Dimensional Aspect Of The Flexible Projection (e.g., Angle, Length, Radius, Thickness, Etc.) Patents (Class 277/560)
  • Patent number: 7731200
    Abstract: A seal member with its base end connected to a metal core has three seal lips. The thickness of the tip end of the intermediate seal lip in the intermediate position is d1, and the thickness of the base end is d2. The thickness of the tip end of the innermost inner seal lip is D1 and that thickness of the base end is D2. In this case, at least part of the base end of the intermediate seal lip and inner seal lip has its thickness regulated to be 0.2·d1?d2?0.8·d1, and 0.5·D1?D2<D1. The tip edge of the inner seal lip is fitted onto the outer peripheral surface of the radially inside cylindrical portion of a slinger with substantially zero interference. Consequently, even if the slinger and metal core are displaced relative to each other, excellent seal performance is secured while increase of torque is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito Matsui, Kinji Yukawa
  • Patent number: 7681295
    Abstract: A large diameter seal having a band of elastic material on its outer diameter to insure a complete and effective sealing in the counterbore and a method for manufacturing this large diameter seal having elastomeric material on its outer diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: SKF USA Inc.
    Inventor: Vester J. Lequire, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20100038864
    Abstract: A sealing device with a side lip contacting with a surface angled relative to its axis in which the cross sectional shape of the side lip is optimized. Where the thickness of the tip end (5c) of the side lip (5) is T1, the thickness of the base (5a) of the lip (5) is T3, the length of the tip end (5c) is L1, and the length of the base (5a) is L2, T1/T3 is set to be not less than 0.7 and less than 0.8 and L2/L1 is set to be not less than 0.5 and less than 0.6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuzumaki, Yuichi Shuto, Yoshimi Imamoto
  • Publication number: 20100025939
    Abstract: A sealing device for sealing a first side against a second side of a machine part, wherein the sealing device has a sealing element which contacts a counter element. At least a part of the sealing element and/or at least a part of the counter element is coated with a layer consisting of or containing fullerene-like carbon nitride (FL-CNx), wherein an inter-layer of chromium (Cr) or aluminium (Al) or molybdenum (Mo) or titanium (Ti) or tungsten (W) or a diamond-like coating (DLC) or a metal-mix diamond-like coating (Me-DLC) is arranged between the surface of the sealing element and the layer consisting of or containing fullerene-like carbon nitride and/or between the surface of the counter element and the layer consisting of or containing fullerene-like carbon nitride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2006
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Steuart Horton, Lars Hultman
  • Publication number: 20090154854
    Abstract: A coreless seal 11 for being assembled in a shell-type roller bearing provided in a shell-type roller bearing comprises an elastic annular member 12. An outer diameter B of the coreless seal 11 for being assembled in the shell-type roller bearing is a dimension provided by adding interference 2A for an amount of thermal shrinkage to an inner diameter C of a shell-type outer ring. Since the annular member 12 shrinks in a direction shown by an arrow W at low temperature, the outer diameter of the coreless seal 11 for being assembled in the shell-type roller bearing is reduced from B to B?. However, since the outer diameter B is provided with the dimension A obtained by adding interference for an amount of thermal shrinkage, the coreless seal 11 for being assembled in the shell-type roller bearing has interference A? in its outer diameter B? even after the shrinkage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicants: NTN CORPORATION, UCHIYAMA MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventors: Hideki Akamatsu, Kenji Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20090102136
    Abstract: A seal is disclosed for use on the tapered section of a roll neck in a rolling mill. The seal comprises a flexible circular seal body having a central axis and at least one radially outwardly extending flange joined by a hinge to an angularly extending lip. The hinge has a reduced thickness as compared to the thicknesses of the flange and the lip, and the lip has converging first and second sides leading to an enlarged rim. The rim has first and second peripheral faces that converge to an outer edge contained in a reference plane parallel to the central axis of the seal body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Christopher Tones, Peter N. Osgood
  • Publication number: 20090026714
    Abstract: A lip portion consists of two cylindrical axial lips 421, 422 extended in parallel to an axial direction of a seal 4 and in different lengths (a radial lip is obviated). A neck 22 of a cross shaft 2 is formed with a neck slant portion 221 defined by a conical surface inclined at 45° relative to an axis thereof. The two axial lips 421, 422 are pressed against the neck slant portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Mizuno, Koji Kawaguchi, Tomotaka Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7478815
