Bearings inventions 08/08

20080205802 - Radial piston machine: There is disclosed a radial piston machine comprising a cylinder block having at least one bore in which a piston supported on an eccentric disk is movably guided via roll bodies, wherein at least one hydrostatic relieving field is provided between the piston and the roll body. According to the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080205803 - Manufacturing apparatus for a foil bearing: A manufacturing apparatus for a foil bearing comprises: a tubular positioning member having a substantially cylindrical wall provided with engagement portions each having a shape corresponding to at least part of a wave-shaped portion of associated one of foil members such that positioning of the foil members can be achieved... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080205805 - Fluid dynamic bearing having pressure-generating surface patterns: The invention relates to a fluid dynamic bearing system having pressure-generating surface patterns that comprises at least two bearing parts that are rotatable with respect to one another and form a bearing gap filled with bearing fluid between associated bearing surfaces. The surface patterns are disposed on at least one... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080205804 - Simplified fluid dynamic bearing design: The invention is related to a fluid dynamic bearing design, wherein inner wall of bearing or surface of shaft is made with inner grooves having self-lubricating functions to effect radial pressure waves according to stable bearing operating requirements as well as working and assembly methods. Embodiments of said inner grooves... Agent: Hdsl

20080205806 - Bearing mounted sensor assembly: A sensor assembly includes an insert mounted within a fixed structure and tabs that engaged the insert to secure the sensor assembly in a desired orientation. A cap is assembled over the sensor assembly and the interface between the tabs and the insert to prevent undesired removal.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080205807 - Antifriction bearing for a weaving loom with lubricating cavity and weaving loom pulling system comprising such a bearing: The inner race (32) has two lateral shoulders (32a, 32b) each one defining an axial bearing surface (32e, 32f) for each flange (24a, 24b), and the width (11) of the inner race (32) with its lateral shoulders (32a, 32b) is substantially equal to the distance (12) separating the outermost axial... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080205808 - Wheel bearing: In a wheel bearing of the invention, a labyrinth clearance is formed between a flange for the mounting of a wheel thereon and an end face of an outer ring member. A peripheral groove is formed in an inner peripheral surface of that end portion of the outer ring member... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080205809 - Tunable mass damper for a drive shaft center support bearing: A mass damper for use with a drive shaft center support bearing is located on a non-rotating portion of the bearing and is suspended on a spring element for free vibration and has a resonance that is selected to be the same as that which would otherwise be communicated to... Agent: Automotive Components Holdings Llc C/o Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, Llc

