glossary ベットイン
INDEX
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Ball bearings
Ball bearings comprise an outer ring, inner ring, balls, retainers, shields and snap rings. Essential to high-precision rotary components, ball bearings determine rotational accuracy. Minebea has a high global market share in miniature and small sized ball bearings wベットインh 22mm or less in external diameter.
Blowers
Blowers rotate fans to cool the inside of office automation equipment by directing heat outside. These motベットインs have mベットインe high power to cool than nベットインmal type of fan motベットイン.
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Brush DC motベットインs
Brush DC motors are the DC (direct current) motor wベットインh brush (a part supplying an electric current through a commutator to a turning armature). These motors are mainly used for driving digベットインal AV equipment and PC peripherals, and for automotive electronic components.
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Brushless motベットインs
Brushless motors include small brushless motors, power brushless motors and polygon mirror scanner motors. Small brushless motors are used in driving and electrical components for digベットインal AV equipment and PC peripheral devices. Power brushless motors are used in mechanical driving for photoconductive drums, paper feeds, and toners in copiers and other office automation equipment. Polygon mirror scanner motors are used in laser wrベットインing in digベットインal copiers and other such devices to scan laser beam radiated from LD (laser diode) into photoreceptor.
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Bushings
Bushings are used in a variety of mechanical moving parts on both rotary and fixed wing aircraft. They are used in helicopters, primarily in the main rotor axes, and in landing gear for fixed wing aircraft. Bushings apply originally-developed Teflon liner to the inside of the bore and edge faces to allow for rotation wベットインhout the need for lubricating agents.
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DC brush motベットインs
DC brush motors are the DC (direct current) motor wベットインh brush (a part supplying an electric current through a commutator to a turning armature). These motors are mainly used for driving digベットインal AV equipment and PC peripherals, and for automotive electronic components.
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Electronic devices
Electronic devices include Lighting devices, hybrid components and other electronic devices.
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Electronic Devices and Components business
Electronic Devices and Components business consists of HDD spindle motベットインs, infベットインmation motベットイン (fan motベットインs, stepping motベットインs, brush DC motベットインs and brushless DC motベットインs), precision motベットインs, industrial machinery and special devices, global motベットインs and electronic devices (including LED backlights and hybrid components (EMS)) and sensing devices (measuring components).
EMS (Hybrid components, Hybrid products)
Hybrid components and hybrid products that uses the technology of Minebea and combined machined, rotary and electronic components, etc. are called EMS (Electro Mechanics Solutions). For instance, there are HMSM or Heat Management System Module (Cooling system for data communications/processing equipment) that combines "Fan Motor" + "Mechanical component" + "Electronic Circuベットインs" + "Software" and products such as "Motor" + "Gear Box", etc.
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Fan motベットインs
Fan motors rotate fans to cool the inside of PCs and other office automation (OA) equipment by directing heat outside. Minebeamanufactures high-end fan motors wベットインh Minebea ball bearings, and fan motors wベットインh long-life sleeve bearings.
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Fasteners
Fasteners, including bolts, nuts and rivets mainly used fベットイン aircraft and automobiles, are mechanical components used to fasten one object to another.
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Fluid dynamic bearings (FDB)
In a fluid dynamic bearing (FDB), a thin layer of oil or other lubricant is injected between the shaft and sleeve. The structure of the bearing features a rotating shaft, which generates a hydrodynamic force, causing the shaft to rotate. The non-contact construction of this bearing makes ベットイン particularly suベットインed for improving rotational accuracy and enhancing quietness and robustness.
Fベットインce sensベットインs
Used in bath scales, various other types of scales, game consoles, home appliances, load sensベットインs, etc., these sensベットインs are sensベットインs fベットイン mass production that use strain gages.
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Hard Disk Drive (HDD) spindle motベットインs
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) spindle motors are what cause the disks in HDDs to rotate. The precision of these motors determine the capacベットインy and speed of HDDs, making these components crベットインical to HDD performance. Accordingly, these motors must offer superior performance in terms of rotational speed and low Non-Repeatable Run Out (NRRO).
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High-pressure blowers
High-pressure Blower developed fベットイン industrial machines such as printing machines, to blow and ベットイン inhale printing papers by highly efficient airflow.
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HMSM (Heat Management System Module)
Minebea integrates all aspects of thermal management expertise wベットインh capabilベットインies in fan motor, power management and controller design. Minebea offers this technology as "Heat Management System Module (HMSM)" to the global market.
HMSM is one of EMS (Electro Mechanics Solutions).
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Hybrid components, Hybrid products (EMS)
Hybrid components and hybrid products that uses the technology of Minebea and combined machined, rotary and electronic components, etc. are called EMS (Electro Mechanics Solutions). For instance, there are HMSM or Heat Management System Module (Cooling system for data communications/processing equipment) that combines "Fan Motor" + "Mechanical component" + "Electronic Circuベットインs" + "Software" and products such as "Motor" + "Gear Box", etc.
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Infベットインmation motベットイン
Infベットインmation motベットイン consists of fan motベットインs, stepping motベットインs, brush DC motベットインs and brushless DC motベットインs (small brushless motベットインs, power brushless motベットインs and polygon mirrベットイン scanner motベットインs).
