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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7270481 | Plain bearing feeding mechanism for food slicer A removable, lubrication free plain bearing plate constructed food-table is assembled on the food slicer to reduce the operating friction while increasing the unique quality of the sliced food product as well as labor-efficiency. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263901 | Method and device for determining the direction of displacement of a roller bearing component A measuring arrangement in a roller bearing, which determines the direction of displacement of a displaceable bearing component in relation to a stationary bearing component. Four pressure-dependent resistors (R1, R2, R3, R4) of a bridge ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7086305 | Gearshift device A gearshift device for a multiple-gear change box of a vehicle includes at least two gearshift rods with a rectangular cross-section. A roller bearing and a locking device are provided for guiding and locking the gearshift rods, with each gearshift rod having its ow... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6955467 | Seismic isolation bearing assembly with a frame unit for supporting a machine body thereon A seismic isolation bearing assembly includes a frame unit including upper and lower frames and defining a plurality of upper and lower sub-frames, and a plurality of bearing units, each of which is mounted in a mounting cell defined by a respective one of the upper... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6868638 | Roller assembly for supporting a slide-out room A roller assembly for use with a slide-out room used in mobile homes, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles in which the assembly includes a roller journalled to a carrier. The carrier is mounted to a frame by an adjustable connection which allows a variati... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6752532 | Positioning device with a solid cylindrical pin A guide apparatus (1) slidably supports a shaft member (2) and a column (3) relative to each other. The column (3) has a through hole (3a) formed therein and the shaft member (2) penetrates the through hole (3 | 06/22/2004 |
| 6682435 | Tripod joint A tripod joints includes a joint outer part and a joint inner part. The joint inner part has a tripod star with ball pins, which transmits a drive torque from the joint inner part to the joint outer part via a pressure element and via rolling bodies which... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6634285 | Bearing system for a slide element on a press A press system having at least one elongate column. A slide element is guided by the at least one column between a retracted position and an extended position. A first guide assembly acts between the slide element and the one column. The first guide assem... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6624252 | Sealing device A sealing device equipped with a lip made of a rubber material composition wherein the rubber material composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a tetrafluoroethylene-propylene copolymer and 0.02 to 10 parts by weight of an ethylene-propylene-based cop... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6613156 | Apparatus and method for photoresist stripping A photoresist stripping apparatus and a corresponding method for removing photoresist layers after a patterned polyimide layer is developed. The photoresist-stripping apparatus includes a transporting unit, a stripping unit, a washing unit, a drying unit ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6550970 | Linear bearing A linear bearing that can be used in applications requiring high rigidity, such as guide posts of presses and molds is composed of a guide shaft, an outer cylinder capable of moving in the axial direction relatively to the guide shaft outside the guide sh... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6464395 | Precision mounting structure for industrial equipment parts A structure is provided for mounting a member to be fixed, on a stationary member, while always accomplishing high position precision even in such cases of fastening of members that a tightening work of bolt is carried out several times, that the members ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6450687 | Linear rail system having preload adjustment apparatus A linear rail system having an apparatus for adjusting the preload on the individual rollers of the slider body which provides a linear rail of the type having upper and lower parallel raceways through which a slider body having a number of rollers attach... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6431755 | Drive train for use with a kneader apparatus A drive train for use a kneader apparatus of the type using a gearbox housing a drive train used to power or drive a mixing shaft or screw member in both an axial and rotary manner. The drive train includes a pivot arm pivotally supported within the gearb... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6305739 | Pull-out device and a camping car provided with such device A pull-out device including a stationary rail having at least one support roller in its front end region, a pull-out rail supported on the stationary rail and displaceable over the at least one support roller upon being pulled out, and having at least one... | 10/23/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6149308 | Linear rail system having preload adjustment apparatus A linear rail system for adjusting the preload no the individual rollers of the slider body provides a linear rail of the type having upper and lower parallel raceways through which a slider body having a number of rollers attached thereto is adapted to a... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6012848 | Endless sliding guide apparatus An endless sliding guide apparatus including a track rail, a sliding table having an endless track comprising a load rolling path, a no-load rolling path and a change direction path and rolling bodies wherein at least one of the no-load rolling path, the ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5988884 | Guide rail arrangement A guide rail arrangement for connecting two relatively displaceable components comprising a lower rail (1) and an upper rail (2) supported thereon by rolling elements (3), said lower and upper rails being configured as rectilinear sheet metal profiles, on... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5863132 | Thrust bearing and use of same with apparatus for reducing repetitive stress injury A thrust bearing for bearing a load along a force vector includes at least two roller elements in rolling contact with one another and arranged along the force vector such that the load is borne through the roller elements. The roller elements are retaine... | 01/26/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5761960 | Actuator A motor, a ball screw shaft, etc. are accommodated within a frame that forms an outer frame. Direct-acting guides are provided on both sides of a groove-shaped opening defined in the frame. The ball screw shaft is centrally disposed within the frame. A ta... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5718515 | Rectilinear guide apparatus In a rectilinear guide apparatus wherein a female guide is disposed outside a male guide and four rows, for example, of rollers are interposed between the two guides and the male guide is rectilinearly movable relative to the female guide, rollers in two ... | 02/17/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5582068 | Motion transforming mechanism and system for producing same A motion transforming mechanism comprises a plate assembly constituted by rotation plates having a common rotation axis, a toothed rail having a parallel rail portion and a mid-longitudinal plane perpendicularly intersected by the common rotation axis and... | 12/10/1996 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5506056 | Thermoplastic resin composition and use thereof In accordance with the present invention, there are provided thermoplastic resin compositions comprising 80-40 parts by weight of specific aromatic polyamides (A) containing 30-100 mol % of terephthalic acid component units and 20-60 parts by weight of mo... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5499547 | Actuator A motor, a ball screw shaft, etc. are accommodated within a frame that forms an outer frame. Direct-acting guides are provided on both sides of a groove-shaped opening defined in the frame. The ball screw shaft is centrally disposed within the frame. A ta... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5251984 | Linear motion guide unit having a synchronized retainer A linear motion guide unit includes a pair of guide members each formed with a guide groove and provided to be relatively movable parallel with a longitudinal axis of the unit. A plurality of rolling members are provided in rolling contact with the guide ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5169237 | Supporting and guide roller for pull-out guides for drawers A supporting and guide roller for pull-out guides for drawers comprises a roller body made of hard material, the shell surface of the roller body forming a first rolling surface, at least one circumferential groove being arranged in the area of the first ... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5133608 | Linear movement rolling guide apparatus and method of manufacturing bearing roller A roller for a bearing used in a linear movement rolling guide apparatus is tumbled after superfinishing the outer peripheral surface so that the surface roughness of the roller in a circumferential direction is in a range from 0.05 to 0.10 micrometers in... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5125281 | Drive unit incorporated linear motion guide assembly A small-sized linear motion guide assembly includes a bed having a U-shaped cross section, a sliding table having a U-shaped cross section and a plurality of rolling members interposed between the bed and the sliding table to thereby provide a relative mo... | 06/30/1992 |
| 4934835 | Linear guidance unit The invention proposes a linear guidance unit in which a guide rail is mounted at the bottom of a U-shaped guide housing, a traveller being guided by means of endless ball races to move on this guide rail.... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4923311 | Preloaded slide bearing support apparatus A slide bearing support having one member slidable on another member and including a pair of parallel slide bearing assemblies disposed between the members. Each bearing assembly comprises a plurality of elongated, rectilinear rods having central axes par... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4886377 | Rotary body of hard material with plastic supporter A rotary body of hard material with a plastic supporter and a method of manufacturing therefor, which essentially comprises a coating film coated with the rotary body and removed after molding so as to make a clearance between the rotary body and the supp... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4874194 | Gripper device A robotic gripper device having a fluid actuated piston actuating a double edged rack with a reciprocal movement. Disposed on opposite sides in meshing relationship with each edge of the rack is a spur gear, and which in turn are disposed in meshing relat... | 10/17/1989 |
