Assembling Means Patents (Class 384/537)
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Patent number: 8177436Abstract: The present invention is an anti rotational creep bearing including a socket designed in the inner race of the bearing for partially receiving an anti creep ball therein, further including a shaft onto which the bearing is to be longitudinally mounted, including a channel defined along a longitudinal direction for receiving there along the anti creep ball projecting from its socket, wherein the depth of the socket plus the depth of the channel is at least equal to the diameter of the anti creep ball, such that when the bearing is installed on the shaft, the anti creep ball prevents creep in the rotational direction, however allows movement in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Inventor: John Horvat
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Patent number: 8157450Abstract: A bearing is disclosed. The bearing has an inner ring concentrically disposed with an outer ring with rotational elements therebetween adapted for allowing rotational movement of the inner ring relative to the outer ring. The outer ring has a crowned outer surface. A waveform expansion sleeve is disposed about the outer ring. The waveform expansion sleeve has a cylindrical outer surface dimensioned to be received in a bore of a bearing housing and an inner surface with a profile matching the outer ring outer surface. The waveform expansion sleeve has an undulating radial cross-section sufficient to exert radial pressure at its inner surface against the outer ring outer surface when mounted in the bore of the bearing housing to sufficiently secure the bearing in the housing. The expansion sleeve inner surface forms a seal with the outer ring outer surface when the bearing is installed in the bearing housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Baldor Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher E. Hosmer, Donald L. Nisley
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Patent number: 8141445Abstract: A ball screw shaft supporting structure of a ball screw rotationally supported by a housing via supporting bearings has a screw shaft formed, on its outer circumference, with a fitting portion and a positioning shoulder. An inner ring of the supporting bearing is press fit onto the fitting portion via a predetermined interference. A steel spacer ring is fit onto the fitting portion from the outer side of the supporting bearing with the inner side of the inner ring abutted against the shoulder. A caulking portion is formed on the end of the fitting portion by plastically deforming the end of the fitting portion radially outward. The inner ring is axially immovably secured on the screw shaft by the caulking portion via, the spacer ring.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Morihisa Yoshioka, Keisuke Kazuno, Kiyohito Ishikawa, Koji Tateishi
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Patent number: 8142081Abstract: A wheel support bearing assembly includes an outer member, an inner member and double row balls. The inner member includes a hub unit, which has a wheel mounting flange defined in an outer periphery thereof, and an inner ring mounted on the outer periphery of the inboard end of the hub unit. A shoulder is provided in an inner peripheral edge of the inboard end face of the inner ring. A crimped portion, engageable with a stepped face of the shoulder, is provided in the inboard end of the hub unit by diameter expansion. The crimped portion is formed by crimping such diameter expanded portion which is thin walled by providing a hub inner diameter setback in the inner periphery of the inboard end of the hub unit. This thin walled portion is positioned on a side inboardly of the straight line defining a ball contact angle in the inboard raceway surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Akira Fujimura, Kazuo Komori, Kazunori Kubota, Tetsuya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8132968Abstract: A cylindrical pilot portion (72) to be fitted to an inner periphery of a wheel (80) is formed at an inner diameter part of a brake rotor (70). A shape of a hub wheel, in particular, the shape on an outboard side is thus simplified, and the hub wheel can be formed at low cost through cold forging or the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Fukumura, Masayuki Kuroda, Hisaaki Kura, Shin Tomogami, Hiroshi Kawamura, Shigeaki Fukushima
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Publication number: 20120027334Abstract: A mechanism and method for locking a bearing to a shaft includes a split sleeve and a receptive flange adapted to be fixed to the bearing. A positioning flange is coupled to the split sleeve. A screw extends through the positioning flange and threadingly engages the receptive flange. Rotation of the screw in a first direction axially drives the sleeve into engagement with the bearing to collapse the split sleeve into engagement with the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: EMERSON POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel Putt, Jonathan Schultz
