Patents Examined by James Pilkington
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Patent number: 12188520Abstract: A rolling bearing assembly includes an inner ring and an outer ring that are coaxial about an axis of rotation and between which rolling elements are arranged. An annular metal rolling bearing cage is centered about the axis of rotation and arranged radially between the inner ring and the outer ring, the annular cage having recesses for retaining rolling elements, an outer annular face facing the outer ring, and an inner annular face facing the inner ring. At least one insert at least one tubular portion engaged in a recess of the annular cage, a tubular portion of the insert being connected at one radial end to a rim arranged in abutment against the inner annular face or the outer annular face of the annular cage. A latching means on the insert cooperates with a latching means in the annular cage to hold the insert in a recess.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Geoffray Fernand Jacques Deterre
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Patent number: 12180997Abstract: A bearing for a bicycle has an outer collar, an inner collar, and an annular gasket. The outer collar and the inner collar are each made of a material comprising one of a self-lubricating material or a metal coated with a self-lubricating coating. The inner collar is mounted rotatably in the outer collar. The annular gasket is mounted between the outer collar and the inner collar, abuts with corresponding surfaces of the outer collar and the inner collar, and is made of a material having a hardness harder than a hardness of the materials for the inner collar and the outer collar.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: GLORY WHEEL ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.Inventor: Chien-Hao Lee
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Patent number: 12181000Abstract: A deep groove ball bearing with a split cage includes an outer ring, an inner ring, steel balls, an upper frame body, a bearing frame, and a lower frame body. Pocket grooves are formed in the bearing frame. The bearing frame is provided with a connecting piece. A first insertion groove and a second insertion groove are formed in both side walls of the connecting piece. A connecting groove is formed in a bottom surface of each of the pocket grooves. An oil storage cavity is formed in the upper frame body. The oil storage cavity is provided with a positioning flange at an opening. The positioning flange is in insertion fit with the connecting groove. The lower frame body is provided with arc-shaped grooves at positions corresponding to the pocket grooves. A connecting seat is formed on the lower frame body.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: C&U COMPANY LIMITED.Inventors: Xuefeng Bai, Jialiang Xu
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Patent number: 12180996Abstract: A bearing includes a washer and a retention band. The washer includes an annular portion, a cylindrical outer flange, and a radius portion connecting the outer portion to the flange. The retention band includes a cylindrical ring disposed radially inside of the cylindrical outer flange, and a tab extending radially outward from the cylindrical ring. In an example embodiment, the tab extends radially outside of the washer. In some example embodiments, the cylindrical ring has a split. In an example embodiment, the split is circumferentially offset from the tab. In an example embodiment, the retention band also includes an axial leg connecting the tab to the cylindrical ring. In an example embodiment, the retention band has exactly one tab. In an example embodiment, the retention band has a plurality of circumferentially spaced tabs.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: James Brown, Charles Schwab, Steven Corn
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Patent number: 12158182Abstract: A plain bearing of a planetary gearbox has first and second rotationally connected components. Oil adjacent an oil feed pocket of the first component is directed into the bearing clearance between the components by a first line that opens into the pocket. The line includes a first portion and a downstream second portion. The flow cross section of the first portion is smaller than the flow cross section of the second portion. The flow cross section for the oil, in the feed direction, in the circumferential direction of the clearance and in the main rotation direction of the second component relative to the first component increases more than counter to the main rotation direction of the second component, or in the circumferential direction of the clearance and counter to the main rotation direction of the second component increases more than in the main rotation direction of the second component.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KGInventors: Stephan Uhkötter, Uwe Kracht, Wolfram Kurz-Hardjosoekatmo, Rens Douma, Ivo Martin
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Patent number: 12158180Abstract: A conical bearing member includes a communication hole communicating an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the conical bearing member, and the inner peripheral surface includes a press-fit region in contact with a shaft and an enlarged diameter region having a diameter greater than a diameter of the press-fit region and including an inner opening part of the communication hole. A tapered part having a diameter increasing toward the enlarged diameter region is provided at an end part of the press-fit region on the enlarged diameter region side.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Tadashi Akahori, Kazuya Iinuma
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Patent number: 12158183Abstract: A cage assembly for a bearing includes a first cage half and a second cage half. The first cage half includes a first annular section with a first plurality of circumferentially spaced apertures for receiving a plurality of rolling elements, and a first cylindrical section arranged for positioning the cage assembly on a first shaft. The second cage half includes a second annular section with a second plurality of circumferentially spaced apertures for receiving the plurality of rolling elements, and a second cylindrical section arranged for positioning the cage assembly on a second shaft. In an example embodiment, the first cylindrical section or the second cylindrical section has an aperture for radial flow of a lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: James Brown, Dennis Roffe, Joseph T. Griffin
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Patent number: 12152636Abstract: A sealing device includes a first sealing member and a second sealing member. The first sealing member has a sleeve mounted on an inner member, and a flange. The second sealing member has a tubular portion mounted on the outer member, a disk portion that faces the flange, a radial lip in slidable contact with the sleeve, and a side lip extending from the disk portion and being in slidable contact with the flange. The first sealing member has an annular first protrusion protruding from the flange toward the disk portion. The first protrusion is disposed radially outside the side lip and overlaps the side lip in radial directions. The second sealing member has an annular second protrusion protruding from the disk portion toward the flange. The second protrusion is disposed radially outside the first protrusion and overlaps the first protrusion in radial directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya Sakano, Yuichi Tarukawa
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Patent number: 12146523Abstract: A tilting pad bearing (10) including tilting pads (1, 2, 3) retained and positioned so that the tilting pads can tilt in a housing body (8) with a frame-type spring unit (8), such that, during operation of the tilting pad bearing (10), converging bearing gaps are created between the tilting pads (1,2,3) and a rotor body (4) that is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation. In order to improve the functioning and/or manufacturing of the tilting pad bearing (10), the tilting pad bearing (10) includes rolling elements (6, 7) arranged between the housing body (5) and the tilting pads (1,2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Armin Schuelke, Thomas Lang
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Patent number: 12140180Abstract: A bearing assembly includes an inner ring with an inner raceway and disposable about a first member and an outer ring with an outer raceway disposed about the inner ring. A middle ring is disposed between the inner and outer rings and has an inner intermediate raceway and an outer intermediate raceway and is configured to connect with a second member so as to be rotatable about a central axis through the first member. A first set of rolling elements is disposed between the inner ring and the middle ring and a second set of rolling elements is disposed between the outer ring and the middle ring. The outer ring is sized such that a ratio of the outside diameter to the axial width is greater than eight to one (8:1) and the middle ring is formed of a material different than the inner and outer rings.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Robert Clyde Roos, William D. Schmidt
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Patent number: 12135060Abstract: A member for guiding an element mobile in oscillation or rotation is presented. The member has a body made of a hardened metallic material, provided with a bore for assembling the mobile element, having cavities that are distributed discontinuously in the bore and capable of acting as grease reserves, and having optional grease supply. In the bore are defined a bearing surface outside of the cavities and the grease supply, and a non-bearing surface in the cavities and the grease supply. The bore includes at least one zone with: cavities having a depth of between 2 and 5 mm, and a quantity of grease in the cavities per bearing surface of between 0.05 and 0.3 g/cm2. A mechanical system having such a member and a method for manufacturing such a member is also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: HYDROMECANIQUE ET FROTTEMENTInventors: Fabrice Prost, Pierrick Pavallier
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Patent number: 12135077Abstract: A friction bearing of a planetary gearbox has a first rotationally fixed component and a second component rotatably connected thereto. Oil in the region of an oil feed pocket of the first component is directed into the bearing clearance between the components. The oil is directed into the oil feed pocket via at least one first line that opens into the oil feed pocket. Oil is also directed via at least one second line into the oil feed pocket, the port region of said second line into the oil feed pocket in the circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and in the main rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component and/or in the axial direction of the friction bearing being spaced apart from the port region of the first line into the oil feed pocket.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KGInventors: Alexander Schütt, Tobias Eberhardt, Rens Douma, Uwe Kracht, Maximilian Prölss, Wolfram Kurz-Hardjosoekatmo, Stephan Uhkötter
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Patent number: 12135057Abstract: A tilt pad journal bearing for supporting a rotating shaft includes an annular support ring and a plurality of arcuate pads tiltably mounted in the annular support ring and circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The tilt pad journal bearing further has a lubrication arrangement disposed between each pair of the plurality of arcuate pads. The lubrication arrangement includes a lubrication manifold connected to the annular support ring and recessed relative to a shaft support surface of adjacent arcuate pads to define an oil mixing cavity, and a plurality of lubrication nozzles protruding from the lubrication manifold into the oil mixing cavity. A cross-sectional flow area of at least one of the plurality of lubrication nozzles positioned toward a center of the lubrication manifold is larger than a cross-sectional flow area of a remainder of the plurality of nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Elliott CompanyInventors: Wei Li, Manish Rambhau Thorat, Brian Christopher Pettinato, Christopher Joseph Braman
