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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7938585 | Radial antifriction bearing, especially single-row grooved antifriction bearing A radial antifriction bearing which has an outer bearing ring, an inner bearing ring and a multitude of rollers, arranged between the bearing rings and held by a bearing cage. The rollers are configured as spherical disks that each have two parallel lateral surfaces... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7366180 | Hybrid base station transceiver for plural networks A hybrid base station transceiver has an ATM matching unit for connecting a wireless terminal to an ATM-based communication network; an IP matching unit for connecting a wireless terminal to an IP-based communication network; a channel and RF processor for performin... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7338213 | Barrel-shaped bearing A barrel-shaped bearing which comprises an external ring and an internal ring, at least one row of barrel-shaped rolling bodies arranged therebetween, the cage in the form of a disk which turns together with the rolling bodies, engages inside a peripheral groove aro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 6513987 | Caged roller assembly and reduction gear unit using the same To provide a caged roller assembly having a large load bearing capacity within a limited space, substantially free from a problem associated with separation of rollers from a roller retainer in either direction radially outwardly or inwardly of the roller... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6471411 | Self-containing full-complement roller bearing cage A self-containing full-complement cage for a flow-medium lubricated roller bearing includes long-rollers and short-rollers, which are arranged alternatively one after another in rolling direction. The cage has a pair of side plates (10, 11) one on either ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6022147 | Roller bearing with a cage A roller bearing with a cage comprises an inner race and an outer race concentric with each other, a plurality of rollers interposed between the inner race and the outer race, and a cage for retaining these rollers. The cage comprises a pair of annular si... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5636808 | Reel and support frame bearing assembly A reel bearing assembly for supporting a reel in a support frame, the frame having a circular bearing opening having an axially extending cylindrical surface and radially inwardly extending flange and the assembly also including a specially shaped end cap... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5582483 | Roller guide member for full complement roller bearing A roller bearing apparatus including inner and outer rings defining a pair of raceway spaces, a plurality of rollers arranged in oppositely axially inclined rows each occupying one of the raceway spaces, and a guide member. The guide member includes a rin... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5474389 | Low friction roller bearing There is provided a roller bearing having inner and outer annular roller races, each race having a bearing raceway that is spaced from and opposes the bearing raceway of the other race, and a rigid frame for retaining a complement of rollers arranged betw... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5316394 | Radial roller bearing The radial roller bearing has an outer ring (1), an inner ring (2), several roller members (3), and a cage (4). The cage (4) is guided on the edges (1a) of the outer ring (1) via several supporting rollers (5) distributed around the circumference in the f... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5281036 | Spring loaded bearing retainer A bearing retainer subassembly for use between inner and outer bearing races of a rolling element bearing comprises rolling elements, a bearing retainer, and biasing elements within the bearing retainer for biasing the rolling elements toward one of the i... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5269609 | Pin type bearing retainer A pin type retainer for roller bearings is stamped in one piece from flat metal stock. The flat metal is first drawn into a cup shape having a broad flange around an open first end and a closed second end. The closed end provides solid support and alignme... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5249872 | Spring loaded bearing retainer A bearing retainer subassembly for use between inner and outer bearing races of a rolling element bearing comprises rolling elements, a bearing retainer, and biasing elements within the bearing retainer for biasing the rolling elements toward one of the i... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5234274 | Self-aligning roller bearing with retainer A self-aligning roller bearing with retainer has a plurality of the rollers having an end face in which a ring-shaped concave section is formed, and a pair of retainers having a frustum shape, and arranged with the larger diameter section axially inside, ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5051006 | Roller bearing cage A cage for the rollers in a roller bearing has two annular portions (11, 12) and intermediate bars (13). A protrusion (16) is provided on the side surface (15) of the one annular members (11) in connection to each cage pocket (14) for insertion into a rec... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5040907 | Bearing system with redundancy of races A bearing system providing redundancy of bearing function. An inner race and an outer race are concentric and axially spaced apart from one another. A bearing set includes a pin of individually rotatable bearing wheels. The wheels are mounted by an interm... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5039230 | Roller bearing A two piece split bearing assembly is provided and consists of an outer race ring, an inner race ring and a plurality of antifriction elements all split in half. A male V-groove is formed on each end of one half of the outer race ring and the inner race r... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4844626 | Roller with thrust bearing cage Axial loads are absorbed in a roller bearing assembly by elastic axial deformation of the bell members of the bearing cage to avoid imposing axial loads on the roller bearings.... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4741632 | Constant torque ball bearing A ball structure for stabilizing bearing torque in high speed, preloaded, angular contact load supporting ball bearings operating on elastohydrodynamic lubricant films. Angular momentum developed about a ball spin axis that is not parallel to the bearing ... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4710039 | Cage for roller bearing A roller cage for rollers with end surface depressions has holding projections preformed in the side ring sections thereof in the region of the pockets, in order to avoid a change of diameter of the holding projections and a change of the pocket shape dur... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4684268 | Roller bearing cage A cage for the rollers in a roller bearing in which the roller axes (2) define an angle with the bearing axis (3) has two annular portions (4, 5) and intermediate cage bars (6) defining cage pockets (7). The bars are situated radially inside of the roller... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4601628 | Storage structures A rotary storage structure (10) has a supporting frame (12) provided with circular tracks (29, 35) provided with rollers (31) which support independently rotatable sub-frames (15, 16). Each sub-frame (15, 16) is provided with pairs of co-axial rings (36) ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4577980 | Anti-friction bearing unit of a synthetic resin processing machine An anti-friction bearing unit for a machine processing synthetic resin, and more specially one for the processing of scrap resin material at high pressures and temperatures, has rolling bodies placed between inner and outer running faces. The space betwee... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4032201 | Roller bearing assembly A roller bearing assembly for reducing friction between a relatively rotatable shaft member and support member wherein the support member has a circular hole formed therein through which a portion of the shaft extends. The bearing assembly includes an elo... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4003609 | Bearing cage and roller assembly A bearing cage and roller assembly includes at least one pair of axially oppositely facing short resilient projections extending from the rims into each roller pocket. The rims and projections are sufficiently resilient to permit the placement of rollers ... | 01/18/1977 |