Bearings inventions 04/07

20070092169 - Method of providing a consistent preload on thrust bearings in a bearing assembly: A method of providing a consistent preload on thrust bearings in a bearing assembly. A first step involves placing against an inner race and an outer race of a bearing stack of tlirust bearings, deformable shims made from a material having a relatively flat stress-strain curve after its yield stress... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070092170 - Fluid bearing device: While applying an ultrasonic vibration to a housing 7 and/or a bearing sleeve 8, the outer peripheral surface 8d of the bearing sleeve 8 is press-fitted into the inner peripheral surface 7c of the housing 7 with a predetermined interference, and is welded thereto. During the press-fitting, the region of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070092172 - Fluid dynamic bearing, motor and storage disk device: A fluid dynamic bearing is provided. A structure in which a shaft member and an annular member fitted about the shaft member are rotatably supported by a bearing member and an annular member on the bearing member has a fifth gap for storing a lubricating fluid and supplying it to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070092171 - Hydrodynamic bearing device and manufacturing method thereof: A hydrodynamic bearing having a high performance and a long life and a manufacturing method for the same are provided by forming hydrodynamic grooves to have a sufficient depth with a high accuracy, and sealing remaining pores on a bearing surface. A shaft is inserted into a bearing hole of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070092173 - Bush bearing: A bush bearing (1) is a wrapped bush bearing which has a cylindrical inner peripheral surface (2) serving as a sliding surface as well as an outer peripheral surface (3), and whose abutting faces (4) are abutted against each other. The outer peripheral surface (3) includes a cylindrical surface (11);... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070092174 - Self-aligning roller bearing: A roughness of an outer ring raceway surface 14 formed on an inner peripheral surface of an outer ring 13 is made larger than a roughness of inner ring raceway surfaces 12a, 12b of an inner ring 11. Also, an average roughness Ra of the outer ring raceway surface 14... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086684 - Retaining device for rolling-element and the method for manufacturing the same: The present invention relates to a retaining device for rolling-element and its manufacturing method, which is made up of the partition and the link-ring. The characteristic of the retaining device for rolling-element is that the partition is a hollow-ring-like structure to separate the rolling-elements, and the link-ring joins the partitions... Agent: Banger Shia

20070086685 - Self contained squeeze film damping system: A fluid damping system for damping a shaft within a gas turbine engine component. The fluid damping system including a damping liquid and a pressurized gas in a closed self contained system. In one aspect the damping liquid is cooled by being disposed in a heat transfer relationship with a... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070086686 - Hydrodynamic bearing device and spindle motor that makes use of same: To generate the desired dynamic pressure with an inexpensive structure. A hydrodynamic bearing device comprises a sleeve 1, a shaft 2, and oil 100. With the sleeve 1, a stepped portion 1b provided at one end and an inner peripheral face 1e extending linearly in the axial direction and continuously... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070086687 - Asymmetric hub assembly: A hub bearing assembly comprising a hub having a radially outwardly directed flange at one axial end for mounting the wheel of a vehicle, an outer ring having axially spaced raceways and a plurality of rolling elements arranged in two rows in the annular space between the outer ring and... Agent: Eugene E. Renz, Jr., P.C.

20070086688 - Vented bearing assembly: A vented bearing assembly suitable for use in application having a pressure differential across the bearing assembly includes an inner ring member and an outer ring member. The outer ring member encircles the inner ring member, such that outer ring member and inner ring member define a raceway therebetween. A... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070086689 - Integral duplex bearings for rotating x-ray anode: An x-ray target assembly is provided comprising a drive shaft and an outer shaft housing element. A primary integral duplex bearing assembly is positioned between the outer shaft housing element and the drive shaft and comprises a primary fixed outer race and a primary dual inner race comprising a first... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20070086690 - Outer ring of a wheel bearing, and axial securing element for said outer ring: The invention relates to an outer ring of a wheel bearing and the axial securing element thereof, which comprises a radial flange. Said radial flange extends radially outward from the axial end of the tubularly embodied outer ring. The flange is provided with recesses which penetrate the flange in an... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070081746 - Parallel spacer for a linear guideway: A parallel spacer for a linear guideway comprises a plurality of parting portions, connecting portions and a retaining portion. Each of the parting portions is a thin member disposed between each pair of neighboring rollers. The connecting portions are employed to connect the parting portions and the retaining portion, and... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070081747 - Earth boring bit with tilted hydrodynamic thrust bearing: An earth boring bit has thrust faces with one of the thrust faces being at least partially tilted relative to the other. The bit has a cone rotatably mounted to a bearing pin of the bit body. The thrust faces are in the cone and on an end of the... Agent: James E. Bradley

