Bearings inventions 05/09

20090136164 - Linear roller bearing with deflection piece: A guide carriage for a linear roller bearing includes a main body, which may bear in a longitudinally movably manner and via at least a first and at least a second endlessly circulating roller row against a guide rail that extends in a longitudinal direction, a deflection assembly provided on... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090136165 - Fluid dynamic bearing unit: A fluid dynamic bearing unit is provided which has a high load capacity against a moment load, whose bearing sleeves can be manufactured and fixed easily, and which can provide a required fixing power. The bearing sleeve is inserted into an inner periphery of a housing, and its bottom end... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090136166 - Combined roller- and slide bearing: A combined roller- and slide bearing comprises at least one roller bearing having roller elements disposed between inner and outer bushings thereof and a slide bearing having a lubricating gap defined between inner and outer bushings thereof. The roller bearing and the slide bearing are disposed axially adjacent to each... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090136168 - wheel bearing apparatus for a driving wheel: A wheel bearing apparatus for a driving wheel is formed as a unit of a wheel hub, a double row rolling bearing and a constant velocity universal joint. The double row rolling bearing has an outer member with a body mounting flange mounted on a knuckle and double row outer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090136167 - Bearing apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: A bearing apparatus including a rolling bearing having an outer race (11), an inner race (12) and a rolling member (13) disposed between two races, and a thermal sensor (TS) measuring an internal temperature of the rolling bearing. Wiring from the thermal sensor extends to outside via a through-hole (lid)... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090136169 - Needle roller bearing and bearing structure: A needle roller bearing comprises an outer ring having a plurality of outer ring members split by a parting line extending in the axial direction of the bearing, a plurality of needle rollers rotatably arranged on the raceway surface of the outer ring, and a retainer retaining the plurality of... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090136170 - Water-resistant grease and water-resistant-grease-enclosed rolling bearing and hub: The present invention provides water-resistant grease which improves the resistance to peeling which occurs from the surface of a bearing composed of carbon steel for machine structural use or the like even in a strict lubricating condition in which water may penetrate into the water-resistant grease during the operation of... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090136171 - Device for encapsulating the main bearing of a crankshaft: A device encapsulates a main bearing of a crankshaft. The main bearing is supplied with oil via an oil supply groove. The device has a bearing seat for the main bearing and on its sides which face toward the crank webs of the crankshaft, has oil channels which are open... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090136172 - Grease for hub bearing and hub bearing: d

20090129709 - Hydrodynamic bearing device, and spindle motor and information apparatus equipped with same: The cross sectional shape of an axial direction communicating path when viewed in the axial direction is flat in the circumferential direction, and the cross sectional area of the communicating path gradually decreases moving from the center of the cross section toward the both ends in the circumferential direction. When... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090129710 - Fluid dynamic bearing device: The present invention aims to achieve a reduction in cost for a fluid dynamic bearing device. The fluid dynamic bearing device supports a shaft member (2) radially in a non-contact fashion by a dynamic pressure action generated in a radial bearing gap between an outer peripheral surface of the shaft... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090129711 - Bearing system having a floating bearing mechanism: A bearing mechanism for mounting a connecting rod to a crankshaft is disclosed. The bearing mechanism may include a first bearing half-shell forming a first semicylindrical member and a second bearing half-shell forming a second semicylindrical member. The second bearing half-shell may be assembled to the first bearing half-shell to... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090129712 - Sensor-equipped bearing for wheel: A sensor-incorporated wheel support bearing assembly, enabling a load sensor to be compactly installed on the vehicle and capable of detecting a load on a wheel with good sensitivity includes a ring member, affixed to a stationary member, which has at an intermediate portion thereof a first non-contact ring portion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090129713 - Angular contact ball bearing and joint assembly for a robotic arm: A counter portion 7 is formed. With each ball 6 in contact with the raceway at two points, a gap is present between the portion of the bearing ring at the bearing centerline C and each ball 6. The balls 6 may be ceramic balls. A coating for improving wear... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090129714 - Roller bearing device and method of lubricating roller bearing: A bearing device includes a lubricating device that supplies a lubricant to a first lubricating path when a rotating speed of an inner ring member is detected to be no more than a predetermined speed and supplies the lubricant to the first lubricating path and a second lubricating path when... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090129715 - Bearing unit for driving wheels: A process for assembling to a knuckle member a bearing unit for driving wheels including a hub, a bearing, and a constant velocity universal joint is simplified. In order to achieve this, a hub (10) and an outer joint member (31) of an out-board side constant velocity universal joint (30)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090129716 - Heat-resistant, oil resistant rolling bearing and rolling bearing for use in a compressor of a refrigerating machine: A heat-resistant, oil-resistant rolling bearing is proposed which includes a retainer made of at least one crystalline resin selected from a polyamide resin (polyamide 4-6, polyamide 6T or polyamide 9T), polyphenylene sulfide and polyetherketone, and having a melting point of not less than 280° C. Because the retainer is made... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090129717 - Bearing device for wheel: To provide a third generation type wheel support bearing assembly in which a stress concentration in a recess in a hub axle can be reduced, and the repeated fatigue strength can be increased. A hardened layer is provided by means of a heat treatment at least in a portion from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090123096 - Rolling guide device and method of manufacturing the same: Provided is a rolling guide device which can be produced easily and inexpensively by achieving a reduction in the number of parts constituting a slide member (2) and a reduction in machining worker-hours therefor. The rolling guide device includes: a raceway rail (1); and the slide member (2) assembled to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090123097 - Guide member: o

20090123098 - Bearing with rotation detection device: To downsize a bearing assembly with a rotation detection device, a magnetic generating element (2) having a directionality about a rotation axis O is provided on an inner race (21) side of the bearing assembly (20). A rotation sensor (3) capable of detecting a magnetism of the magnetic generating element... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090123099 - Bearing assembly with a seal-forming bore clip: A bearing assembly (A1C) for installation over the journal (6,100) at the end of a railcar axle (4) has a backing ring (16,104) that seats against a fillet (10) at the end of the journal, an antifriction bearing (B1D) that fits around the journal, and an end cap (18,106) that... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090123100 - Rolling bearing: Surfaces of the raceway grooves of the outer and inner rings, a surface of each ball and all surface of the cage are coated with titanium oxide. In other words, hydrophilic layers made of titanium oxide are formed on the surfaces of the raceway grooves of the outer and inner... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090123101 - Rolling bearing device: In a rolling bearing provided with an outer ring connected to a mounting opening of a knuckle, an inner ring connected to a wheel through a hub, a rolling element intervening between the outer ring and the inner ring and a sealing device for sealing the space between the inner... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090123102 - Rolling bearing device for a road-wheel, a method of manufacturing the same and a turning apparatus for a bearing member: In a rolling bearing device for a road-wheel including an inner shaft 1 that is provided with, on its outer-side end 10, a flange 4 on which a road-wheel member mounted, and an outer ring 2 disposed around the inner shaft 1, the inner shaft has, on its outer side,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090123103 - Oil-lubricated roller bearing assembly: A roller bearing assembly is provided which is adapted to enhance lubrication performance for preventing seizure and for reducing frictional torque during rotation. The roller bearing assembly includes an inner ring (1), an outer ring (2) and a roller (3) rollably interposed between these inner and outer rings. The inner... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090123104 - Needle roller bearing: A needle roller bearing comprises an outer ring having a plurality of outer ring members split by a parting line extending in the axial direction of the bearing, and a plurality of needle rollers rotatably arranged on the raceway surface of the outer ring. Thus, a non-contact length “L” between... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090123105 - Thrust roller bearing: A thrust roller bearing 10 is provided in which one half of total gap which results from adding up an outer diameter side in-bearing gap 22 and an inner diameter side in-bearing gap 23 in diametrical direction is made larger than the amount of eccentricity between a member 51 which... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090123106 - Thrust bearing device: Thrust bearing device 1 comprising a first ring 4, a second ring 5, a row of rolling elements 6 arranged between the rings, a cage 7 for retaining the rolling elements 6 and a sleeve 8 for retaining the said rings, the retaining cage 7 and sleeve 8 being produced... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090116769 - Sliding radial bearing: A sliding radial bearing assembly for use on a rotating shaft in machinery where a fluid lubricant passes through the assembly to provide a lubricant film between stationary and rotating parts of the assembly. Any gaseous phase is allowed readily to escape from the assembly by providing a lubricant passage... Agent: Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20090116770 - Ball spline: First shoulder portions are formed on the outer periphery of the shaft such that the first spline grooves of the shaft are interposed between the first shoulder portions adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the shaft. Second shoulder portions are formed on the inner periphery of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090116771 - Lubricant composition, bearing oil and bearing using same: The lubricant composition contains a base oil which has little effect on a resin or elastomer because it is a nonpolar compound, in addition to having an extremely small amount of evaporation and a high flash point despite a low viscosity, and is suitable for various applications, in particular, as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090116772 - Insert bearing part, elastomeric insert bearing and shock strut bearing assembly: In an insert bearing part for combining with another insert bearing part structured the same or similar to form an elastomeric insert bearing there is provided a surrounding outer shell featuring a radial portion and an axial portion, an elastomeric body surrounded by the outer shell and a rigid core... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090116773 - Metal bearing: A metal bearing having a long operating life that is not affected by the operating temperature. The metal bearing includes a bearing surface capable of slidably contacting with a shaft member, including pores in a surface and interior thereof, and being composed of a sintered compact having a metal or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090116774 - Bearing for rolling mill rolls: A bearing for rolling-mill rolls which each have two roll journals (2), of which at least one carries a journal bush (4) in the axial direction at least in a certain region, said journal bush (4) being arranged in a rotationally locked manner via a feather key (5), wherein the... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20090116775 - Acoustic emission measuring device, power transmission device, and rolling bearing device: An acoustic emission measuring device in which a piezoelectric element (63) used as an AE sensor is secured to the inner ring (62) of a ball bearing (61) fixedly fitted onto a rotating shaft (60). The axial end face of a roughly tire-shaped case (65), which is capable of rotating... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090116777 - Bearing failure indicator: The invention provides a bearing failure indication arrangement comprising a bearing having an inner and outer race, a first part arranged to be attached in fixed relation to either the bearing inner race or bearing outer race, a failure indicator arranged in fixed relation to both the first part and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090116776 - Rolling bearing and spindle support structure of main motor for railway vehicle: A cylindrical roller bearing 31 comprises an inner ring 32, an outer ring 33 having the same axial width as the inner ring 32 and having an insulation layer formed on an outer diameter surface and both end faces thereof, cylindrical rollers 34 as rolling bodies arranged between the inner... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090116778 - Multi-row symmetrical rolling bearing: The invention relates to a rolling bearing having a first bearing ring, a second bearing ring and a plurality of rolling bodies which are arranged between the first bearing ring and the second bearing ring. The rolling bodies are arranged in at least four rows, at least two rows have... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090116779 - Bearing apparatus for a wheel of vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member and inner member. The inner member includes a wheel hub and inner ring. The outer member and inner member include respective raceway surfaces. Double row rolling elements are freely rollably contained between the outer and inner raceway surfaces, respectively, of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090116780 - Bearing systems: Bearing arrangements are described which enable rotation about a vertical axis with a very extended diameter bearing, for example 20 meters diameter. A usually stationary base supports a rotating member, e.g. on a fluid cushion. Separately, a ring of radially adjustable arcuate surface support pads on an outer member acts... Agent: Breiner & Breiner