Patents Examined by Phillip A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11473621
    Abstract: A porous gas bearing is disclosed. The porous gas bearing includes a housing having a fluid inlet and an aperture. A porous surface layer is disposed within the housing surrounding the aperture in a circumferential direction. The porous surface layer is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet. A damping system includes a damping system including a biasing member, the biasing member being disposed in a passageway that extends along the longitudinal direction of the aperture and circumferentially about the aperture, wherein the biasing member is arranged radially outward from the porous surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Sung Hwa Jeung, Jay H. Johnson, Donald Lee Hill, Matthew Cambio
  • Patent number: 11466729
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a rotation shaft, an impeller installed at one side of the rotation shaft, a rotor mounted at the other side of the rotation shaft to be spaced apart from the impeller along an axial direction of the rotation shaft, a stator surrounding an outer face of the rotor such that the stator is spaced apart from the rotor along a radial direction of the rotation shaft, a first bearing installed at the one side of the rotation shaft between the impeller and the rotor, and a second bearing installed at the other side of the rotation shaft, opposite to the first bearing with respect to the rotor, and disposed to be axially closer to the other end of the rotation shaft than the rotor. An outer diameter of the first bearing is larger than an outer diameter of the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunggi Kim, Byungjik Kim, Eunji Hwang, Jisu Hwang
  • Patent number: 11466732
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-friction lacquer having a polymer as a resin matrix and functional fillers, the functional fillers containing mixed-phase oxides and optionally further functional fillers. The invention further relates to a sliding element having a metallic substrate layer and a coating which is applied thereon and made of at least such an anti-friction lacquer and to a method for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Adam, Joachim Schluter
  • Patent number: 11460075
    Abstract: A method and device for fitting an angular contact roller bearing, including an inner bearing ring having an inner race arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the inner bearing ring and inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing, and a rim delimiting said race at the smallest diameter thereof, an outer bearing ring having an outer race arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the outer bearing ring and inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing, and a rim delimiting said race at the greatest diameter thereof, and also including a plurality of roller bearing elements arranged between the bearing rings and roll on the races and are held at uniform distances from one another in the circumferential direction by a bearing cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Eidloth, Reinhard Rumpel, Ernst Geiger, Heinrich Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11460071
    Abstract: An object of the present invention to provide a tapered roller bearing in which a flange portion is formed at a large-diameter end of an outer ring track surface of an outer ring, capable of providing high moment stiffness and long life without extremely decreasing its pure axial load capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hayashi, Takashi Wakisaka, Sahoko Manda
  • Patent number: 11460072
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carriage of a linear motion guide for arranging on a rail of the linear motion guide, said carriage having an at least substantially U-shaped cross-section and having at least one substantially U-shaped base body (15) which is supplemented with plastic components, wherein the carriage, in both legs of the U-shape, is in each case connected to at least one self-contained rolling body housing (7) which is kept open towards the rail in order to guide as precisely as possible on the rail and nevertheless being easy to assemble. According to the invention, at least parts of inner and outer boundary surfaces of a return channel (10) and both deflection channels (11) of one of the rolling body housings in the respective leg are formed by means of a one-piece plastic component in both legs of the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SCHNEEBERGER HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Jaques Bruni, Thomas Grolimund
  • Patent number: 11441600
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding member for a journal bearing. The sliding member includes a back-metal layer and a sliding layer, and has a partially cylindrical shape. The sliding layer includes a synthetic resin and has a sliding surface. The sliding layer has a linear expansion coefficient KS in a direction parallel to a circumferential direction of the sliding member, a linear expansion coefficient KJ in a direction parallel to a center axis direction of the sliding member, and a linear expansion coefficient KT in a direction perpendicular to the sliding surface, and the linear expansion coefficients KS, KJ, and KT satisfy the following relations (1) and (2): Relation (1): 1.1?KS/KJ?2; and Relation (2): 1.3?KT/{(KS+KJ)/2}?2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11441607