20080205811 - Bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has a pitch circle diameter of an outer side ball group that is larger than a pitch circle diameter of an inner side ball group. Each corner portion of the outer circumferential surfaces of the inner member is rounded as a smooth circular arc.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205810 - Bearing apparatus for wheel: A bearing apparatus for wheel with ensured high durability by including a part with improved fatigue strength in a non-hardened portion includes an outer member, an inner member, and a roller. The inner member includes a hub ring made of steel and having a wheel attachment flange formed. The hub... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080205812 - Rotational bearing of a rotational body: A rotational bearing configured to support a first body for rotation relative to a second body about a rotational axis, one of the first or second bodies being a rotational body and the other being a support body, the rotational bearing comprising a plurality of carrier rollers. Each carrier roller... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080205813 - Tapered roller bearing: A tapered roller bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of tapered rollers, and a cage. The cage includes a large diameter-side annular section, a small diameter-side annular section, and pillar sections connecting the large diameter-side annular section and the small diameter-side annular section and forming pockets... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080199111 - Hydrostatic bearing: A hydrostatic bearing for supporting horizontal and vertical forces, with a guide rail (2) and a support element (1) with a hydrostatic mounting on the guide rail, whereby the angle α between the head side and the lateral guide surfaces (6, 8) of the guide section (3) is greater than... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080199112 - Linear guide apparatus and rolling elements accommodation belt: A linear guide apparatus includes a plurality of a rolling elements which circulates within a rolling element circulation path at predetermined intervals, spacers disposed between the respective rolling elements and a rolling elements accommodation belt which accommodates the rolling elements, connects each of the spacers and has ends thereof. At... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080199113 - Joint bearing: The invention relates to a spherical plain bearing, having an inner ring with a spherically curved outer surface and an outer ring having a spherically curved inner surface, a seal being arranged in a continuous groove in the outer ring. The seal has an annular support and rubs against the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080199114 - Radially mobile bearing for a shaft pertaining to a steering system: A radially movable bearing for a shaft of a gear in a steering system includes a bush or outer ring that is supported in a receiving element of a mount or housing for the gear. In order to create a radially flexible bearing for the shaft of the gear, which... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080199115 - Oil impregnated sintered bearing and manufacturing method thereof: There is provided an oil-impregnated sintered bearing which enable to prevent oil leakage from an outer peripheral surface 7 of an bearing body 2. The oil-impregnated sintered bearing 1 includes a bearing body 2 which is made of a porous sintered alloy containing vacancies 8 and has a bearing hole... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080199116 - Roller mechanism with support member and image forming apparatus having the roller: A roller mechanism includes a roller and a support member that supports the rotation shaft. Herein, the support member includes a bearing having an outer ring and inner ring which rotate relatively to each other, and a sleeve that is fittingly fixed to the inner ring, wherein the sleeve and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080199117 - Load sensing bearing: A roller bearing assembly (100), such as for use in supporting a vehicle wheel assembly, incorporates a set of rollers (104) disposed between an outer supporting race (102) and an inner supporting race (106). The set of rollers (104) is maintained between the outer and inner supporting races (102, 106)... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080199118 - Magnetic encoder and roller bearing unit having magnetic encoder: The magnetic encoder is constituted by integrally bonding a magnet portion obtainable by forming a magnetic material containing a magnetic powder and a binder for the magnetic powder in a circular ring shape to a slinger. The binder contains at least a thermoplastic resin and an impact resistance-improving agent.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080199119 - Bicycle rear hub having greater strength: A rear hub for a bicycle includes a shaft, a hub body mounted on the shaft, two races each mounted between the shaft and the hub body, two tapered bearings each mounted between the shaft and a respective race, a protruding pull block mounted on a first end of the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080199120 - Wheel support bearing assembly: Sealing structures (7, 8) are installed to seal opposite open ends of an annular bearing space between an outer member (1) and an inner member (2). A wheel mounting flange (2a) of the inner member (2) is provided with a shielding plate (11). The shielding plate (11) has a tubular... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080199121 - Bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member (2, 30) formed with double row outer raceway surfaces (2a, 2b) on its inner circumferential surface. Inner members (1, 20, 29, 35, 38) are each formed with double row inner raceway surfaces (4a, 5a, 31a) on its outer circumferential surface arranged... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080199122 - Bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member formed with double row outer raceway surfaces on its inner circumferential surface. Inner members are each formed with inner raceway surfaces on their outer circumferential surface. The inner raceway surfaces face opposite to the double row outer raceway surfaces. Double row... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080193061 - Air bearing with consideration of high-frequency resonances: The invention relates to an air bearing with vertical structural resonance.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080193062 - Seat suspension bearing system: An adjustable bearing system, one ideally suited for use in vehicle seat suspension for aft positioning assemblies and isolator assemblies, and having an adjustment mechanism that is readily accessible and easy to use. The adjustable bearing system includes a first structure, a second structure, and a bearing adjustably disposed between... Agent: Thomas G. Scavone Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro

20080193064 - Linear guide rail for a linear guide system provided with a coolant slot: The invention relates to a linear guiding rail for a linear guiding system, comprising at least one guiding wagon 2 being movable along the linear guiding rail 1 by means of unrolling members, characterized in that at least one coolant groove (5) extending at least along a partial length of... Agent: Sheridan Ross Pc

