Bearings inventions 01/08

20080025653 - Rolling element accommodating belt for linear guide apparatus, linear guide apparatus and metallic mold for manufacturing rolling element accommodating belt: The metallic mold 90 includes a product configuration portion 93 formed between an upper mold 91 and a lower mold 92. This product configuration portion 93 is composed so that a rolling element accommodating belt 50 formed by this product configuration portion 93 can include spacer portions interposed between balls... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080025655 - Bearing retainer: A bearing retainer for use with a bearing having an outside diameter which is to be received in the bearing retainer and to be mounted into a cavity having an inside diameter includes a bearing-engaging wall having a minimum inside diameter when the bearing retainer is in a non-deformed state... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20080025654 - Rolling groove with combined curve profile for linear guide way: A rolling groove with combined curve profile for linear guide way in which the cross section profile of the rolling groove is formed of three successively and tangentially contacted circular arcs. The ratio of radius of curvature of the intermediate arc to the radius of ball is made approaching to... Agent: Hdsl

20080025656 - Tubular rotary joint: The invention relates to a tubular rotary joint, in particular for conducting a polymer melt, comprising a holder and a mobile connection body, which is rotatably connected to the holder by means of one bearing end. A distribution chamber with a feeder is configured in the holder, said chamber being... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080025657 - Connecting rod journals and crankshaft spider bearing in an engine: In an engine having a crankshaft driven by reciprocating pistons in an arrangement of cylinders, a spider bearing is fixed to a crankshaft journal that is offset from the central axis of the crankshaft. Each piston is drivingly linked to the spider bearing by a connecting rod. Circular links at... Agent: Robert M. Downey, P.A.

20080025658 - Friction-bearing assembly for a rotating shaft: A friction-bearing assembly is disclosed which comprises a friction bearing and a shaft, the friction-bearing assembly includes a first bearing gap defined between the sliding surface of the friction bearing and the outer surface of the shaft, and a second bearing gap defined between the inside surface of the friction... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (brp)

20080025659 - Seal device for bicycle steering bearing assembly: A seal device for a bicycle steering bearing assembly includes a seal ring having a tubular insertion and a flange extends radially horizontally from one end of the insertion. A tapered mask has a first open end which is engaged with a groove in an outer periphery of the insertion... Agent: Phillip Liu

