Nonmetallic Bearing Element Patents (Class 29/898.15)
  • Patent number: 12078209
    Abstract: A deep groove ball bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a retainer and steel balls, where the retainer is disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring, sockets are disposed on the retainer, the steel balls are disposed in the sockets, the retainer is formed by two retainer bodies which are separated from each other, grooves are formed in the retainer bodies at intervals, the grooves in one retainer body are combined with the grooves in the other retainer body to form the sockets, each retainer body is provided with a plurality of sub-connectors which are separated from each other, a first connecting block and a second connecting block are formed at two ends of each sub-connector respectively, two grooves are formed in each sub-connector, and a positioning table is disposed between the two grooves in each sub-connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: C&U COMPANY LIMITED.
    Inventors: Xuefeng Bai, Jialiang Xu
  • Patent number: 12031580
    Abstract: A deep groove ball bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a retainer and steel balls, where the retainer is disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring, sockets are disposed on the retainer, the steel balls are disposed in the sockets, the retainer is formed by two retainer bodies which are separated from each other, grooves are formed in the retainer bodies at intervals, the grooves in one retainer body are combined with the grooves in the other retainer body to form the sockets, each retainer body is provided with a plurality of sub-connectors which are separated from each other, a first connecting block and a second connecting block are formed at two ends of each sub-connector respectively, two grooves are formed in each sub-connector, and a positioning table is disposed between the two grooves in each sub-connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: C&U COMPANY LIMITED.
    Inventors: Xuefeng Bai, Jialiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11759215
    Abstract: A surgical positioning system including a rotation guide slide and a rotation guide pointer configured to be coupled to the rotation guide slide. The rotation guide pointer includes a base and a pointer extension. The base includes protrusion and a hole extending through the base and the protrusion where the protrusion is sized and configured to be received within a channel such that the rotation guide pointer can translate parallel to a plane defined by the first side of the rotation guide slide. The hole is sized and configured to receive a screw to fix the position of the rotation guide pointer relative to the rotation guide slide, with the protrusion configured to expand when the screw is advanced in the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ramon Luna, Matthew D. Schultz
  • Patent number: 9747355
    Abstract: A high-temperature cable and method of making the same is provided. The high-temperature cable includes at least one elongated conductor portion. A fiber-reinforced resin is positioned radially about at least a portion of an exterior surface of the at least one elongated conductor portion. The high-temperature may optionally include a thin metal layer and/or an armor shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Rockbestos Surprenant Cable Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Masakowski, Robert Konnik
  • Publication number: 20150060597
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a bearing is situated between a pitch link and a swashplate or a hub. The bearing comprises an outer housing having a first opening therethrough, an intermediate housing adjacent the housing inside the first opening and having a second opening therethrough, and an inner housing adjacent the intermediate housing inside the second opening and having a third opening therethrough. The inner housing comprising a first inner surface and a second inner surface defining the third opening. A first member is adjacent the first inner surface inside the third opening having a fourth opening therethrough. A second member is adjacent the second inner surface inside the third opening having a fifth opening therethrough coaxial with the fourth opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Drew Sutton, Frank B. Stamps
  • Publication number: 20140199005
    Abstract: Including a synthetic resin-made bearing base 2 having a base portion 4, an annular protruding portion 6 provided integrally on and protruding from one surface 5 of the base portion 4, and an air supply passage 11 which is provided in the annular protruding portion 6 and the base portion 4 and which has one end 7 open at a protruding end face 8 of the annular protruding portion 6 and another end 9 open at a outer peripheral surface 10 of the base portion 4; and a synthetic resin-made bearing body 3 having an annular recessed portion 42 which is formed in one surface 41 opposing the one surface 5 of the base portion 4 and which receives the annular protruding portion 6 of the bearing base 2, an annular recessed groove 44 which is open at another surface 43, and a plurality of air outlet holes 47 serving as inherent restrictors each of which communicates with the annular recessed groove 44 at one end 45 and opens to the annular recessed portion 42 at another end 46.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: OILES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hikaru Sato
  • Publication number: 20130341458
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a bearing is situated between a pitch link and a swashplate or a hub. The bearing comprises an outer housing having a first opening therethrough, an elastomeric bearing adjacent the housing inside the first opening and having a second opening therethrough, and an inner housing adjacent the elastomeric bearing inside the second opening and having a third opening therethrough. The inner housing comprising a first inner surface and a second inner surface defining the third opening. A first member is adjacent the first inner surface inside the third opening having a fourth opening therethrough. A second member is adjacent the second inner surface inside the third opening having a fifth opening therethrough coaxial with the fourth opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
    Inventors: Drew Sutton, Frank B. Stamps
  • Patent number: 8449198
    Abstract: A deep-grooved ball bearing including a rolling contact member formed of a sintered ?-sialon inexpensive and capable of reliably ensuring sufficient durability includes an outer ring and an inner ring, and a plurality of balls arranged in contact with the outer ring and the inner ring on an annular raceway. The ball is configured of a sintered body that contains as a main component a ?-sialon represented by a compositional formula of Si6-ZAlZOZN8-Z and satisfying 0.1?z?3.5 and has a remainder formed of an impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 8407899
    Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing includes a shaft to which a resin flange is fixed by insert molding. The process where the flange is fixed to the shaft by insert molding includes a flange forming process in which the flange, fixed to the shaft, is formed by injecting the resin into a filled portion in the lower mold through an upper mold, while cooling at least part of the shaft, arranged in a shaft arrangement portion in a lower mold, with cooling water circulating through a cooling pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 8291596
    Abstract: A bearing includes a first inner race half and a second inner race half, and a first outer race half and a second outer race half. A cage defining a plurality of openings supports a plurality of rollers. The bearing is assembled by positioning the first inner race half on a mandrel and the first outer race half on a work support, positioning the cage with the rollers supported in the openings adjacent to and concentric with the first inner race half and the first outer race half. The second inner race half and the second outer race half are positioned adjacent the first inner race half and the first outer race half respectively. The first inner race half and the second inner race half, and the first outer race half and the second outer race half are then bonded together to form the bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: William D. Cymbal, Douglas P. Wendling
  • Patent number: 8127451
    Abstract: A bearing for use in a particulate-laden environment uses the particles as a lubricant between the opposed bearing surfaces, which are coated with a tungsten carbide coating that is harder than the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Republic Industries International
    Inventors: Robert Darst, Carl Coslow, Ray Gulley
  • Patent number: 8028416
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a hybrid composite journal bearing which is constructed so that a composite liner is positioned on an inner surface of a metal housing having a circular cross-section, thus preventing a journal from being broken or damaged or seized to the bearing, due to friction between the metal or composite journal and the journal bearing. The hybrid composite journal bearing (210) includes a metal housing (211) which is secured on an outer surface thereof to a bearing system and has a circular cross-section. A composite liner (212) is laminated to an inner surface of the metal housing (211) with a uniform thickness so as to minimize friction between the journal bearing and a journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignees: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Samsung Heavy Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Dai Gil Lee, Hyoung Geun Kim, Seong Su Kim, Kyung Kun Bang
  • Publication number: 20110206303
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft bearing for providing constrained relative motion between a first rotary wing aircraft member and a second rotary wing aircraft member. The bearing includes an elastomeric mold bonded laminated subassembly, the elastomeric mold bonded laminated subassembly including a plurality of mold bonded alternating layers of interior nonelastomeric shim members and interior elastomeric shim members, the interior elastomeric shim members including a first laminate end elastomeric shim and a distal second laminate end elastomeric shim. The first laminate end elastomeric shim has a first side mold bonded to a first end interior nonelastomeric shim member and a second side mold bonded to a first metal first laminate end structural bond shim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventor: Frank O. James
  • Patent number: 7926182
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hydrodynamic bearing with hydrodynamic pressure generating grooves comprises steps of: step 201: providing a substrate with a first annular protrusion and a plurality of projections formed on a periphery thereof, the projections being in a side of the first annular protrusion; step 202: placing the substrate in a middle of a hollow mold, then injecting a feedstock of powder and molten binder under pressure into the mold to surround the substrate, thus forming a desired bearing preform; step 203: separating the substrate from the bearing preform by means of catalytic debinding; step 204: separating the molten binder from the bearing preform; step 205: sintering the bearing preform to thereby form the hydrodynamic bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuen-Shu Hou
  • Publication number: 20100329597
    Abstract: A rolling bearing arrangement with at least one outer bearing ring and at least one inner bearing ring and with rolling bodies guided in raceways between the bearing rings. At least one damping body is provided for mechanical vibration damping. The damping body reduces the vibration transmission to at least one component following in the force flux. At least one damping body is materially bonded to at least one of the bearing rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Herbert SCHIMSCHAL
  • Patent number: 7757403
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a hybrid composite journal bearing which is constructed so that a composite liner is positioned on an inner surface of a metal housing having a circular cross-section, thus preventing a journal from being damaged or seized to the bearing, due to friction between the metal or composite journal and the journal bearing. The hybrid composite journal bearing (210) includes a metal housing (211) which is secured on an outer surface thereof to a bearing system and has a circular cross-section. A composite liner (212) is laminated to an inner surface of the metal housing (211) with a uniform thickness so as to minimize friction between the journal bearing and a journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignees: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Samsung Heavy Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dai Gil Lee, Hyoung Geun Kim, Seong Su Kim, Kyung Kun Bang
  • Publication number: 20090279820
    Abstract: Provided are a spherical bearing in which a ball portion (10) of an inside member (1) can be sealed inside an outside member (2) without employment of casting, and the outside member (2) and the inside member (1) are coupled to each other with high strength, and which can be downsized, and a manufacturing method for the same. The spherical bearing includes: an inside member (1) having a metal ball portion (10); a resin liner (3) covering the ball portion (10) of the inside member (1) and held in sliding contact with the ball portion (10); and an outside member (2) molded outside the resin liner (3) by a forging process and held in close contact with an entire of an outer peripheral surface of the resin liner (3) without being brought into contact with the inside member (1), for undetachably enclosing and holding the resin liner (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Nishide, Akira Morokuma
  • Publication number: 20090214145
    Abstract: The unitary center support bearing subassembly comprises a bearing over which a plastic bearing housing has been molded while simultaneously molding the plastic bracket insert and joining members which space and fix the distance between the bearing housing and the bracket insert. The joining members are removed or broken prior to molding the overmolded rubber portion, or, if the joining member is flexible, the overmolded rubber portion is molded while maintaining the joining member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Lawrence CISLO, Matthew SENDZIK
  • Publication number: 20080292235
    Abstract: A sliding material sliding material includes: a sliding plane member; a base member made of a material different from that of the sliding plane member; an intermediate member provided between the sliding plane member and the base member and formed with a plurality of spaces; and a joining member for bonding the intermediate member to the base member, in which a portion of the space formed to the intermediate member is impregnated with a portion of the sliding plane member so that the sliding plane member is bonded to the intermediate member, and a residual portion of the space of the intermediate member is impregnated with a portion of the joining member so that the base member is bonded to the intermediate member with the joining member therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Long Than Trong, Satoshi Namba, Nobuyuki Yasu, Kazuma Mukai
  • Publication number: 20080120845
    Abstract: The roller can be suitably used for a guide section of a moving unit capable of moving a heavy matter without enormously increasing rigidity of a rail and is capable of reducing weight and production cost of the moving unit. The roller comprises: a tubular core having an outer circumferential face, in which a groove section is formed; and a resin coat section continuously coating the outer circumferential face of the tubular core, an inner face of the groove section, both ends of the tubular core and at least parts of an inner circumferential face thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventor: Tomio Hama
  • Patent number: 7229699
    Abstract: A multilayer sliding bearing includes a rigid metal backing having a metal bearing liner attached thereto. The metal bearing liner includes a metal bearing liner layer which is attached to the bearing surface of the metal backing layer and at least one metal overplate layer deposited over an outer surface of the metal bearing liner layer. The metal bearing liner layer has a layer of hard particles embedded in an outer surface thereof which is adjacent to the inner surface of the at least one metal overplate layer. The bearing may also include a barrier layer interposed between the metal bearing liner layer and the metal over plate layer to inhibit diffusion therebetween and/or promote adhesion of the metal over plate layer to the metal bearing liner layer. The invention may also include a thin metal protective coating layer over the outer surface of the bearing liner and backing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Toth, Barry Schwab
  • Patent number: 6493939
    Abstract: A flange includes a housing having a body with a reinforcing member encased within the housing. The flange can be configured to house a bearing. The flange can alternatively be configured to act as a leveler for machinery. The flange is formed by a) preparing a mold for the housing, b) preparing a metallic band for insertion into a space in the mold, c) suspending the band within the mold, d) introducing a thermosetting material into the mold to encase the band, and e) cooling the thermosetting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Valu Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Stuart J. Ledingham
  • Patent number: 6439774
    Abstract: A rotary air bearing (A) as shown in the Figure has a journal (2) provided with a pair of outwardly presented tapered surfaces located opposite the tapered surfaces on the journal, and a low friction liner (6) bonded to the tapered surfaces on the hub and having tapered surfaces which are separated from the tapered surfaces of the journal by small air gaps (g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: The Timken Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Knepper, Keith M. Gordon, Jay M. Landry, William E. Harbottle