Patents Examined by Lenard A. Footland
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Patent number: 7121726Abstract: A fluid bearing device for preventing a lubricant from scattering outside even during rotation thereof, while holding a relatively large amount of lubricant in a seal surface portion. Lubricant is filled between a sleeve and a shaft, the seal surface portion is formed in a location facing an open end of the sleeve, a sectional shape of the seal surface portion is such that a smallest clearance from an outer peripheral surface of the shaft is at a radial bearing portion side end portion of the seal surface portion, a largest clearance is at an intermediate portion between the radial bearing portion side end portion and an open end side end portion of the seal surface portion, and a clearance at the open end side end portion of the seal surface portion is smaller than the clearance at the intermediate portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiro Haga
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Patent number: 7118279Abstract: The invention provides a sliding member including a plurality of holes formed on a sliding surface thereof, which sliding surface is adapted to slide on a mating member, at least one of the holes having an enlarged portion in at least a portion between an opening end and a bottom end thereof, the enlarged portion being larger than the opening end on the sliding surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2004Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.Inventors: Masahito Fujita, Hideo Tsuji, Takayuki Shibayama
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Patent number: 7114853Abstract: A suspension thrust bearing device includes a rolling bearing provided with two races and with rolling elements arranged between the races, and two caps each in contact with one race, one of the caps including a circular flange and the other cap including an axial portion provided with hooks intended for latching onto the said flange, which hooks leave an axial space of height b remaining between the said hooks and the said flange, one of the caps including an operational part provided with a chamfer intended to facilitate latching with the other cap, with an axial surface of height a and of diameter D and with a radial retention surface, and the other cap including an operational part provided with a chamfer intended to facilitate latching, with an axial surface of height c and with a radial retention surface, the sum of the heights a+b+c being greater than 1.9% of the diameter D.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2004Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Franck Debrailly, Thierry Poulle
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Patent number: 7114854Abstract: An object is to provide a cage and a thrust roller bearing with improved oil passage performance of a lubricating oil in the inside of a bearing while holding a needle roller in a stable manner so as to ensure excellent durability. The thrust roller bearing includes a needle roller and a cage holding the needle roller in pockets for accommodating the same. A length La of a roller holding portion provided in the pocket is set to be within a range of 30% to 80% of a length in a radial direction of the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2003Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Hayashi, Kousuke Obayashi, Shinji Oishi
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Patent number: 7111989Abstract: A bearing assembly having an inner ring and an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements positioned therebetween, and a lubricant disposed about the rolling elements between the inner ring and the outer ring where the lubricant comprises a hydrocracked base oil and a lithium complex thickener.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Emerson Power Transmission Manufacturing, L.P.Inventors: John P. Cook, Xuehai (Ben) Ni
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Patent number: 7111987Abstract: In a linear rolling bearing comprising a guide carriage (1) that can be mounted through rolling bearing rollers (7) on a guide rail (2), said guide carriage (1) comprising at least one endless roller channel (8) for the rollers (7), said roller channel (8) comprising a load-bearing channel (9) for load-bearing rollers (7), a return channel (10) for returning rollers (7) and two deflecting channels (11) that connect the load-bearing channel (9) and the return channel (10) to each other, said guide carriage (1) further comprising a carrier body (3) in which said return channel (10) and said load-bearing channel (9) are arranged, and, on two front ends of the carrier body (3), end members (4) in which said deflecting channels (11) are arranged, said return channel (10) comprising a return tube (27) whose tube ends are connected to said end members (4), and said roller channel comprising raceways for the rollers and side surfaces for laterally delimiting the roller channel, the return tube (27) comprises tonguesType: GrantFiled: May 15, 2003Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KGInventors: Martin Menges, Thomas Elicker
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Patent number: 7104692Abstract: A ball sleeve coupled between inner sliding rail and outer sliding rail of a hidden sliding track assembly is disclosed having four longitudinal rows of openings for accommodating balls, a narrow thin wall portion longitudinally extended on the middle between two distal ends of the top wall thereof through which the user can expand said sleeve body for easy installation of the balls in the openings and easy coupling of the ball sleeve to the inner sliding rail of a hidden sliding track assembly, and a plurality of recessed bearing portions respectively disposed at two sides of each of opening for supporting the balls in the openings.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Inventor: Chun-Min Lu
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Patent number: 7104696Abstract: A bearing device in which a rolling bearing is fitted on one axial end of a shaft and in which the one axial end of the shaft is caulked to fix the rolling bearing while preventing the same from coming out. The shape of the outer end face of the caulked portion is devised to maximize the resistance to the coming-out by the caulked portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichirou Kashiwagi, Naoki Morimura, Kazutoshi Toda, Tadashi Mitarai, Nobuyoshi Murakami
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Patent number: 7104695Abstract: A hub bearing assembly comprising a hub having a radially outwardly directed flange at one axial end for mounting the wheel of a vehicle, an outer ring having axially spaced raceways and a plurality of rolling elements arranged in two rows in the annular space between the outer ring and the hub, the diameter of the pitch circle of the outboard row of rolling elements adjacent said flange being greater than the diameter of the pitch circle of the rolling elements in the inboard row.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventor: Cengiz R. Shevket
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Patent number: 7104697Abstract: In a heat treatment wherein a blank (intermediate material) formed with a lubrication hole is heated and quenched, the quenching of the blank is terminated at the point of time that a temperature at a portion corresponding to a depth from a raceway surface (surface of a bearing part) of an outer ring (the bearing part), to which depth the maximum shear stress affects, is lowered to an MS point.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazutoshi Toda, Masao Goto
