For Hub Patents (Class 384/544)
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Patent number: 12196257Abstract: A bearing device includes: at least one bearing that has a rolling element and a raceway surface to support a main shaft; a member disposed on a path through which pressing force generating a preload between the rolling element and the raceway surface is transmitted; and at least one load sensor element fixed to the member to measure the pressing force. At least one load sensor element is a chip component including a thin film pattern of which resistance changes according to the pressing force and a protective layer that insulates and protects thin film pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Koike, Yasuyuki Fukushima, Yusuke Shibuya, Daichi Kondou
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Patent number: 12025185Abstract: A sealing assembly for bearings, in particular for use in agriculture, the sealing assembly having a first shield, which extends from an outer surface of the inner ring to an inner surface of the outer ring, and is mounted on the outer surface of the inner ring, and a seal with a plurality of contact lips supported by the first shield, and provided with a predetermined number (N) of contact lips arranged in series axially next to one another. The contact lips may lie, when in a respective pre-assembly configuration, in respective planes (P) inclined with respect to a central axis (A) of the bearing, and may have radial lengths decreasing axially towards the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Gianni Alvise Cognolato, Giorgia D'Amico, Claudio Foti
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Patent number: 11975567Abstract: A clamping system for a hub bearing assembly includes a screw element configured to engage with a threaded section formed on a flanged hub of a bearing unit. The screw element includes a flange-shaped head configured to cooperate with an annular element of the bearing unit and axially constrain the flanged hub and the annular element, an elastic ring, and at least one annular seat for the elastic ring. The at least one annular seat is formed radially on the inside of the annular element or on the outside of the flange-shaped head along a radially outer peripheral edge of the flange-shaped head.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Marco Falossi, Francesco Lamboglia, Fabio Marchetti, Marco Romanetto
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Patent number: 11833854Abstract: In a vehicle suspension assembly (1), a connection system (4) between a hub bearing unit (2) and a suspension upright or knuckle (3), including: a radially outer lateral cylindrical surface (16) of a radially outer ring or element (6) of the hub bearing unit, configured for interference coupling with a radially inner lateral cylindrical surface (18) of a reception seat (5) of the suspension upright or knuckle; a pair of, or three, lugs (19) that protrude radially in cantilever fashion from the radially outer ring or element of the hub bearing unit, each being provided with an axial through hole (21); a frontal surface (23) of the suspension upright or knuckle, configured for receiving the lugs (19) in axial abutment; and screws (24) fitted in a through manner through the axial holes of the lugs and screwed into respective threaded holes (25) formed in the suspension upright or knuckle, on the frontal surface (23).Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Daniel Back, Marco Falossi, Paolo A. Re, Stefano Richaud, Marco Romanetto
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Patent number: 11796006Abstract: To realize a method for manufacturing a hub unit bearing capable of increasing the processing efficiency of a staking portion. An axial inner end portion of a hub ring 22 is processed into a staking portion 26 by rotating a die 31 around a reference axis C in a state in which the die 31 having a rotation axis ? inclined with respect to the reference axis C is pressed against the axial inner end portion of the hub ring 22 under a condition that the hub ring 22 is disposed so that a center axis of the hub ring 22 is coaxial or parallel to the reference axis C and the hub ring 22 is supported to be radially movable.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Hagiwara, Reiji Hirasaki
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Patent number: 11713785Abstract: A hub bearing assembly for the rotatable mounting of a soil cultivating disc (D) on a support shaft (A) of an agricultural machine, the assembly being provided with a hub bearing unit which in turn is provided with a flanged outer ring carrying two integral outer raceways for respective rows of rolling bodies, a flange fixed to the flanged outer ring for mounting a disc (D), and, for each outer raceway, an inner ring axially adjacent to the other inner ring, both of which can be engaged by the support shaft (A); and a sealing device mounted on a side of the hub bearing assembly opposite the side of the flange, composed of a first sealing stage and a second sealing stage arranged sequentially along the support shaft (A) and housed in respective seats formed directly in the flanged outer ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Inventors: Massimo Marivo, Stefano Urso, Riccardo Venturucci
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Patent number: 11654728Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly including a hydraulic apparatus having a rotor and a stator. The rotor is mounted so as to turn about a second rotation axis with respect to the stator and is secured to a device suitable for mounting a vehicle wheel. A pivot-pin element is intended to be mounted on an axle and is mounted so as to rotate about a first rotation axis with respect to the hydraulic apparatus. The stator is mounted so as to turn about the first rotation axis with respect to the axle. An air chamber is formed between the pivot-pin element and the hydraulic apparatus, the air chamber is connected to a distribution passage formed in the hydraulic apparatus. An axle passage is formed in the pivot-pin element so as to form a pneumatic passage between the pivot-pin element and the hydraulic apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: POCLAIN HYDRAULICS INDUSTRIEInventors: Adam Frey, Homer Hawk, Sylvain Michon
