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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441958 | Welded collar bearing method for producing welded collar bearings and a device for carrying out said method A collar bearing comprising a bearing shell and at least one thrust washer, whereby the at least one thrust washer is fixed on an outer convex circumferential surface of the bearing shell to define a joint site that extends between the convex outer circumferential s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7220059 | Double-row angular-contact antifriction bearing A double-row angular-contact antifriction bearing including an outer bearing ring, and an inner bearing ring and rolling elements between the bearing rings in two rows next to one another on raceways of the bearing rings. A bearing cage for the rolling elements. The... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217388 | Method for preparing reinforced platinum material The present invention provides a method in which a strengthened platinum material can be produced, in which no blisters occur on the surface of the material even after heat treatment of 1,400° C. or higher and a metal oxide such as zirconium oxide is finely dispers... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7101086 | Collar bearing split shell and collar bearing with a centering device, and corresponding thrust washer The invention relates to a collar bearing split shell, comprising a bearing shell and two thrust washers which are located on said bearing shell. The invention also relates to a collar bearing comprising two collar bearing split shells, each of which has a bearing s... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6715923 | Double row bearing device A bearing device comprising a shaft, a housing, a double row of bearings provided between the shaft and the housing and preloaded by a fixed-position preloading method, the double row of bearings having a pair of races with a gap therebetween for preload adjustment,... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6113273 | Means for guiding the rolling or gliding movement of objects along a given path The guidance means (20) according to the invention is used for guiding the rolling or sliding movement of objects (10) along a predetermined or preset path or route, whose course is freely selectable within wide limits in space. The guidance means (20) ha... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6010247 | Bearing device A bearing device is used as a bearing for a pivot of a head stack assembly to thereby make a hard disc drive thin. Widths of first and second inner races 12a and 13a are set to be smaller than the widths of first and second outer races 12b and 13b. Even i... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5845998 | Ball bearing assembly with polymer bearing ring A ball bearing assembly includes a polymer outer bearing ring molded over and partially enclosing a metal annular outer raceway. The metal annular outer raceway may be economically formed from sheet metal or wire. The polymer outer bearing ring may be mou... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5829885 | Shaft supported linear motion guide system A linear motion system (10) comprises circulating balls (38) which run along steel rods (36) and on a shaft (18) within a support (20) of novel design. The latter consists of a light metal base (22) holding pairs of steel rods (36) in longitudinal channel... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5599110 | Bearing for a pressurized protective suit A pressure sealing bearing (13) for use in a protective environmental suit (10) is provided. The bearing employs inner and outer races (44,54) composed of a light weight, relatively weak material, such as a plastic or aluminum alloy. To provide long wear ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5487612 | Shaft supporting bearing assembly with axially disposed cap and ball member Bearing rings are carried one each in a shaft end and in a cap and seat against a ball element therebetween. Preloading of each ball element at the shaft ends is achieved by rotation of the cap along a threaded end segment of a bushing of a bearing assemb... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5071264 | Rolling bearing A radial or axial bearing has plastic casing rings formed as strips whose ends form junctions offset from those of the spring rings and/or race rings received in grooves and beds of the casing rings on which the bearings ride.... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5069294 | Stub-shaft powered spinning tiller A powered spinning tiller with a box beam extending transversely of the direction of travel includes a plurality of spinners each consisting of a prong holder and a drive gear disposed rotatably on bearings side by side, adjacent prong holders being drive... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4797008 | Roller bearing for rotary or linear applications A bearing utilizing a plurality of wires has the races for the roller bodies provides individual lining strips between each wire and the groove walls of the receiving structural members of the bearing. These lining strips are braced in two mutually perpen... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4778287 | Annular multi-row bearing with shaped-wire races The invention concerns an annular multi-row bearing with shaped-wire races with an inner and an outer race, each of which constitutes part of the tracks for the rolling components, and with rolling components accommodated between them. The particular obje... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4722616 | Sealed and unitized bearing with economically formed races A bearing assembly of the type formed from two inner and two outer race members Siamese stamped from flat stock, so that there are annular gaps left between the two pairs of confronting race members. Seal supporting housing members secured to the inner ra... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4696586 | Wire roll bearing In order to provide a wire roll bearing with slide and guideway (2), and roll bodies arranged therebetween on running wires (3), with said running wires (3) being shiftably arranged in the wire bed (5), where any kind of shape is possible of the running w... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4571099 | Bearing assembly for wheel hub driven by a universal joint A bearing assembly for a wheel hub driven from a universal joint including an outer race attached to the wheel carrier of a motor vehicle having first and second outer bearing tracks thereon and an inner race having first and second inner bearing tracks t... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4568205 | Race wire bearing In a race wire bearing comprising two undivided, concentrically disposed race rings having race wires which are disposed in facing grooves and on which rolling members roll, the first race ring having two race wires, a carrying or support wire receiving t... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4351577 | Wire ring bearing A wire ring bearing for an actuating guide apparatus for a gas turbine comprising two bearing rings concentrically arranged for relative motion with respect to one another between which is a plurality of rolling elements which are rollably supported on wi... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4343520 | Rolling bearing A rolling bearing comprising an outer race and an inner race having interposed therebetween two or more rows of rolling bodies, is described. The most important characteristic of such bearing consists in that the inner race is arranged to support a cantil... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4073551 | Rolling type bearing and method for making same A ball bearing and method for making same in which at least one of the inner and outer bearing races is comprised of sheet metal and formed to include at least one circumferentially disposed ball member receiving groove therein. The sheet metal race is fo... | 02/14/1978 |