    Abstract: A high-pressure sealing arrangement is provided for sealing a gap (26) between two concentric machine parts (4, 5) which can be moved relative to each other, of which a first machine part (4) comprises a groove (3) and a second machine part (5) comprises an outer peripheral surface (7) opposite the groove (3). A sealing ring (1) of an extrusion-resistant material and a tensioning ring (2) of an elastomeric material are provided in the groove (3). A shaped section of the sealing ring (1) on the low-pressure side can be deflected towards the outer peripheral surface (7) under fluid pressure load. When the pressure decreases, the pressure-dependent deflection of the sealing ring (1) automatically returns towards the initial, unpressurized state of the sealing ring (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Jordan
  • Publication number: 20090008882
    Abstract: A seal (1) for a hydrostatic linear guide with a given adjustment direction (5), with a longitudinal seal section (7, 7?) extending essentially parallel to the adjustment direction (5), and with a transverse seal section (8, 8?) extending essentially transverse to the adjustment direction (5), wherein a first sealing lip (12) extends along the longitudinal seal section (7, 7?) and a second sealing lip (14) extends along the transverse seal section (8, 8?), and wherein the longitudinal seal section (7, 7?) and the transverse seal section (8, 8?) are connected to each other. Here it is provided that the first sealing lip (12) and the second sealing lip (14) merge into each other with a constant curvature (18). With such a seal (1), both a high degree of static oil tightness and also a high degree of dynamic oil tightness are achieved for a hydrostatic linear guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Harald Peschke, Wolfgang Bauer, Thomas Gietl
  • Patent number: 7467798
    Abstract: A rotation shaft seal provided with a rubber sealing portion which contacts a surface of a rotation shaft and an outer case to which the rubber sealing portion is unitedly fixed. The outer case has an inner brim portion on an inner end portion on a sealed fluid side. The inner brim portion is covered by the rubber sealing portion. A sliding portion is disposed on an axis-orthogonal face including the inner brim portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Morimoto, Takeshi Baba
  • Patent number: 7467796
    Abstract: A seal is disclosed for use on the tapered section of a roll neck in a rolling mill. The seal comprises a flexible circular seal body having a central axis and at least one radially outwardly extending flange joined by a hinge to an angularly extending lip. The hinge has a reduced thickness as compared to the thicknesses of the flange and the lip, and the lip has converging first and second sides leading to an enlarged rim. The rim has first and second peripheral faces that converge to an outer edge contained in a reference plane parallel to the central axis of the seal body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Morgan Construction, Company
    Inventors: Christopher Tones, Peter N. Osgood
  • Patent number: 7467797
    Abstract: The lip-type seal of the present invention includes a seal ring made of an elastic material so as to have an annular fitted part that is fitted to a housing and a lip part that extends from the fitted part inwardly in a radial direction in the shape of a substantially conical ring and that is brought into contact with a shaft, and a support ring including an annular joint part joined to the fitted part and an annular supporting part that defines a hole through which the shaft passes, that extends from a side of the joint part to a halfway area of the lip part, and that supports the lip part from inside in a radial direction. The lip part is tapered in cross section from an area from which non-contact with the supporting part starts toward an end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignees: Eagle Industry Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Koichiro Oiyama, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Hajime Ichiyasu, Ichiro Miyai, Takeshi Yamada, Masami Osako
  • Patent number: 7465100
    Abstract: A sealing apparatus capable of increasing a grease resistance property, wherein the tip of a sealing lip is formed so that an inner side contact angle ? is equal to an open-air side contact angle ? (?=?), that is, formed in a triangular shape to prevent grease inside the apparatus from leaking so as to increase the grease resistance property, and since the extending direction of the sealing lip is set at a middle of an inner side and an open-air side, a trouble such as the inversion of the sealing lip due to the occurrence of an inner pressure does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Nok Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Matsui
  • Publication number: 20080001365
    Abstract: A large diameter seal having a band of elastic material on its outer diameter to insure a complete and effective sealing in the counterbore and a method for manufacturing this large diameter seal having elastomeric material on its outer diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: SKF USA INC.
