Bearings inventions 02/08

20080050057 - In-hub motor having multi-functional spindle, hub, thrust washer, and base components: According to various embodiments of the invention, a motor with a rotatable hub having fluid dynamic journal and thrust bearings can be assembled from four major components: a spindle, a hub, a thrust washer, and a base. The spindle can integrate journal bearing, axial limiter, and ring seal functions. The... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20080050058 - Method and device for monitoring a temperature of a bearing of a rotating shaft: The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring the temperature of a bearing (1b) of a rotating shaft (2). According to the invention, a resolver (3) is placed in the vicinity of the bearing (1b) and a measuring current (Imess) is applied to the stator winding (4)... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20080050059 - Bearing with reduced reflow: A method for lubricating the rolling contacts in a rolling element bearing having at least two rings which are each provided with raceways, as well as a at least one series of rolling elements which are in contact with the raceways, comprises the steps of providing the raceway surface of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080050060 - Bearing and bearing apparatus: In an outer ring, a plurality of lubrication oil flow paths which penetrates from an outer circumference surface of the outer ring to an inner circumference surface (in particular, raceway groove) are provided. Opening positions of the each lubrication oil flow paths are made different in a width direction being... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080050061 - Oil bearing and tube assembly concept: A bearing housing for a gas turbine engine comprises: a bearing housing body having a bearing cavity defined therein and at least one of a built-in lubricant nozzle and a built-in scavenge hole defined therein and in fluid communication with the bearing cavity.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20080050062 - Spherical roller bearing sealing assembly: According to the present disclosure, a sealing assembly may include a first member, a second member, and a circumferentially extending seal. The first member may include an angularly disposed running surface. The second member may be rotatable relative to the first member about an axis of rotation. The circumferentially extending... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080044116 - Linear rolling bearing: In a linear rolling bearing comprising a guide rail (1) and a guide carriage (2) that partially surrounds the guide rail (1) and is supported for sliding through rolling elements (3) on two long sides of the guide rail (1), the rolling elements (3) being arranged on each of the... Agent: Charles A. Muserlian C/o Hedman And Costigan

20080044117 - Load indicating take-up frame: A method of operating a take-up frame is disclosed herein. Specifically, a method of operating a take-up frame is disclosed which includes reading a force indication, wherein the force indication is obtained and provided through mechanical means. Additionally, the method includes adjusting the amount of force applied to achieve a... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20080044119 - Rolling bearing with sensor and rotary state detecting device: A rolling bearing with sensor has an inner ring, an outer ring, rolling elements rollably disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, a sensor provided on one of the inner ring and the outer ring and a detection member provided on the other of the inner ring and... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080044118 - Wheel bearing arrangement comprising an encoder and a sensor: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement, comprising at least one encoder, at least one sensor, a seal arranged concentrically to the rotational axis and a hub mounted to rotate in the wheel bearing arrangement, whereby a radial flange on the hub, faces radially away from the rotation axis... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080044120 - Bearing sealing device and rolling bearing with cold-resistant sealing devices: In a rubber sealing device A or B retained by one of inner and outer rings 1 and 2 or a stiffener 5 and a sleeve 6 of a rolling bearing, which rotate relative to each other, with its seal lips in sliding contact with the other, a sealing device... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080044121 - Tapered roller bearing for a wheel: The invention relates to a wheel bearing unit comprising at least one inner raceway for tapered rollers and an axial support for front faces of the tapered rollers that is joined to the inner raceway. The axial support is axially joined to the tapered rollers on the side of the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080037914 - Motion guide device: An outer peripheral side (18) of the outer direction changing passage and an outer peripheral side (19) of the inner direction changing passage are so formed on an end plate (5) as to cross each other three-dimensionally. Built in the end plate (5) is an inner/outer direction changing passage component... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080037915 - Fluid dynamic bearing and a storage disk drive with a spindle motor having the fluid dynamic bearing: A hydrodynamic bearing having a bearing sleeve, a rotational shaft supported for rotation by the bearing sleeve, a bearing gap formed between the bearing sleeve and the rotational shaft, lubricating oil contained within the bearing gap, at least one hydrodynamic pressure-generating groove formed at an inner peripheral surface of the... Agent: John C Garces Schulte Roth & Zabel

