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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7703986 | Synthetic resin retainer and ball bearing using such synthetic resin retainer In a synthetic resin retainer formed by joining together two annular members by engaging claws of each annular member in engaging holes of the annular member, each of the two annular members 1 has a plurality of hemispherical pockets 4 formed in a side... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7441959 | Bearing mechanism for spindle motor in magnetic disk drive Embodiments of the invention prevent trouble caused by an increase in viscosity of grease generated when a ball bearing operates at a low temperature, and fretting that an inner ring and/or an outer ring comes in contact with balls to produce wear when vibration is ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7390127 | Roller bearing assembly To provide a roller bearing assembly that can provide a high load bearing capacity and in which the strength of roller retainers can be increased, the roller bearing assembly includes inner and outer roller retainers (13, 23) each having a plurality of circum... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7364365 | Conrad bearing cage The present invention provides a method and apparatus for retaining bearing balls in a bearing assembly. For example, a cage assembly may comprise an annular cage having a plurality of pockets in which to snap-in bearing balls via openings having a width less than t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7329047 | Rolling member connection belt and motion guide device provided with same A motion guide device is provided with a rolling member connection belt for holding a series of rolling members which circulate in a circulation passage provided with a loaded rolling passage, a non-loaded return passage and a pair of rolling direction changing memb... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7244065 | Wheel support bearing assembly and angular ball bearing There is provided a wheel support bearing assembly (1) utilizing a dual row angular ball bearing. The bearing assembly (1) includes two ball retainers (5) for retaining corresponding rows of balls (4). One or both of the retainers (5 | 07/17/2007 |
| 7213896 | Flexible bearing spacer A bearing spacer for use in a drawer slide assembly, having a first end portion, a second end portion opposite the first end portion, one or more bearing retaining portions, located between the first and second end portions, and one or more compressible portions, lo... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7178982 | Retaining device for rolling-element A retaining device for rolling-element includes the partition and the link-belt. The characteristic of the retaining device for rolling-element is that the partition is linked to form a ring by the link-belt, then the ring is turned in to form a space for retaining ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7121729 | Damped bearing cage Method and apparatus are provided for reducing vibration in bearings. There are provided first and second bearing rings with races, rotating members rollingly engaging both first and second bearing races, a cage for aligning the rotating members between the first an... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7059777 | Assembly for ball bearing with double raceway and method of manufacturing ball bearing with double raceway An assembly for a ball bearing with double raceway assembled in an outer ring member provided with double row raceway surfaces apart from each other in an axial direction from one side in an axial direction, on an inner peripheral surface includes an inner ring memb... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7025391 | Non-permeable pipe connector structure A non-permeable pipe connector structure, the design of which effectively prevents external material (such as vapor and miscellaneous substances, etc.) intrusion. To obstruct the intrusion of external matter into the pipe connector, a ball bearing holder is disposed... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6986606 | Ball bearing and lubricating method thereof The churning type of grease of a viscosity of 15–20 mm2/s and a worked penetration of 200˜230 is disposed at the rolling surface of the race portions and the channeling type of grease of 25˜35 mm2/s and a worked penetration of 240˜270 is d... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6957919 | Double-row angular contact ball bearing In a double-row angular contact ball bearing comprising an outer ring (1), an inner ring (2) and two ball crown rings (3, 4) formed by bearing balls (3.1, 4.1) guided in two separate cages (3.2, 4.2) and supported on shoulders (... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6719459 | Ball bearing A retainer for a ball bearing formed in a generally annular shape and having a plurality of pockets arranged in a circumferential direction, respectively, to rollably hold a plurality of balls along a pitch circle, respectively, the pockets each having an inner peri... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6629590 | Spring assembly for a bi-directional overrunning clutch A spring assembly for biasing rolls in a roll cage of a bi-directional overrunning clutch. The spring assembly adapted to bias two adjacent rolls in opposite directions. The spring assembly includes a bridge having two ends. A first spring attached to one... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6585417 | Interconnector for rolling balls An interconnector for rolling balls in a ball screw or a linear guide way is composed of a spacer, a direction guiding member with two wings, and to linking chains. The adjacent rolling balls are isolated by the spacer so as to prevent mutual collision. T... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6447169 | Ball cage A cage for a ball bearing, having a front face with cells adapted to hold a row of balls, and a rear face including a ring-shaped body with slots. The slots are adapted to interlock with slots of a second cage. The slots have teeth that extend towards the... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6364049 | Electric powering steering apparatus In an electric power steering apparatus, a bearing of a drive shaft provided with a worm gear is connected to the drive shaft in an axial direction. It installs an elastic body (a holding device) which elastically deforms so as to move the drive shaft in ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6344020 | Bearing and umbilicus gimbal with bearing retainer in blood processing system A bearing supports a rotating element. The bearing comprises an inner annular body and an outer annular body about the inner annular body. A bearing surface, which is located between the inner annular body and the outer annular body, supports the outer an... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6092634 | Compliant cage for a roller-type bi-directional one-way clutch mechanism A bi-directional one-way clutch mechanism with a compliant cage member. The clutch mechanism has a plurality of roller members positioned between inner and outer race members. A compliant cage member is also positioned between the race members and acts to... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5957592 | Expandable bearing retainer An expandable bearing retainer includes a retainer body for supporting a plurality of balls, and an expanding mechanism for allowing the bearing body to elastically expand in the circumferential direction so as to increase the inner diameter of the retain... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5749661 | Plastic separator cage for ball bearings A separator or cage for an antifriction bearing, particularly a ball bearing, wherein the separator starts as a flat strip with an edge strip on one side, and webs projecting laterally from the edge strip and defining pockets for balls between neighboring... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5722780 | Cage for rolling element bearing A cage for a rolling element bearing, comprising elastically deformable prongs, each pair of prongs defining a cage pocket in which a rolling element can be accommodated by snapping-in. The thickness dimension of each prong, perpendicular with respect to ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5387041 | Close packed plastic bearing ball separator A design for a plastic bearing ball separator is moldable by a true, axial draw technique, which provides no resistance to mold parting, but which also provides complete, gripping ball pockets without limiting the degree to which the ball row can be close... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5352047 | Snap-tab roller bearing case An anti-friction bearing assembly including coaxial inner and outer bearing race members, a plurality of cylindrical roller bearing elements between the inner and outer bearing race members, and a snap-in bearing cage for appropriately spacing the bearing... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5199801 | Two row angular-contact roller bearing A two row angular-contact roller bearing having on undivided bearing ring and one axially divided bearing ring with a respective row of rolling elements rolling over each of the axial sections of the divided ring. The respective comb separator for each of... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5165805 | Roller bearing cage Roller bearing cage, especially for cylindrical roller bearings or needle bearings, which presses the rolling elements elastically in the radial direction against a raceway to prevent rippling, characterized in that, at least at one point (6), the cage (1... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5156462 | Ball guide A ball guide (1) has a cage (6)which is produced by coiling a strip (8). The strip (8) is pre-manufactured and includes apertures (9) to retain balls (7), for the guidance of exterior component (2) and shaft (4) relative to each other. The side edges (15)... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5131762 | High performance two-piece bearing cage A high performance, two-piece cage for a ball bearing assembly includes a first annular member having a plurality of pockets and a second annular member that serves as a retaining ring to retain the balls in the first annular member. The pockets of the fi... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5102242 | Roller bearing for supporting shafts with limited axial movement Roller bearing for supporting members with limited axial movement, consisting of bearing elements having confronting raceways and a plurality of rolling elements held in a cage between the raceways. One of the raceways is bounded by flanges defining conta... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5082375 | Composite cage Composite cage for rolling bearings, consisting of cage segments with pockets to hold the rolling elements, the cage segments being held together by connecting elements, characterized in that the cage segments (1a, 1b, 1c and 1d) have axially outward-poin... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5074679 | Ball bearing retainer A ball bearing retainer in the form of a unitary molded plastic ring with a plurality of ball receiving pockets spaced circumferentially about the ring. The ball receiving pockets have a generally truncated spherical shape. The pockets have at least two p... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5035520 | Deformable self-adjusting ball bearing cage Self-adjusting ball bearing cage consists of a ring (1), cavities (6) distributed circumferentially and coming out on a face (3) of the ring, spherical housings (4) openings on other face (2) of the ring, and rigid ball holding tabs (7) adjacent to each h... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5015105 | Crown-shaped cage for a radial bearing A crown-shaped cage for a radial bearing has a plurality of pockets for receiving balls. The pockets, which have their respective entrances axially on one side of the cage, are spaced from each other at regular intervals in a circumferential direction by ... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5004359 | Roller bearing The invention concerns a roller bearing equipped with rollers held between an inner and an outer race of the bearing and kept separate from one another by a bearing cage which is formed by an annular component consisting of one or more parts in which, alo... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4941759 | Comb separator for ball bearings A comb separator for a ball bearing the bearing comprising axially spaced inner raceways defined in a shaft, outer raceways defined in an outer ring around the shaft and a respective row of bearing balls in the cooperating raceways. A comb separator is pr... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4938613 | Moldable plastic bearing ball retainer A plastic ball retainer with a by-pass moldable design includes ball pocket bases joined with connector bars that occupy less radial space than the radial thickness of the pocket bases, with V shaped bridge members spanning the gaps between the pockets th... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4804276 | Cage for a rolling bearing A cage for a ball bearing, especially for an inclined ball bearing, is comprised of two side rings connected together by webs, with one of the side rings being outside of the pitch circle and the other side ring being inside of the pitch circle. Circumfer... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4732496 | Two-piece ball cage for bearing assembly A ball bearing cage consisting of a pair of annular cage portions having opposing surface portions defining circumferentially spaced radial bores for receiving balls. One of the cage portions is formed with a radially outwardly projecting circumferential ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4723851 | Double-row angular-contact ball bearing A double-row, angular-contact ball bearing unit includes double sided cage, a plurality of balls maintained in first and second circular arrays by the cage and disposed between a one piece outer ring having two races and an inner ring formed of two side b... | 02/09/1988 |