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Patent number: 7104698Abstract: There is disclosed an improved bearing and particularly an improved bearing assembly (15, 15A), eg. a thrust bearing assembly, which may be used in down-hole applications, such as down-hole drilling applications. Thrust bearing assemblies for use in down-hole applications have the conflicting requirements of a thick shaft assembly and high axial load bearing capacity in a small cross-section. The invention, therefore, provides: a bearing assembly (15, 15A) having at least two bearing elements (400, 400A) spaced by a first body (500, 500A), the first body (500, 500A) having means for flexing. Thus when a load is applied to the bearing assembly (15, 15A) the first body (500, 500A) is caused to flex. In an embodiment the flexing means comprise at least one circumferential groove or notch (510, 510A) formed on the first body (500, 500A).Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2000Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Rotech Holdings, Ltd.Inventor: Hector Filippus Alexander Van Drentham-Susman
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Patent number: 7104693Abstract: An exemplary squeeze film bearing cartridge for a turbocharger includes a center section, two outer sections having a first outer diameter and two intermediate sections having a second outer diameter, the intermediate sections positioned intermediate the center section and a respective one of the outer sections and wherein the first outer diameter exceeds the second outer diameter. Various exemplary bearing cartridges, housings, assemblies, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.Inventor: Peter Mavrosakis
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Patent number: 7101082Abstract: A linear bearing includes a linear guide on which a carriage is translationally movable, a plurality of balls between the linear guide and carriage located in a contact area between the linear guide and the carriage on a straight line, ball deflection sections each adjoining one end of the line outside the contact area, and a ball return section, with the balls being adapted to continuously revolve along the line between the linear guide and the carriage, the ball deflection sections and the ball return section. The ball deflection sections include an end part and a ball deflector. The end part is provided with a trough-shaped depression which guides the balls, while the ball deflector includes a hemispherical or hemi-ellipsoidal section. Also, a deflection path for the balls is provided between the trough-shaped depression and the hemispherical or hemi-ellipsoidal section in a mounted state of the linear bearing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: AB SKFInventor: Andreas Geyer
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Patent number: 7101088Abstract: A cage of a cylindrical roller bearing includes an annular section, a plurality of pillars that extend axially in an integrated, continuous manner from the inside surface of the annular section, and a plurality of pockets, which are formed between the inner circumferential direction side faces of adjacent pillars, and hold the cylindrical rollers in a freely rotatable manner. The circumferential direction side faces of the pillars incorporate a circular arc surface formed in both the inside and outside diameter directions from the pocket PCD which passes through the pocket center of the pocket, and a roll-off section (lubricant reservoir) provided at the tip end inner circumferential section.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Naota Yamamoto, Mamoru Mizutani
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Patent number: 7101083Abstract: A device for holding a linear guide rail R along a linearly extending vertical reference surface L formed on an installation surface f provided with a vertical counter surface F, including a pressing plate 5, and first and second pressure contacting piece 7 and 6. The pressing plate 5 has a central fitting hole 11 and inwardly downwardly tapered side surfaces 10b, 10a which are face-to-face engageable with tapered side faces 15, 14 of the first and second pieces 7 and 6. When a screw 31 inserted through the fitting hole 11 of the pressing plate is tightened into the female thread hole 30 of the installation surface f, the pressing plate is moved downward so that the first and second pieces 7 and 6 are moved to press the guide rail R positioned on the installation surface f between the reference surface L and the second piece 6 against the reference surface L.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Infom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takayoshi Ito
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Patent number: 7101084Abstract: A dynamic bearing apparatus which supports a shaft and a bearing so as to be capable of relative rotation by a dynamic pressure of a lubricating fluid. A bottomed screw hole (21a) is provided to at least one end of the shaft (21) to screw a headed screw (24) for attaching a thrust plate (23) a lubricating fluid (F) is filled in a gap of a screw portion between the screw (24) and the screw hole (21a) or a screw non-occupied space (17), and an interposing member (25) which reduces a void cubic content in the screw non-occupied space (17) is attached to the screw non-occupied space (17).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2002Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki SeisakushoInventor: Masato Gomyo
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Patent number: 7101086Abstract: The invention relates to a collar bearing split shell, comprising a bearing shell and two thrust washers which are located on said bearing shell. The invention also relates to a collar bearing comprising two collar bearing split shells, each of which has a bearing shell, at least one bearing shell being provided with two thrust washers located on said bearing shell. The invention also relates to a thrust washer for a collar bearing split shell. The aim of the invention is to provide a collar bearing which ensures that the two collar bearing split shells of a collar bearing are essentially flush with each other when installed.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Hans-Jurgen Klier
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Patent number: 7101085Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing design is provided featuring a rotating shaft with at least one conical bearing formed integrally thereon. The shaft is disposed through a stationary sleeve, and a fluid separates the shaft and sleeve surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Alan Lyndon Grantz, Robert Alan Nottingham
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Patent number: 7097361Abstract: A rod end device is disclosed for a motor vehicle. The device includes a ball having an outer surface, the ball defining a supporting bore that extends through the ball. A race is provided for bearingly supporting the ball, the race defining a groove which is in fluid communication with the outer surface of the ball. A rod end supports the race, the rod end defining a channel which is in fluid communication with the groove. A one way valve is connected to the channel for supplying lubricant to the channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Inventor: James Rogers
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Patent number: 7097363Abstract: A seal assembly includes a shield that is mounted to an outer race on each side of a self-centering bearing and a resilient seal that is mounted between a bearing inner race and a shield on each side of the bearing. The shield and seal form a protected annulus volume adjacent the outer race and ball bearing in which grease is packed.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLCInventors: Robert J. Ostrander, Dhanesh B. Krishna, Christopher John Steele, Anthony G. Lentini