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Publication number: 20120027333Abstract: In an amphibious ATV, the wheel bearings are housed in a spherical mounting-structure, because of possible angular misalignment. The spherical mounting-structure comprises separable primary and secondary elements. The new system provides that both elements are axially wide, being e.g as wide as the outer-race of the bearing. Now, the elements are highly resistant to every distortion, which means the mounting-structure can seal the bearings very effectively—both as to keeping dirt and water out, and keeping lubricant in.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Ontario Drive & Gear LimitedInventor: Brian Mark Cressman
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Patent number: 8091240Abstract: There is provided an assembling method of a bearing unit which has a bearing having an outer ring and a retainer plate having a retainer hole for holding the outer ring. The assembling method has pressing a plurality of portions in a circumferential direction of a circumferential edge of an inner circumferential portion of the retainer hole of the retainer plate in an axial direction so as to form engagement pawls and moving the engagement pawls of the retainer plate from one axial end of the outer ring to a engagement groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the outer ring so as to engage the engagement pawls of the retainer plate with the engagement groove of outer ring.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Takao Katougi, Tomoharu Sugiman
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Patent number: 8087830Abstract: Disclosed is a radially movable floating bearing for a shaft of a gear of a steering system, comprising a bushing or an inner ring or a rolling bearing, which is supported in a seat of a frame or housing of the gear. The inner ring or the bushing or the rolling bearing is held by at least one support element made of material having elastomeric properties which is inserted into a gap between the seat and the inner ring, the support element being designed as a pivot bearing. In order to provide a radially movable floating bearing for a steering system gear shaft, which is low-noise, easy to pivot and highly resilient, the pivot bearing cooperates with a damping stop disposed tangentially at a distance thereto, the stop being disposed at a radial distance from the inner ring or the seat.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbHInventors: Jens-Uwe Hafermalz, Dennis Fuechsel
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Patent number: 8052331Abstract: A rolling bearing fixing device includes at least one bearing having mutually rotatable inner and outer rings, a housing having at least one fitting hole into which the bearing is fitted and a bolt insertion hole, a pair of fixing plates having at least one large-diameter hole and a bolt insertion hole; and a bolt inserted from one axial end into the bolt insertion hole of one fixing plate, the bolt insertion hole of the housing, and the bolt insertion hole of the other fixing plate, and connects the housing with the pair of fixing plates. Both axial end parts of the outer ring are held by the pair of fixing plates in the axial direction, the inner ring is positioned further inwardly of the large-diameter hole of the fixing plates in the radial direction and the inner ring is rotatable with respect to the fixing plates.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Takao Katougi, Katsuhiro Ikezawa, Seigou Urakami, Daisuke Himeda, Tomoharu Sugiman
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Publication number: 20110255818Abstract: A flanged bearing ring is formed of two different materials joined together as a single piece, specifically a radially inner annular insert and a flanged, radially outer lightweight body formed about the insert. The insert has one or more inner raceways and is formed of a hard material, such as bearing steel. The outer body is made of a lightweight material, such as aluminium alloy, with a higher thermal expansion coefficient higher than that of the hard material from which the inner insert is formed. A radial projection formed on the insert extends into a radial groove of the outer body. The projection and the recess interlock the insert and the outer body so as to prevent relative movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Cornelius Petrus Antonius Vissers, Paolo Re
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Publication number: 20110247890Abstract: The invention provides a trunnion bearing assembly for the drive system of a snow blower, mower, tractor, or other self-propelled utility vehicle. In certain embodiments, the trunnion assembly comprises a bearing having ball bearings, roller bearings, or another type of bearing set. This can provide free relative rotation of several components of the bearing assembly relative to a trunnion housing of the bearing assembly. This rotation is imparted when a friction disk of the assembly engages a spinning motor flywheel of the drive system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Inventors: Kyle C. Stoehr, Scott T. Breyer