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Patent number: 11536313Abstract: A wheel bearing assembly includes a wheel hub, at least one inner ring, an outer ring, and one or more rolling elements. An accommodation space may be formed inward of a vehicle-body-side end portion of the wheel hub to accommodate a constant velocity joint, and a plurality of recesses for accommodating rotating elements of the constant velocity joint are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the accommodation space to be spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction. A first heat-treated hardened portion may be formed on the inner peripheral surface of the accommodation space, and may be formed to have portions with which the rotating elements of the constant velocity joint is brought into contact. A second heat-treated hardened portion may formed on an outer peripheral surface of the wheel hub. The first and second heat-treated hardened portions may not overlap each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: ILJIN GLOBAL Co., LtdInventors: Jung Yang Park, Jong Keun Lim, Yun Ho Jung, Bo Young Jang
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Patent number: 11453238Abstract: A wheel bearing assembly may include a wheel hub having a hub flange; one or more inner rings configured to be mounted to one side of the wheel hub; an outer ring provided radially outward of the one or more inner rings; a spacer coupled to a vehicle-body-side end portion of an inner ring disposed on a vehicle-body-side; and one or more rolling elements provided between the one or more inner rings and the outer ring. The one or more inner rings may be configured to be held on the wheel hub by plastically deforming a vehicle-body-side end portion of the wheel hub in a radially outward direction. A plurality of recesses for accommodating rotating elements of a constant velocity joint may be formed on an inner peripheral surface of the vehicle-body-side end portion of the wheel hub in a spaced-apart relationship with each other along a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: ILJIN GLOBAL Co., LtdInventors: Yun Ho Jung, Bo Young Jang
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Patent number: 11454322Abstract: A rotary pneumatic seal may have a ring-shaped inner radial seal with an inner lip extending in an axial direction, an outer lip extending in the same axial direction, a connecting flange connecting the inner lip and the outer lip, a pneumatic sealing lip, and an oil sealing lip. The rotary pneumatic seal may also have a ring-shaped outer radial seal located radially outward from the inner radial seal. The outer radial seal may also have a first wall extending in an outward radial direction, a second wall extending in an opposite inward radial direction, a central flange connecting the first and second walls, and a dust lip.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Fairfield Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Paul Richards, Coleman Bruce Abbott
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Patent number: 11365765Abstract: A low surface-roughness part is formed at a first tapered part, as a result, the roughness of an opening-edge of a groove part of an internal spline part that opens at the first tapered part is reduced, and surface pressure applied by the opening edge to a tooth of an external spline part can be reduced. As a result, the opening edge of the groove part of the internal spline part can be kept from digging into the tooth, and variation, between products, in the insertion load of a second shaft part can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Akita, Kazuhisa Yokoyama, Kenichiro Ishikura, Tatsuya Shimoda
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Patent number: 11137029Abstract: A flanged inner ring for wheel hub bearings is disclosed, wherein a tubular supporting body for the bearing is coaxial with an axis (X), and is provided with a flange, transverse to the axis (X), is provided with a plurality of threaded through holes distributed around the axis (X), and is axially delimited by an outer annular mounting surface and by an inner surface axially facing an outer ring of the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Inventor: Fausto Morello
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Patent number: 11136639Abstract: A bearing steel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, as a chemical composition: 0.51 to 0.56 wt % of carbon (C); 0.30 to 0.55 wt % of silicon (Si); 0.60 to 0.90 wt % of manganese (Mn); 0.025 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of phosphorus (P); 0.008 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of sulfur (S); 0.01 to 0.20 wt % of chromium (Cr); 0.08 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of molybdenum (Mo); 0.25 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of nickel (Ni); 0.01 to 0.20 wt % of vanadium (V); 0.20 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of copper (Cu); 0.003 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of titanium (Ti); 0.01 to 0.05 wt % of aluminum (Al); 0.0015 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of oxygen (O); 0.001 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %) of calcium (Ca); and iron (Fe) and unavoidable impurities as a remainder.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: ILJIN GLOBAL CO., LTDInventors: Oh Chul Kwon, Seon Ho Lee, Yoon Gil Choi, Chirl Soo Shin
