Patents by Inventor Witold Marek Smolenski

Witold Marek Smolenski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9759260
    Abstract: A support bearing, for example for straighteners, having an outer ring, an inner ring and rolling bodies that roll between the outer and inner ring on raceways. A bending moment prevails between the rings as a result of a load with a fixed direction of action. To compensate for the bending moment, an outer raceway of the inner ring and/or an inner raceway of the outer ring includes a profiling with a variable diameter in the axial direction. The profiling is adapted or approximated to a non-cylindrical bending line caused by the bending moment in the rolling contact, and the bending line is defined by a line, on which bending forces which are transmitted from the inner ring to the rolling bodies and are caused by the bending moment lie substantially perpendicularly. As a result, the disadvantageous edge loading in a given load direction is suppressed, with the result that more rolling bodies can transmit load between the rings at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Stocker, Witold Marek Smolenski, Hans-Joachim Drabek
  • Publication number: 20160369846
    Abstract: A support bearing, for example for straighteners, having an outer ring, an inner ring and rolling bodies that roll between the outer and inner ring on raceways. A bending moment prevails between the rings as a result of a load with a fixed direction of action. To compensate for the bending moment, an outer raceway of the inner ring and/or an inner raceway of the outer ring includes a profiling with a variable diameter in the axial direction. The profiling is adapted or approximated to a non-cylindrical bending line caused by the bending moment in the rolling contact, and the bending line is defined by a line, on which bending forces which are transmitted from the inner ring to the rolling bodies and are caused by the bending moment lie substantially perpendicularly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred STÖCKER, Witold Marek SMOLENSKI, Hans-Joachim DRABEK
  • Patent number: 8328429
    Abstract: A radial anti-friction bearing, which has an outer and inner bearing race with an inner and outer raceway and cylinder rollers that roll on the raceways between the bearing races and which are held at equal distances to each other in the peripheral direction by a bearing cage. To prevent slip, the cylinder rollers are replaced by hollow rollers, which have a larger outside diameter and lower modulus of elasticity. The dimensions of the bearing races, cylinder rollers and hollow rollers are configured such that both the cylinder and hollow rollers initially have a defined radial bearing clearance in the non-installed state of the radial anti-friction bearing, and the pretension necessary for the continuous drive of the bearing cage is adjusted on the hollow rollers only once the radial anti-friction bearing has been installed, while simultaneously reducing the radial bearing clearance at the cylinder rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Tobias Mueller, Witold Marek Smolenski
  • Publication number: 20100061675
    Abstract: A radial anti-friction bearing, which has an outer and inner bearing race with an inner and outer raceway and cylinder rollers that roll on the raceways between the bearing races and which are held at equal distances to each other in the peripheral direction by a bearing cage. To prevent slip, the cylinder rollers are replaced by hollow rollers, which have a larger outside diameter and lower modulus of elasticity. The dimensions of the bearing races, cylinder rollers and hollow rollers are configured such that both the cylinder and hollow rollers initially have a defined radial bearing clearance in the non-installed state of the radial anti-friction bearing, and the pretension necessary for the continuous drive of the bearing cage is adjusted on the hollow rollers only once the radial anti-friction bearing has been installed, while simultaneously reducing the radial bearing clearance at the cylinder rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Tobias Mueller, Witold Marek Smolenski
  • Publication number: 20100014797
    Abstract: A radial roller bearing for storing shafts in wind turbine transmissions, which has an external bearing ring with an inner runway, an internal bearing ring arranged coaxial thereto provided with an external runway, and a plurality of roller bodies that displace on the runways between the bearing rings held at regular intervals by a bearing cage. to prevent slip, roller bodies are replaced by hollow rollers that have a greater diameter and a smaller elasticity module than the roller body bodies ensuring, when the radial roller bearing is in the load-free state, a permanent contact with the bearing rings, and a permanent drive of the bearing cage and the roller bodies have kinematic rotation. The hollow rollers, by a defined dimensioning of their internal diameter in relation to their external diameter for the dimensioning of the radial roller bearing, have the same bearing capacity as the roller bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Bernd Endres, Christian Hoffinger, Tobias Mueller, Witold Marek Smolenski