    Inventor: Vester J. Lequire
  • Patent number: 7198275
    Abstract: The annular sealing cup with axis ?, a so-called replenishment cup, which is intended to be positioned between a hydraulic cylinder and piston and which has a <<U>> axial section and has application to braking circuits comprises: a static branch (10) defining a static sealing annular lip, a dynamic branch (12) defining a dynamic sealing annular lip, and a core (14) connecting the static (10) and dynamic (12) branches and defining a annular bead (15) opposite the lips. According to the invention, the cup is characterized in that the connecting surface (24) between the static branch (10) and the core (14), located opposite the bead (15), has a concave shape corresponding to a local reduction in the thicknesses of the static branch (10) and of the core (14) at the connecting region between the static lip and the core (14), so as to define a rotation area (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Freudenberg
    Inventor: Stephane Gravier
  • Patent number: 7172201
    Abstract: A sealing ring has a sealing disk having a fastening part and a seal part. The fastening part is connected to a first stationary machine part and the seal part seals a movable machine part and is oriented in an axial direction toward an atmosphere side or a medium side of the sealing ring. The seal part has a first sealing element and a second sealing element adjoining the first sealing element and oriented in a direction opposite to the first sealing element in a mounted position of the sealing ring. The second sealing part rests against the rotary machine part under a radial force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Kaco GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus-Jurgen Uhrner
  • Patent number: 7168361
    Abstract: A high pressure piston for use within a liner for a reciprocating pump comprises an elastomeric seal and an annular bearing ring. During the pump's pressure stroke at least a portion of the bearing ring elastically expands radially to narrow or close the extrusion gap, thus tending to block elastomer extrusion and establish sliding contact between the bearing ring's outer surface and the liner. An extrusion control groove located radially inward from the peripheral bearing ring contact surface of certain embodiments also tends to block elastomer extrusion. Under reduced pressure on the pump's return stroke, the bearing ring elastically contracts radially, slightly widening the extrusion gap. On the pump's return stroke the slightly wider extrusion gap allows cooling water directed generally toward the proximal flange of the piston hub to better cleanse, as well as cool, the liner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Inventor: George H. Blume
  • Patent number: 7159871
    Abstract: A unitary sleeve lip seal can be used to provide permanently lubricated sealed bearings in severe service conditions such as the track pins of track-driven vehicles and agricultural equipment. The seal has a labyrinthine exclusion path and multiple dust lips contacting the sleeve in addition to the main sealing lip. A garter spring encircling the main sealing lip may enable the seal to operate at moderately elevated pressures. The sleeve has a radial flange at the outermost end. Elastomeric lips extend between the sleeve flange and a faceplate that terminates the outside end of the seal housing. The seal is packed with water-resistant grease and can, when installed in association with grease-packed bearings can create a permanently lubricated bearing/shaft assembly that requires no re-greasing. Resilient coatings both protect the sleeve and case and also improve leak resistance, especially when the seal is retrofitted onto shafts that have been damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership
    Inventor: Michael R. Oldenburg
  • Patent number: 7134671
    Abstract: A seal having a body portion, at least one lip portion extending from the body portion, and a protrusion formed on the at least one lip portion. The lip portion and protrusion formed thereon may each include an arcuate segment wherein the arcuate segment of the protrusion exhibits a smaller radius than the arcuate segment of the lip portion. The protrusion further includes a surface or a segment adjoining its arcuate segment on the intended fluid or upstream side of the seal. The segment of the protrusion on the intended fluid side may be configured to be substantially perpendicular with the surface of a machine element with which it comes in contact. The configuration and orientation of the protrusion enables the seal to apply an increased contact force over a reduced area, improving penetration of any fluidic film formed on the surface of the machine element and thereby reducing leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Macrotech Polyseal, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Thomas Duke, A. Todd Hagen
  • Patent number: 7134670
