Bearings inventions 12/07

20070297703 - Self-adjusting conveyor system: A roller for a conveyor system is comprised of a body portion that is generally cylindrical and rotatable about a central axis. A first bearing surface is defined around the body portion A second bearing surface is raised above the first bearing surface and is generally concentric to the first... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070297704 - Bearings: A plain bearing having a sliding layer of a bearing material thereon is described, the bearing material comprising a polymer-based matrix selected from the group comprising modified epoxy resin and polyamide/amide resin, the matrix having contained therein at least one addition selected from the group comprising: metal powder in the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070297705 - Thin-wall bearing: A thin-wall bearing, comprising a retainer (4) formed in a divided type having a plurality of resin plate-like members (5), (5), . . . curved along an inner ring (1) and an outer ring (2). The retainer (4) comprises pockets (6) opening to the axial end part thereof and rollingly... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070297706 - Double row self-aligning roller bearing and main shaft support structure of wind power generator: t

20070297707 - Cage for roller bearing and manufacturing method thereof: In the present cage, both pillar portions which face each other in a circumferential direction of a pocket have a plurality of bent portions which are alternately bent in a width direction, and each bent portion is provided with roller stopping portions protruding into the pocket. The bent portions are... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070292057 - Sliding structure: A sliding structure is provided with at least a first sliding member that has a sliding surface and a plurality of micro-recessed parts with bottom surfaces having a maximum depth point spaced from the sliding surface to define a plurality of recesses. Each bottom surfaces includes a concaved portion extending... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070292056 - Tribomaterials for axial and radial foil bearings: A tribosystem for radial and axial foil bearings includes a first structural component part; and a second structural component part interacting with the first part. The first and second parts are in a dry frictional unidirectional sliding contact with one another until an air film is formed. A surface of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070292058 - Fluid bearing with a variable depth groove: A fluid bearing that utilizes a variable depth groove is described. The fluid bearing includes two surfaces that are rotatable relative to one another, with a groove on at least one of the surfaces. The floor of the groove is non-constant in depth.... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070292060 - Hydrodynamic bearing, motor including the same, and recording and reproducing apparatus: A hydrodynamic bearing, a motor including the same, and a recording and reproducing apparatus which can improve vibration resistance property and suppress noises even in a situation where vibration is expected are provided. Radial hydrodynamic grooves formed on an inner peripheral surface of a sleeve have a shape which satisfy... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070292059 - Fluid dynamic bearing apparatus: A smooth surface 2d of a shaft member 2 is divided from an outer circumferential surface 2a by a step so that its axial length dimension B becomes shorter than the axial length dimension A of a hydrodynamic groove region 8a formed on the inner circumferential surface of a bearing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070292061 - Device for rotating body windage loss reduction: A device for rotating body capable of reducing fluid resistance loss by making use of the conventional bearing technology. The device is provided with a rotating body held rotatably; and one or more covering rotating bodies are installed on the outer side of the rotating body and held rotatably and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070292062 - Spherical bearing assembly and hinge mechanism for same: A bearing assembly for a hinge mechanism is described. The hinge couples a first component and a second component. The bearing assembly includes a ball, an outer ring, a pin and a fastener. The ball includes a bore at a center axis and a convex outer surface. The outer ring... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20070292063 - Process for manufacturing an elastomer bearing, bush bearing manufactured according to same, and device for manufacturing: A process for manufacturing an elastomer bearing is provided as well as a bush bearing as well as a device for manufacturing a corresponding bush bearing. Elastomer bearings of a compact design are obtained, in which a prestress of a predetermined value can be generated in the elastomer bearing body... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070292064 - Rolling bearing and cage for rolling bearing: A cage includes a cage body in an annular shape which is formed with a plurality of pockets for receiving rolling elements, an oil containing member in an annular shape which is attached to an inner peripheral surface of the cage body and formed of material capable of impregnating lubricating... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070292065 - Sealed bearing: A sealed, self-aligning bearing includes an inner bearing ring with race tracks for rolling bodies, and an outer bearing ring with a race track for the rolling bodies, positioned radially outside the inner bearing ring. At least at one side of the bearing, a bearing seal is arranged axially outside... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070292066 - Rolling bearing for use in a cryogenic pump: A rolling bearing for use in a cryogenic pump where the bearing is submerged in fluid of a temperature below −100 degrees centigrade, and incorporating an inside and an outside race of stainless steel, a plurality of rolling bodies positioned between the inside and outside races, and a polymeric cage... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070292067 - Clamping arrangement for securing an annular component to a shaft: An annular component, such as the inner race of an antifriction bearing, fits over a shaft with a slip fit, and then is secured with set screws that bear against an internal band that forms part of the component. The band, in turn, bears against the surface of the shaft.... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070292068 - Free-wheel drive mechanism: A free-wheel drive mechanism, which when fitted to an axle driven vehicle wheel selectively allows the vehicle wheel to free-wheel during vehicle deceleration. The free-wheel drive mechanism includes: a sleeve of generally cylindrical appearance and having a hollow bore adapted for fixedly receiving a drive axle; a one-way bearing, which... Agent: Wood And Eisenberg, PLLC

20070286536 - Bearing apparauts for a wheel of vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus which reduces the weight, size and number of parts and also prevents ingress of rain water or dusts and leakage of differential gear oil has an axle housing supported under a body of a vehicle. A hollow drive shaft is inserted into the axle housing.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070286537 - Compact surface self-compensated hydrostatic bearings: A compact surface self-compensated hydrostatic bearing includes a rotor assembly including a rotor plate having upper and lower fluid restricting faces, a rotor top and bottom, each having bearing surfaces angled with respect to an axis of rotation of the rotor assembly; a stator assembly including a stator top and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070286538 - Dynamic bearing device: A seal member is fixed to a predetermined position on an outer peripheral surface of a shaft portion. During rotation of a shaft member, a lower end surface of the seal member is opposed to an upper end surface of a bearing sleeve through an intermediation of a thrust bearing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070286539 - Thrust cam for a gear wheel transmission: Thrust cam (1) for a gear wheel transmission (17), characterized in that it is at least made of two separate parts (2,3) which can move in relation to each other.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070286540 - Loading balancing methods: Load-balancing and bearing removal devices useful in removing bearings, such as rolling element bearings, for rotating machine maintenance and replacement. Insulation assemblies useful with bearing assemblies that fit in openings in bearing brackets of rotating machines, such as large synchronous motors or generators.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070286541 - Sensor-equipped cover for vehicular-wheel bearing assembly: [Means for solving the Problem] A sensor-equipped cover 1 for vehicular-wheel bearing assembly is mounted to an outer ring member 2 of a vehicular-wheel bearing assembly, is provided with a sensor portion 7 for detecting the rotation of an inner ring member 12 rotatably disposed on a radially inner side... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070286542 - Two cavity grease sealing system: A grease sealing system for a wheel bearing system having a bearing housing and a wheel bearing housed therein. The grease sealing system is comprised of a sealing ring having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface faces the wheel bearing, and the outer surface faces... Agent: Kathleen K. Bowen Co.lpa

20070286543 - Roller bearing for automobiles: The surfaces (2a) of at least rolling elements (2) of a roller bearing for transmissions or differentials of automobiles are provided with innumerable minute, recess-shaped cavities at random and the surface roughness parameter Ryni of the surfaces provided with the cavities is in the range of 0.4-1.0 μm and the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070286544 - Bearing and method whereby such a bearing can be applied: Bearing, characterized in that it is composed of two bearings which are configured such that the composed bearing can be loaded in the radial direction and in both axial directions, whereby these two bearings fit in an outer bush which is provided with an axial stop.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070280570 - Bearing unit and driving motor using the bearing unit: A bearing unit includes: a radial bearing for bearing in a circumferential direction of a shaft; a thrust bearing for bearing one end in a thrust direction of the shaft; a housing provided on the outside of the radial bearing and the thrust bearing and filled with a viscous fluid;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280571 - Fluid dynamic bearing apparatus and a motor using the same: A fluid dynamic bearing apparatus 1 comprising a housing 7 and bearing sleeve 8 as fixed-side members 2, a shaft member 9 as a rotational-side member 3 having a portion 3c for mounting a rotor magnet 5, and a disk hub 10, the shaft member 9 being supported by the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070280572 - Torque transmission device lubrication method: Lubrication method of a torque transmission device, which device comprises a confinement wherein at least one torque transmission part and at least one rotation guiding rolling bearing of the part are arranged, the bearing comprising a fixed part and a rotary part forming together a bearing area wherein. rolling bodies... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070280573 - Rolling bearing of oscillation roller and oscillation method of roller: This invention improves a rolling bearing fitted to a shaft supporting section of a roller to realize an oscillation roller. A rolling bearing to be fitted to one of the shaft supporting sections of a roller comprises a collared inner ring and a collared outer ring and a plurality of... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070280574 - Tapered roller bearing: The present invention is intended to increase the load capacity of a tapered roller bearing and to decrease the maximum face pressure on tine raceway surfaces without lowering the rigidity of the cage. The tapered roller bearing comprises an inner ring, an outer ring, multiple tapered rollers rollably disposed between... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070280575 - Thrust roller bearing: A thrust roller bearing comprises a plurality of rollers and a disk-shaped retainer having a plurality of pockets for holding the plurality of rollers and having an outer flange part bent in a rotation axis direction. The inner surface of the outer flange part forms the outer wall surface of... Agent: Clark & Brody