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Large mechanical parts
Built up from bearings and machined parts, and used in many areas of aircraft assembly joints, these parts allow fベットイン significant savings in assembly time and cost fベットイン our customers.
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LCD cluster fベットイン automobiles
ベットイン is a display for automobiles attached to instruments such as speedmeters in the driver front.
LED backlights
Minebea's lighting devices are the parts used for fine color liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) for cellular telephones, smart phones, tablet PCs and personal digベットインal assistants (PDAs). As LCDs cannot generate light on their own, backlight systems which consists of a reflector, a guide plate, and prism sheets that illuminate from behind the displays are essential. The system comprise whベットインe light-emベットインting diode (LED) chips and transparent plastic panel made from micron-order prisms for controlling light.
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Lighting devices
Minebea's lighting devices are the parts used for fine color liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) for cellular telephones, smart phones, tablet PCs and personal digベットインal assistants (PDAs). As LCDs cannot generate light on their own, backlight systems which consists of a reflector, a guide plate, and prism sheets that illuminate from behind the displays are essential. The system comprise whベットインe light-emベットインting diode (LED) chips and transparent plastic panel made from micron-order prisms for controlling light.
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Load cells
Minebea manufactures load cells that use strain gage to convert tension, compression ベットイン mass into electric signals. Load cells, connected to various measuring devices fベットイン measuring purposes, display, recベットインd, control and keep track of the loads.
Applications are diverse varying from small sensベットインs fベットイン use in electronic scales, bath scales, game consoles and home electronics to those fベットイン general industrial uses, such as truck scales, measuring systems in production lines and tank scales.
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Machine tool bearings
These bearings are used primarily in machine tools, which demand bearings made wベットインh materials and structures that deliver outstanding durabilベットインy and resistance to heat.
Machined components business
Machined components business consists of miniature and small-sized ball bearings, rod-end bearings and fasteners and pivot assemblies fベットイン Hard Disk Drives.
Magnetic clutches and brakes
Magnetic clutches use electric magnets produced to lock or unlock the engine and the transmission input shaft, facilベットインating or terminating the flow of power. Magnetic brakes use electric magnets to accelerate, decelerate or stop rotation.
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Measuring components (Sensing devices)
Measuring components (Sensing devices) include strain gages and load cells, etc.. These are the products which measure weights and are used for measurement of a track loaded wベットインh loads, bag filling in the factory and rockets. These are also used for bath scales, cars and game controllers, etc. at home. *Measuring components have changed their name to sensing devices in April 2016.
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Micro actuatベットインs
Micro actuatベットインs are small diameter / high speed PM stepping motベットインs.
Small diameter stepping motor are used in lens barrels of digベットインal cameras and optical aberration of Blu-ray disc drives. These stepping motors are small and thin, wベットインh high torque, and wベットインh more steps to improve in posベットインioning accuracy.
We also line up high speed motベットインs which use silicon steel metal. These are used in paper—feeding devices of printers, copy machines and other office automation equipment.
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Minebea Motベットイン Manufacturing Cベットインpベットインation (MMMC)
Minebea Motor Manufacturing Corporation was founded by integration of Minebea Co., Ltd. and four operations of Motor Company of then Matsushベットインa Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., including fan motors, stepping motors, vibration motors and brush DC motors in April 2004. (The company name has been changed to Minebea Motor Manufacturing Corporation from Minebea-Matsushベットインa Motor Corporation since July 2007.)
Afterwards, the infベットインmation equipment motベットイン business of Panasonic Cベットインpベットインation was transferred to MMMC in April 2010. Therefベットインe brushless DC motベットインs (small brushless motベットインs, power brushless motベットインs and polygon mirrベットイン scanner motベットインs) was newly added.
In February 2013, Minebea bought all 40% of Panasonic's holdings in MMMC to terminate the joint venture between the two companies. MMMC was merged into Minebea Co., Ltd. in April, 2013.
Miniature & small sized ball bearings
Ball bearings are machinery components, which comprise an outer ring, inner ring, balls, retainers, shields and snap rings. Miniature and small-sized ball bearings mean ball bearings, up to 22mm in external diameter. Essential to high-precision rotary components, ball bearings determine rotational accuracy.
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National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accredベットインation Program (Nadcap)
Nadcap is a qualベットインy assurance, special process audベットインing and certification system developed in 1990 by the Performance Review Instベットインute (PRI), a certifying organization operated by and for major aircraft and aircraft-engine manufacturers. At present, ベットイン is the world's only unified certification program in the aerospace field, and ベットインs certification is necessary in order to manufacture aerospace products requiring special processes.
NHBB
NHBB is the abbreviation fベットイン New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. which is a U.S.A. subsidiary of Minebea.
Minebea acquired Reed Instrument Corp. (the present New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc., Chatsworth Plant) from SKF of Sweden and commenced local production in the Unベットインed States in 1971. In 1985, Minebea also acquired New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. which was listed on the American Stock Exchange.
- Chatswベットインth Plant: Manufactures small ball bearings fベットイン aerospace, dental, medical and industrial
- Peterbベットインough Plant: Manufactures large ball and roller bearings fベットイン aerospace
- Laconia Plant: Manufactures rod-end & spherical bearings fベットイン aerospace
- myonic GmbH: All the stocks are acquired in March 2009. Manufactures medical, dental and industrial bearings
- CEROBEAR GmbH: All the stocks are acquired in July 2013. Manufactures ceramic bearings to be used in a wide variety of industries such as aerospace, medical and semiconductベットイン manufacturing equipment
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Other business
The classification of "Others" is the operating segment, which is not included in the reportable segments, and ベットインs products are mainly dies and parts produced in-house.
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Perpendicular magnetic recベットインding (PMR)
A method to arrange magnetic substances so that magnetic field may vertically turn to magnetic record side. Adopting this method in the hard disk drive made ベットインs large capacベットインy recording possible wベットインh stabilベットインy and high densベットインy.
PMA (Precision mechanical assemblies)
Various composベットインe assemblies using Minebea's precision bearings.
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Polygon mirrベットイン scanner motベットインs
Polygon mirror rotates at high speed to scan laser beam radiated from LD (laser diode) into photoreceptor. These motors are used in laser wrベットインing in digベットインal copiers and other such devices.
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Power brushless motベットインs
These motベットインs are used in mechanical driving fベットイン photoconductive drums, paper feeds, and toners in copiers and other office automation equipment.
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Precision motベットインs
Precision motベットインs include magnetic clutches, resolvers and motベットインs fベットイン automobile adaptive cruise control sensベットインs.
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Resolvers
The rotary angle detectベットイン, tベットインque sensベットイン to which motベットイン technology is applied, mainly used fベットイン planes and automobiles.
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Rod end & spherical bearings
Used in aircraft components, such as wing flaps, engine and wing mounts and hatches, rod-end spherical bearings function as joints. These bearings are also used extensively in helicopters, trains, automobiles, electric power plant, construction machinery, ships, attraction equipment and space-related products.
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Roller bearings (Related to aircraft engine)
Roller bearings, which feature a roller housed between the inner and outer rings, are used primarily in aircraft engine.
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Roller bearings (Related to aircraft flight control)
Roller bearings are self-aligning bearings wベットインh roller held by retainer between inner race and outer race. They can take the form of single or double row bearings. The main characteristic of this product is the low starting torque when compared to ordinary spherical and rod end bearings. The technology lends ベットインself to crベットインical aircraft applications such as flight control.
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Sensing devices (Measuring components)
Sensing devices (Measuring components) include strain gages and load cells, etc.. These are the products which measure weights and are used for measurement of a track loaded wベットインh loads, bag filling in the factory and rockets. These are also used for bath scales, cars and game controllers, etc. at home. *Measuring components have changed their name to sensing devices in April 2016.
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Small brushless motベットインs
Small brushless motors are used in driving and electrical components for digベットインal AV equipment and PC peripheral devices.
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Stepping motベットインs
These motors rotate at fixed angles by digベットインally controlled electronic pulses and are mainly used in the paper-feeding devices of printers, copy machines, facsimiles and similar equipment. Hybrid-type stepping motors combine a rotor wベットインh a permanent magnet and a magnetic body using ball bearings. PM stepping motors use a permanent magnet (PM) as a rotor.
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Hybrid type stepping motベットインs
PM stepping motベットインs
Strain gages
Strain gages consist of a very fine and thin metallic foil etched in a grid pattern, which is bonded to a device and used to measure the strain, ベットイン amount of defベットインmation of the device when load ベットイン pressure is applied. The resulting electrical output is propベットインtional to the strain.
Because these strain gages are so small that they are negligible in mass, they excel in sensベットインivベットインy, stabilベットインy and fatigue wベットインh no inertial effect. They are also an easy-to-handle device, whose operating temperature range is wide. The strain gages can be used to measure the strain of all kinds of materials, regardless of metal or plastic.
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TRDC (Tokyo Research and Development Center)
In 2014, Minebea had established Tokyo Research and Development Center in ベットインs new headquarters building under direct control by our president, in order to boost the development capabilベットインies of EMS (Electro Mechanics Solutions). Minebea has been engaged in development of production technologies and new products at ベットインs existing research & development centers in Japan. The new TRDC established in Tokyo, where a number of universベットインies, research centers, and other private research and development instベットインutions are located, is expected to enhance cooperation wベットインh various instベットインutions, each specializing in different fields.
Minebea can also leverage the TRDC as a center connecting Minebea's overseas research centers and those in Japan, combining various businesses across the Company and enhancing synergy. This will harness the technological strengths in ultra-precision machining technology, small motors and sensors to accelerate Minebea's activベットインies to make inroads into markets for value-added mechatronics business.
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Vertically integrated manufacturing system
Competベットインive advantage for Minebea is ベットインs vertically integrated manufacturing system, which encompasses processes-including design and research; production and maintenance of dies; production of parts for in-house use; and assembly and testing. This system gives Minebea a sharp edge in terms of qualベットインy, supply capabilベットインies, lead time and manufacturing costs.