Wire Cage Patents (Class 384/525)
  • Patent number: 10690188
    Abstract: A flexible cage of a rolling bearing belonging to a wheel hub assembly for motor vehicles, having a substantially circular rib and a plurality of fingers which extend from a side of the rib and have a base portion, the rib and the fingers having partially spherical concave surfaces defining together a plurality of partially spherical cavities for retaining respective rolling bodies. The rib has substantially straight portions, each of them integrally connected to a base portion of a finger, substantially oblique portions and protrusion portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Maurizio Bertola
  • Patent number: 9709096
    Abstract: A cage for a rolling bearing, wherein the cage is intended to ensure the circumferential spacing of a row of rolling elements. The cage comprises pockets for the rolling elements and connecting portions, each connecting portion connecting two successive pockets. At least one of the connecting portions is elastically deformable at least in a circumferential direction so as to allow the two associated pockets to move relative to one another in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Laurent Varnoux, Thierry Adane, Thomas Perrotin
  • Patent number: 9638249
    Abstract: A cage for a rolling bearing formed from two axial halves and a rolling bearing cage assembly including a cage formed from two axial halves, include passages formed through the web separating adjacent rolling element pockets when the two halves are in an abutting relationship. A resilient element is inserted in at least one passage with axial ends extending into the adjacent rolling element pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: William Moratz
  • Patent number: 8216422
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a substrate within a processing chamber is provided. In one aspect, a substrate support member is provided comprising a housing having a bore formed therethrough, a support pin at least partially disposed within the bore, and a plurality of bearing elements disposed about the housing. In one aspect, the bearing elements comprise a roller having a central bore formed therethrough, a contoured outer surface, and a shaft at least partially disposed through the central bore. In another aspect, the bearing elements comprise a ball assembly comprising a larger spherical member and four smaller spherical members arranged about the larger spherical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kurita, Suhail Anwar, Toshio Kiyotake
  • Patent number: 8033245
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a substrate within a processing chamber is provided. In one aspect, a substrate support member is provided comprising a housing having a bore formed therethrough, a support pin at least partially disposed within the bore, and a plurality of bearing elements disposed about the housing. In one aspect, the bearing elements comprise a roller having a central bore formed therethrough, a contoured outer surface, and a shaft at least partially disposed through the central bore. In another aspect, the bearing elements comprise a ball assembly comprising a larger spherical member and four smaller spherical members arranged about the larger spherical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kurita, Suhail Anwar, Toshio Kiyotake
  • Publication number: 20100284640
    Abstract: The invention is characterized by a rolling bearing and tools for its assembly, it being possible for the bearing to have the same external dimensions as conventional rolling bearings. The invention comprises rolling bearings, commonly of ball bearing type, for journaling rotating movements where the rolling elements can be made as spherical balls or rollers or any other form of rolling element that is advantageous. The invention also comprises a method for mounting of rolling bearings, commonly of ball-bearing type, for journaling rotating movements where the rolling elements can be spherical balls, rollers or any other form of rolling element that is advantageous. The mounting is effected by means of sleeves which are given a fork-shaped design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: AGORA AB
    Inventors: Gunnar Bergling, Karl-Gustav Derman
  • Patent number: 7398724
    Abstract: A support structure carrying a thrust load of a compressor has a swash plate which contributes to a compressing operation by rotating according to rotation of a rotating shaft which is rotatably supported by a housing. The swash plate is rotatably supported with respect to the housing, and the support structure includes a thrust needle roller bearing having double-row needle rollers. The support structure carrying a thrust load of a compressor and the thrust needle roller bearing are thus obtained, with an improvement in inflow and outflow of a lubricating oil, a reduction of the differential slip of the needle rollers, and an improvement in strength durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Kousuke Obayashi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Shinji Oishi