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Patent number: 8029195Abstract: There is provided a vehicular-wheel bearing assembly. The vehicular-wheel bearing assembly includes an inner shaft (1), an outer ring (2) provided around the inner shaft (1), and two rows of balls (3aand 3b) provided between the inner shaft (1) and the outer ring (2) in angular contact with the inner shaft (1) and the outer ring (2). An annular raceway member (4) with a curved section that is a separate member from the inner shaft (1) and the outer ring (2) and has a raceway surface for the rolling element is provided on an outer peripheral surface (11) of the inner shaft (1) and an inner peripheral surface (12) of the outer ring (2).Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Seo, Katsura Koyagi, Masahiro Inoue
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Patent number: 7980766Abstract: The rolling bearing unit includes an outer ring, an inner shaft disposed radially inward of the outer ring and having an inner ring fitting part on the outer peripheral surface on the one axial direction side, an inner ring fitted on the inner ring fitting part and having the shaft end on the one axial direction side crimped on the end face of the one axial direction side thereof, the inner ring having a step portion on the one axial direction side of the shoulder portion, and the step portion having an inclined surface shape the diameter of which expands in the other axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventor: Youichi Tsuzaki
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Patent number: 7931408Abstract: A unit, which has a wheel bearing and at least one vehicle-sided fixed support. The wheel bearing has at least one outer part which is rigidly fixed to at least one bearing seat which is embodied as an axial passage of a sheet metal molded part of the support, and at least one end section of the outer part is surrounded in a radial and supple manner, at least in the proximity of the passage such that the end section engages in an axial mariner behind the support.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Schaeffler KGInventors: Peter Niebling, Gottfried Ruoff, Horst Doeppling, Darius Dlugai, Ralf Stopp
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Patent number: 7927021Abstract: The invention relates to a securing device for a bearing ring in a housing. At least one spring element engages in an annular groove of the housing and at least one angled collar supports the bearing ring in an axial manner. The spring element is hook-shaped and forms an angle that extends in a radial manner towards the outside and at least partially back in the axial direction. At least one push element is formed on the securing device, which is actively connected to the spring element in such a manner that the spring element is prestressed in an axial manner, by actuating the push element.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Schaeffler KGInventors: Kay Schumacher, Benno Fueller, Georg Schoener
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Patent number: 7901141Abstract: A sealing device 12b of a hub unit bearing O has a first slinger 16 fixed to an inner ring 5, a second slinger 17 fixed to an outer ring 1, and a sealing portion 18 which is fixed to the first slinger 16 and is slide-contacted with the second slinger 17. A magnetic encoder 20 is fixed to the first slinger 16. The magnetic encoder 20 and the sealing portion 18 are bond-fixed to the first slinger 16 with the same adhesive agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventor: Akira Takahashi
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Patent number: 7883272Abstract: A wheel support bearing assembly includes an inner member having a hub axle and an inner race mounted on the hub axle. This bearing assembly includes one of an engagement recess formed in a portion of an inner peripheral surface of the inner race corresponding to an inboard edge portion of the hub axle and an engagement projection is formed in the hub axle for engagement with the engagement recess, and an annular recess formed in the outer peripheral surface of the hub axle and is opposed to an inboard side face of the inner race by the radially outward deformation of an inboard edge portion of the hub axle.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kiuchi, Kazuo Komori, Syougo Suzuki, Akira Fujimura, Takayasu Takubo
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Patent number: 7874734Abstract: To provide a wheel support bearing assembly, in which the sufficient proof strength of an inner race during assemblage onto the vehicle body can be secured without its function being lowered, the wheel support bearing assembly includes an outer member, an inner member, and rows of rolling elements interposed therebetween. The inner member includes an hub axle having a flange and an inner race on an inner race mount, with raceways defined in the hub axle and the inner race. The inner race has a counterbore at its inboard end. The hub axle has a plastically deformed portion which engages an axially oriented surface of the counterbore when radially outwardly crimped and does not protrude outwardly beyond an inboard end face of the inner race. The difference P between the inner race mount and an outer peripheral face of the plastically deformed portion is 0.13 mm or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Kazuo Komori, Kazunori Kubota, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Akira Fujimura, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Jun Numamoto, Masahiro Kiuchi
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Patent number: 7874735Abstract: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member (10), an inner member (1), an inner ring (3), and double row rolling elements (6, 6) are freely rollably retained between double row outer raceway surfaces (10a, 10a) and double row inner raceway surfaces (2a, 3a). An end face at the outboard side of the inner ring (3) is adapted to abut a stepped portion (11) formed on the wheel hub (2). The inner ring (3) is secured on the wheel hub (2) by being sandwiched between a caulked portion (2c) and the stepped portion (11). A ratio (?) of the thickness (e), of an end (3c) at the outboard side of the inner ring (3) to abut the stepped portion (11), relative to the inner diameter (d) of the inner ring (3) is limited at or smaller than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2005Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Kazuo Komori, Masahiro Kiuchi, Kazunori Kubota, Yasuhiro Aritake, Takayuki Owada
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Patent number: 7874072Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a bearing support, particularly for a fan casing. The method includes the step of placing a bearing assembly in correspondence to a matrix die of an injection mold. The method further includes the step of abutting a punch of the injection mold on the bearing assembly to coaxially align and axially clamp the bearing assembly. The method further includes the step of injecting a plastic material into the mold to form an assembly sheath over-injected on outer surfaces of the bearing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.Inventor: Roberto Mazzocco
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Publication number: 20100296761Abstract: A double-row angular contact bearing and which has outer and inner bearing rings with two rows of rolling elements disposed between the bearing rings that are held by two bearing cages interspaced at even distances. At least one row is configured as balls with parallel lateral faces that are symmetrically flattened. Both rows of rolling elements roll in adjacent races machined into the inner face of the outer ring and the outer face of the inner ring. The contact angle axes are pitched towards each other in an O-arrangement or X-arrangement and the races are axially delimited only on one side by shoulders. Additional clearance and supporting contours are formed at axial edge sections, opposite the shoulders, onto the races. The contours can be used to fit the balls into angular contact by axially inserting them into the clearance between the bearing rings and then tilting them into the races.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Andreas Bohr, Horst Doepping, Heinrich Hofmann
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Patent number: 7837391Abstract: A bearing retainer unit is formed by an insert-molding technique to cast a molded component of the bearing retainer unit utilizing a bearing bushing. A first mold die, having a circumferential surface shaped to correspond to at least a portion of the inner circumferential surface of a bearing-positioning portion of the molded component, and a second mold die, having an abutment that abuts against an axial end face of the first die, are readied. A molten material is then injected into the mold to form the molded part, thereby forming the die-parting line on the inner circumferential surface of the component's bearing positioning portion, positioned at the radially outer side of the abutment.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Hideaki Kitamura, Takahiro Kikuichi, Fumihiro Umeda, Yoshihisa Kato, Koji Ando
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Publication number: 20100284640Abstract: The invention is characterized by a rolling bearing and tools for its assembly, it being possible for the bearing to have the same external dimensions as conventional rolling bearings. The invention comprises rolling bearings, commonly of ball bearing type, for journaling rotating movements where the rolling elements can be made as spherical balls or rollers or any other form of rolling element that is advantageous. The invention also comprises a method for mounting of rolling bearings, commonly of ball-bearing type, for journaling rotating movements where the rolling elements can be spherical balls, rollers or any other form of rolling element that is advantageous. The mounting is effected by means of sleeves which are given a fork-shaped design.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2007Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: AGORA ABInventors: Gunnar Bergling, Karl-Gustav Derman
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Patent number: 7798723Abstract: A rolling bearing assembly for a wheel includes a cylindrical fixed bearing ring fixed to a vehicle body side, a rotary bearing ring rotatably inserted to inside of the fixed bearing ring, and plural rows of rolling elements rollably arranged between the bearing rings. An annular sensor housing is attached to an inboard side end portion of the fixed bearing ring and includes a plurality of displacement sensors for detecting gaps between the displacement sensors and outer peripheral surfaces of inboard side end portions of the rotary bearing ring in a circumferential direction. Further, an inboard side end portion of the sensor housing is sealed by an inner side seal device.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Yasuhiko Ishii, Naoki Morimura, Tetsuaki Numata, Nobutsuna Motohashi, Hirochika Ueyama
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Patent number: 7775723Abstract: An assembly composed of a rotary shaft and of a roller bearing supporting said shaft, the bearing including a ring interconnected with the shaft and forming a raceway. The assembly provides that the ring is immobilized in rotation on the shaft by a coupling formed by a plurality of teeth on the shaft cooperating with lugs interconnected with the ring, the lugs being received between said teeth. The ring is retained in an axial direction by a snap ring transversal in the form of a ring portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: SNECMAInventor: Jean-Philippe Julien Maffre
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Patent number: 7771123Abstract: Connection device (100) for connecting a contact rolling bearing (1) to an external body (7), the connection device (100) presenting a peripheral connecting outline (5), which is obtained around a race (3) of the contact rolling bearing, and a complementary connecting outline (6), which is obtained inside the external body (7), and which presents a shape such as to complement the connecting peripheral outline (5) in order to render angularly integral in relation to each other the external body (7) and the first race (3), the connecting peripheral outline (5) and the complementary connecting outline (6) both presenting a radius (R) which is of variable angular dimensions with continuity on a plane which is transverse to the rotation axis (A), and are both provided, in relation to the rotation axis A, with at least one respective convex portion (51).Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignees: Aktiebolaget SKF, Minganti International Ltd.Inventors: Jean-Gérard Loustanau, Domenico Ducci, Marcus Caldana
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Patent number: 7762725Abstract: A shaft is supported in a housing on the front and rear antifriction bearings that are mounted in opposition. The front bearing has an outer race provided with an external thread that engages an internal thread within the housing. That outer race is fitted with a locking ring provided with an inner flange that is engaged to turn the race and thereby bring the front and rear bearings into the correct adjustment. The locking ring also has an axially directed outer flange that is segmented, so that one of the segments can be bent outwardly into a recess in the housing, thus providing a tab that prevents rotation of the locking ring and outer race.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: The Timken CompanyInventors: Glenn R. Fahrni, Jr., Wayne D. Barnette
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Patent number: 7744284Abstract: A bearing according to the present invention includes a cylindrical member formed on and around an outer member of a usual bearing. To firmly connect the cylindrical member to the outer member, grooves having an inclination relative to the axial direction of the bearing are formed so that the grooves do not cross one another on the outer surface of the outer member. The cylindrical member is made of a resin material by molding, and the resin, which is melted by heat in the molding process, enters into and adheres to the grooves. In this manner, the cylindrical member is firmly connected to the outer member so that movement in both of the rotational and axial directions of the bearing is prevented. The grooves formed on the outer surface of the outer member may be grouped, and their inclination relative to the axial direction may be alternately reversed group by group.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiki Tada, Michiyasu Nosaka, Takushi Kamiya, Takayuki Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Tanabe
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Publication number: 20100150488Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a first bearing comprising a first inner ring and a second bearing comprising a second inner ring. A sleeve-shaped spacer is disposed between and axially separates the first and second inner rings. The spacer has at least one at least partially circumferentially-extending cantilever arm extending from at least one axial end of the spacer and is configured to at least partially overlap one of the first and second inner rings in the axial direction. The cantilever arms may be annular-shaped and may engage the respective first and second inner rings in a location fit or an interference fit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Thilo Beck, Rico Dittmar, Gerhard Haas, Bernd Stephan, Arno Stubenrauch, Peter Volpert, Thomas Will, Anastazi Sarigiannis
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Patent number: 7736064Abstract: A roller bearing is provided with an elastic member that is fitted to an annular groove that is formed in the outer circumference of an outer ring. A chamfered portion, formed on one side face of the groove, is made larger than a chamfered portion formed on the other side face, and has a distance from the bottom face of the groove that is set to ½ or more of the thickness of the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignees: JTEKT Corporation, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirotsugu Kusano, Masayoshi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100040318Abstract: A clamping roller freewheel, which has an inner ring, an outer ring and clamping rollers arranged between the inner ring and outer ring. The clamping rollers interact, in each case, with one clamping ramp formed on the outer circumference of the inner ring. The clamping rollers are surrounded by an elastically expandable protective ring which is concentric with respect to the freewheel axis. Retaining lugs prevent the protective ring from being driven in rotation by the outer ring in idle running operation. In this way, the outer ring is prevented from grinding against the clamping rollers, and the clamping rollers are prevented from being driven in rotation, with the resulting wear to the clamping ramps, in idle running operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KGInventor: Tomas SMETANA
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Patent number: 7654745Abstract: The rotatable joinder of two sheets is provided by a two-piece interfitting bearing assembly with each element separately attached to one of the sheets so that the sheets are joined but rotation is controlled by the interfitting bearing surfaces. The interfitting parts comprise an inner and outer race which are placed together in superposition with aligned apertures in the sheets. The rotatable attachment of the sheets is accomplished in a single pressing operation in which each race is simultaneously pressed into one of the sheets with a gap remaining between them.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: PEM Management, Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Maloney
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Patent number: 7637665Abstract: A bearing assembly includes an inner race and an outer race, with the outer race positioned such that the inner race is an opposed and spaced apart relation from the outer race. Roller elements are disposed between the inner race and the outer race. A resilient seal element extends adjacent to a flange element, maintaining an effective seal during axial and/or radial movement, such as that caused by thermal expansion, of the resilient seal element relative to the flange element. The resilient seal element excludes contaminants from entering the bearing assembly and retains grease or lubricant within the bearing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Emerson Power Transmission CorporationInventor: John Cook
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Patent number: 7632021Abstract: A hub-bearing unit (10) for the wheel of a motor vehicle includes a hub (11) with a radial flange (13) and a central tubular portion (12) having an outer cylindrical surface (12a), and a bearing unit (15) with a dual set of rolling elements (16, 17) radially interposed between an outer, stationary bearing race (18) and first and second radially inner bearing races (19, 20) located side to side on the cylindrical outer surface (12a) of the tubular portion (12) of the hub. The hub forms a conical shoulder surface (21) diverging in an axially outer direction, and the first inner bearing race (19) has a conical surface (22) abutting against the conical shoulder surface (21) of the hub.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventor: Domenico Bosco
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Publication number: 20090297083Abstract: Guide shaft bearing comprising an internal ring mounted on a cylindrical contact surface of a shaft and means for the axial locking of the ring comprising a ring mounted sliding on the cylindrical contact surface and an annular rib made of shape memory material mounted in two annular grooves of the cylindrical contact surface and of the ring, the annular rib being able to expand radially by shape memory effect when it is subjected to a temperature greater than a transition temperature of its material to pass to a locking position of the ring on the cylindrical contact surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Laurent Raberin, Stephane Rousselin, Regis Eugene, Henri Servant
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Publication number: 20090268998Abstract: A wheel support bearing assembly includes an outer member, an inner member and double row balls. The inner member includes a hub unit, which has a wheel mounting flange defined in an outer periphery thereof, and an inner ring mounted on the outer periphery of the inboard end of the hub unit. A shoulder is provided in an inner peripheral edge of the inboard end face of the inner ring. A crimped portion, engageable with a stepped face of the shoulder, is provided in the inboard end of the hub unit by diameter expansion. The crimped portion is formed by crimping such diameter expanded portion which is thin walled by providing a hub inner diameter setback in the inner periphery of the inboard end of the hub unit. This thin walled portion is positioned on a side inboardly of the straight line defining a ball contact angle in the inboard raceway surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2007Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Fujimura, Kazuo Komori, Kazunori Kubota, Tetsuya Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20090245707Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly and a method for mounting a pump bearing in/on plastic coolant pump housings. The aim of the invention is to create an assembly that is easy to produce and mount as well as an inexpensive and simple method for arranging pump bearings in/on plastic coolant pump housings, the assembly and method making it possible to temper the plastic housing and use bearings featuring little clearance with all resulting advantages, such as an extended service life, less noise, stress relief on the shaft sealing ring or the rotating mechanical seal, and others. The assembly comprises a pump bearing (3) ring (2) that is fitted with at least one bearing groove (1) and is disposed in/on a bearing seat (4) of a plastic coolant pump housing (5) with an axial bearing collar (6), and several positioning webs (7) which are located on the bearing seat (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2006Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Eugen Schmidt, Frank Blaurock, Hartmut Leusenrink
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Patent number: 7574854Abstract: A method for assembling a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes coupling a high-pressure compressor to a high-pressure turbine using a first shaft, coupling a fan assembly to a low-pressure turbine using a second shaft, and coupling a differential squeeze film damper assembly between the first and second shafts.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Thomas Ory Moniz
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Patent number: 7570460Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a structure of a pivot receiving surface which may excellently adjust the attitude of a head supporting mechanism in a magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, three projections are formed at a base for supporting a pivot assembly. The first projection is formed on a first line which bisects an angle defined between a second line and a third line determining a range, in which a head/slider flies above a magnetic disk. In contrast, the other two projections are formed at positions apart from the first projection at an angle of 120°, respectively. The attitude of the pivot assembly is adjusted by adjusting the heights of the projections, and thus, a head supporting mechanism is corrected in a predetermined attitude within the range in which the head/slider flies above the magnetic disk.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hiroki Kitahori, Shinichi Kimura, Satoshi Matsumura, Akira Morita
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Publication number: 20090142012Abstract: The invention relates to a unit comprising a wheel bearing and at least one vehicle-sided fixed support. The wheel bearing comprising at least one outer part which is rigidly fixed to at least one bearing seat which is embodied as an axial passage of a sheet metal moulded part of the support, and at least one end section of the outer part is surrounded in a radial and supple manner, at least in the proximity of said passage such that the end section engages in an axial mariner behind the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2005Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KGInventors: Peter Niebling, Gottfried Ruoff, Horst Doeppling, Darius Dlugai, Ralf Stopp
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Publication number: 20090129715Abstract: A process for assembling to a knuckle member a bearing unit for driving wheels including a hub, a bearing, and a constant velocity universal joint is simplified. In order to achieve this, a hub (10) and an outer joint member (31) of an out-board side constant velocity universal joint (30) are plastically joined together. An outer peripheral surface (26a) of an outer member (26) is press-fitted into an inner peripheral surface of the knuckle member, and a maximum diameter dimension (D1) of the out-board side constant velocity universal joint (30) is set smaller than a minimum diameter dimension (Dn) of the knuckle member (6). Also, a maximum diameter dimension (D2) of an in-board side constant velocity universal joint (40) is set smaller than the minimum diameter dimension (Dn) of the knuckle member (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Yoshikazu Fukumura, Masayuki Kuroda, Hisaaki Kura, Shin Tomogami, Hiroshi Kawamura, Shigeaki Fukushima
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Patent number: 7534048Abstract: A center bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a shaft at varying angles relative to a support surface includes a bearing and a bearing support member that supports the bearing. The bearing support member has a curved outer surface. A bracket is provided for supporting the bearing support member. The bracket has a curved inner surface that cooperates with the curved outer surface of the bearing support member to allow the bearing support member to move relative to the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLCInventor: James L. Holman