    Abstract: A rotation shaft seal provided with a rubber sealing portion which contacts a surface of a rotation shaft and an outer case to which the rubber sealing portion is unitedly fixed. The outer case has an inner brim portion on an inner end portion on a sealed fluid side. The inner brim portion is covered by the rubber sealing portion. A sliding portion is disposed on an axis-orthogonal face including the inner brim portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Morimoto, Takeshi Baba
  • Patent number: 7100924
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic PTFE seal for a rotating part including a first portion supported by a flexible, elastomeric member and a second portion extending from the first portion past the elastomeric member along the rotating part. The second or trailing portion of the seal is concentrically disposed about the rotating part. The first portion of the seal attached to the elastomeric member is also concentrically disposed around the rotating part. The seal can also include a living hinge portion disposed between the first and second portions. The first portion, the second portion and the living hinge portion can jointly define a continuous sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: David Michael Toth, Bhawani Sankar Tripathy
  • Patent number: 7066471
    Abstract: A lip-type shaft seal is made of elastic material with a Shore A hardness of ?75, includes a radial sealing lip, which has a sealing edge to bear against a rotating component and terminates in a axial sealing lip, which has a sealing edge to rests in installed state against a contact surface. The axial sealing lip extends at an angle of ?35° in relation to a symmetry axis of the shaft seal, when the axial sealing lip has not been installed yet and is under no tension, and extends from the sealing edge of the radial sealing lip at a length of ?1.4 mm. When the shaft seal is installed, the axial sealing lip rests against the contact surface at an axial overlap of 0.05 to 0.55 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Elmar Mause, Harald Peschke, Wolfram Kruhöffer, Thomas Traudt, Horst Krischer
  • Patent number: 6997461
    Abstract: A seal system for use in high speed, high pressure applications including a rigid retainer and a resilient body covering the retainer having pressure balancing control. Reduced clearance of the metal case retainer prevents seal extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Troy Smith, Larry J. Castleman
  • Patent number: 6957605
    Abstract: A high pressure piston for use within a liner for a reciprocating pump comprises an elastomeric seal and a metallic annular bearing ring having relatively high heat conductivity compared to the liner and seal. During the pump's pressure stroke a portion of the bearing ring elastically expands radially to narrow or close the extrusion gap. Narrowing the gap decreases the tendency for extrusion of piston seal elastomeric material, while closing the gap tends to block elastomer extrusion and establish sliding contact between the bearing ring and the liner. Sliding contact between the bearing ring and liner prevents portions of the piston hub (e.g., a transverse flange) from contacting the liner and damaging it. The heat-conductive bearing ring improves scavenging of frictional heat near the extrusion gap, extending the service life of piston seal elastomer while reducing bearing ring and liner wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Inventor: George H. Blume
  • Patent number: 6953193
    Abstract: To reduce a sliding resistance to the rotation member, and whereby to reduce a torque, a thickness of an inner diameter side lip is formed to be larger than a thickness of an outer diameter side lip, and the outer diameter side lip is formed thinner than the inner diameter side lip in thickness. A depression for inhibiting both the lips from pulling at each other is provided between the inner diameter side lip and the grease lip. A bent portion for reducing a close contact load applied to a rotation member is provided in an intermediate portion in a longitudinal direction of the inner diameter side lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Go Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 6945537
    Abstract: A sealing ring comprising a bearing ring with a radial flange and a sealing sleeve, which at its free end is connected to a thickened, surrounding bulge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Carl Freudenberg KG
    Inventors: Celine Guillerme, Eric Kammerer
  • Patent number: 6860486
    Abstract: A shaft sealing ring for a shaft comprises a sealing lip made of an elastomeric material or a PTFE compound and dimensioned as to be flaccidly bendable. The flexural elasticity is selected such that it will just be sufficient to press a sealing portion of the sealing lip into sealing engagement with the periphery of the shaft. The sealing portion of the sealing lip engages the periphery for a predetermined length. In the sealing portion, the sealing lip is provided along its circumference, at the side of the shaft, with endless, undulating return channels at least throughout this length. These channels return any medium escaping during rotation of the shaft to the space to be sealed. The return channels do not communicate with the surroundings of the shaft sealing ring. No seperate contact pressure means, such as a helical ring coil spring is required to press the sealing lip into engagement with the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Dichtungstechnik G. Bruss GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gunther Hacker, Rolf Johnen, Wolfgang Schmitt
  • Patent number: 6857636
    Abstract: A shaft sealing ring, comprising an elastic sealing lip which has a sealing edge in engagement with a circumferential surface of a shaft which rotates relative to the shaft sealing ring, further comprising at least two sinusoidally curved helical elements having the same amplitudes and wavelengths which are provided on a sealing lip surface facing the surroundings and serve to convey medium that has escaped to the side of the surroundings back over the sealing edge to the side of the medium of the shaft sealing ring, the helical elements being arranged phase-shifted with respect to each other in circumferential direction and merging tangentially in circumferential direction into the sealing edge is characterized in that the ratio between the wavelength L and the amplitude A of the sinusoidally curved helical elements fulfills the relationship
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Dichtungstechnik G. Bruss GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jesus Bengoa, Antonio Gorrino, Gerd Upper
  • Patent number: 6840521
    Abstract: The face pressure of a seal lip for sealing is made sharp to improve the sealing ability and the seal lip is prevented from being deformed abnormally when a shaft is inserted therein. In the constitution, the inside diameter of the corner face of the sealing face is smaller than the outside diameter of the shaft. When the outside surface of the support section of the support ring expands the expandable inner surface, the inside diameter of the sealing face is also expanded diametrically to closely contact the corner face of the sealing face with the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6789805
    Abstract: A sealing assembly for relatively rotating mechanical members, having a first and a second shield member fitted respectively to a first and a second of the relatively rotating members; and a low-friction-coefficient sealing member. The sealing member has a sealing portion cooperating with the first shield member; a root portion carried integrally by the second shield member; and a connecting portion shaped to define a hinge region between the root portion and the sealing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: RFT S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Sassi
  • Patent number: 6729624
    Abstract: A radial shaft seal for dynamic applications is disclosed. The shaft seal has a case member and a resilient sealing body attached to the case member. The sealing body includes an annular elastomeric member and a resinous ring. The elastomeric member has a radially extending section and a distal end. The resinous ring has a radially extending portion and an edge. The radially extending section is contiguous to the radially extending portion to form a composite seal lip body. The composite seal lip body, as installed, is positioned so that the distal end of the radially extending section and the edge of said radially extending portion engage the shaft in fluid tight relation by the elastomeric member and by the reaction forces of the resinous ring. Therefore, a portion of the reaction forces is shared by the edge and the distal end so as to reduce the wear in the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership
    Inventor: David E. Johnston
  • Patent number: 6726212
    Abstract: A unitary sleeve lip seal can be used to provide permanently lubricated sealed bearings in severe service conditions such as the track pins of track-driven vehicles and agricultural equipment. The seal has a labyrinthine exclusion path and multiple dust lips contacting the sleeve in addition to the main sealing lip. A garter spring encircling the main sealing lip may enable the seal to operate at moderately elevated pressures. The sleeve has a radial flange at the outermost end. Elastomeric lips extend between the sleeve flange and a faceplate that terminates the outside end of the seal housing. The seal is packed with water-resistant grease and can, when installed in association with grease-packed bearings can create a permanently lubricated bearing/shaft assembly that requires no re-greasing. Resilient coatings both protect the sleeve and case and also improve leak resistance, especially when the seal is retrofitted onto shafts that have been damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Transcom, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael R. Oldenburg
  • Patent number: 6726211
    Abstract: A sealing device including a fitting portion fixed on a first surface forming an annular gap with a second surface; and a seal supported by a support provided at the fitting portion and including a plurality of axial lips whose tips come into contact with the second surface. The annular gap is sealed for the purpose of isolating a sealed side and a non-sealed side, and ribs for pumping a sealing fluid to the sealed side are formed on the lips at the non-sealed side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Akira Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6722659
    Abstract: A shaft seal, which is pre-stressed by a spring, has a main body element and a projection, which is adjacent thereto. The projection is designed as a sacrificial element which, when the seal is used correctly, abrades because of the friction with the opposite surface and, in the process, polishes the opposite surface. The radial cross-sectional profile of the projection is selected in so that the sealing-lip supporting surface is not substantially enlarged with increasing abrasion of the projection, thereby a predetermined surface pressure at the sealing-lip supporting surface of the projection is essentially maintained over the service life of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Christian Mohr
  • Patent number: 6715769
    Abstract: A rotating shaft seal provided with a seal element, arranged between a housing and a rotation shaft, which contacts the rotation shaft, and a seal member made of rubber having a lip end portion, disposed on a fluid storing chamber side to the seal element, which contacts the rotation shaft, comprising a supporting metal for supporting a rear face of the seal member of rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisya Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Atsushi Hosokawa, Hiromi Obata, Takeshi Baba, Tomoya Inagaki, Toshiro Fujii, Takayuki Imai, Naoya Yokomachi, Kazuo Murakami
  • Patent number: 6712362
    Abstract: In a master/slave cylinder system for clutches or brakes, primary seals have bevels which interact with similar bevels of formations on housings of the respective cylinders. Along with the lowest possible friction in the region of the sealing lips, this permits carrying out uncomplicated pressure/negative-pressure filling in the case of the master cylinder. The primary seals slide by the wedge of effects in the direction of the pressure on the bevels of the annular formations and reduce the annular bearing face of the sealing lip in a frictionally optimized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Klaus Krappmann, André Gemeinhardt, Hai Sui, Dieter Gebauer, Boleslaw Tulaczko, Volker Stampf
  • Patent number: 6712580
    Abstract: A structure of a water pump is provided without increasing the cost thereof, or without enlarging the size to improve the durability of the water pump. A seal apparatus having a seal ring 13 and a slinger 14 in combination to prevent foreign matter from progressing into the rolling bearing 6a. The amount of compression &dgr; of the second seal lip 23, which occurs when the tip edge of the second seal lip 23 of the seal ring 13 comes in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the outer-diameter-side cylindrical section 26 that is formed at the outer peripheral edge of the slinger 14, is at least {fraction (1/10)} and up to {fraction (7/10)} the height of the second seal lip 23 in the free state. In addition, the roughness of a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the outer-diameter-side cylindrical section 26 which the tip edge of the second seal lip 23 comes in sliding contact with is from 0.2 &mgr;m to 2.0 &mgr;m in the arithmetic mean Ra, or is from 0.8 &mgr;m to 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamichi Iketani
  • Patent number: 6705617
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic shaft seal formed with a spiral hydrodynamic channel in which successive turns of the channel are of progressively diminishing volume toward an air side of the seal. The channel is made by forming a spirally extending first cut in a surface of the seal, and forming a spirally extending second cut in the surface of the seal adjacent to the first cut such that the first and second cuts intersect below the surface of the seal to produce a spiral channel. The spiral of the first cut has a lead different from the lead of the second cut such that the channel is of progressively diminishing volume along its length. Alternatively, the second cut may have the same lead as the first cut for the first few turns, after which the lead of the second cut may be reduced, to provide a channel of constant volume for the first few turns, followed by a channel portion of reduced volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward W. Mellet, David M. Toth, Carole L. Straub
  • Patent number: 6685194
    Abstract: A hydrodynamically lubricating seal has a generally circular seal body defining a static sealing surface and having a dynamic sealing lip projecting from the seal body for establishing sealing relation with a relatively rotatable surface. When compressed against a relatively rotatable surface, dynamic sealing lip defines a hydrodynamic geometry which wedges a film of lubricating fluid into the interface between the seal and the relatively rotatable surface in response to relative rotation. The dynamic sealing lip geometry maintains interfacial contact pressure within the dynamic sealing interface for efficient hydrodynamic lubrication and environmental exclusion, which enhances lubrication and environmental exclusion while permitting relatively high initial compression and relatively low torque. In abrasive environments, the improved exclusionary action results in a dramatic reduction of seal and shaft wear, compared to prior art, and provides a significant increase in seal life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Inventors: Lannie Dietle, Manmohan S. Kalsi, Jeffrey D. Gobeli
  • Patent number: 6676132
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve sealing performance of a seal under a specific environment. The seal is arranged in an annular space A in which a rotary shaft 1 and a housing 2 face each other, and partitions the annular space in axial direction into a vacuum space B and an atmospheric pressure space C. The seal is constituted such that a main lip 6 of the seal has an axial contact width W0 with which the main lip slides on and contacts with the rotary shaft 1 and which is set to be equal to or larger than an axial contact width W1 necessary to secure minimum sealing performance with respect to a sealed portion and equal to or smaller than an axial contact width W2 with which sliding resistance against the rotary shaft becomes a permissible upper limit, to thereby prevent the axial contact width W0 from influencing rotation characteristics with respect to the rotary member and to allow securing required sealing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignees: Kojo Seiko Co., Ltd., Teijin Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takebayashi, Kazunori Hayashida, Kazutoshi Yamamoto, Yoshiki Fujii, Shinichi Ohbayashi, Yishihiro Yano
  • Patent number: 6659470
    Abstract: In an oil seal of a hydraulic shock absorber, the oil seal is made of a nitrile rubber of a low nitrile, and an inner diameter of a second lip is set to be smaller within a range between 0.3 and 1.0 mm &phgr; than an outer diameter of a piston rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Hironobu Hosoda, Noriaki Maneyama
  • Patent number: 6651988
    Abstract: An actuator for use in an active mount system for reducing vibration transmission from a vibrating component to a support structure. The actuator is disposed in a housing that is attached to the vibrating component or the support structure. The actuator includes a piston moveably disposed in a casing, and a piston rod assembly that is connected to the other one of the vibrating component or the support structure. A seal assembly, disposed either in a groove in the piston or in a groove in the casing, provides a seal between the piston and casing. The seal assembly includes an annular seal member comprising polytetrafluoroethylene resin, backing rings on each side of the seal member, and an annular compression spring in the groove between one of the backing rings and one edge of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Waston Terpay, George Gustave Zipfel
  • Patent number: 6634648
    Abstract: A shield and seal assembly adapted for use in a wheel end assembly of a vehicle includes a generally non-flexible shield and a generally flexible seal integrally molded in situ with the shield. The shield includes a first leg, a second leg, a third leg, a fourth leg, and a fifth leg. The first leg extends in a generally radially outwardly extending direction, the second leg extends in a generally radial direction, the third leg extends in a generally axial direction, the fourth leg extends in a generally axial direction, and the fifth leg extends in a generally radial direction. The seal includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an intermediate body connecting the first end portion and the second end portion together. The first end portion defines a grease lip of the seal, and the second end portion defines a first dust lip of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Kelsey-Hayes Company
    Inventor: Todd K. Rockwell
  • Patent number: 6623012
    Abstract: A seal for a poppet valve of an integrated pressure management apparatus, a valve system using the poppet valve seal, and a method of cleaning debris off of a poppet valve. The poppet valve is movable between an open position permitting fluid flow through an aperture in a housing and a closed position preventing fluid flow through the aperture. The seal includes an annular body having a first sealing surface fixed to the housing and a second sealing surface confronting the poppet valve. An annular lip projects obliquely from the seal is resiliently deformed by the poppet valve at the closed position, thereby cleaning debris off the sealing surface of the poppet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Canada Limited
