Bearings inventions 07/09

20090190868 - Memory shape bushings and bearings: An apparatus under one embodiment comprises at least a portion of a bearing or bushing having a memory shaped material for expanding against a surface of a structure.... Agent: RozenblatIPLLC And The Boeing Company

20090190869 - Fluid dynamic bearing device: The fluid dynamic bearing device includes a housing, two bearing sleeves fixed to the housing at positions axially spaced apart from each other, and a shaft member inserted along inner peripheries of the bearing sleeves. The housing includes a spacer portion protruding further radially inwardly than inner peripheral surfaces to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090190870 - Bearing assembly for planetary gear pinion: An outer needle bearing race and thrust washer assembly provides improved lubrication for a pinion gear of a planetary gear assembly. The bearing race and thrust washer assembly are used in pairs with the bearing races disposed within the planet or pinion gear and the thrust washers disposed adjacent the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20090190871 - Automatic transmission: An automatic transmission includes, but is not limited to a main case including, but not limited to a guidance for an output shaft. The guidance comprises at least one bearing. In order to make sure that the bearings do not move out of their location without reducing the distance between... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20090190872 - Bearing device for wheel: An IC tag (9) capable of contactless communication is affixed on any one or more of element parts constructing the bearing device (1) for the wheel. For example, the IC tag is affixed on a forging forming an outer member (31) or an inner member (32). The place of installation... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090190873 - Sealing member for use in rolling bearing and rolling bearing: The sealing member used for the rolling bearing to seal grease to be enclosed in the rolling bearing includes a rubber molding which contacts the grease. The rubber molding is formed by molding a curable fluororubber composition consisting of a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene, propylene, and a crosslinkable monomer consisting of... Agent: James V. Costigan, Esp. Hedman & Costian, P. C.

20090190874 - Pillow block housing with tapered roller bearings: A spherical outer diameter tapered roller bearing pillow block system (100) for supporting the rotating main shaft of a wind turbine. The bearing system is configured with a unitized construction and factory set preload bearing settings to facilitate installation and setup. A spherical outer diameter surface (114) is formed on... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090185765 - Linear guidance device: Provided is a linear guidance device in which a track groove (30, 70) serving as an endless circulation path for balls (3) can be formed through cutting or grinding with high precision and with ease at low cost. The linear guidance device includes: a raceway rail (1, 5) provided with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090185766 - Compliant foil-fluid bearing support arrangement: A foil-fluid bearing assembly adapted for supporting a shaft within an outer bearing housing and is adapted for accommodating angular misalignment of the rotating shaft relative to the housing.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20090185767 - Cover-bearing arrangement and method for mounting an actuator shaft: A cover-bearing arrangement for mounting a shaft which extends into a housing in the region of a housing opening and for closing off the housing in the region of the housing opening. The arrangement comprises a sleeve section which surrounds the shaft and which can be inserted into the housing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090185768 - Turbomachine shaft guidance: A support for a bearing that guides a shaft in a turbomachine, comprising an annular part made of a shape memory material which retains an initial shape when the load applied to it remains below a threshold value and which deforms, absorbing energy when the applied load becomes at least... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090185769 - Bearing arrangement: An outer ring for a rolling element bearing has three mounting pads on its outer surface. The inner surface of the ring is arranged to be non-circular, with its effective radius being at a minimum at the three points midway between adjacent pairs of mounting pads. This provides a preload... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090185770 - Radial anti-friction bearing, in particular, single-row spherical roller bearing, and method for mounting thereof: A radial anti friction bearing (1) which is configured as a single-row spherical roller bearing, which includes an outer bearing ring (2), an inner bearing ring (3) and a plurality of spherical rollers (5) that are arranged between the bearing rings (2, 3). The spherical rollers have respectively two side... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090180719 - Sliding bearing: A sliding bearing 1 includes an upper casing 3 having an annular lower surface 2; a lower casing 5 which is superposed on the upper casing 3 so as to be rotatable about an axis O0 of the upper casing 3 and has an annular upper surface 4 opposed to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090180720 - Plain bearing and play-free plain bearing arrangement: A play-free plain bearing arrangement with a defined preset torque includes a plain bearing, wherein the plain bearing comprises a bearing housing and a bearing sleeve inserted into the bearing housing, wherein the bearing sleeve and the bearing housing are open axially. The play-free plain bearing arrangement also includes a... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090180721 - Encoding bearing device and rotating machine: A rolling bearing device comprising two races 10, 11 able to rotate relative to one another and at least one seal 13 attached to one of the races and provided with an active portion 16 designed to interact with a sensor element to detect a parameter of rotation of the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090180722 - Load sensing wheel end: A load sensing antifriction bearing (16) for a vehicle that senses wheel loads applied by a road wheel R to a suspension upright (10) of the vehicle. The load sensing antifriction bearing (16) supports a shaft connected to the road wheel R and provides an axis X of rotation about... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090180723 - Rolling bearing device: A rolling bearing device includes a first bearing ring member having a first raceway; a second bearing ring member having a second raceway; and a plurality of rolling elements interposed between the first raceway 1a and the second raceway. An elastic grease supplying container is disposed between the first bearing... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090180724 - Radial anti-friction bearing, in particular, a single-row spherical roller bearing: A radial anti friction bearing (1) which is configured as a single-row spherical roller bearing, which includes an outer bearing ring (2), an inner bearing ring (3) and a plurality of spherical rollers (5) that are arranged between the bearing rings (2, 3). The spherical rollers have respectively two side... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090180725 - X-ray tube rotating anode assembly bearing: A thermally stable tribological coating is applied to the outer surface of a moveable bearing outer ring in a bearing assembly for an x-ray tube rotating anode and/or the surface of a housing bore of the X-ray tube rotating anode which receives the bearing assembly. If the tribological coating is... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090180726 - Wheel hub joint unit for a vehicle: A wheel hub joint unit is provided that includes, but is not limited to a constant velocity rotary joint and a wheel bearing. The constant velocity rotary joint has a joint outer part. The wheel bearing supports a wheel hub with a double-row bearing, and the double-row bearing is disposed... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20090180727 - Fan and bearing structure: The present invention provides a fan including a stator and a rotor coupled to the stator. The stator has a base and a bearing disposed inside the base. The rotor has a shaft supported by the bearing. Furthermore, the shaft has a concave structure formed on a surface thereof, or... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090175566 - Crosshead bearing: P