20080025660 - Rolling bearing unit: The rolling bearing unit includes an outer ring, an inner shaft disposed radially inward of the outer ring and having an inner ring fitting part on the outer peripheral surface on the one axial direction side, an inner ring fitted on the inner ring fitting part and having the shaft... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080025661 - Thrust roller bearing: A thrust roller bearing comprises a plurality of cylindrical rollers each having a rolling surface on its side surface and a cage formed of a disk-shaped member having a hole formed in the center and comprising a plurality of pockets penetrating in a thickness direction for housing the rollers. The... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080019621 - Lubricating element and lubricating unit: A lubricating element for rolling element tracks, particularly linear motion systems, has a body composed of a lubricant-storing material, which includes an application section capable of being brought in contact with a rolling element bearing surface to supply lubricant; the body has an elongated shape in a first storage region... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080019620 - Lubricating unit: A lubricating unit for rolling element tracks of a linear system includes a lubricating element housing in which a receiving space for a lubricating element is formed, the lubricating element housing is mountable on a movable element of the linear system using a plurality of latch elements fixed in position... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080019622 - Roller holder for motion guide device: A roller holder includes an outer holding device having a number of spacers coupled to one or more rods and spaced from each other, the spacers each includes an upper portion located above the rods and a lower portion located below the rods, and each include two or more retainers... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080019623 - Rolling bearing and cage for rolling bearing: A cage includes a cage body made of a synthetic resin, and a plurality of ceramic rings and are formed integrally with the body by insert molding to form pockets or the like.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080019624 - Sealing devices for bearings: A sealing device can include a bearing having a first ring and a second ring, a metal ring connected to the first ring, an elastic body connected to the metal ring. The elastic body includes a projection part having a lip part extending from the metal ring toward the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080019625 - Spherical plain bearing with contoured lubrication grooves: A spherical plain bearing has outer and inner rings each having a bearing surface, one bearing surface being in sliding disposition to the other. The inner ring has a third bearing surface for engaging a member to be mounted to the bearing. There is a lubrication groove in one or... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080019626 - Connecting rod bearing shell or bush or main bearing shell for combusion engines: The invention relates to a connecting rod bearing shell or bush for combustion engines or a main bearing shell for mounting the crankshaft of combustion engines. Said bearing shell or bush is made of a composite plain bearing material comprising a metallic, especially steel support layer, a metallic sliding layer... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080019627 - Thrust roller bearing: A thrust roller bearing comprising: a pair of races each of which has an annular plate; a cage interposed between the pair of races, formed by a single annular plate including a bent portion bent in an intermediate region in a radial direction of the cage such that a plurality... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080019628 - Touchdown bearing: A calcium zinc phosphate-type coating is formed on at least one of those surfaces of an inner ring, an outer ring and rolling elements (balls) and further a cage (if the cage is used) (which form a touchdown bearing) contacting other members, and further a molybdenum disulfide coating is formed... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080019629 - Floating bearing cartridge for a turbocharger shaft: An improved bearing system for use in high speed rotating machinery, such as a turbocharger, wherein a shaft is rotatably supported by a floating bearing cartridge having axially spaced angular contact bearings each with a set of bearing balls supported between inner and outer races. The bearing cartridge includes an... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20080019630 - Cage for roller bearing: A roller bearing cage includes annular portions provided respectively at opposite ends thereof, a plurality of pillar portions interconnecting the annular portions, a plurality of pockets for respectively holding needle rollers, and roller retaining portions formed respectively on circumferentially-opposed wall surfaces and of each pocket portion. A concave groove smaller... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080019631 - Bearing: The invention relates to a bearing, in particular, a rotating guide for executing planar rotational motions in a kiln floor of a making plant. The bearing comprises upper and lower raceways with running surfaces (6, 7) between which moving rolling elements, e.g. rolling balls (3) are situated, the raceways being... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080013870 - Linear motion rolling guide unit: A linear motion rolling guide unit with underside seals not falling away from a slider even when mounting the slider on a track rail. An engaging member comprises a protrusion having two faces extending parallel to the sliding direction of the slider, one facing the track rail and the other... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080013871 - Linear guide unit and method for manufacturing the same: A guide rail (12) of a linear guide unit (10) is provided with at least one running rail (16), which has at least two races (16a) that have different load transmission directions. According to the present invention, the running rail (16) is attached to the guide rail (12) by means... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080013872 - Journal bearing having surface-contact retained shoes: A journal bearing, and a method of using the same, that prohibits relative movement between an aligning ring and the bearing shoes in the axial direction through the use of surface contact instead of retaining plates. In one aspect, the surface contact can be achieved by flanges extending from the... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20080013873 - Rolling bearing assembly for wheel: A rolling bearing assembly for a wheel includes a cylindrical fixed bearing ring fixed to a vehicle body side, a rotary bearing ring rotatably inserted to inside of the fixed bearing ring, and plural rows of rolling elements rollably arranged between the bearing rings. An annular sensor housing is attached... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080013874 - Sealed four-row ball bearing for support and working roller bearing on roller stands: The invention relates to a sealing roller bearing, in particular, a ball bearing for support and working roller bearings on roller stands, comprising an axially multi-part outer bearing ring and an axially multipart inner bearing ring and a number of rolling bodies rolling on the running tracks in four rows... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080013875 - Operation method of tapered roller bearing for automobile transmission: A tapered roller bearing for an automobile transmission is provided, which is capable of preventing very early occurrence of surface originating flaking even when loss in pre-load has occurred under severe lubricating conditions. The tapered roller bearing is constructed such that the maximum contact pressure on a raceway surface is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080008407 - Miniature linear motion guide unit: A miniature linear motion guide unit can eliminate the need for additional machining on a track rail, and thus improve the accuracy of the track rail and reduce the manufacturing costs. A track rail (R) having raceway grooves (4, 5) is fixed to a mounting surface by a fixing member... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080008408 - Hydrodynamic bearing type rotary device: m

20080008409 - Brushless dc motor structure: The present invention relates to a brushless DC motor structure providing at least a dust-filtering element between a holder of a rotor and a bearing. The dust-filtering element is made of a porous and absorbent material and nearly or slightly contacts with the holder and a spindle. As such, when... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080008410 - Sensor-equipped rolling bearing apparatus: A sensor-equipped rolling bearing apparatus includes a hub spindle, an outer ring concentrically disposed around an outer periphery of the hub spindle, first and second inner rings fitted on the hub spindle to rotate together with the hub spindle, with ends of their smaller rib portions opposed to each other,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080008411 - Lubricating structure of roller bearing: A lubricating structure of a roller bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements disposed between the inner and outer rings in a circumferential direction, includes: an annular lubricating member that is formed of solid lubricant and arranged on a side surface of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC