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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7104772 | Screw compressor In a screw compressor for a refrigerator, suction-side rotor shafts of screw rotors are supported rotatably by angular ball bearings for forward thrust load, an annular gap is formed between the angular ball bearings and a suction-side bearing casing, and outermost ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6762527 | DC brushless motor A DC brushless motor comprises a stator; a casing; a rotor and a cover. The magnet and the enhancing plate are locked by studs other than using glue agent. A block on the lower surface of the enhancing plate is embedded into a central hole of the magnet so as to sup... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6406191 | Pivot assembly The closed end 11b of the Sleeve 11 and the shaft end 12b are made to be point-contacted through the ball 14. By this point contact, while allowing the sleeve 11 and the shaft 12 to rotate, the pressurization in the axial direction between the sleeve and ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 5896707 | Roller assembly for rotatable building An improved rotational mechanism, or roller assembly, including a central roof support, for use with a rotational building that is characterized by a movable vertical wall. The improved rotational mechanism was designed to prevent binding during rotation ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5655844 | Rolling bearing unit In order to prevent a reduction in fatigue life and to improve the endurance of a rolling bearing unit which is made up by assembling a pair of angular type ball bearings 4, 5 so as to rotatably support an axial load applied in a substantially constant di... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5308172 | Bearing assembly A Belleville spring/ball combination is utilized in a rotating anode target bearing assembly in an X-ray tube for thermal and electrical conduction as well as self-centering of the target shaft and noise reduction.... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5273491 | Sealing and bearing arrangement in electrical toothbrushes A sealing and bearing arrangement in electric toothbrushes is characterized by a sealing ring (9) for preventing foreign material from penetrating into a bearing space, the ring being arranged around a nose pin (1) in the open end (7) of a casing (5), whi... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5069298 | Well drilling assembly A well drilling assembly including a drill bit projecting beyond the bottom of a hollow casing at the bottom of the hole. A fluid motor mounted in the casing has a rotary shaft to rotate the drill bit. The lower end of the rotary shaft is hollow to provid... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5020385 | Motor-vehicle gear-change transmission A motor-vehicle transmission has a housing extending along an axis and having axially spaced front and rear sides, a main input shaft centered on the axis and having a front end at the front housing side and a rear end spaced axially backward therefrom, a... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4872518 | Power chainsaw-ice auger conversion apparatus A conversion apparatus for use in combination with a chain saw is set forth wherein a housing includes a rotatable shaft for attachment of a left-hand helical flight ice auger wherein the shaft includes a plurality of bearings secured within either side o... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4556331 | Suspension device for rotary spindle In a suspension device for a rotatable spindle (1) comprising a bearing housing which encloses two closely adjacent bearings--one radial bearing (3) and one axial bearing (4)--the bearing housing is divided in two parts (7, 8) each enclosing one of the tw... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4513869 | Pedestal crane mounting system A pedestal crane mounting system utilizes a spherical thrust bearing, for vertically supporting the crane gantry on the pedestal, and a spherical radial bearing, for eliminating radial loading on the thrust bearing. The upper race of the spherical thrust ... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4507939 | Three wheel center fan cooling turbine apparatus and associated methods A three wheel air cycle cooling machine has its fan positioned between its turbine and compressor on a common drive shaft, and utilizes pressurized turbine inlet air to lubricate the shaft's journal and thrust bearings.... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4494271 | Caster having a three piece encapsulating bearing assembly A caster which includes a neck at its top portion and a support at its lower portion to which a wheel is rotatably connected. About the neck are a ball bearing retaining plate and a top plate above and releasably secured to the ball bearing retaining plat... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4492481 | Thrust bearing starter apparatus A thrust bearing assembly is provided which reduces initial axial loading on a shaft's thrust bearing in order to correspondingly reduce the required torque for rotational start-up. The shaft's bearing runner is forced in a direction away from its associa... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4469381 | Thrust and radial ball bearing The ball bearing comprises a pressed metal cup in which are loosely-mounted axially-spaced, pressed metal thrust washers which contact a plurality of balls. The thicknesses of the thrust washers and the diameter of the balls are chosen so that an axial cl... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4296979 | Journal bearing for the shaft of a water pump or the like A journal bearing for a pump shaft comprises a sleeve whose inner peripheral surface forms two grooved tracks for respective sets of bearing balls adjacent one end thereof and forms a retaining groove near the other end. The two sets of bearing balls, hel... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4030786 | Multi-row anti-friction bearing A multi-row anti-friction bearing for absorbing simultaneously occurring axial, radial, and torque loads, in which in a divided bearing ring there are provided a first and second or a first, second and third wire body each of which forms one raceway for t... | 06/21/1977 |