20090175567 - Cam followers for long life: A cam follower assembly has an outer race and an inner race located therein. Rollers are located between the outer and inner races to enable the two races to rotate relative to one another. The surfaces of the inner race are lapped and subsequently treated using a cold plastic deformation... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090175568 - Sensor-equipped bearing for wheel: To provide a sensor equipped wheel support bearing assembly, in which a load sensor can be snugly and neatly installed in automotive vehicle and which detects the load or the like acting on a vehicle wheel and requires an inexpensive cost in mass production. A sensor unit is fitted to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090175569 - Bearing apparatus: A bearing apparatus includes: two split outer ring halves which includes outer ring raceway surfaces and are disposed within a supporting hole of the housing, respectively; and a plurality of rollers which are disposed on respective inner surfaces of the both split outer ring halves and supports a shaft. Each... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090175570 - Interchangeable wheel bearing unit, for example for commercial vehicles and method for assembling a wheel bearing unit: The interchangeable wheel bearing unit has a wheel hub and two tapered roller bearings, each having an outer ring and an inner ring, between which a respective row of tapered rollers is situated, and a securing ring in at least one of the inner rings of the tapered roller bearing.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090175571 - Surface conditioning for thermal spray layers: The invention relates to a process for roughening metal surfaces to improve adhesion of layers which are thermally sprayed thereon, in that in a first process step recesses or depressions (2) are introduced into the surface in a material-detaching or material-removing treatment so that the protruding metal of the surface... Agent: Patent Central LLC Stephan A. Pendorf

20090169139 - Motion guide device and method of assembling motion guide device: A damping plate (8) with a surface facing a surface of a raceway (1) is provided at a moving block body (4). The surface of the damping plate (8) is set to be in contact with the raceway rail (1) or is set such that a gap between its surface... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090169140 - Retaining mechanism for a multi-section slide track assembly: A retaining mechanism for a multi-section slide track assembly includes a stop actuating assembly and a resilient retainer assembly. The stop actuating assembly is provided on an intermediate slide track of the multi-section slide track assembly while the resilient retainer assembly is provided on an outer slide track of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090169141 - Connecting rod bearing for internal combustion engines: Disclosed is a connecting rod bearing for internal combustion engines of a forced-feed lubrication type crank shaft. A connecting rod bearing as a preferred embodiment consists of a pair of semicircular bearings. An inner surface of at least one of the semicircular bearings is provided with at least one circumferential... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090169142 - Bearing device: The present invention relates to a bearing device (1), for supporting a camshaft (6) in a cylinder head (7), comprising at least one locking contour (3) which can be connected with at least one counter-locking contour (5) formed at a cylinder head cover (4) in a manner that the cylinder... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090169143 - Bearing device for drive wheel: A drive wheel support bearing assembly includes a hub axle, a constant velocity joint and a bearing unit which are unitized together, and an inner member made up of an outer coupling member of the CVT with the hub axle mounted on an outer periphery of a hollow stem portion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090169145 - Roller and thrust roller bearing: A full crowning provided on an outer diameter surface (13) of a roller (11) includes a first crowning (14a), a second crowning (14b), and a third crowning (14c). When a length of the roller (11) in its rolling axial direction is twice a length of the roller (11) in its... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090169144 - Rolling contact bearing: The sectional shape of a rolling surface of at least one of bearing component parts has the following relation between the order n (n being an arbitrarily chosen natural number) and the amplitude r of waviness relative to the circularity of the sectional shape. The order n and the amplitude... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090169146 - Cellular encasement protection system for roller assembly: A roller assembly having a roller tube, a fixed shaft inside the roller tube, a bearing mounted on the shaft, an inner casing mounted on the bearing and rotatable with respect to the shaft, an outer casing fixedly mounted on the shaft, a shield cap mounted on the inner casing,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.