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Patent number: 12135058Abstract: A retainer is used for a linear guideway, including a main body, a retaining portion, and a hollow portion. The main body extends along the longitudinal direction of the retainer. The retaining portion extends from a long side of the main body along the width direction of the retaining portion. The hollow portion is abutted between the retaining portion and the main body for allowing a part of the retaining portion to be elastically deformed when the retaining portion is compressed by an external force. Therefore, when balls are assembled, the retainer of the present invention uses the partial elastic deformation of the retaining portion to avoid damage caused by directly collided with the balls, thereby enhancing convenience of installing and removing the balls. In addition, the hollow portion can be used to save lubricating oil for achieving the effect of extended lubrication.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: HIWIN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.Inventors: Yu-Shun Cheng, Kuan-Chieh Liu
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Patent number: 12129889Abstract: A ball spline with detour tracks includes spline shaft, nut part movable along a longitudinal direction of the spline shaft, and balls between the nut part and the spline shaft, wherein the nut part includes nut adapted to insert the spline shaft thereinto and retainers on longitudinal sides of the nut, the spline shaft includes tracks extended along the longitudinal direction, the nut includes load track grooves formed in longitudinal direction on inner peripheral surface into which the spline shaft is inserted and non-load circulating portions formed in the longitudinal direction, each retainer includes circulating grooves on the inner peripheral surface to face the load track groove and non-load circulating portion, the balls run between the tracks and the load track grooves, and each track includes track groove formed in longitudinal direction of the spline shaft and detour tracks whose longitudinal sides are connected to the track groove.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignees: WON ST CO., LTD., WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Taek Won Lee, Hyeok Do Kwon, Gi Dong Son, Dong Hyup Nam, William J Fosnight, Martin R Elliott
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Patent number: 12129892Abstract: Various teachings herein may be used to make a bearing bush for a rotating shaft, wherein a wall of the bearing bush has a wall thickness which amounts to less than 10% of the diameter of the bearing bush. In the axial direction, the bearing bush is made from a plurality of layers connected with a material bond. Each layer has a layer thickness between 10 ?m and 200 ?m and the wall has closed cavities which are filled with a powder.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Carsten Schuh, Thomas Soller, Rolf Vollmer
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Patent number: 12123462Abstract: A journal bearing includes an oil supply nozzle, having an oil distribution part which extends in an axial direction of the rotation shaft and supplies lubricating oil, and a pad, provided at the rear side of the oil supply nozzle, in a rotational direction of the rotation shaft and supporting the rotation shaft rotatably. The inner periphery face of the pad, which opposes the outer periphery face of the rotation shaft, has an opening side face, in which the radial direction spacing between the inner periphery face and the outer periphery face of the rotation shaft becomes smaller, from the front end face of the pad, located at the front side in the rotational direction of the rotation shaft, toward the rear side in the rotational direction, and between the oil distribution part and the pad, the journal bearing has a bubble discharge path which discharges air bubbles.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Generator Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naokatsu Takara, Yosuke Uchida, Saya Okano
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Patent number: 12117041Abstract: A turbo fluid machine includes a partition wall separating an inside of a housing into a compression space and a bearing space; and a foil bearing. The partition wall includes a support part having an end face raised toward a thrust collar in an axial direction. The support part has a groove formed in the end face and radially extending to an outer peripheral surface of the support part. Top foils of the foil bearing each have one surface facing the thrust collar and the other surface elastically supported by corresponding one of bump foils of the foil bearing. The foil bearing is mounted on the end face such that a position of the groove corresponds to a position of a gap between the bump foils and a position of a gap between the top foils and such that the groove faces the thrust collar in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Fumiya Shinoda, Fumihiro Suzuki, Takahito Kunieda
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Patent number: 12104644Abstract: Provided is a floating-sleeve hybrid fluid bearing. The floating-sleeve hybrid fluid bearing may comprise: a bearing housing which is mounted by ring-coupling to the outer circumferential surface of a rotary shaft; and a floating sleeve which is mounted between the rotary shaft and the bearing housing so that there is a gap between the floating sleeve and the rotary shaft, and between the floating sleeve and the bearing housing, wherein the rotation of the floating sleeve is constrained by the bearing housing during the rotation of the rotary shaft, and one side of the floating sleeve in the circumferential direction is open in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUSInventors: Keun Ryu, Hyun Sung Jung
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Patent number: 12098746Abstract: A rolling element bearing having inner and outer bearing rings with rolling elements therebetween, and an angle-of-rotation limiting device that limits the relative rotation between the inner and outer bearing rings within an angle-of-rotation range from 0° to greater than 360° and includes a first stop element arranged on the inner bearing ring and a second stop element arranged on the outer bearing ring. The first stop element is formed by a plurality of individual radial base bores arranged in peripheral succession in a row on the outer lateral surface of the inner bearing ring and by a slotted-hole-type radial base groove arranged between first and last radial base bores, and one or two separate angle limiters protruding radially beyond the radial base bores or groove can be inserted into the radial base bores or the radial base groove depending on the size of the angle of rotation to be limited.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Uwe Junginger, Meik Kreuzer