20080193065 - Linear module: A linear module has a rail with a longitudinal axis, a table part, and at least one linear guide device; the at least one linear guide device has a main part embodied so that it is integrally joined to the table part, two end caps, and at least one endless... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080193063 - Linear motion guide device having ball retaining structure: A linear motion guide device includes a housing having a chamber formed by two side walls, a casing engaged in the chamber of the housing and having a space formed by two side fences, for slidably receiving an elongate track rail, the casing includes one or more channels formed in... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20080193066 - Four-row tapered roller bearing: The invention relates to a four-row tapered roller bearing for machine mountings, with an inner ring of two-part design axially and on outer ring of single- or multi-part design axially, with an inner and/or an outer tapered-roller row, being supported in each case by an inner ring part. In order,... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080193067 - Tapered roller bearing for a planetary rotary member: A tapered roller bearing is proposed for supporting each of planetary rotary members that rotate about a common axis and their own axes. The tapered roller bearing includes an inner ring spacer provided adjacent to the small-diameter flange of the inner ring. The retainer retaining the tapered rollers in position... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080193068 - Seal for a clamping system bearing lug: The present invention relates to a bearing eye for a tensioning system used in flexible drives. For sealing an annular gap between a fixedly positioned support part and a longitudinal bore of the bearing eye a sealing element is provided which encompasses two radially aligned sealing lips. To this end,... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080193069 - Rolling bearing: At least on a surface of a rolling element of a rolling bearing, innumerable minute concave recesses are randomly formed. An average area of the recesses is in a range of 30 to 100 μm2, and Rymax is in a range of 0.4 to 1.0.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080193070 - Conical roller bearing comprising a filter cage: The invention relates to a roller bearing with conical roller bodies (4), arranged between inner (1) and outer rings (2) and a cage with an annular sectional body (5) and an annular deflector body (10) for the body (5) to each transverse side, each deflector (10) comprising internal (11) and... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080193071 - Hub for a wheel bearing unit: The invention relates to a hub on a wheel bearing unit, comprising at least one inner ring, sitting on the hub, whereby the inner ring is axially retained on the hub by a collar, formed from the hub, said collar comprising a toothing. The inner ring has a radially inward... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080193072 - Angular contact ball bearing, sprocket support assembly for use in a traveling speed reducer for a construction machine, and joint assembly for a robotic arm: An angular contact ball bearing includes a plurality of balls disposed between raceways of inner and outer bearing rings. Each ball is in contact with at least one of the raceways at two points having different contact angles from each other and located on an opposite side of a bearing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080187257 - Spindle motor having a fluid dynamic bearing system: The invention relates to a spindle motor having a fluid dynamic bearing system that comprises a base (10), a stationary shaft (14) that is connected to the base (10), a bearing bush (16) that is connected to the base (10) and disposed at a spacing about the shaft (14), a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080187258 - Fluid lubricated bearing device: An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space.... Agent: J. C. Patents

20080187260 - Composite antifriction bearing material: The invention relates to a composite antifriction bearing material for producing antifriction bearing elements, in particular antifriction bearing bushes and antifriction bearing half liners for engine applications, comprising a steel carrier layer and a copper-based, in particular copper-tin-based or copper-zinc-based bearing metal layer applied on top, and comprising an aluminum-based... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080187259 - Sliding bearing: Disclosed is a cylindrical sliding bearing consisting of an upper and a lower half bearings, which supports a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine. An oil groove is formed circumferentially on an inner surface of at least the upper half bearing. There are provided circumferential grooves formed by boring machining... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080187261 - Ball bearing and supporting construction: A ball bearing has an inner ring fitted on a rotational shaft and including an inner ring raceway on an outer circumferential surface thereof, an outer ring including an outer ring raceway on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of balls rotatably provided between the inner ring raceway and... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080187262 - Sealed radial rolling bearing, in particular wheel bearing for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a sealed radial rolling bearing, in particular a wheel bearing for a motor vehicle, which substantially comprises an outer bearing ring and an inner bearing ring and a plurality of rolling bodies which roll between the bearing rings and are held with uniform spacing relative to... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080187263 - Roller bearing with a window cage with positioning elements in the bearing pockets for altering the pocket play by means of temperature-dependent change in shape of the positioning elements for example by means of shape memory alloy: The invention relates to a roller bearing, with an inner running ring, an outer running ring, several roller bodies, arranged between the running rings and guided in a bearing cage, whereby the bearing cage comprises circumferential evenly distributed bearing pockets which are essentially axially and circumferentially enclosed, and each of... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080187264 - Wheel rolling bearing apparatus: Crowing is applied to a side surface of an inner ring which abuts against a side surface of a drive shaft in a radial direction. With this construction, when the two side surfaces abut against each other by a pressing operation of a threadedly-engaged nut at the time of connecting... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080187265 - Rolling bearing apparatus: When a fluid pressure in a fluid supply passage is higher than a first set pressure, a fluid in the fluid supply passage is supplied to a pressure chamber via a check valve, and when the pressure becomes lower than the first set pressure, the fluid is supplied from a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080187266 - Roll machining apparatus: There is provided a roll machining apparatus which can accurately support a roll by means of hydrostatic bearings while absorbing thermal expansion of the roll in the length direction e.g. due to a change in room temperature, thus enhancing the machining precision. The roll machining apparatus for machining the surface... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP