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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7651276 | Bearing unit In a bearing unit for a drive shaft mounted cantilevered in a housing by means of two rolling bearings and having a driving bevel gear wherein the drive shaft is mounted in the drive housing via a bearing bush and the bearing bush is axially supported at one end by ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7318759 | Preload system for bearings in a waterjet propulsion apparatus A preload system for bearings in a waterjet propulsion apparatus, the apparatus including a water intake section and a pumping unit including a bearing cartridge. The bearing cartridge is designed such that during operation a preload system provides tailoring betwee... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7282006 | Power transmission device with thermally compensating bearing preload mechanism A power transmission device includes a housing, a differential assembly having a case and a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the case within the housing. A preload is applied to the bearing assembly along a load path. A shim is positioned in the load path with ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282808 | Power generating wind turbine A power generating wind turbine includes parts and components installed in or on a nacelle which are made smaller and lighter, thus facilitating maintenance. A main shaft 11, a gear-box for speeding up rotation of the main shaft 11 and a generator 1... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7219938 | Backing ring for railcar axle A backing ring that serves to back an antifriction bearing on the journal of a rail car axle includes an annular body that seats against a fillet that is located at the end of the journal and also a lip that projects over a larger dust guard diameter that is located... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7175560 | Thermally compensating bearing preload arrangement in axle assembly A power transmission device includes a housing, a differential assembly having a case and a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the case within the housing. A preload is applied to the bearing assembly along a load path. A shim is positioned in the load path with ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175350 | Thermally compensated bearing system A shaft rotates in a housing on two single row tapered roller bearings mounted in opposition such that the raceways of the one bearing taper downwardly toward the raceways of the other bearing. The metal from which the housing is formed has a higher coefficient of t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7165471 | Thermally compensated differential A thermally compensated differential comprises a housing, a pinion gear mounted into the housing, a differential case carrying a ring gear with the case being supported by a first roller bearing and a second roller bearing with the bearings being mounted indirectly,... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155826 | Motor spindle with improved machining precision and method for operating one such motor spindle A motor spindle includes a spindle shaft for receiving a tool. The spindle shaft is accommodated in the housing of the motor spindle in a fixed bearing and a loose bearing. The received tool enters into contact with the machined workpiece in a tool interface when th... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6939052 | Bearing with integrated mounting features A bearing with integrated mounting features is provided with a groove in at least one of the races thereof. The groove is of a shallow depth and provides a mounting location for a mounting ring of slightly different diameter than the race so as to permit the mountin... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6928729 | Cylinder head and crankcase manufacturing and assembly techniques A method of manufacturing a cylinder head and crankcase for a small engine. A crankcase and a cylinder head are cast to close tolerances and include as-cast mounting flanges, which are assembled in face-to-face contact by employing self-threading screws. Bearing rec... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6817774 | Method and apparatus for automatically dynamically adjusting prestressed bearings of shaft Method and apparatus for automatically dynamically adjusting prestressed bearings of shaft are provided. The apparatus comprises a sleeve assembly having outer and inner sleeves sandwiched between the bearings. An inner diameter of outer sleeve is smaller than an ou... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6416228 | Rolling contact bearing for supporting heated rolls A rolling-contact bearing for a shaft journal wherein the outside diameter of the shaft journal is thermally insulated relative to the shaft through which a heat transfer medium flows. The bore of the inner race on the shaft journal is provided with a cer... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6293704 | Shaft mounting with enhanced stability A shaft rotates within a housing on a double row tapered roller bearing and remains extremely stable at all temperatures, even though the housing is formed from a light weight metal having a significantly greater coefficient of thermal expansion than the ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6273614 | Rolling and bearing comprising a temperature compensating insert A rolling-contact bearing having a termal compensation insert. The bearing includes a first ring with a first ball race, a second ring with the second ball race, and a row of rolling bodies which obliquely contact the ball races. A compensating insert is ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6250815 | Temperature compensating carrier bearing assembly A vehicle transmission is provided having a housing that includes a support with an opening. The transmission also has a shaft with an axis of rotation and an end portion disposed within the support opening. A floating bearing assembly is arranged between... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6210043 | Float control for pillow block bearing A support assembly comprising an elongated shaft, a bearing assembly at opposite terminal ends of said shaft paralleled in a pillow block, support means for each of said pillow blocks and means mounting one of said bearing assemblies for adjustable axial ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5857782 | Bearing assembly insert and housed self aligning bearing assembly A two-piece annular bearing ring seat with an annular concave spherical inside surface is adapted to slidably receive a spherical outer surface of a bearing ring. An annular strap having a coefficient of thermal expansion higher than the coefficient of th... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5843282 | Heated roll bearing system The invention is directed to an apparatus to produce layers of material, such as paper, carton or cardboard, under use of at least one roll that can be heated in a controlled manner, in particular a dryer cylinder, with tubing attached to the end of the r... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5833371 | Device for transmitting a temperature signal by mechanical means Device for transmitting a temperature signal by mechanical means, which consists in the use of a thermostatic element (1) made from expandable material which, when the inner bearing heats up, pushes against a rod (2) secured to a disc-carrying piece (3) a... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5667046 | Temperature compensating roller clutch cage A one piece, molded plastic roller clutch cage has the heavy, rigid cross bars of adjacent pockets joined together by circumferentially flexible connecting members. The connecting members are located entirely within the space between pockets, and have no ... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5598747 | Thermal compensating bearing support structure for transmission case An improved structure supports a bearing in a bore provided in a portion of a transmission case and prevents relative rotation therebetween. In a preferred embodiment, the clutch housing portion of a transmission case is made from aluminum and includes an... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5585682 | Thermally compensated assembly for a generator A thermally compensated assembly for a generator for controlling the stress on a stator within a housing subject to temperature changes. The thermally compensated assembly includes a stator, a housing enclosing the stator, first and second thermal compens... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5395172 | Bearing assembly Bearing assembly (11) for mounting a bearing journal (2) of a rotatable roll (1). The bearing journal (2) is supported by a spherical bearing element (2a) in a bearing housing (5). The bearing journal (2) is fixed in the direction of the longitudinal axis... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5087133 | Arrangement for attaching running rings to a rotary drum An arrangement for attaching running rings to a rotary drum includes straps which hold the bore surface of the rings on a supporting surface of the rotary drum. The straps are circumferentially spaced apart on at least one of the two sides of the respecti... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5044908 | Vane-type rotary compressor with side plates having separate boss and flange sections A vane-type rotary compressor is provided with front and rear side plates for closing both axial ends of a cam ring, are provided boss sections for receiving bearing for rotatably supporting rotor shaft, and a flange sections radially extending from the a... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5028152 | Machine with thermally compensated bearings An aluminum transmission or transaxle case contains a steel shaft which is supported in the case on two directly mounted tapered roller bearings, so that the two bearings confine the shaft both radially and axially. To compensate for the differences in ex... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4997297 | Cryogenic anti-friction bearing with reinforced inner race This invention consists of a bearing (26) designed to operate in a cryogenic environment and which has an inner raceway (30) generally constructed as an annular band fitted by an interference fit to a rotating shaft (12). A pair of annular tension bands (... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4934838 | Frame member for supporting multiple bearings with heat barrier slot A frame member, or bearing block, for supporting bearings for two or more parallel shafts includes two spaced bearing receiving bores and a heat barrier slot. The heat barrier slot includes a transverse segment which extends between the two bearing receiv... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4895462 | Bearing assembly A bearing assembly in which at least one of an outer and an inner raceway ring of a bearing has inclined end surfaces, inclined at angles θ1 and θ2 with respect to the vertical bearing center line. The angles θ1 and θ | 01/23/1990 |
| 4884903 | Inter-shaft bearing for multiple body turbo-engines An inter-shaft bearing in a multiple body turbo-engine having an outer first shaft and an inner second shaft comprises bearing rollers disposed between an outer ring mounted on the first shaft and an inner ring mounted on the second shaft. The first shaft... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4830157 | Temperature compensating roller clutch and cage A cage for a roller clutch is molded of one piece, but still compensates for the divergence between its size and the size of the annular space between the clutch races that can occur with a temperature change. The cage is made up of a series of structural... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4744262 | Arrangement for providing engagement without backlash between a gear pinion and a gear wheel cooperating therewith A cylindrical gear unit which includes a gear housing, a gear pinion and a gear wheel, the gear pinion being fixed to a shaft which is rotatably journalled in bearings supported by at least one bearing support. One of the bearing supports comprises a slee... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4733977 | Seal for rollers A seal arrangement for rollers which permits axial displacement of a roller and its shaft with respect to their supporting bearing. A sealing ring which is generally L-shaped in cross-section has one radial arm of the L mounted on the shaft and against th... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4712661 | Overrunning clutch cage An overrunning clutch cage molded of a plastic material with a greater differential of expansion is provided with a circumferentially spaced plurality of cage sections connected by alternating connector members that are sufficiently axially spaced and suf... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4673302 | Double row cylindrical expansion bearing A double row cylindrical expansion bearing assembly in which a recessed cylindrical outer raceway has an axial length substantially the same as the axial length of the double row of rollers and the inner race has a raceway of an axial length in excess of ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4626111 | Self-compensating anti-friction bearing clearance device A device for automatically adjusting the clearances in a roller bearing due to thermal expansion, constituting a tapered roller bearing having a dual track oppositely tapered inner race and a pair of single track tapered outer races, each outer race being... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4514123 | Adaptive control system for machine tool or the like An adaptive control system for a machine tool or the like includes two pairs of thrust sensors for measuring radial and axial spindle deflection and a temperature sensor for measuring spindle bearing temperature. Data processing apparatus, typically compr... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4283096 | Intershaft bearing A ring fabricated from metal whose modulus of elasticity is higher than and its coefficient of expansion is lower than the outer race of a roller bearing that supports concentrically mounted shafts of a turbine power plant serves to restrain growth owing ... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4226485 | Bearing assembly with thermal adaptor A machine tool spindle bearing assembly employing front and rear bearings each having radially compressed rolling elements between an inner race press fitted on the spindle and an outer race press fitted into a section of a thermal adaptor mounted on the ... | 10/07/1980 |
