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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441960 | Bearing arrangement for a medical device A bearing arrangement for a medical device in which a rotating component is supported relative to a stationary housing includes a bearing with an inner ring and an outer ring. The inner ring is connected to the component which is to be supported and the outer ring i... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7229088 | Shackle assembly A shackle assembly is shown to include a shackle bracket, wear pads, a shackle stop, shackle plates and elastomer bushings. The shackle bracket includes legs forming portions thereof, which serve as contact surfaces for the wear pads and the shackle plates. By provi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7108331 | Generation of in-line skates and skate-boards with safety “EDGING FRICTION CONTROL™” The invention discloses a technology to safely control speed and brake on in-line skates using a ski-like technique, wherein in-line skate wheels can rotate both vertically and at an angle. When angled (or “canted”) the wheels contact a friction strip within the... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7063342 | Suspension arm kit, vehicle with protective spacer on suspension arm, and method of installing suspension arm An improved apparatus is provided for use in a vehicular suspension arm. A through-hole is formed in one end of the suspension arm, and a bearing fits centrally in the through-hole. A pair of cylindrical spacer members are inserted into the opposed ends of the throu... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044646 | Center bearing bracket and support A center bearing assembly includes a generally U-shaped bracket and a support member containing a bearing. In a first embodiment, a plurality of openings is formed through the bracket. Each of the openings has axially forward and rearward tabs provided thereon which... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7025560 | Frangible coupling A frangible coupling for interconnecting parts comprising a first ring and a second ring coaxially arranged relative to each other and axially joined via an annular array of fuse ligaments equidistantly spaced apart from each other. The ligaments are configured to f... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7018102 | Dampenable bearing A dampening bearing support member having a plurality of bearings disposed between an object and a base with rheological medium disposed around the bearings, with the rheological medium being under the control of the user at times when it is desired to stiffen the r... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7004636 | Machine housing The concept of the invention is based on a machine housing with a bearing housing, the bearing seat of which is connected to a housing wall of the machine housing by a bearing housing wall provided with ribs (42, 43) and is subjected to radially directed forc... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997614 | Elastic rubber bearing An elastic rubber bearing is provided with an intermediate tube, namely, a bush bearing with a reinforcing insert arranged in the elastomeric bearing body. The design of the bearing includes a pretension, which is distributed as uniformly as possible both in relatio... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6942451 | Damping system for an expendable gas turbine engine A dampening system for a miniature high-speed turbojet engine provides single or multiple resilient mountings for forward and aft bearings which mount a rotor shaft. The self-induced first engine order of the rotating rotor shaft is transmitted through the forward a... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6747378 | Dual stiffness bearing damping system In one aspect of the present invention discloses a dual-stiffness damping system for an evacuated energy storage system, the damping system comprising one or more flexible dampers and a plurality of more rigid bumpers, and a method of damping an evacuated energy sto... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6474875 | Bearing device The bearing device 4 is press-fitted between the inside surface of the axis insertion hole of a steering column and the outside surface of a steering axis inserted into the axis insertion hole so as to support the steering axis. The bearing device 4 compr... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6186668 | Bearing assembly A plurality of rolling elements is in rolling contact with a metal outer race and is retained within a bearing cage. An annular bushing partially encloses the outer race, the annular bushing being split along a radial plane into two bushing halves molded ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6116784 | Dampenable bearing A dampening bearing support member having a plurality of bearings disposed between an object and a base with rheological fluid disposed around the bearings and structure to retain the rheological fluid in such position, with the rheological fluid being un... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5906164 | Coach coupling assembly Coach coupling assembly for coupling together two coaches of a railbound multi-unit set of coaches has a first coupling arm fixed to one of the coaches and a second coupling arm fixed to a second one of the coaches. The first coupling arm has a vertical t... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5897107 | Roller bushing assembly A roller bushing assembly (21d, 21e, 21f) designed to enable a low tolerance, frictional fit within an out-of-round or otherwise distorted support member (5, 9) includes a bushing member (29a, 216) having an outer surface (102) machined to provide various... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5868503 | Roller bearing A roller bearing for the radial support of two component parts, includes an inner race, an outer race and rolling elements disposal between the inner and outer races, as well as a damping layer between at least one race and one of the component parts. The... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5816712 | Elastomeric cartridges for attenuation of bearing-generated vibration in electric motors The inventive cylindrical cartridges are installed in machinery for purposes of isolating vibration of conventional rolling element bearings from major machinery components. Two inventive cartridges are concentrically coupled with a rolling element bearin... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5758541 | Engaging noise preventing device for gear transmission device In an elastic frictional member including: a core ring fitted on a sleeve fixedly mounted on a shaft; and an elastic element engaged with the outer cylindrical surface of the core ring, a plurality of small protrusions are extended from the outer surface ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5632562 | Bearing assembly for supporting a shaft without play A bearing assembly for supporting a shaft without play, in particular for use with a steering shaft in a steering column, includes a plurality of needle-like rollers that are circumscribed by a thin-walled, split bush for elastically loading the rollers i... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5612583 | Electric motor and apparatus comprising the electric motor An electric motor (1) has a stator (3) and a rotor (5) having a rotor shaft (7), which rotor shaft is supported relative to the stator by means of ball-bearings (9). The ball-bearings are connected directly to suspension elements (11 ) for the suspension ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5553965 | Constraint system for parallel cantilever shafts Cantilever shafts (34, 40) support bearing assemblies (54, 56) over which is mounted a tuned compliance or constraint member (92) including flexure members (102, 104, 106) which minimize deflection of the shafts and improve operation of associated rotary ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5549395 | Shaft journal bearing having improved seal wear ring A bearing assembly employs an improved seal wear ring comprising a rigid metal sleeve having an internal diameter greater than that of the shaft to provide a clearance therebetween along the full length of the wear ring. An annular spacer ring of a dense,... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5527115 | Bearing mounting arrangement A bearing mounting arrangement is provided in which a dimension stabilizing ring is molded into a motor housing bearing cap to limit critical bearing mounting variations in the, as molded, plastic bearing cap. The dimension stabilizing ring has an inner c... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5407282 | Single-trust bearing A single-thrust bearing is disclosed. The bearing includes a rolling-contact bearing having an inner ring and an outer ring, as well as a thrust ring concentrically surrounding the outer ring of the rolling-contact bearing with radial clearance. The outer... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5295744 | Resilient central bearing for a propeller shaft A resilient central bearing such as for a propeller shaft for motor vehicle drives, having a roller bearing held in a housing which is disclosed and claimed. A bracket for being secured to the motor vehicle body holds the bearing. The inner bearing race o... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5172985 | Multidirectional propeller shaft bearing A multidirectional propeller shaft bearing is disclosed which includes a body made of two die-stamped plates, the first being provided with a cylindrical box having an anchoring flange on one side and the opposite side has an attached, welded and equally ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5078510 | Bearing isolator A two-piece bearing isolator assembly for mounting roller or ball bearing races to a mounting structure for journalling a shaft. An outer Z-shaped metallic ring has outwardly and inwardly extending flanges on opposite axial margins. The outward flange ret... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5044784 | Bearing isolator A bearing isolator having an outer metal mounting ring adapted for attachment to a mounting structure, an inner metal mounting ring, adapted for registration on the outer race of a bearing for journalling a shaft, and an energy-absorbing ring of composite... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5044785 | Bearing isolator An integrally formed annular plastic bearing isolator for ball and tapered roller bearings journalling power transmission shafts. The isolator has a plurality of circumferentially spaced energy absorbing pads extending radially from the inner periphery th... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5033875 | Support bearing of a rotary shaft A support bearing of a rotary shaft, of the type comprising an inner ring (12) and an outer ring (10) coaxial with one another and elastic connecting strips (14a, 14b) between the two rings. The connecting strips comprise a series of first elastic strips (14a)... | 07/23/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4900165 | Bearing support system A bearing support system providing axial thrust load control of bearing supporting a rotating element, by retaining the bearings with a slotted inner ring and supporting the inner ring with a radially spaced outer ring by means of a plurality of circumfer... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4820062 | Bearing for steering wheel shaft of vehicles A bearing for the steering wheel shaft of a vehicle comprises a number of needle-like rollers, a retainer retaining the needle-like rollers, a cylindrical race member circumscribing the needle-like rollers, and an elastic cylindrical member fitted over sa... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4708498 | Locally pre-stressed rolling bearing for mounting on a shaft in a lateral direction A roller bearing assembly having an outer case (1) which contains an elastically yieldable sleeve 2 in which is enclosed a thin elastically yieldable ring 3 whose inner surface acts as a raceway for rollers or needles (6) carried by the cage (7). The elas... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4696587 | Expansion compensating bearing In a bearing including an inner race and an outer race disposed concentrically, a plurality of rolling members interposed between the two races, and two ring members of synthetic resin axially spaced on the outer peripheral surface of the outer race and w... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4682065 | Molded plastic motor housing with integral stator mounting and shaft journalling projection A molded plastic housing for a small electric motor having a radial end wall and an axially projecting portion for mounting the stator and journalling the motor shaft. An annular stator is mounted on and about the projecting portion and shaft bearings are... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4639150 | Intermediate bearing for the propeller shaft of a motor vehicle An intermediate bearing for the propeller shaft of a motor vehicle includes a rigid casing constituted by two parts which form an annular casing having a generally U-shaped cross section, and a tensioned, resilient deformation member contained in the casi... | 01/27/1987 |