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Patent number: 7497631Abstract: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member with an integrally formed mounting body mounting flange and double row outer raceway surfaces formed on its inner circumferential surface. An inner member includes a wheel hub with an integrally formed wheel mounting flange at one end. One inner raceway surface is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the wheel hub. An inner ring is fit onto a cylindrical portion of the wheel hub. One end of the inner ring abuts a shoulder on the wheel hub. The inner ring is formed with the other inner raceway surface on its outer circumferential surface. Double row rolling elements are freely rollably contained, via a cage, between the inner and outer raceway surfaces, respectively, of the inner and outer members. A corner, between the shoulders of the wheel hub and the cylindrical portion, is defined by a compound curve.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: NTN CorporationInventor: Kazuhisa Shigeoka
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Patent number: 7488111Abstract: A composite resilient mount for rolling element bearings, comprising a composite hoop portion, and including a plurality of circumferentially dispersed inner pads and outer pads defining a plurality of arcuate beam portions disposed circumferentially between adjacent pads. The hoop portion and the inner and outer pads, may comprise a circumferentially wound fiber, such as a carbon fiber, and a resin. The inner and outer pads may be rounded, feathered or otherwise configured to eliminate edges from the inner and outer pads, thereby preventing damage to adjacent components. A method for providing damping to a rolling element bearing is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Robert P. Chen, Sam Shiao
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Patent number: 7485065Abstract: An apparatus for producing a preload in a differential mechanism includes a housing formed with a first screw thread, a component located in the housing and for supported in revolution about a first axis on the housing by a bearing. A nut includes a second screw thread engaged with the first screw thread, recesses distributed about the first axis, and a preloaded surface that contacts the bearing with a force produced by applying torque tending to engage the first and second screw threads. A lock tab, secured against rotation relative to the nut, includes a surface that overlaps at least one of the recesses and by which the lock tab is secured to the nut.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Todd J. Kearney
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Patent number: 7481756Abstract: A roller assembly for use with an agricultural baler is configured to be mounted to a housing of the baler in a manner that avoids transmitting an undue axial load to a bearing of the roller assembly. An assogated method is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Daniel Eric Derscheid, Bradley Joe Hitchler, Darwin Daniel Fish, Jeremy Michael Erdmann, Charles Scott Sloan, Henry Dennis Anstey
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Publication number: 20080279495Abstract: The invention relates to a securing device for a bearing ring in a housing. At least one spring element engages in an annular groove of the housing and at least one angled collar supports the bearing ring in an axial manner. The spring element is hook-shaped and forms an angle that extends in a radial manner towards the outside and at least partially back in the axial direction. At least one push element is formed on the securing device, which is actively connected to the spring element in such a manner that the spring element is prestressed in an axial manner, by actuating the push element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2006Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KGInventors: Kay Schumacher, Benno Fueller, Georg Schoener
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Patent number: 7429134Abstract: A bearing arrangement used in a medical device in which a rotating component is supported relative to a stationary housing includes a bearing comprising an inner ring and an outer ring, with the inner ring being connected to the component which is to be supported and the outer ring being connected to the housing. To increase quiet running of the rotating component, the connection between the inner ring and the component to be supported and/or between the outer ring and the housing is produced by an annular element which is made of plastic.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: AB SKFInventors: Manfred Brandenstein, Heinz Breunig, Jurgen Neder, Gunter Neder, Armin Olschewski
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Patent number: 7413350Abstract: A bicycle hub is provided that comprises a hub axle, a hub body, a bearing and a clearance adjusting member. The bearing includes an outer ring coupled to the hub body, an inner ring coupled to the hub axle, and a plurality of rolling components disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring. The clearance adjusting member is disposed with respect to the outer ring of the bearing such that at least a portion of the clearance adjusting member is disposed axially inwardly of the outer ring. The clearance adjusting member is configured and arranged to prevent a grease inside the bearing to leak toward an axially inward direction of the hub axle with a prescribed radial clearance being maintained between the clearance adjusting member and one of the hub axle and the outer ring of the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Takanori Kanehisa, Atsuhiro Nishimura