Bearings inventions 08/09

20090214143 - Linear roller bearing: Linear rolling bearing, having a guide carriage (1) which can be provided so as to be longitudinally movable on a guide rail (2) and in which rolling bodies (4) circulate in an endless rolling body channel (3) which has a load section (5) and a return section (6) and deflecting... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090214144 - Rolling element chain: A rolling element chain is applied to retain and arrange multiple rollers at intervals in a line and has a belt assembly and multiple clamping assemblies. The rollers are cylinders mounted parallelly in the rolling element chain. The belt assembly is resilient and has two parallel bars. The clamping assemblies... Agent: Wegman, Hessler & Vanderburg

20090214145 - Unitary overmold center support bearing subassembly: The unitary center support bearing subassembly comprises a bearing over which a plastic bearing housing has been molded while simultaneously molding the plastic bracket insert and joining members which space and fix the distance between the bearing housing and the bracket insert. The joining members are removed or broken prior... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090214146 - System for measuring deformations by resilient compression of a gauge: A system for measuring deformations of an area of a structural element, includes at least one gauge including a rigid substrate on the upper surface of which is arranged at least one pattern of a material capable of being deformed and delivering a signal representative of the deformations the substrate... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c.

20090214147 - Hydrodynamic tapered roller bearings and gas turbine engine systems involving such bearings: Tapered roller bearings and gas turbine engine systems involving such bearings are provided. In this regard, a representative bearing cage for a gas turbine engine includes: an outer cage rim and an inner cage rim; the outer cage rim having a rounded edge at a location of contact between the... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090214148 - Frustoconical ball bearing and preloaded ball bearing assemblies: A ball bearing for interconnecting a rotor to a stator has a plurality of balls and an inner and outer race. The inner race and the outer race have an interior surface configured to movably engage a portion of the balls, and at least one of the inner race and... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20090214149 - Adjustable vehicle driveline mount: A generally hollow three element boxed mounting bracket adapted to hold a carrier bearing assembly within it's central cavity and be mechanically affixed to a frame member of a vehicle. The three elements forming the boxed structure each have slotted orifices that align to allow the passage of mechanical fasteners.... Agent: Mark S. Hubert P.c.

20090208150 - Slide guide apparatus of press machine: A slide guide apparatus of a press machine, which guides reciprocating motion of a slide of the press machine by a sliding surface provided between a guide member and the slide, wherein a slide member that is rotatable about a predetermined rotation center axis and a slide member holder that... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090208151 - Bearing system and method for lubrication: A bearing system includes a first bearing ring, a second bearing ring spaced radially outwards from the first bearing ring, and a bearing cage between the first bearing ring and the second bearing ring. The bearing cage includes a circumferential outer side, a circumferential inner side, and a plurality of... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090208152 - Tapered roller bearing apparatus: A tapered roller bearing for a pinion shaft according to the invention includes an inner ring that has an outer circumferential surface on which an inner ring raceway surface is formed and that is integrally fixed to a one-end-side of the pinion shaft, an outer ring that has an inner... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090208153 - Housing for fluid lubrication bearing apparatuses, a housing for hydrodynamic bearing apparatuses, and a method for producing the same: In forming a housing 7 which has a cylindrical shape and comprises a fixing face 7c for fixing the outer circumferential surface 8b of a bearing sleeve 8, and axial circulation grooves 7d for bringing both end faces 8c, 8d of the bearing sleeve 8 into circulation on the inner... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090208154 - Plain bearing bush, use of the same, and production thereof: A plain bearing bush includes at least one abutment disk. The plain bearing bush and the abutment disk respectively comprising a steel back and at least one sliding layer. The abutment disk is embodied as a single component or multiple components and is fixed to the front side of the... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090208155 - Swingarm bushing stabilizer for harley-davidson: A motorcycle stabilization system comprising at least two pairs of cylindrical bushing members comprising of a rigid polymer which is inserted into opposite sides of the swing arm of a motorcycle; each pair having a first member being cylindrical in profile, a beveled nose section and an axial bore that... Agent: Henry Kevin Blane

20090208156 - Bearing structure: A bearing structure includes a housing having a bore that penetrates the housing, a rotation shaft inserted into the bore, an annular first metal bearing and an annular second metal bearing, which are provided apart from each other in an axial direction in the bore and rotatably support the rotation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090208157 - Grease for hub bearing and hub bearing: b

20090208158 - Roller bearing with differential rigidity in the instrumented areas in deformation: A roller bearing includes a stationary member, a rotary member and at least one row of rolling bodies arranged between the members so as to enable their relative rotation. The stationary member includes a circumferential surface that is resiliently deformable by the forces induced by the passage of the rolling... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090208159 - Wheel bearing device for motor vehicles: A wheel bearing device for a motor vehicle is proposed, with an inner ring arrangement, formed for rotationally fixed reception of a first rotary partner, particularly an axial stump or a shaft, an outer ring arrangement, which is connected and/or connectable and rotationally fixed with a second rotary partner, a... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090208160 - Bearing assembly: A bearing assembly for radial and axial support of a shaft part relative to a housing includes two radial antifriction bearings located at an axial distance to one another on the shaft part and two axial antifriction bearings located at an axial distance to one another on the shaft part.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090208161 - Cage segment for the cage of a roller bearing: The invention relates to a cage segment for the cage of a roller bearing, having at least two peripheral sections extending in the peripheral direction and at least two connecting sections. The peripheral sections and the connecting sections form at least one pocket for receiving a rolling body. The cage... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090202184 - Bush bearing with reduced installation space: The elastomeric bush bearing is constructed of a metallic inner part (1) which is symmetric in relation to a bearing axis (a), an outer sleeve (3) arranged concentric with respect to the inner part (1), an elastomeric bearing body (2) arranged between the inner part (1) and the outer sleeve... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20090202185 - Bearing assembly with built-in absolute encoder: The bearing assembly includes a rolling bearing including a rotatable raceway member and a stationary raceway member. This bearing assembly also includes a to-be-detected member carried by the raceway member and having a magnetic characteristic which cyclically varies in a direction circumferentially of the to-be-detected element and has a cycle... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090202186 - Bearing arrangement of a wheel hub of a motor vehicle drivable by a rotating joint: The bearing arrangement, in order to enable an improved connection of the wheel hub to the rotating joint and better adjust a prestress of the roller bearing, has a face of the axle stub of the wheel hub with a spur gearing element which is non-rotatably connected to a corresponding... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090202187 - Non-magnetizable rolling bearing component of an austenitic material and method of making such a rolling bearing component: A non-magnetizable rolling bearing component made of an austenitic material and comprising a hardened surface layer wherein the component of the invention is a material used for making the component contains manganese and a method for making such a rolling bearing component wherein the surface-proximate layer of the material of... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090202188 - Tapered roller bearing with displaceable rib: A bearing system (A) that supports a shaft (4) in a housing (2) includes two single row tapered roller bearings (6, 8) mounted in opposition. One of the bearings (8) compensates for thermal variations that would otherwise produce excessive preload in the system. It has a conventional cup (48) in... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090202184 - Bush bearing with reduced installation space: The elastomeric bush bearing is constructed of a metallic inner part (1) which is symmetric in relation to a bearing axis (a), an outer sleeve (3) arranged concentric with respect to the inner part (1), an elastomeric bearing body (2) arranged between the inner part (1) and the outer sleeve... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20090202185 - Bearing assembly with built-in absolute encoder: The bearing assembly includes a rolling bearing including a rotatable raceway member and a stationary raceway member. This bearing assembly also includes a to-be-detected member carried by the raceway member and having a magnetic characteristic which cyclically varies in a direction circumferentially of the to-be-detected element and has a cycle... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090202186 - Bearing arrangement of a wheel hub of a motor vehicle drivable by a rotating joint: The bearing arrangement, in order to enable an improved connection of the wheel hub to the rotating joint and better adjust a prestress of the roller bearing, has a face of the axle stub of the wheel hub with a spur gearing element which is non-rotatably connected to a corresponding... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090202187 - Non-magnetizable rolling bearing component of an austenitic material and method of making such a rolling bearing component: A non-magnetizable rolling bearing component made of an austenitic material and comprising a hardened surface layer wherein the component of the invention is a material used for making the component contains manganese and a method for making such a rolling bearing component wherein the surface-proximate layer of the material of... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090202188 - Tapered roller bearing with displaceable rib: A bearing system (A) that supports a shaft (4) in a housing (2) includes two single row tapered roller bearings (6, 8) mounted in opposition. One of the bearings (8) compensates for thermal variations that would otherwise produce excessive preload in the system. It has a conventional cup (48) in... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090196538 - Linear guideway with a negative pressure type dust absorption structure: A linear guideway with a negative pressure type dust absorption structure comprises a linear guideway and a negative pressure type dust absorption structure. The linear guideway includes a sliding block and a sliding seat. The sliding block is movably disposed on the sliding seat. The negative pressure type dust absorption... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20090196539 - Wide-width guide carriage: A guide carriage for a linear roller bearing is supportable in a longitudinally-moveable manner using at least two rows of endlessly circulating rolling elements on a guide rail which extends in a longitudinal direction, and includes a U-shaped carrier body having a first leg and a second leg, a deflection... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090196540 - Dynamic fluid pressure bearing, spindle motor, disk drive apparatus and method for manufacturing the dynamic fluid pressure bearing: A fluid dynamic pressure bearing includes a shaft arranged along a central axis, an annular member fixed to the shaft, a sleeve, a lubricant, and a lubricating film. A stepped surface is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the shaft. The annular member preferably includes a lower surface extending... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090196541 - Flow bearing for high pressure applications: A flow bearing includes a first tubular body and a second tubular body. The first tubular body has a first outer surface and a first inner surface defining a first bore. A first bearing surface is positioned on the first inner surface. The second tubular body has a second outer... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090196542 - Rolling bearing component, and method for the production thereof: Disclosed is a rolling bearing component comprising a metallic support with a spray-compacted metal layer which is applied to the metallic support in a spraying process and is provided with the running surface of the rolling bearing.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP