Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8439570 | Rolling bearing assembly and method of forming a lubrication device therefor A rolling bearing assembly includes a rolling bearing which includes a plurality of rolling elements interposed between an inner ring and an outer ring thereof and retained by a cage, the cage being in a sliding contact with a guiding surface provided on an inner pe... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8434596 | Lubrication monitoring device and method, and rolling bearing assembly A lubrication monitoring device monitors a lubricating condition of a lubricator feeding an oil droplet at a predetermined time interval by means of a discharge nozzle having a nozzle orifice. The lubrication monitoring device comprises: a pair of electrodes dispose... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8424663 | Torque limiter A torque limiter in which an area of a region where an inner face of a circumferentially extending chamber intersects an oil pressure expanding chamber in an extended plane extended toward the oil pressure expanding chamber is larger than a sectional area of an open... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8424402 | Ball screw unit The outer diameter of a spline nut and the inner diameter of a nut body holding portion of a housing gradually decrease in the downward direction. A ball screw protection unit includes a nut body taper face that is formed in the outer peripheral face of the spline n... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8424401 | Ball screw unit A ball screw unit includes a screw shaft that includes a screw groove, a ball screw nut that is screwed to the screw shaft via balls and that rotates to move the screw shaft linearly in an axial direction of the screw shaft, a hollow shaft that rotates together with... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8403646 | Oil pump system for vehicle An oil pump system for a vehicle includes: a vane pump having a plurality of vanes which respectively project retractably from a plurality of vane accommodating grooves provided in a rotor so as to be brought into sliding contact with a cam surface, the vane pump be... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8403566 | Rolling bearing and rolling bearing apparatus A rolling bearing includes rolling elements, an inner ring which includes a raceway surface on which the rolling elements roll on an outer circumference thereof, and an outer ring which includes a raceway surface on which the rolling elements roll and which receives... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8403110 | Rolling bearing device and spindle By incorporating a pump for sucking and discharging lubricating oil in a tank for storing the lubricating oil on an outside of a rolling bearing, for example, on a spacer for an outer ring in a housing for accommodating the rolling bearing and a nozzle in which an l... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8376867 | Sliding type tripod constant velocity joint A sliding type tripod constant velocity joint includes an outer ring having three raceway grooves which are formed on an inner peripheral surface and which extend in a direction of a rotation axis of the outer ring, a tripod including a boss part connected to a shaf... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8371759 | Double row rolling bearing for supporting pinion shaft and rolling bearing apparatus provided with the same In a double row rolling bearing for supporting a pinion shaft, an outer ring is fixed to an inner peripheral surface of an annular wall (case) with its axis disposed horizontally, and an inner ring assembly is fitted on a pinion shaft, and is inserted, together with... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8366324 | Sealing device and rolling bearing apparatus A sealing device is mounted in an annular space defined between an inner member and an outer member which rotate relative to each other. The sealing device includes a slinger which has a cylindrical portion which is press fitted on or in one of the inner member and ... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8360397 | Ball screw device In a ball screw device, a ball screw linear-movement member is screwed with a ball screw rotary member and configured to linearly move in accordance with a relative rotation with the ball screw rotary member. A housing is holding the ball screw rotary member. A moto... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8356939 | Protective cover and wheel rolling bearing device incorporating the protective cover An annular recess is formed in a vehicle inner side of a wheel rolling bearing device. A protective cover is attached to an inner ring disposed in a bottom side of the recess to protect an annular magnetic encoder. A cover body of the protective cover is formed with... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8353775 | Wheel support apparatus A wheel support apparatus including a hub wheel which includes a hub shaft and is to mount a wheel thereon, a first side surface spline being formed on an end surface of the hub shaft, and a constant velocity joint which includes an outer ring connected to the hub s... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8348771 | Cross shaft member and cross shaft joint with the same A cross shaft member has four shaft portions arranged in a generally cross-shape around an outer periphery of a body portion thereof, and a recessed portion is formed in the body portion, and has a depth in a direction perpendicular to a plane in which axes of the f... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8342974 | Ball spline A ball spline includes a connecting part of a cage of a spline nut has a turning ball receiving part adapted to receive balls which are turning from a no-load raceway part, and a turned ball receiving part adapted to receive the balls which are forwarded to a main p... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8313244 | Wheel bearing assembly, manufacturing method therefor, and calk jig In a wheel bearing assembly, the length of an annular protrusion in an axis direction, or the oscillation angle through which the center axis of a calk jig is oscillatingly turned relative to the center axis of a constant-velocity joint outer ring is restricted so t... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8313241 | Magnetic encoder and rolling bearing A magnetic encoder is provided which can prevent a magnetized member from being separated from a fixed member to which the magnetized member is fixed under a severe temperature environment. The encoder includes a fixed member which is fixed to a rotating member and ... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8310125 | Motor and electric pump having a stator including a first sintered metal and second sintered metal In a motor comprising a stator and a rotor disposed in an inner circumference of the stator, the stator comprises a substantially cylindrical stator core and coils made up of wound conductors, and the stator core comprises an outer circumferential portion which cons... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8308591 | Resin pulley A resin pulley includes an outer cylindrical portion including an outer circumferential surface on which a belt is to be wound, an inner cylindrical portion, and a plurality of ribs connecting an inner circumferential surface of the outer cylindrical portion and an ... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8308431 | Turbocharger A turbocharger includes a turbine wheel having a center hole and a turbine shaft having one end secured on a small-diameter inner circumferential surface of the center hole. A large-diameter inner circumferential surface and a large diameter outer circumferential su... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8308373 | Pin type cage and method of assembling pin type cage An outer tapered member (4) having a conical inner circumferential surface is placed and an inner tapered member (5) having a conical outer circumferential surface in contact with the conical inner circumferential surface is placed in a through hole ( | 11/13/2012 |
| 8308370 | Sealing device for bearing In a sealing device for a bearing, a sub-seal lip is configured such that a slide contact surface is formed like an annular band. As the rotation speed of the bearing increases, the width of the slide contact surface is reduced by a centrifugal force. Thus, sliding ... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8307968 | One-way clutch This invention provides a one-way clutch capable of hindering the generation of a coating between each sprag and each of inner and outer rings thereby preventing sprags and inner and outer rings from being damaged due to the slip therebetween and thereby lengthening... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8307561 | Jig and method for measuring runout of flange surface of hub unit There is provided a jig for measuring a runout of a flange surface of a hub unit adapted to be fitted between a plurality of plate-shaped projecting portions of a road wheel mounting flange of a deformed type including the plurality of plate-shaped projecting portio... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8303188 | Bearing apparatus An outer ring is provided with a key groove radially extending from an inner diameter to an outer diameter on an end surface thereof. A key member includes an annular body, an inwardly projecting part which is provided on an inner periphery of the annular body and a... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8297849 | Roller bearing An inner ring is formed with an oil hole extending through a part between an inner ring raceway surface and an inner peripheral face thereof, and configured to force out grease, which has been supplied to an area between the inner ring raceway surface and an outer r... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8292053 | One-way clutch and power transmission apparatus A one-way clutch includes an inner ring, an outer ring disposed coaxially with the inner ring, a plurality of rollers interposed between the inner and outer rings, a cage holding the rollers to locate these rollers in a circumferential direction of the inner and out... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8291785 | Ball screw A ball screw includes a screw shaft, in which a thread groove is formed in an outer peripheral face thereof, that includes a small-diameter portion with a diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the screw shaft formed integrally at one end of the screw shaft; a n... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8262549 | Rolling bearing device and roll apparatus for continuous casting installation A tapered roller thrust bearing is disposed in each of both sides in an axial direction of a cylindrical roller bearing with aligning housing ring which is provided with an inner ring, an outer ring, cylindrical rollers and an aligning housing ring. The tapered roll... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8257210 | Rotation urging mechanism and pulley device A rotation urging mechanism includes: an outer member which has an outer raceway surface on its inner periphery and is rotatable about a first axis; an inner member which has on its outer periphery an inner raceway surface disposed in face-to-face relation to a radi... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8246253 | Rolling bearing A rolling bearing has a metallic member sealing member at one axial end thereof. The sealing member has a first cylinder section including a first cylinder section facing surface which is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of an inner ring, a second cylinde... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8230749 | Ball screw unit A disc spring is provided between a ball screw nut and a hollow shaft, and another disc spring is provided between rolling bearings and a housing. When leftward motion of a screw shaft is stopped and a rotational inertia force is applied to the ball screw nut, these... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8226529 | Controller of continuously variable transmission, flow control method, and flow controller A sensor is placed in proximity to a chain of a continuously variable transmission, and a pulse is output by detecting pins. Moreover, there is provided a control section that determines theoretical speed of the chain from numbers of input and output rotations of th... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8226298 | Sealing device and rolling bearing apparatus This sealing device has an annular metal core portion and an annular elastic portion. The elastic portion has a thick portion and a thin portion which extends from the thick portion in an axial direction of the elastic portion and has a thinner thickness in a radial... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8222790 | Motor stator, motor and electric pump unit There are provided a tubular stator core having a plurality of tooth portions which protrude radially inwards and slots which are defined between the respective tooth portions and coils which are disposed on circumferences of the tooth portions. An insulator is atta... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8220607 | Torque limiter-incorporating one-way clutch A length of each pocket of a cage in a circumferential direction is smaller than the sum of an outer diameter of a roller and a free length of a coil spring. The cage can rotate relative to an inner ring having cam surfaces in accordance with revolution of the rolle... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8214991 | Method of replacing a support bearing for roller by removing and replacing an inner raceway and maintaining the remaining existing bearing components A supporting bearing is replaced with a new supporting bearing by conducting a first step and a second step. In the first step, an old inner ring before replacement is replaced with a new inner ring having an inner ring raceway diameter same as the old inner ring, a... | 07/10/2012 |