    Inventors: Paul D. Perry, Dennis Nocent
  • Patent number: 6616146
    Abstract: A radial seal arrangement for sealingly engaging an outer surface of a shaft is provided. The radial seal arrangement includes a support member that has a first leg with an outer surface that extends substantially perpendicular to a reference axis. The support member also includes a second leg that extends substantially parallel to the reference axis from the first leg to a first end. The radial seal arrangement further includes a body portion that includes an outer peripheral surface extending substantially parallel to the reference axis from the first leg to a point past the first end of the second leg, a first radial face having a relief notch and extending substantially coplanar to the outer surface of the first leg, a first sealing portion having a first chamfered surface extending from the first radial face to a first lip, and a second sealing portion separated from the first sealing portion by a first recessed area and separated from the outer peripheral surface by a second recessed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Anthony D. Friend, Ian R. Levin
  • Patent number: 6612582
    Abstract: In a dust lip structure of an oil seal 20 for oscillation, a thickness of the front end portion of the dust lip 40 is substantially two thirds of an interference A of the first dust lip portion 41 with respect to the rod 13, and an outer diameter of the dust lip 40 is set to be in parallel to each of a front end side taper-like inner diameter portion 43B from the first dust lip portion 41 to a root portion of the second dust lip portion 42 and a base end side taper-like inner diameter portion 44B from the second dust lip portion 42 to the base end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventor: Hironobu Hosoda
  • Patent number: 6592337
    Abstract: A shaft seal seals a rotary shaft surface to prevent fluid from moving between a high-pressure area and a low-pressure area. The shaft seal has a lip type ring fitted on the side of the high-pressure area of the rotary shaft. The lip type ring further includes a lip ring, a plurality of first portions and a plurality of second portions. The lip ring is located around the rotary shaft. The lip ring has a ring surface. The first portions are formed on the ring surface to slidably contact the rotary shaft surface. The first portions guide the fluid towards a space between the ring surface and the rotary shaft surface as the rotary shaft is rotated. The second portions are formed on the ring surface. The second portions prevent the fluid in the space from leaking into the low-pressure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamada, Takayuki Imai, Naoya Yokomachi
  • Patent number: 6578852
    Abstract: A projection 5 is formed in ring shape at a side facing outside of a circular arc face 3 at the front end portion of a sealing lip L, the projection being to contact a frank face in a progressing side of the screw shaft. If the seal for ball screw is attached to the nut end portion, rigidity effecting along the lip thickness is reinforced by the projection 5, to subsequently prevent turnover easily happening hitherto in a steeply oblique part of the frank face of a progressing side. At this steeply oblique part, a double sealing function is exhibited by contacting the circular arc face 3 at the front end portion of the sealing lip L and the projection 5 at the side facing outside to this part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromichi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20030075872
    Abstract: The face pressure of a seal lip for sealing is made sharp to improve the sealing ability and the seal lip is prevented from being deformed abnormally when a shaft is inserted therein. In the constitution, the inside diameter of the corner face of the sealing face is smaller than the outside diameter of the shaft. When the outside surface of the support section of the support ring expands the expandable inner surface, the inside diameter of the sealing face is also expanded diametrically to closely contact the corner face of the sealing face with the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6543783
    Abstract: A sealing ring having a sealing body with a dynamically stressed sealing lip made of an elastomeric material which at least partially surrounds a toroidal supporting body. The supporting body has a slope facing the sealing lip, and the sealing body has a dynamically stressed sealing bulge which is adjacent with an axial distance on the side of the sealing lip facing away from the space to be sealed. The sealing bulge is in contact with the face to be sealed under an initial elastic stress. The sealing bulge is arranged axially between two radial planes which axially delimit the slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Edgar Freitag, Günter Bergmann