Bearings inventions 06/06

20060140517 - Linear guiding unit: A linear guide unit comprising a guide carriage (3) that is mounted through rolling elements (2) for sliding on a guide rail (1), said guide carriage (3) comprising a carrier body (4) and end caps (5) arranged on front ends of the carrier body (4), the linear guide unit comprising...

20060140518 - Ball connect device for a linear guideway: A ball connect device for a linear guideway comprises: at least a ribbon-shaped connecting portion in which being formed a plurality of retaining holes for retaining a plurality of balls, and a plurality ring portions being protruded out a surface of the connecting portion and each of the ring portions...

20060140519 - Guide wheel having integrated bearing mount: A guide wheel assembly includes a journal body having an inner bearing race, an axial mounting face, a longitudinally extending threaded mounting portion, a hexagonal tool engaging surface located between the axial mounting face and the inner bearing race, and a guide wheel rotatably supported by the journal body for...

20060140522 - High pressure barrier to oil loss by diffusion: An improved rotational motor, such as a spindle motor for a disc drive, is provided. The motor first comprises a hub having a shaft portion and a horizontal body portion. The motor also comprises a sleeve surrounding the shaft portion of the hub. A fine vertical gap is retained between...

20060140520 - Hybrid orbital fluid dynamic bearing motor: Hybrid orbital fluid dynamic bearing motors are disclosed. The motors achieve improved efficiency advantages observed in fluid dynamic bearing motors containing an orbital ring. In addition, the hybrid orbital FDB motor has serial thrust bearings and traditional style journal bearings, which provide typically higher radial and angular stiffness not observed...

20060140521 - Hydrodynamic bearing device and compact motor including hydrodynamic bearing device: A shaft is rotatably inserted through a bearing hole of a sleeve, a screw hole for fastening a clamp to the shaft is formed along a direction of an axis from an upper end portion of the shaft, an operating fluid is charged in a gap between an inner peripheral...

20060140524 - Diamond bearing with cooling/lubrication channels: A diamond bearing assembly comprises a support ring having at least one diamond bearing segment attached thereto. A plurality of bearing pads are disposed on the diamond bearing segment. The plurality of bearing pads have a plurality of flow micro-channels between the bearing pads. A flow channel is disposed in...

20060140523 - Thrust slide bearing: A thrust sliding bearing (1) includes an upper casing (3) having an annular surface (2); an annular lower casing (5) which is superposed on the upper casing (3) so as to be rotatable about an axis (O) of the upper casing (3) and has an annular surface (4) opposed to...

20060140525 - Bearing stiff plate pedestal: A bearing stiff plate pedestal with cylindrical bore and a separate bearing with shimmed saddle blocks that mate to the bore to permit accurate alignment and with self-aligning Babbitted tilting pad bearings to replace existing bearing spring plates arrangements. A method wherein the bearing stiff plate pedestal is fashioned initially...

20060140526 - Rolling bearing retainer: A rolling bearing retainer (1) for a cylindrical roller bearing is characterized by the fact that a web center part (4.2) is provided with a respective projection (4.3) on a circumferential side, and these projections (4.3), by twisting this web center part (4.2) about its longitudinal axis (4.5), are formed...

20060140527 - Thrust roller bearing apparatus: A thrust roller bearing apparatus is such as to be installed in a hydraulic mechanism to adjust a gap produced between components when they are assembled in the hydraulic mechanism and is configured such that a back side of a race forms an oil pressure chamber in a space produced...

20060133703 - Fluid dynamic bearing having pressure-generating surface patterns: The invention relates to a fluid dynamic bearing system having pressure-generating asymmetric surface patterns, having at least two bearing parts that are rotatable with respect to each other and form a bearing gap filled with a bearing fluid between associated bearing surfaces. The surface patterns are disposed on at least...

20060133702 - Hydrodynamic bearing assembly: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly comprises a bearing (10) defining a bearing hole (12) therein, a shaft (20) rotatably received in the bearing hole with a bearing clearance formed between a bearing surface of the bearing and an outer surface of the shaft, and a cover (40) attached to a top...

20060133704 - Hydrodynamic bearing device and spindle motor: The invention provides a hydrodynamic bearing device with a function of circulating the operating fluid by supplying the operating fluid to between the cover and the sleeve by way of a circular communication path, the hydrodynamic bearing device allowing the cover for covering the sleeve to be satisfactorily bonded, preventing...

20060133705 - Magnetic disk device with rotor supported by fluid bearing: Embodiments of the invention make high-speed rotation of a magnetic disk, suppression of an increase in electric power consumption, and suppression in shaft falling vibration compatible together in a magnetic disk device. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a magnetic disk that records information, and a drive unit...

20060133706 - Bearing device for wheel: According to the present invention, there is provided a bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle comprising a hub wheel integrally formed therewith a wheel mounting flange on the periphery at one end thereof, and a double row rolling bearing, the double row rolling bearing comprising an outer member integrally...

20060133707 - Bearing mechanism for spindle motor in magnetic disk drive: Embodiments of the invention prevent trouble caused by an increase in viscosity of grease generated when a ball bearing operates at a low temperature, and fretting that an inner ring and/or an outer ring comes in contact with balls to produce wear when vibration is applied thereto. In one embodiment,...

20060133708 - Wheel bearing assembly mount with force attenuation: A support member (14) for rotatably coupling a first element to a second element. The support member includes a sleeve (50) for rotatably supporting the first element, and a flange (56) having a concave central portion. The flange (56) is coupled to the sleeve (50). The flange (56) has bearing...

