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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177432 | Linear roller bearing with separate rolling surface parts A guide carriage for a linear roller bearing is supportable in a longitudinally displaceable manner via at least one row of rollers on a guide rail which extends in a longitudinal direction, a separate rolling surface part which includes a rolling surface for the ro... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8123408 | Linear motion guide unit A linear motion guide unit has a binding strip adapted to fasten a retainer plate to a carriage miniature in dimension, but long in lengthwise direction. The linear motion guide unit has a retainer plate lying lengthwise of the carriage in opposition to load-carryin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8057099 | Linear roller bearing with deflection piece A guide carriage for a linear roller bearing includes a main body, which may bear in a longitudinally movably manner and via at least a first and at least a second endlessly circulating roller row against a guide rail that extends in a longitudinal direction, a defl... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8033730 | Linear motion guide unit with rollers A linear motion guide unit with high stiffness, high accuracy and long-lasting service life is provided in which a rolling element is a roller and a carriage of a slider is made long to allow a crowning profile to be long. The carriage has an overall length equivale... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7950853 | Linear roller bearing element A linear roller bearing element with an endless rolling element channel is composed of a carrier raceway for the load-bearing rolling elements on a carrier body, a return channel for rolling elements that are returning, and turnaround channels that connect the carri... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7896549 | Parallel spacer for a linear guideway A parallel spacer for a linear guideway comprises a plurality of parting portions, connecting portions and a retaining portion. Each of the parting portions is a thin member disposed between each pair of neighboring rollers. The connecting portions are employed to c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7862234 | Linear motion guide unit Lubrication points of lubricant around a rolling element are made in a turnaround passage to ensure proper and steady lubrication by the lubrication system simple in construction, with accompanying sustainable maintenance-free condition for lubrication. The end cap ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7832930 | Linear motion guide unit An interlocking construction between an end cap and a retainer plate to support rollers in a load-carrying race is made to provide an endless circulating circuit with no gap to allow the rollers smoothly rolling through there with keeping adequate posture. The slide... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7802921 | Sliding-assistance unit for a linear motion apparatus A linear motion apparatus has a linear track, a slider and two sliding-assistant units for a linear motion apparatus. The sliding-assistant units for a linear motion apparatus is mounted between the track and the slider to enhance ease of movement between the track ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798717 | Spacer A spacer for roller bodies, which are guided in a roller bearing and which have an axis of symmetry and have an axis of symmetry, defining a rolling axis, about which they roll in a revolution path of the roller bearing, includes two diametrically opposed, spaced-ap... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7785011 | Roller element A roller element (10) is provided which has a central body (1) and a roller unit (2). The roller unit (2) is mounted so as to circulate on a non-circular race (21) about the central body (1) and so as to be mobile with respe... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7762722 | Linear motion guide unit A linear motion guide unit is disclosed in which a tubular composition to provide a return passage is high in mechanical stiffness and also makes certain of sustainable application of lubricant to rolling elements rolling through the return passage, thereby ensuring... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7645072 | Rolling machine element The rolling machine element includes a first member in which a raceway surface is formed and a second member on which the first member is mounted through the rolling elements and which is formed to be able to guide the first member in a specified direction. The roll... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7578620 | Linear guide device A linear guide device has a retaining piece (15) between two adjacent rollers (9). The retaining piece (15) has a retaining piece body (16) having left side-face section and a right side-face section that are parallel to the end face sect... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7465094 | Linear guide apparatus A linear guide apparatus is provided with two (upper and lower) tracks of rolling element race tracks formed on a guide rail and of rolling element race tracks formed on a slider main body so as to oppose the rolling element race tracks on the respective sides, i.e.... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7465093 | Linear guide apparatus A linear guide apparatus has: a guide rail; a slider including a slider body; and a pair of end caps; a guide groove guiding the arm portions of the separators in a circulation direction of the cylindrical rollers when the cylindrical rollers circulate through the p... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7458721 | Linear motion rolling guide unit A reduction of the number of parts and the prevention of a gap and a difference in level from occurring in the passage route of the rollers. A slider S is provided with a pair of guide holes 31, 32 for forming a return guide path. Guide cylinders 34 in... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7434999 | Linear motion guide unit with retainer for rolling element A retainer to be installed in a linear motion guide unit is disclosed which composed of embracing parts to hold a roller on diametrically opposite sides thereof, and connecting flanges joining the embracing parts together with one another. The embracing parts to hol... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7410301 | Linear rolling bearing This mounting system features a base displaced from a mounting plate which is used to anchor a base mounted receiver releasably. The base has a pair of flexible arms to engage the receiver in channels that have a catch edge at the ends of the channels. The base is c... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7377694 | Roller connecting and retaining device A roller connecting and retaining device comprises two connecting portions, a plurality of retaining portions and spacer portions. The retaining portions are oppositely arranged in pairs and connected vertically to the connecting portions. The spacer portions are co... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7354198 | Linear motion guide unit A linear motion guide unit is disclosed in which a tubular composition to provide a return passage is high in mechanical stiffness and also makes certain of steady application of lubricant to rolling elements rolling through the return passage, thereby ensuring prop... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7341378 | Linear motion guide unit A linear motion guide unit suitable for slender rollers, in which a tubular composition to define a return passage as well as a spacer piece to make a turnaround improve in property of retaining lubricant therein, thereby helping accomplish long-lasting service oper... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334343 | Linear guide apparatus Rolling element holding members have two holding window for holding rolling elements in rolling element running channels formed between both track faces of a rail and a slider. Further, the rolling element holding members are held between two end caps fixed opposite... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320546 | Rolling guide apparatus A rolling guide apparatus is provided which is reduced in size and weight, and which includes a track rail of a flexible structure of course having a function of absorbing an impact load and capable of automatically adjusting an error between mounting surfaces of th... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7303335 | Linear-motion device and method of manufacturing the same A linear-motion device has: a slider provided onto a guide rail relatively movably; and a plurality of rolling elements for causing the slider to move relatively in a longitudinal direction of the guide rail; whereby the slider comprising a slider block having rolli... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302995 | Apparatus and method for injection-molding products An apparatus for injection-molding products, comprising an injection mold (2) divisible into at least two parts (6, 8) such that consequently at least one mold cavity (14) is cleared, wherein on at least one part of the injection mold guiding me... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296929 | Linear guide unit The invention proposes a linear guide unit comprising a guide carriage (1) that is mounted through rollers (3) for sliding on a guide rail (2), and further comprising a roller chain (8) comprising a cage (8a) for receiving t... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7290647 | Guide apparatus A guide apparatus has a standard end plate split into a pair of split parts that can be positioned with respect to each other with high accuracy and firmly secured to each axial end of a moving block body without fear of displacement during use. The guide apparatus ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7229211 | Linear guide bearing apparatus A linear guide bearing apparatus 1 includes a guide rail 2 and a slider 4 riding over the guide rail 2 movably relative thereto, the slider 4 includes a slider main body 8 and end caps 10 respectively joined to both e... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7213971 | Linear roller bearing with roller body orientation A linear roller bearing has a guide rail extending in a longitudinal direction; a guide carriage which is guided longitudinally displaceably on the guide rail; at least two revolving rows of roller bodies, by means of which the guide carriage is guided on the guide ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7207234 | Ball screw In a ball screw, a nut is fitted with the outer periphery of a screw shaft, ball rolling grooves opposed to each other are formed in the screw shaft and the nut The ball rolling grooves cooperate in forming a ball rolling path therebetween. A tube as a return path d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204036 | Linear guide apparatus Rolling element holding members have two holding window for holding rolling elements in rolling element running channels formed between both track faces of a rail and a slider. Further, the rolling element holding members are held between two end caps fixed opposite... | 04/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7134789 | Roller chain and guide unit having the same therein A roller chain is provided, which is composed of more than one roller and a carrier belt. The roller chain helps make sure of keeping the rollers against moving on the skew even under carrying high loads while the carrier belt is made to have a large space to reserv... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134790 | Recirculating apparatus of linear motion guiding The present invention relates to a circulating apparatus for a linear guideway, and more particularly to the component of the unloading circulating portion of a rolling module of linear motion, the circulating apparatus is J-shaped, an end of which is disposed in th... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7121724 | Linear motion guide device A linear motion guide device includes a casing having two beams disposed between two end plates and two side panels of a frame, each beam has a longitudinal slot, two stops are secured to the end plates with latches, and each has a projection engaged with the casing... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121723 | Linear guide apparatus A linear guide apparatus is provided with two (upper and lower) tracks of rolling element race tracks formed on a guide rail and of rolling element race tracks formed on a slider main body so as to oppose the rolling element race tracks on the respective sides, i.e.... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7111987 | Linear roller bearing In a linear rolling bearing comprising a guide carriage (1) that can be mounted through rolling bearing rollers (7) on a guide rail (2), said guide carriage (1) comprising at least one endless roller channel (8) for the rollers ( | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095543 | Dual-electrode traveling wave optical phase shifters and methods The invention discloses phase-shifters, modulators, and method that produces a smaller π by means of a field excitation using multiple electrodes. A negative signal is introduced that travels with the positive signal, which enhances the electric field significantly... | 08/22/2006 |