20070081748 - Tab bearing: A tab bearing is provided that includes a body having a first outside edge, a second outside edge, an inner surface, and an outer surface. At least one tab projects outwardly from the outer surface at the first outside edge. The tab may only extend partially around the first outside... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070081749 - Bearing apparatuses, systems including same, and related methods: Bearing apparatuses (e.g., thrust bearings and radial bearings) are disclosed. Such bearing apparatuses may comprise a rotor including a rotor surface comprising a first superhard material and a stator surface comprising a second superhard material. In one embodiment, the first superhard material may be structured differently than the second superhard... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20070081750 - Bearing cap with weight reduction features: Bearing caps and methods for manufacturing bearing cap are disclosed. Bearing cap includes a body that comprises an abutment surface, a bearing surface, an exterior surface, and a recess portion. The abutment surface provides for the bearing cap to be coupled to an engine along a flat and even surface.... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070081751 - Wheel bearing apparatus: A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member formed with double row outer raceway surfaces on its inner circumferential surface. An inner member includes a wheel hub integrally formed with a wheel mounting flange at one end and a cylindrical portion axially extending from the wheel mounting flange. At least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070081752 - Bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle: A bearing apparatus for a wheel of a vehicle for rotatably supporting a wheel of a vehicle relative to a suspension system. The bearing apparatus improves the durability of an inner ring fit onto a wheel hub. The bearing apparatus for a wheel of a vehicle has an inner member... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070081753 - Self-aligning roller bearing and method of processing the same: A self-aligning roller bearing is provided which includes an inner ring having a double-row raceway, an outer ring having a double-row integral and spherical raceway, a plurality of rollers incorporated between the inner ring raceway and the outer ring raceway on a double-row basis, and a retainer for rotatably retaining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081754 - Apparatus for moving rotatable components: The present invention provides an actuating apparatus for moving relatively rotatable components. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises: a bearing (30) including first (34) and second (36) relatively rotatable bearing elements for mounting respective first (18) and second (12) rotatable components for relative rotation about a common axis; a pneumatic... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076989 - Rolling element accommodating belt for linear guide apparatus and linear guide apparatus: There is provided a rolling element accommodating belt for a linear guide apparatus which has a guide rail, a slider having a load rolling element guiding face which constitutes a rolling element track path together with the guide rail, a pair of direction converting paths and a rolling element return... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070076990 - Motor and bearing structure thereof: A bearing structure coupled to a shaft includes a bearing and a cover element. The cover element is held to the bearing and covers at least one portion of one end of the bearing. The cover element has a turning portion, which has a groove. A motor comprises a rotor... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076991 - Hydrodynamic bearing assembly: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly (30) includes a bearing sleeve (10) defining at least an open end therein (14); a shaft (20) rotatably disposed in the bearing sleeve; lubricant (40) filled in a bearing clearance (11) formed between an outer face (21) of the shaft and an inner face (12) of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070076992 - Hydrodynamic bearing assembly: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly (10) includes a bearing sleeve (11) defining a receiving chamber (113) therein, a bearing (12) received in the receiving chamber of the bearing sleeve, a sealing cover (15) mounted to an open end (112) of the bearing sleeve and including an enlarged section (153) adjacent to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070076993 - Seal device with sensor and rolling bearing device using the seal device: A sensor-equipped seal device comprises a fixed-side seal member 8 and a rotation-side seal member 9. The fixed-side seal member 8 comprises a metal core 21, a resin member 22 joined to the metal core 21 by insert molding, and a sensor 11 attached to the metal core 21 with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070076994 - Wheel bearing apparatus: A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member formed with double row outer raceway surfaces on its inner circumferential surface. An inner member includes a wheel hub with a wheel mounting flange integrally formed at one end and a cylindrical portion axially extending from the wheel mounting flange. At least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070076995 - Ceramic ball bearings: A bearing assembly including an inner race having a first groove; an outer race having a second groove; and a plurality of balls disposed between the races and in contact with the races, wherein each groove has a pair of edge corners, and wherein the location of highest load stress... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070076996 - Jockey roller device for running tape of sucker of cleaner: The present invention provides a jockey roller for tightening the running tape of sucker of cleaner including at least two ball bearings, a shaft for fitting the ball bearings on, in which said ball bearing is comprised of inner ring, balls, dust caps and outer ring, the inner ring is... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070076997 - Crossed roller bearing: The thickness of a crossed roller bearing is reduced and attachment of a lid member 17 to a loading hole 16 from which rollers 15 are loaded is facilitated. Raceway grooves 13, 14 are respectively formed in an inner ring 11 and an outer ring 12. The rollers are loaded... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070076998 - Rotary machine: A rotary machine may include an inner component and a first group of cylindrical rollers disposed around the inner component. Each of the cylindrical rollers may have end-faces. The rotary machine may further include an outer component with a first cylindrical inner surface disposed against the cylindrical rollers. Additionally, the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.