20060133709 - Bearing unit: In a bearing unit for a drive shaft mounted cantilevered in a housing by means of two rolling bearings and having a driving bevel gear wherein the drive shaft is mounted in the drive housing via a bearing bush and the bearing bush is axially supported at one end by...

20060133710 - Vehicle pinion shaft support system: There are provided tapered roller bearings which support a pinion shaft. Inner races have large rib faces each having a recessed surface shape on which large-diameter end faces of tapered rollers slide. The surface roughness of the large-diameter end face is σ1 [μmRa] is 0.025 or more. In addition, assuming...

20060126976 - Fan motor with fluid dynamic bearing: A fan motor includes an integral bearing member (40′) defining therein an axial inner bearing hole (21′) and forming a ventilating path (25′) in a wall portion thereof to communicate a bottom of the bearing hole with an exterior of the bearing member, a stator assembly (50) mounted to an...

20060126977 - Fluid dynamic pressure bearing device, and spindle motor and recording disk driving apparatus: Vertical grooves extending in the axial direction are formed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction in the inner peripheral surface of a housing. By fixing the outer peripheral surface of a sleeve formed by a sintered metal having a cylindrical-shaped outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of...

20060126979 - Hydrodynamic bearing device and inspection method of amount of working fluid: A hydrodynamic bearing device in a hydrodynamic bearing device in which a sleeve (2) is covered with a cover (5), which is capable of easily confirming that a working fluid is favorably filled between the cover and the sleeve, and easily confirming that an adhesive (21) which bonds the cover...

20060126978 - Method of making fluid dynamic bearing: A method of making a fluid dynamic bearing (10) includes the flowing steps. At least two bearing parts (10a, 10b) are firstly provided. Each of the bearing parts has its shape corresponding to a portion of the fluid dynamic bearing to be formed. Then, the bearing parts are combined to...

20060126980 - Motor with fluid dynamic bearing and fan employing the motor: A motor includes a support member (40) having a bearing housing (20) defining a bearing hole (21) therein, a stator assembly (50) mounted to an outer periphery of the support member, and a rotor assembly (60) having a rotary shaft (68) extending into the bearing hole and a permanent magnet...

20060126981 - Grooving in fdb motor capillary seal: For motors using liquid lubricated bearing surfaces, shock resistant capillary seals and lubricating liquid reservoirs are provided. The seals and reservoirs are formed by the radially opposing disposition of an inner surface of an outer member and an outer surface of an inner member. The seals and reservoirs are each...

20060126982 - Deformable bearing housing: A bearing housing to receive and be deformed around a ball having a predetermined radius R to form a bearing, an inner surface of the bearing housing being generally cup-shaped, having at least approximately circular symmetry around a central axis, and comprising: a cup portion of the radius R shaped...

20060126983 - Cylindrical roller bearing: A cylindrical roller bearing 1 includes an inner ring 2 having a flange portion 6 provided with a roller guide-surface 7 which contacts with and guides the end faces of the cylindrical rollers 4. Defining that the diameter of the cylindrical roller 4 is Da, the end face 4a of...

20060126984 - Roller thrust bearing cage and manufacturing method thereof: A cage includes cage pockets for retaining rollers at plural positions along a circumferential direction of an annular plate. A projection extending in thickness direction of the cage is formed at a central part in the circumferential direction on an inner face of the cage pocket to pivotally support the...

20060126985 - Rocker arm bearing: A rocker arm bearing comprising a support shaft in which end faces of shaft end portions of the support shaft are crimped to inner circumferential edges of shaft end inserting holes in opposed side walls and an outer ring which is rotatably supported on a raceway portion at a shaft...

20060115189 - Roller bearing having at least one rotatable roller: A roller bearing having at least one rotatable roller is used to move an elongated body. The elongated body rests on the rotatable roller and can be moved transversely with respect to the axis of rotation of the roller. In order to prevent the body (4) becoming jammed on the...

20060115190 - Bearing structure: A bearing structure. A bearing is disposed in a bushing and includes a through hole and a slot. The slot receives a lubricant. An inner wall forming the through hole includes at lease one spiral-shaped furrows for guiding the lubricant into the slot. The inner wall of the bearing is...

20060115191 - Spindle motor having hydrodynamic pressure bearing: A spindle motor with a hydrodynamic pressure bearing is disclosed. The spindle motor with a hydrodynamic pressure bearing includes a stator having coils for generating electromagnetic force when electric power is applied to generate rotational driving force, a rotor rotated with respect to the stator and having magnets facing the...

20060115192 - Bearing shell and method for the production thereof: Disclosed is a method for producing bearing shells, according to which blanks are produced from a strip material, whereupon said blanks are transformed into bearing shells and the bearing shells are provided with a lubricating layer. In order to be able to create a mark in an area that is...

20060115193 - Conrad bearing cage: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for retaining bearing balls in a bearing assembly. For example, a cage assembly may comprise an annular cage having a plurality of pockets in which to snap-in bearing balls via openings having a width less than the diameter of the bearing balls....

20060115194 - Compensation for an insufficient supply of lubricant in an inter-shaft bearing: The quality of the lubrication of an inter-shaft bearing, particularly one with counter-rotational bushes, is improved by the presence of an obstacle on the outer bush which allows an adjustment in the quantity of oil present on the outer roll track. In particular, the drying of the roll track under...