Vehicle

A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.

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Assignee: NSK Ltd.


Location: Tokyo, JP
No. of patents: 1299

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8177435Manufacturing method of a drawn cup needle roller bearing having seal ring
A drawn cup needle roller bearing 30 having a seal ring comprises: a shell 31 having a raceway surface 31a on an inner circumferential face and also having inward flange portions 31b, 31c in both end portions; ...
05/15/2012
8176799State measuring apparatus for rolling bearing unit and method of manufacturing the same
The sensor holder has an annular portion that holds the sensors. A holding ring that is securely fitted in an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder portion constituting a cover made of metal in terms of a large tight fit is embedded in an intermediate portion of th...
05/15/2012
8167760Toroidal continuously variable transmission unit and continuously variable transmission
In this toroidal continuously variable transmission unit, a carrier 100 and a disc 2 is brought into direct friction contact with each other, and power transmission between the carrier 100 and the disc 2 is implemented by friction force. ...
05/01/2012
8164828Observable centrifugal apparatus and observation apparatus
Disclosed is an observable centrifugal apparatus capable of checking in real time a state of a sample during reaction of separation or synthesization in the form of a stable and high-quality image at a high frame rate. An observable centrifugal apparatus A has a rot...
04/24/2012
8156781Steering rack and method of manufacturing the same
When a punch is downwardly pressed, an inner circumferential surface of a first rack blank bites into a top surface of a second rack blank. A blank material upwardly flows due to a reaction force and is used to form rack teeth. Thus, a filling degree of the teeth wi...
04/17/2012
8123494Rolling bearing unit for supporting a wheel with an air compressor
A wheel-supporting roller-bearing unit with air compressor that is compact and capable of keeping resistance against the rotation of the hub 4c low while at the same time maintaining good balance, and when necessary, is capable of obtaining compressed ...
02/28/2012
8109169Ball screw device
A ball screw device 10 capable of increasing a load capacity by increasing the size of ball diameter and the number of threads by preventing the cutout of a nut from being interfered with a thread groove adjacent to the cutout even in the thread groove of a s...
02/07/2012
8102138Electric power steering apparatus and method of assembling the same
A motor control apparatus includes a steering column having inserted therein a steering shaft to which steering torque is transmitted, a reduction gear box coupled to the steering shaft, and an electric motor that transmits a steering assisting force to the steering...
01/24/2012
8091679Electric power steering device
A highly safe electric power steering device including a control device for determining the failure of a motor current detector based on the difference between the motor current estimate value and the detected motor current value is provided. The abnormality determi...
01/10/2012
8091449Steering apparatus
End portions of lower-side telescopic friction plates 61, 61 which lie to face a front side of a vehicle body are connected integrally by a connecting portion 612, and a lower end 617 of the connecting portion 612 is fixed to an outer cir...
01/10/2012
8091240Assembling method of bearing unit
There is provided an assembling method of a bearing unit which has a bearing having an outer ring and a retainer plate having a retainer hole for holding the outer ring. The assembling method has pressing a plurality of portions in a circumferential direction of a c...
01/10/2012
8091236Manufacturing method for toothed power transmission member having oil reservoir and toothed power transmission member manufactured by this manufacturing method
A method of manufacturing a toothed power transmission member having an oil reservoir according to the present invention includes steps of forming primitive concave portion, which form a basis for the oil reservoir, on a surface of a toothed power transmission membe...
01/10/2012
8088230Rolling apparatus
A rolling apparatus including an external member having a raceway surface on an inner peripheral surface thereof, an internal member having a raceway surface on an outer peripheral surface thereof, and a plurality of rolling elements which are rotatably provided bet...
01/03/2012
8087974Manufacturing method for worm wheel, and worm gear reducer
A manufacturing method for a worm wheel, the worm wheel meshed with an operational worm at usage, has steps of preparing a worm wheel, in which at least a surface layer of a tooth portion is made of synthetic resin, preparing a machining worm, in which pitch of teet...
01/03/2012
8083637Toroidal continuously variable transmission
The support beam 34 having the cylindrical convex surface 33 is provided at the intermediate portion of the trunnion 9b. The recess 38 of the partial cylindrical surface formed on the outside of the outer ring 37 on the thru...
12/27/2011
8052331Bearing fixing device and bearing unit
A rolling bearing fixing device includes at least one bearing having mutually rotatable inner and outer rings, a housing having at least one fitting hole into which the bearing is fitted and a bolt insertion hole, a pair of fixing plates having at least one large-di...
11/08/2011
8021485Positioning apparatus
In the present positioning apparatus, a positioning apparatus, comprising: a box body including a process chamber exposed to a decompression environment in the interior of the box body and an opening allowing said process chamber to communicate with an outside; a mo...
09/20/2011
8016490Thin-wall bearing
A thin-wall bearing, comprising a retainer (4) formed in a divided type having a plurality of resin plate-like members (5), (5), . . . curved along an inner ring (1) and an outer ring (2). The retainer (4) comprises pockets ...
09/13/2011
8011268Steering column system
To provide a steering column system which has superior operating feeling and operating properties which can suppress an operational failure, an engaging arm is displaced relative to a cam member by an annular member that is deformed elastically. Distal ends of gear ...
09/06/2011
8007184Self-aligning roller bearing with retainer and manufacturing method for self-aligning roller bearing retainer
