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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8029193 | Guide rail and method for manufacturing same A guide rail and method of forming a guide rail is provided. The guide rail includes a base rail having a groove with a plurality of fingers formed therein and a race insert mounted in the groove. The race insert has at least two different load directions. The finge... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7556432 | Guide rail for guide carriages of a linear guideway A guide rail (1) of a linear guide, on which a guide carriage (2) can be mounted longitudinally displaceably, the guide rail (1) having an underside, by means of which it can be arranged on a mounting surface (3), and two opposite longitu... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7241047 | Linear guide unit, in particular gantry axis A linear guide unit, in particular a gantry axis, that has an oblong guide support (14), is provided with two essentially parallel guide rails (24, 26) extending in the guide direction (F), but rotated in relation to each other around a rotation axis (... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7210365 | Guide section with toothed rack A guide section (1) for guiding a slide for a power tool along a longitudinal axis (A) with a separate axial toothed rack (3) for longitudinal advance of the slide having the toothed rack (3) arranged in an outwardly open receiving groove (4 | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207432 | Linear motion drive system and rail holder The linear motion drive system is capable of optionally changing a position of a linear rail with respect to a pedestal. The linear motion drive system comprises: a pedestal section; a linear rail arranged in parallel with respect to the pedestal section; a rail hol... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201073 | Angle adjusting device An angle adjusting device includes a pedestal, a pair of guide members having an arcuate track, an oscillation body moved along the track of the guide members, and a moving member for moving the oscillation body to adjust the angular position of the oscillation body... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7159917 | Utility table and tool storage apparatus for truck beds A utility table and storage apparatus for use in vehicles such as pickup trucks having a truck bed includes three main parts: a main frame, a rail system, and a tool storage system. The main frame is made up of a frame assembly with four collapsible legs. The legs h... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156557 | Bearing in a manual transmission A bearing arrangement (2) in a manual transmission for transferring torque between at least a first guide surface (14b) on a swivel element (14), which can swivel and which is fixed along the bearing relative to the manual transmission, a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7147375 | Linear guide A linear guide for transmitting a torque between a tubular housing, which is defined by a longitudinal axis and rotatable about the longitudinal axis, and a shaft, which is received in the housing and movable in the direction of the axis in relation to the housing, ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7059770 | Guide rail for a linear bearing A guide rail for a linear bearing has at least one rail element with a guideway for rolling bodies. The rail element is connected to a plastic body or borders the plastic body, with the plastic body forming the base body of the guide rail. To increase the precision ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6918700 | Ball bearing rail assembly A ball bearing rail assembly includes a first slide member (100), a second slide member (200), and a plurality of ball bearings (300) movably retained in the first slide member. The first slide member includes a plurality of spoon-like tabs (... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6729760 | Motion guide device A linear motion guide device having a motion guide device capable of preventing thin and long-scaled support member and escape passage constituting member from being flexed and preventing an inner periphery guide section constituting member from being opened. Provid... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6679631 | Linear guide mechanism An angle θ, which is formed by an axis of a horizontal roller rotatably attached to a slider and an axis of an inclined roller, is about 60°, and a load-bearing capacity of the horizontal roller is about a half of that of the inclined roller. Accordingl... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6623163 | Medical C-arm device provided with an improved bearing block The invention relates to a device that is provided with a C-arm 7 for carrying medical devices 5, 6, which C-arm is adjustably attached to a carrier 4. The carrier is provided with a bearing block 11 that is provided with at least one row of roller elemen... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6581242 | Track and trolley system for movable wall panels A track and trolley system for movable wall panels including a track having upper and lower flanges, the upper and lower flanges being horizontally and vertically displaced from each other and defining a channel therebetween, the upper and lower flanges e... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6390680 | Extruded track construct component system with threaded radial bearing end pulley for swimming pool cover systems An invented track construct component system with a threaded radial bearing end pulley is described for pool cover systems that includes an extruded longitudinal cover track having a top longitudinal anchoring slot, a C-channel longitudinal slot along one... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6227708 | Guiding frame A guiding frame, with a carrier (10) provided with a fastening groove (11) and carrying at least one guiding rail (12) disposed parallel to said carrier and secured in a fastening groove (11), and on which rests a guiding bearing (13) that guides a slidin... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6190047 | Base beam for use in frameworks for mounting workpieces to be measured A base beam for formation of a horizontal and vertical, rod-like framework for use in clamping workpieces to be measured, includes a main body defined by a substantially square cross section and having drawn-in flanks formed centrally with a rib, and a ca... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6145395 | Side load compensated linear actuator An internal side load compensation device for use with a linear actuator comprises at least one cam beam affixed to the actuator housing pre-loaded to a known side load to influence at least one cam roller affixed to the primary driver of the linear actua... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6123459 | Linear guide with rolling bodies A linear guide includes rolling bodies that are inserted into mutually corresponding grooves of mutually guided parts. The guide surfaces for the rolling bodies are partially formed by plane surfaces of rotatable beveled round rods that are positioned in ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6052902 | Linear motion bearing fabrication A method of forming a rail having an elongate base member and a load bearing insert is disclosed. The method includes forming a base member having surfaces with at least one longitudinal groove and inserting the load bearing insert into the longitudinal g... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5927935 | Part transfer apparatus A part transfer apparatus having a first element with a longitudinal slot extending along one side and a second element having a similar longitudinal slot. The slots are disposed adjacent to each other. An actuator is connected to the first element and ha... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5915840 | Linear guideway arrangement A linear guideway arrangement is provided by upper and lower guide bars held in a spaced apart parallel relationship by a series of locator blade pieces having end contours engaging the inside surfaces of the guide bars. Upper and lower rollers sets are m... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5811901 | Guide rail for an electric actuator A motor is integrally mounted on one end of a ball screw over which an engaging block is threaded, and an encoder is integrally mounted on the other end of the ball screw for detecting the rotational speed or angular displacement of the motor. The motor, ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5735214 | Streamline track system with carriers and rail A track system for roller-equipped carriers to run along a straight and/or curving guide rail, which includes two pairs of opposed parallel plain lanes, a pair of oppositely directed parallel V edges intermediate the two pairs of plain lanes, and narrow l... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5711611 | Guide mechanism A guide mechanism has a linear guide rail, a guide block displaceable along the linear guide rail, and a roller carrier plate interposed between the linear guide rail and the guide block and having an array of rollers held in line-to-line rolling contact ... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5620259 | Linear Guide A linear guiding apparatus comprises a rod having at least four guiding surfaces distributed over its periphery and extending in longitudinal direction of the rod. A carriage is arranged for a linear guided movement along the rod and has at least four rol... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5568982 | Linear drive A linear drive, on which housing a longitudinally moving output drive part is provided. In the possible path of motion thereof a limiting device is arranged, with which the end or terminal position of the output drive part may be preset. The limiting devi... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5553947 | Guide rail for railborne load carriers In a guide rail (14) for railborne load carriers comprising a support (13) and at least one running rail (15) arranged in a groove (2) of the support (13), this support (13) is an extruded hollow profile. This results in a simple manufacturing method and ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5549390 | Guide rail A guide rail for use in drilling, cutting and grinding tools has two first and second pairs of guide surfaces (1, 2, 3, 4) arranged opposite one another relative to a first axis of symmetry (S1). Each pair of first and second guide surfaces are V-shaped a... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5540503 | Linear guide apparatus A linear guide apparatus includes a base, a movable member movable to the base, first and second guide receptacles on the movable member, first and second linear guide members, being parallel to each other and received by the first and second receptacles ... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5513916 | Linear motion rolling guide unit having mounting arrangement adapted to eliminate track deformation A linear motion rolling guide unit that obtains high operating accuracy while suppressing sliding resistance to a low level without affecting the mounting state. The bottom surfaces of countersunk portions for insertion of fastening members are formed so ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5501528 | Track rail fixing structure for linear motion units This track rail fixing structure for linear motion units is capable of fixing a track rail on a mounting base without forming fixing bores in the track rail; and correcting the warpage and bend of the track rail. The track rail is provided in the portions... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5489253 | Linear bearing for heavy load use The inner surface of an outer cylinder is made an outer cylinder raceway having a simple circular sectional configuration having a radius of curvature. On the outer circumference of an inner cylinder, a plurality of grooves having the radius of curvatures... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5391003 | Rolling guide unit The rolling guide unit has a track rail formed with raceway surfaces, a casing moveable relative to the track rail and having raceway surfaces at positions facing the raceway surfaces of the track rail, and a number of cylindrical rolls that run rolling b... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5340247 | Workcentre and supports A workcenter (10) comprises its supports (14a,b,c) which each carry a carriage (24a,b,c) movable along the supports by motors (30a,b,c) under central computer control (41). Each support is an aluminium extruded U-shaped section having four tracks (28) com... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5322370 | Linear sliding guides with rolling elements for translating couplings Linear sliding guides with rolling elements for translating couplings or the like, which include by a pair of contoured elements suitable for being fitted one with the other wherein rolling elements are interposed between the contoured elements, and where... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5290070 | Carriage guides for head disk actuator assemblies The carriage guides for head disk actuator assemblies of the present invention include bearings and guide rails which reduce the problems associated with the wear between the bearings and rails. The bearings and guide rails of the present invention have n... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5211279 | Linear conveying unit A linear conveying unit comprises a rail and a saddle movable therealong. The rail includes two pairs of tracks, with the tracks of each pair being convergent. The saddle carries front and rear groups of wheels for engaging the tracks. Each wheel group in... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5161926 | Precision head for a machine tool A precision head (10) for a machine tool includes a ram (12) axially movable along an axis A within an outer stationary ram support (14) of a polygonal shape. The outer stationary ram support (14) includes a pair of fixed bearing portions (16, 17) spaced ... | 11/10/1992 |