20080037916 - Dynamic bearing device: The present invention has an object of improving wear resistance of a thrust bearing portion. A pressure is generated by a dynamic pressure effect of a lubricating oil in a thrust bearing gap C between a thrust bearing surface 11a including dynamic pressure generating grooves and a smooth thrust receiving... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080037917 - Method and apparatus for increasing the buffer volume in a fluid dynamic bearing: An apparatus and method for increasing the buffer volume in a fluid dynamic bearing is disclosed. One embodiment provides a thrust washer coupled with a shaft of a fluid dynamic bearing. In addition, at least one groove is provided on an outward facing side of the thrust washer. In so... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20080037918 - Hydrodynamic bearing device: In order to prevent degradation of accuracy and decrease of strength when a hydrodynamic bearing device is assembled and to reduce a cost of the hydrodynamic bearing device, a guide face 2c serving as a guide when a disc hub 3 is press fitted into a shaft member 2 is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080037920 - Sensor device and rolling bearing with sensor: A sensor device includes: a detected part D having a movable element 5 and a fixed element 3 contacting each other in which a contact area of the both elements changes corresponding to an external load; a contact area detection sensor 2, provided to the fixed element 3, for detecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037919 - Sensor-incorporated bearing assembly for wheels: To provide a sensor-incorporated wheel support bearing assembly, which is capable of stably detecting the load acting on the wheel and the rotational speed of the wheel and with which assembly a load sensor and/or a rotation sensor can be installed compactly in a vehicle, double rows of rolling elements... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080037921 - Self-aligning roller bearing: It is intended to easily insert rollers into a cage at an approximately optimum insertion angle and in a stabilized attitude, thereby preventing poor insertion of rollers and roller disengagement. A self-aligning roller bearing having a cage (10) which comprises an annular section (12) having a pocket (11) for containing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080037922 - Cage for roller bearing: A cage includes a cage body having pockets that are formed by circumferentially adjacent pillar portions to retain rollers and a plurality of roller retainers that are individually formed from the cage body and mounted over the pillar portions. The roller retainer has a generally U-shaped cross section by a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080037923 - Radial roller bearing, in particular a cylindrical or needle roller or needle roller bearing comprising hollow rollers consisting of a shape memory alloy and acting as spacers: The invention relates to a radial roller bearing, having an outer bearing ring and an inner bearing ring, and rolling bodies located between the rings. Some of the rollers are formed by individual hollow rollers of a shape memory alloy. The cross-section of the shape memory alloy rollers is deformed... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080037924 - Pin cage, particularly for larger radial or axial roller bearings: The invention relates to a pin cage for large radial or axial roller bearings. The pin cage has axle pins between spacing bolts. The axle pins being retained in axial bores in the annular disks. The roller bearing elements are rotatably mounted on the axle pins. The pin cage is... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080031556 - Wheel bearing arrangement comprising a radial-flange-side encoder: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement which enables a hub to be mounted in at least one non-rotating external ring such that it can rotate about the rotational axis of the hub. The wheel bearing arrangement comprises at least one sealing arrangement and one encoder and the sealing... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080031557 - Rolling guide device: A rolling guide device 160 is provided with a track rail 161 as a track member and a movable member 163 mounted to the track rail 161 to be movable through balls 162. A solid lubricant film is formed to the ball 162 by using a closed magnetic field unbalanced... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080031558 - Bearing assembly: A bearing assembly H includes: a synthetic-resin cover 25 fitted in an inside surface of a vehicular-inner-side end of an outer ring member 2, and a metal annular member 33 disposed on an inside surface of a fitting engagement portion 26 of the cover 25, the fitting engagement portion being... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031559 - Hybrid spherical bearing: In a hybrid spherical bearing, a ceramic ball is provided and has a bore extending at least part way there through. A metallic outer race is also provided and has an inner engagement surface contoured to a shape complementary to a shape defined by an outer diameter of the ceramic... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080031560 - Angular contact ball bearing: An upper surface of an outer ring is disposed axially inwardly of an end surface of a larger-diameter annular portion of a cage, and an outer diameter of the end surface of the larger-diameter annular portion of the cage is larger than an inner diameter of a lower surface of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080031561 - Vehicular-wheel bearing assembly: [Means for solution]A vehicular-wheel bearing assembly includes: an inner ring member 5; an outer ring member 3 disposed on an outer periphery of the inner ring member 5 via a rolling element 6; and a synthetic-resin cover 15 in fitting engagement with one axial end of the inner ring member... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031562 - Suspension thrust bearing device and strut: The suspension thrust bearing device, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a rolling bearing forming an axial thrust bearing, a lower support cap of the rolling bearing that is provided with a body made of synthetic material, and a vibration-filtering element mounted on the body of the support cap.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.