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding member for a thrust bearing. The sliding member includes a back-metal layer and a sliding layer, and has a partially annular shape. The sliding layer includes a synthetic resin and has a sliding surface. In a center line region of the sliding layer, the sliding layer has a linear expansion coefficient KS in a direction parallel to a circumferential direction of the sliding member, a linear expansion coefficient KJ in a direction parallel to a radial direction of the sliding member, and a linear expansion coefficient KT in a direction perpendicular to the sliding surface, and the linear expansion coefficients KS, KJ, and KT satisfy the following relations (1) and (2): Relation (1): 1.1?KS/KJ?2; and Relation (2): 1.3?KT/{(KS+KJ)/2}?2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11434957
    Abstract: A method for centering an impulse ring of a bearing unit on the center of rotation of the bearing unit including a first ring and a second ring. The impulse ring provided with a target having pairs of magnetic poles, and with a fixing sleeve. The method provides a) inserting the impulse ring between the first ring and the fixing sleeve, the first ring and the fixing sleeve being configured to maintain the impulse ring in an axial direction of the bearing; b) recording an angular signal over one mechanical turn of the impulse ring, the angular signal being generated by detection configured to cooperate with the pairs of magnetic poles; c) determining a total pitch deviation vector of the impulse ring based on the angular signal; d) shifting the impulse ring in a radial direction of the bearing, and e) securing the impulse ring relative to the first ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Yves-André Liverato, Olivier Verbe
  • Patent number: 11428264
    Abstract: A rotation system (10) is disclosed having at least one axial gas bearing, containing: a housing (11), a shaft (12) that can be rotated relative to the housing (11), at least one bearing plate (13) attached to the shaft (12), and at least one bearing assembly (14) which supports the bearing plate (13) relative to the housing (11), via an axial gas bearing. The bearing assembly (14) has, from inside to outside, a radially inner region (15) supporting the bearing plate (13), a radially central region (16) and a radially outer region (17) held by the housing (11). The radially inner region (15) contains at least one axial bearing element (19) and at least one retention element (20). The bearing plate (13) is supported by the axial bearing element (19), and the retention element (20) holds the axial bearing element (19) in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Fischer Engineering Solutions AG
    Inventors: Rolf Boller, Simon Hager
  • Patent number: 11428265
    Abstract: A newly built plain bearing has an inner ring and an outer ring each having a sliding surface along which the rings are movable relative to each other. The sliding surfaces are spaced from each other by an intermediate space that holds an initial greasing, and at least one of the sliding surfaces includes an anti-corrosion coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Frank Henninger, Stefan Keller, Andreas Vierling
  • Patent number: 11428262
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a bearing design that accommodates misalignment of a rotatable shaft in the bearing and is well suited to usage in a particulate-laden fluid. The bearing can be shaped with a curved surface along a longitudinal axis of the bearing, such as in a curved barrel shape or a ball shape, to provide a point contact instead of a line contact as is the case with conventional plain bearings. The point contact allows the bearing to adjust with a misalignment between ends of the shaft or between the external supports and facilitates the assembly and disassembly of the rotating shaft. Because the bearing compensates for misalignment, the bearing surfaces can have closer tolerances for a smaller gap between the bearing surfaces, which can result in improved performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MS Directional, LLC
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Niina, Libo Yang, Peter Nicholas Wells
  • Patent number: 11415169
    Abstract: A multiphase pump for conveying a multiphase process fluid includes a pump housing, a rotor and a radial bearing. The rotor is arranged in the pump housing and is configured to rotate about an axial direction. The radial bearing has a support carrier and a support structure to support the rotor with respect to a radial direction. The rotor includes a pump shaft and an impeller fixedly mounted on the pump shaft to convey the process fluid from a pump inlet to a pump outlet. A squeeze film damper is provided to reduce vibrations of the rotor, the squeeze film damper arranged around the support structure of the radial bearing, and having an radially outer surface. A damping gap is arranged between the support structure of the radial bearing and the radially outer surface of the squeeze film damper. The damping gap is configured to receive a damping fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SULZER MANAGEMENT AG
    Inventors: Karel De Raeve, Marco Carvalho, Thomas Welschinger
  • Patent number: 11415175
    Abstract: A rolling-element bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring having a bore, a bearing interior between by the outer ring and the inner ring, a plurality of rolling elements in the bearing interior, and a cover attached to the rolling-element bearing such that it extends along an end face of the rolling-element bearing and covers the bearing interior, the inner ring, and the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Andre Ress
  • Patent number: 11415172
    Abstract: The invention concerns a telescopic rail comprising a first rail element with two running surfaces, a second rail element with two running surfaces, at least one rolling body cage for positioning a plurality of rolling bodies. Such telescopic rails are found to suffer from the disadvantage that the rail elements and the rolling body cages all have to be designed to be moveable relative to each other. Accordingly, the invention proposes providing a telescopic rail in which the rolling body cage is secured to the first rail element so that the rolling bodies perform a sliding movement with respect to the running surfaces of the first rail element and the rolling bodies perform a sliding movement with respect to the running surfaces of the second rail element or roll on the running surfaces of the second rail element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ACCURIDE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Neuhaus, Thomas Quirein
  • Patent number: 11415170
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic thrust bearing pad includes a composite laminate including at least one ply including a plurality of fibers oriented in at least one direction, and a bearing surface configured to confront a rotating thrust surface of a rotating shaft for transmitting axial thrust loads from the rotating shaft to the composite laminate. The bearing pad also includes a support surface configured to confront a stationary surface of a stationary housing for transmitting the axial thrust loads from the composite laminate to the stationary housing, and at least one side surface extending between the bearing and support surfaces. The at least one ply is configured to expand non-uniformly when heated from a first temperature to a second temperature for causing the composite laminate to warp from an unstressed state to a stressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Ohio University
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali, Khairul Alam
  • Patent number: 11415168
    Abstract: A sliding bearing having a sealing arrangement for water pumps, configured to radially mount and seal a shaft in a housing between a wet side and a dry side. The sliding bearing and the sealing arrangement include a sliding bearing bushing made of a sintering material for radial mounting of the shaft, and a dry-side shaft seal arranged between the sliding bearing bushing and the dry side. A wet-side shaft seal is arranged between the wet side and the sliding bearing bushing and a lubricant reservoir with a substrate, made of a non-sintered material, which is porous in at least some sections, is arranged at least between the wet-side shaft seal and the sliding bearing bushing. The lubricant reservoir includes, in pores of the substrate, a lubricant insoluble in water. A volume of the lubricant reservoir and a volume of a lubricant filling take up a total volume of spaces between the wet-side shaft seal and the dry-side shaft seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Pawellek, Marcel Berner
  • Patent number: 11408465
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding bearing having an improved circularity and having achieved an increase in contact area with respect to a holder. The sliding bearing 1 comprises a pair of an upper halved member 2 and a lower halved member 3 which are portions of a cylinder halved in parallel to an axial direction. The sliding bearing has an oil hole 24 penetrating therethrough in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the cylinder. An inner peripheral portion 24a of the oil hole 24 has formed a laser-melted portion 25 which is an area in which a change in property in comparison to the original material has been caused by the thermal influence of laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Kato, Kohei Fukami
  • Patent number: 11401967
    Abstract: A bearing unit has at least one outer ring and at least one spring unit mounted axially adjacent to the at least one outer ring and connected to the at least one outer ring by a snap fit. The spring unit includes a support element having a connecting element such as a rib or a plurality of lugs, for connecting the support element to the bearing outer ring and a wave spring fastened to the support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Andreas Heile, Sebastian Kraus
  • Patent number: 11391324
    Abstract: An improved arrangement and method for preventing bearing ring creep is disclosed herein. The method includes providing a bearing ring including a radial surface having at least one spiral groove. The at least one groove has edge breaks connecting lateral sides to the radial surface of the bearing ring. The method includes arranging the bearing ring inside of a housing or around a shaft such that the radial surface of the bearing ring is arranged adjacent to an inner surface of the housing or an outer surface of the shaft. The edge breaks of the bearing ring frictionally engage with the shaft or the housing to prevent creep of the bearing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Guihui Zhong, Marion Jack Ince, Venkata Kottapalli, Arjun Kailassh Magalingam Adithyan