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Patent number: 11125270Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel is configured such that: bolt insertion holes are provided in a vehicle body mounting flange of an outer member; knuckle bolts are inserted through the bolt insertion holes; bolt press-fitting holes are provided in a wheel mounting flange of a hub ring; and hub bolts are press-fitted in the bolt press-fitting holes. A dam section protruding radially outward is provided on an outer-side outer periphery of the outer member, and a cutout through which a tightening tool for tightening the knuckle bolts can be inserted through the bolt insertion holes is defined in the dam section.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Nakatsuji, Natsuko Nagai
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Patent number: 11072201Abstract: Flanged inner ring of a rolling bearing forming part of a wheel hub unit of motor vehicles, having at its axially inner end a rolling edge configured to preload axially a radially inner ring after being plastically deformed by orbital forming. The rolling edge is provided with a conical surface of an axially inner portion of the rolling edge. A first parameter is defined as being the ratio between the conicity of the conical surface expressed in degrees and the thickness of the rolling edge expressed in millimeters and assumes values ranging between 0.03 mm?1 and 2 mm?1.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Inventors: Fulvio Nicastri, Fausto Morello
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Patent number: 10935077Abstract: An inner ring (10a) of a hub is fitted around a fitting tube part (11) in a state where an axially outer end of the inner ring abuts on a step surface (12), and the axially inner end surface of the inner ring is pressed by an axially outer surface of a pressing part (17) of a clamp portion (13a). Thereby, a hub body (9a) and the inner ring (10a) are fixedly coupled. The clamp portion (13a) has an engaging recess (19) that extends in a radial direction. The inner ring (10a) has an engaging protrusion (21) that is engaged with the engaging recess (19).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventor: Nobuyuki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 10914340Abstract: An inner-ring restraint device of a hub bearing capable of restraining an inner ring efficiently without applying a load to the hub bearing. An inner-ring restraint device includes a restraint ring allowing a plurality of pieces to be arranged to form a ring shape and restricting an inner ring of a hub bearing by reducing a diameter, a support plate having a ring shape coaxial with the hub bearing, being provided so as to move in an axial direction and supporting the restraint ring at a position closer to the hub bearing for the vehicle than the restraint ring in the axial direction and a ring-shaped operation plate connected to the support plate so as to relatively move in the axial direction and applying a pressure in a direction of reducing the diameter to the restraint ring by coming relatively close to the support plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: FUJI SHOJI CO., LTD.Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10871192Abstract: A flanged inner ring, and methods of forming the same, having a rolling edge configured to preload axially a radially inner ring of a rolling bearing after being plastically deformed; the rolling edge including a diameter of increasing variable size along an axis (X) of symmetry of the flanged inner ring and, wherein the increasing variable size increases along the axis (X) in a direction away from the radially inner ring, and the rolling edge includes an outer preloading surface configured such that in a deformed configuration the outer preloading surface is arranged against the radially inner ring and such that in an undeformed configuration the outer preloading surface is inclined away from the axis (X) of symmetry of the flanged inner ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Inventors: Daniele Brogna, Domenico Bruno, Fulvio Nicastri, Davide Antonio Olivieri
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Patent number: 10752266Abstract: An axlebox for a railway vehicle, having a housing provided with a through bore extending along a central axis, a bearing unit housed in the bore, and a back cover. The back cover and housing are fixed together by special manufactured shapes so as to minimize spare parts.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: François Champalou, Thierry Le Moigne
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Patent number: 10576820Abstract: A wheel hub unit is provided including at least one planetary gear set, including a sun gear, one set of planet gears, a carrier, and a ring gear, wherein each of the planet gears of the set of planet gears is provided with an engagement arrangement adapted for engagement with a corresponding engagement arrangement of the ring gear, wherein the engagement is provided at an engagement area in which the engagement arrangement of the planet gears overlap the engagement arrangement of the ring gear, a bearing, including an inner bearing ring, an outer bearing ring and rolling elements, wherein the inner bearing ring constitutes the ring gear of the planetary gear set, and wherein a center of each of the respective rolling elements is axially displaced in relation to the engagement area. A vehicle including such a wheel hub unit is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ABInventors: Arto Honkanen, Thomas Andersson, Mats Akerblom
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Patent number: 10539189Abstract: A protective cover is molded through injection molding of a synthetic resin and includes a disc part, a sensor holder part protruding inward from the disc part, and a protruding part protruding inward from the disc part and being continuous with the sensor holder part. The disc part includes a separation wall which is thinner than other portions of the disc part and separates a magnetic encoder and a magnetic sensor from each other. The protruding part has, at the inward-side face thereof, a gate mark caused by the injection molding. The protruding part is provided with, at the outward-side face thereof, a thickness reduction part extending inward so as to be close to the gate mark.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: NAKANISHI METAL WORKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayoshi Nakamura, Yutaka Jogan
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Patent number: 10514064Abstract: A device for supporting and installing a bearing assembly includes an inner ring having an inner ring axial face, an outer ring having an outer ring axial face and an outer diameter, and a plurality of rolling elements positioned between the inner ring and the outer ring. The device comprises a sleeve having an inner diameter sized and configured to receive and support the outer ring along the outer diameter, and a disc positioned within the sleeve. The disc includes a disc outer diameter sized and configured to permit sliding of the disc along the sleeve inner diameter in an axial direction of the sleeve, and a disc face surface sized and configured to engage the inner ring axial face, or the outer ring axial face, or both when the bearing assembly is received in the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: The Timken CompanyInventors: Brian White, Jean-Pierre Haeffele, Russell Folger
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Patent number: 10464370Abstract: Wheel bearing units are disclosed. In one example, a wheel bearing unit includes an outer ring element and an inner ring element, between which there are arranged at least two rolling body rows. The inner ring element may have a radial flange which is fastenable to an axle body or to a wheel. The radial flange and/or the inner ring element may have at least one projection on a surface facing toward the outer ring element.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & CO. KGInventors: Matthias Stahl, Natalie Treubert, Frank Eichelmann
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Patent number: 10377173Abstract: A wheel module for a motor vehicle, the wheel module including a wheel carrier, a wheel hub, a wheel bearing separate from the wheel hub that supports the wheel hub on the wheel carrier, and a drive shaft for driving the wheel hub. The wheel hub having end face toothing engaging a mating toothing on the drive shaft. A spacer element is arranged axially between the wheel bearing and the drive shaft wherein the spacer element adjoins the end face toothing and/or the mating toothing radially on the outside.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Ralf Fritzsche
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Patent number: 10369840Abstract: A hub-bearing unit is provided with: a rotatable hub, with an axially outer flange portion configured for engagement with a rotatable element of a motor vehicle, a bearing unit provided with a fixed radially outer ring, configured for engagement with a fixed element of the motor vehicle, a first, axially outer, crown of rolling bodies, and a second, axially inner, crown of rolling bodies, interposed between the radially outer ring and the hub. The hub also assumes the function of the radially inner ring of the bearing unit and the bell of a constant velocity joint. The hub-bearing unit is designed so that the axial distance between the center of the axially inner crown of rolling bodies and the rolling center of the constant velocity joint lies within a predetermined range according to the following formula: { with ? ? L ? 0 , 0.4 ? P B S + A + L ? 4 with ? ? L < 0 , 0.5 ? P B S + A ? 4 ? ? ? .Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Laura Sguotti, Domenico Bosco, Fabio Marchetti, Davide Antonio Olivieri
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Patent number: 10316893Abstract: The wheel bearing apparatus has hub bolts (6a) to fasten a wheel secured equidistantly around the wheel mounting flange (6). An annular groove (7a) is formed on the outer-side surface (7) of the wheel mounting flange (6). The annular groove (7a) includes a region where the hub bolts (6a) are mounted. The outer-side surface (7) of the wheel mounting flange (6) is formed as a cut surface cut after press-fitting of the hub bolts (6a). Weight reduction apertures (circular apertures) (13) are formed between the hub bolts 6a of the wheel mounting flange (6). A diameter of a circumscribed circle ?A circumscribing the circular apertures (13) is set larger than an outer diameter ?B of the annular groove (7a). Accordingly, muddy water is easily discharged from the circular apertures (13).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: NTN CorporationInventor: Yuta Nakatsuji
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Patent number: 10221887Abstract: A bearing preload adjuster for a bicycle crank set and bottom bracket comprises an adjustment ring for coupling with a bicycle crank arm, a movable plunger comprising an external thread for rotatably coupling with the adjustment ring. The adjustment ring is rotated in order to cause the plunger to extend along an axis of the bottom bracket and apply pressure to a bottom bracket bearing inner race. The adjustment ring is rotated until the clearance in the bearing assemblies and the play in the bottom bracket assembly has been eliminated. This allows the crank assembly to rotate freely, while preventing the crank assembly from sliding side to side inside the bearing bores and along the axis of the crank spindle.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The Hive Global, IncInventors: George Dubois, Matt O'Rourke
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Patent number: 10002088Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe automatically changing an output mode of an output device from a first output mode to a latency reduction mode. An initiation signal and the output data may be received from a client device platform or a signal distributor. Upon receiving the initiation signal, the output device may change the output mode from the first output mode to the latency reduction mode. Thereafter, the output device may receive an end latency reduction mode signal. The output device may then revert back to the first output mode. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventor: Roelof Roderick Colenbrander
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Patent number: 9979254Abstract: A coolable machine housing of an electric machine has a housing shell formed as an extruded section with integrated cooling ducts. The housing shell can be covered at the end faces by bearing end plates. The axially extending cooling ducts communicate with one another through connecting ducts. The cooling ducts in the extruded housing shell extend in pairs as cooling duct pairs between the shell end faces. The connecting ducts are boreholes that penetrate the outer wall by way of borehole openings that are closed by way of closing elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Baumueller Nuernberg GmbHInventor: Michael Veeh
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Patent number: 9855793Abstract: A wheel bearing includes a hub provided with a flange; and an outer ring having an end close to the flange and the other end opposite to the end and relatively rotatable to the hub. A sealing structure for sealing the space between the flange and the end of the outer ring is further included.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: ILJIN GLOBAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong Keun Lim, Chae Young Cha
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Patent number: 9746027Abstract: An assembly includes a rotating shaft supported with respect to a stationary housing by at least one active magnetic bearing presenting a mean radial air gap and at least one auxiliary bearing having first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces is provided. One of the first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces defines a clearance (E2) with one of the stationary housing and the rotating shaft, the clearance (E2) being less than the mean radial air gap and the other of the first and second coaxially arranged annular surfaces being integral with the other one of the stationary housing and the rotating shaft. The auxiliary bearing provides a first ball bearing and a second ball bearing having a misalignment with respect to each other in order to increase the starting torque.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SKF MAGNETIC MECHATRONICSInventors: Jens Anders, Mohamed Bendaoud, Joaquim Da Silva, Matthieu Oliva, Frederic Ponson
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Patent number: 9719559Abstract: A rolling bearing assembly including a nut for providing a preload is disclosed. A first plurality of rolling elements is supported between an inner bearing ring and an outer bearing ring. A first one of the inner bearing ring or the outer bearing ring includes an extension in an axial direction including a first engagement surface, and a second one of the inner bearing ring or the outer bearing ring includes a first axial end face defining a first axial bearing surface. A nut includes a second engagement surface configured to matingly engage with the first engagement surface, and a second axial end face of the nut defines a second axial bearing surface. The first axial bearing surface and the second axial bearing surface form an axial bearing.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Majkol Spirovski, Rajesh Shanbhag
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Patent number: 9636946Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure and a method for coupling a wheel bearing that include a wheel hub for mounting a vehicle wheel, a hollow inner ring press-fitted into an end portion of the wheel hub, an annular outer ring disposed at a radial exterior of the wheel hub and the inner ring, and rolling elements disposed between the wheel hub or the inner ring and the outer ring, wherein the wheel hub and the inner ring are splined to each other and the inner ring and the joint member are coupled through facial spline. According to the present invention, driving torque of a constant velocity joint may be stably delivered to the wheel hub and noise may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: IL JIN GLOBAL CO., LTDInventors: Jae Myeong Song, Hee Jae Yoon, Sangji Bang
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Patent number: 9581192Abstract: Construction of a double-row tapered-roller bearing unit that is able to improve the contact state between the rolling contact surfaces of plural tapered rollers and a first inner-ring raceway (7) and second inner-ring raceway (8), and a method of manufacturing the same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventor: Nobuyuki Hagiwara
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Patent number: 9573419Abstract: A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member and double row rolling elements freely rollably contained between double row inner raceway surfaces and outer raceway surfaces of the inner member and the outer member. A plurality of bolt insertion bores, that fastening bolts pass through to fasten to the knuckle, are formed on the body mounting flange at plurality of positions circumferentially along the body mounting flange. The outer member is previously formed by hot forging. A seating surface for the fastening bolts is formed on an outboard-side surface of the body mounting flange by cold forging.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: NTN CorporationInventor: Kazunari Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9534635Abstract: A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member, at least one inner ring fit onto the inner member. Double row rolling elements are rollably arranged between the outer and inner raceway surfaces, via cages. A seal is mounted on one end of the outer member. The seal has side lips adapted to be in sliding contact with the wheel hub. The seal has three inclined side lips each extending radially outward from the seal body. The lips are adapted to be in sliding contact with the base of the wheel mounting flange. Interference of the side lips against the base of the wheel mounting flange is set so that the radially inner side lip has a smaller interference than that of the radially outer side lips, in order.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Takayuki Norimatsu, Hiroaki Itakura, Hironori Imanaka, Syougo Suzuki, Isao Hirai, Hiroya Kato, Akira Fujimura, Kikuo Fukada
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Patent number: 9512883Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wheel bearing apparatus by measuring a distance Ho, Hi and Hh. A difference ?H=(Hi+Hh?Ho) is compared with a reference value of a model article. Rolling elements are selected with each having an optimum diameter to correct the difference ?H between the measured values and the reference values.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Yuuki Ogata, Tomoaki Sawada, Masami Ishiyama, Shinya Okada
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Patent number: 9475545Abstract: A bicycle crank arm includes a first member and a second member. The first member has a crank axle interacting portion and a first recessed part around the crank axle interacting portion. The second member is attached to the first member. The first member has a first side facing the second member and a second side opposite to the first side. The first recessed part is recessed from the second side toward the first side such that the first recessed part includes an attachment area attached to the second member on the first side.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Yamanaka, Yusuke Nishimoto, Tetsu Nonoshita, Yuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 9457619Abstract: A hub for a motor vehicle wheel provides a cylindrical portion that extends in an axial direction, and a flange extending in a radially outer direction from an axially outer end of the cylindrical portion. The hub includes a core of metallic material which extends into the cylindrical portion and in the flange of the hub, and a covering body of plastic material applied over the core.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Aurelio Nervo, Davide Antonio Olivieri, Laura Sguotti
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Patent number: 9365077Abstract: A hub bearing assembly includes a hub of light metallic material forming a cylindrical portion, on which an inner tubular ring having a raceway is mounted; on the first inner tubular ring a second inner ring having a second raceway is fastened; formed between the cylindrical portion of the hub and the inner tubular ring is a cylindrical interstice containing a brazing bonding material or a structural adhesive which integrally binds the hub to the first inner tubular ring.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Wijbe Buising, Stefano Galfre, Alessandro Garrone, Antonio Ruiu, Laura Sguotti, Cornelius Petrus Antonius Vissers
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Patent number: 9347493Abstract: A bearing assembly is provided. The assembly includes a plurality of tapered rollers and a plurality of spherical rolling elements. A first inner ring defines a first inner raceway on which the plurality of tapered rollers run, and a second inner ring defines a second inner raceway on which the plurality of spherical rolling elements run. A unitary outer ring includes a first portion defining a first outer raceway on which the plurality of tapered rollers run, and a second portion defining a second outer raceway on which the plurality of spherical rolling elements run.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Yohannes Haile, Rohan Dubey, Zheng Wang, Shaun Tate
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Patent number: 9180639Abstract: A method including the steps of forming an inner ring of a wheel hub, by joining a spindle and an insert ring fitted onto the spindle, on a side of a first end of the spindle; axially blocking the insert ring on the spindle by plastically deforming the first end of the spindle that forms an upset collar therewith, which axially protrudes from the insert ring; frontally obtaining on the collar, on the side opposite to the insert ring, a frontal toothing by means of a single creator tool, towards the collar, with a toothing complementary to that to be obtained, by axially impressing onto the collar, in sequence, one or more teeth of the complementary toothing by eccentrically pushing the creator tool against the collar while the creator tool is held substantially coaxial to the wheel hub, thus acting peripherally in sequence on the whole creator tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Alessandro Ferrero, Enrico Morello, Fulvio Nicastri, Davide Antonio Olivieri
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Patent number: 9156311Abstract: A method including the steps of forming an inner ring of a wheel hub, by joining a spindle and an insert ring fitted onto the spindle, on the side of a first end of the spindle; axially blocking the insert ring on the spindle by plastically deforming the first end of the spindle so as to form an upset collar therewith, which axially protrudes from the insert ring; and once the step of forming the upset collar has finished, frontally obtaining a frontal toothing; the finished collar has, in the part of the collar which axially protrudes from the ring, a predetermined geometric shape which substantially defines, in the radial section, a scalene triangle having the base facing the upset ring and the vertex opposite the base rounded in shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Alessandro Ferrero, Fulvio Nicastri, Davide Antonio Olivieri
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Patent number: 9091303Abstract: Construction is achieved that is able to prevent strain deformation in the axial direction of a flat plate section 21 of a cover 19a when a cylinder section 20 of the cover 19a, which covers the opening on the inside end in the axial direction of an internal space where an encoder 1 is located, is fitted into and fastened to the inside end section in the axial direction of an outer ring 7. A non-contact section 26a is formed all the way around the inside end section in the axial direction of the cylinder section 20 such that the outer diameter is smaller than the inner diameter of the inside end section in the axial direction of the outer ring, and the dimension L26 in the axial direction is two times or more the thickness dimension t19 of a plate member of the cover 19a.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Jyunya Inohae, Yoshio Kaneko, Masato Nagano
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Patent number: 9039286Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel prevents backlash in a circumferential direction and has excellent workability for connecting a hub wheel and an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint. The bearing device includes a recess-projection fitting structure in which the hub wheel and a shaft section, which is fitted in a hole of the hub wheel of the outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint, are unitized together. In the recess-projection fitting structure, entire fitting regions among projections on the outer surface of the shaft section of the outer joint member and recesses, which fit on the projections, are brought into intimate contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Akira Torii, Hiroshi Kawamura, Kiyoshige Yamauchi, Masahiro Ozawa, Tohru Nakagawa, Yuichi Asano, Mitsuru Umekida, Hisaaki Kura, Shin Tomogami
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Patent number: 9028151Abstract: A hub bearing assembly includes a hub made of lightweight metallic material and forming a cylindrical portion, on which a tubular inner ring providing a raceway is mounted; a second inner ring is fixed on the first tubular inner ring and provides a second raceway; a cylindrical interstice is formed between the cylindrical portion of the hub and the tubular inner ring and contains a bonding brazing material which integrally joins the hub to the first tubular inner ring.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Stefano Galfre', Antonio Ruiu, Laura Sguotti
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Patent number: 9016951Abstract: A hub bearing assembly includes a hub made of lightweight metallic material and forming a cylindrical portion, on which a tubular inner ring providing a raceway is mounted; a second inner ring is fixed on the first tubular inner ring and provides a second raceway; a cylindrical interstice is formed between the cylindrical portion of the hub and the tubular inner ring and contains a structural adhesive which integrally joins the hub to the first tubular inner ring.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Wijbe Buising, Alessandro Garrone, Cornelius Petrus Antonius Vissers
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Patent number: 9011015Abstract: A rolling bearing unit with decreased weight and improved durability is provided. An outer-ring core, manufactured using a ferrous alloy, forms an outer ring and is molded to an outer-ring main body that is manufactured using a synthetic resin containing reinforced fibers or using an aluminum alloy. Outer-ring raceway members are fitted into and fastened to mating concave surfaces of the inner circumferential surface of the outer-ring core that are exposed from the outer-ring main body. A hub core, manufactured using a ferrous alloy, forms a hub and is molded to a hub main body made using a synthetic resin containing reinforced fibers or using an aluminum alloy. Around the outer circumferential surface of the hub core, inner-ring raceway members are fitted onto and fastened to a fitting surface of the outer circumferential surface of the hub core that is exposed from the hub main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Ishikawa, Tatsuo Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 9010874Abstract: A wheel bearing assembly including a modular wheel hub that can be utilized for both passive and driven wheel hub applications with the insertion of a wheel hub bore modification body. The wheel hub is rotatably mounted to a vehicle using a wheel bearing and knuckle arrangement, the wheel bearing comprising an inner ring, outer ring and rolling elements between the rings.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Zheng Wang
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Patent number: RE49144Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe automatically changing an output mode of an output device from a first output mode to a latency reduction mode. An initiation signal and the output data may be received from a client device platform or a signal distributor. Upon receiving the initiation signal, the output device may change the output mode from the first output mode to the latency reduction mode. Thereafter, the output device may receive an end latency reduction mode signal. The output device may then revert back to the first output mode. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventor: Roelof Roderick Colenbrander