There is realized a self-aligning roller bearing with retainer that stabilizes the orientation of spherical rollers and prevents these spherical rollers from skewing, and which can be rotated at high speed, and furthermore which enables efficient lubricant feed into...
08/30/2011
8007181Rolling bearing
A grease composition having an apparent viscosity at −30° C. of 5 to 200 Pa·s is sealed in a rolling bearing which retains a plurality of rolling elements between an inner ring and an outer ring in such a way that the rolling elements can freely roll. Thereby, t...
08/30/2011
8005594Control apparatus for electric power steering apparatus
The present invention provides a control apparatus for an electric power steering apparatus comprises: a steering assist command value calculating section; a current control section that calculates a voltage command value; and a motor driving section that drives a m...
08/23/2011
7985024Rolling element accommodating belt for linear guide apparatus, linear guide apparatus and metallic mold for manufacturing rolling element accommodating belt
The metallic mold 90 includes a product configuration portion 93 formed between an upper mold 91 and a lower mold 92. This product configuration portion 93 is composed so that a rolling element accommodating belt 50 formed b...
07/26/2011
7983816Control apparatus for electric power steering apparatus
The present invention provides a control apparatus for an electric power steering apparatus comprises: a steering assist command value calculating section; a current control section that calculates a voltage command value; and a motor driving section that drives a m...
07/19/2011
7967512Rolling bearing unit for rotation support unit
A retainer plate 7a is fitted on a smaller-diameter step portion 9a of an outer ring 5a, and a retaining ring 11 fitted on the smaller-diameter step portion 9a is engaged with retaining projections 15...
06/28/2011
7959358Hub unit for driving wheel
A sensor for detecting a speed of rotation is an active sensor, a sensing portion 35 of the sensor directly faces the magnetic encoder 10 without interposition between it and the encoder 10, and a harness 34 (or connector) of the sensor
06/14/2011
7959167Steering apparatus
Even when bending stress acts on a steering gearbox 1 about attachment holes 161 and 171 of vehicle attachment boss portions 16 and 17, deformation of the vehicle attachment boss portions 16 and 17 in both the longitu...
06/14/2011
7954395Steering apparatus
In the event that a moment in a bending direction is generated in a pinion shaft, for example, when a vehicle is involved in a collision or the like, since a bending facilitating portion which is a circumferential groove 111e bends, stress is concentra...
06/07/2011
7946018Assembly apparatus for ball screw device, parts supply device and counter device
An assembly apparatus for assembling a ball screw device includes a support block, a nut arranged in a longitudinal direction, a nut reception base that arranges the nut so that its axial direction towards vertical direction of the assembly apparatus and that suppor...
05/24/2011
7930826Method for manufacturing a fastening portion for a steering apparatus
When an outer circumference of a clamping portion 25 and an outer circumference of a circular outer circumference 26 are restrained by a die 6 while inserting a non-circular punch 5 into a circular hole 28, paddings 27, 27 a...
04/26/2011
7927022Thrust roller bearing
Even when used at a high rotation speed, outside parts in relation to the radial direction of a cage 3, of the circumferential parts of a pocket 7 are kept from being worn away by outside end surfaces 21 of rollers 2. Moreover the rollers...
04/19/2011
7921743Ball screw device
A ball circulating member constructed in an external face of a nut is provided with ball scooping sections for scooping up balls rolling on between ball screw grooves of a screw shaft and the nut, along a line tangent to a center orbital circle of the balls. The pat...
04/12/2011
7908748Rack and pinion type steering device and method of manufacturing the same
A rack and pinion type steering device capable of reducing contact surface pressure, suppressing the wear of contact surfaces, and preventing a rack guide movable amount from being excessively increased by increasing the contact area of the outer peripheral surface ...
03/22/2011
7901141Hub unit bearing
A sealing device 12b of a hub unit bearing O has a first slinger 16 fixed to an inner ring 5, a second slinger 17 fixed to an outer ring 1, and a sealing portion 18 which is fixed to the first slinger 16 and is...
03/08/2011
7891920Spindle device and machining center including the same
To provide a spindle device and a machining center, in which spindle replacement can be carried out in an extremely short time, downtime during maintenance is short, and productivity is high. In a spindle device 20, there are provided wirings 41, 42 ex...
02/22/2011
7886865Electric power steering apparatus
To provide an electric power steering apparatus in which it is possible to reduce a size of the entire structure of a control unit while sufficiently showing a heat radiation effect of heat generating members. The electric power steering apparatus includes a steerin...
02/15/2011
7886630Electric steering device
When a column 4 reaches a tilting ascent end, the lower end 732 of a nut 73 abuts on the buffering segment 83 of a buffer 82. Thus, while the buffering segment 83 of the buffer 82 is elastically deformed, the nut 7...
02/15/2011
7883273Cage for roller bearing
An end portion of a pin 2 rotatably supporting a rolling body 1 is fitted in a pin-receiving hole 4 formed in an annular side plate 3. The pin-receiving hole 4 has interference in a range from 5 to 40 μm between itself and the out...
02/08/2011
7873453Control apparatus for electric power steering apparatus
The present invention provides a control apparatus for an electric power steering apparatus comprises: a steering assist command value calculating section; a current control section that calculates a voltage command value; and a motor driving section that drives a m...
01/18/2011
7862235Linear guide device
In a linear guide device, a rolling element cage 24 holding balls interposed between a rail side rolling element rolling groove and a slider side rolling element rolling groove is formed of a synthetic resin material, and has two plate parts 244 facing...
01/04/2011
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