Bearings inventions 10/09

20090257692 - Guide rail with a cover strip for a linear bearing: The guide rail has a longitudinal groove arranged along its upper rail side and a cover strip which closes off the groove and bears flush against the plane of the upper rail side. The spacing between opposite groove walls of the groove is smaller than the leveled cover strip. In... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090257693 - Groove configuration for a fluid dynamic bearing: A groove configuration that improves angular stiffness in a fluid dynamic bearing is provided. A primary groove and a secondary groove are formed on a journal bearing or thrust bearing surface. The secondary groove apex induces a heightened pressure response at a localized area to counteract angular displacement. The primary... Agent: Wax Law Group

20090257694 - Bearings: A bearing includes a first member having a passageway configured to engage a shaft, the first member having a metallic material; and a second member disposed around at least a portion of the first member, the second member having a metallic material and at least one radially and inwardly bent... Agent: Saint-gobain/gtpp

20090257695 - Sliding bearing for internal combustion engines: Disclosed is a sliding bearing consisting of a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings assembled with each other so as to form a cylindrical configuration. At least one of the semi-cylindrical bearings is provided with a circumferentially extending oil groove on an inner surface thereof. The oil groove includes a central portion... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090257696 - Bearing element: The invention relates to an anti-friction lacquer for producing a coating on a surface exposed to tribological stress, comprising at least one polymer which forms a polymer matrix of the coating, or at least one precursor of the polymer which forms the polymer matrix by setting, and the molecular structure... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090257697 - Bearing and method for transferring forces through a bearing of a wind turbine: A bearing with at least one row of rolling elements, where at least one of the at least one row of rolling elements includes a plurality of first rolling elements adapted for substantially transferring axial forces, and a plurality of second rolling elements adapted for substantially transferring radial forces. To... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090257698 - Wheel bearing apparatus for a vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member, double row rolling elements freely rollably contained between outer and inner raceway surfaces of the outer and inner members, and seals mounted within annular openings formed between the outer and the inner members. A backup seal is arranged... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090257699 - Sealing device and rolling bearing apparatus: This sealing device has an annular metal core portion and an annular elastic portion. The elastic portion has a thick portion and a thin portion which extends from the thick portion in an axial direction of the elastic portion and has a thinner thickness in a radial direction than the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090257700 - Blank for a ring member of a bearing, manufacturing method for the same,manufacturing method for a ring member of a mearing, and bearing: Provided is a blank structure for a ring member of a bearing in which a cut target surface after stainless steel is forged has uniform surface characteristics, and highly accurate cutting processing is enabled. A blank (10), which is processed to an outer race (2) and an inner race (3)... Agent: Bruce L Adams Adams & Wilks

20090257701 - Process for manufacturing rolling contact member, process for manufacturing rolling bearing, raceway member of rolling bearing and rolling bearing: A process for manufacturing a rolling contact member that while simultaneously avoiding the problem attributed to generation of decarburized layer and the problem attributed to scale generation, attains reduction of manufacturing cost. The process comprises the steel member preparation step of preparing a steel member consisting of a steel containing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090257702 - Shaft with roller bearing: The invention relates to a shaft with a roller bearing. The roller bearing has an inner ring with an outer surface for rolling elements to roll on. According to the invention, the inner ring of the roller bearing is embedded, at least partially, into the shaft, which has been produced... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090252441 - Hydrostatic profile rail guide: Hydrostatic profile rail guide with a guide carriage that is hydrostatically mountable on a guide rail, whereby the guide carriage features a back and two sides that are attached to the back, between which the guide rail is located, whereby the back features a mounting surface on the side facing... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090252442 - Motion guide device and method of lubricating the same: A motion guide device is provided, which is able to not only lubricate rolling-element rolling surfaces with the use of a technique totally different from conventional lubricating techniques but also maintain a lubricating capability over a long period of time. The motion guide device for use in the vacuum environment... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090252443 - Spherical bearing for a steering joint: A spherical bearing including a ball having an external surface defined by an outside diameter of said ball and an outer race having an inside surface contoured to a shape defined by said external surface of the ball. The inside surface extends between a stud end and a cover end... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090252444 - Roller bearing including at least one instrumented area in deformation that is delimited axially: A roller bearing includes a fixed element and a rotating element. The roller bodies act as a support on the raceway of the fixed element by the intermediary of a contact surface (SC). The fixed element includes a free surface which is deformable elastically by the forces induced by the... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090252445 - Tapered roller bearing apparatus and hub unit: A tapered roller bearing apparatus includes: an outer ring that includes an outer-ring raceway formed in an inner circumferential surface thereof; an inner ring which includes a large-diameter portion having a cylindrical portion with a substantially uniform outer diameter, a large rib portion having an outer circumferential surface and a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090252446 - Wheel rolling bearing assembly and manufacturing method thereof: A rolling bearing assembly for a wheel includes: an inner ring member in which an inner ring raceway surface is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the inner ring member; an outer ring member having a fitting tubular portion on the inboard side that is fitted into an attachment... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090252447 - hub wheel of a wheel bearing apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof: A wheel hub of a wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member and an inner member. The inner member includes a wheel hub and an inner ring. The wheel hub has a wheel mounting flange, a shaft portion, an inner raceway surface, a cylindrical portion, a shoulder portion, and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

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20090252449 - Axial bearing with an axial angle disk with a securing tab producing a secured mounting and carrier with such an axial bearing: An axial bearing having an axial angle disk and a cage with rolling bodies. The rolling bodies are supported so that they can roll on a rolling surface of a radial section of the axial angle disk, and the axial angle disk has a securing tab projecting outward in a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090245700 - Running roller carriage of a running roller guide: A running roller carriage of a running roller guide. The running roller carriage has a carrying body and two running roller pairs which are formed by running rollers. The two running rollers of a running roller pair are arranged one behind the other in the running directions of the running... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090245701 - Linear motion guide unit: By reducing the component count, a more compact linear motion guide unit having sealing structures capable of maintaining high sealing performance between slider and guide rail over a long term is realized. A rubber-made end seal, attached to each end face of a slider slidably straddling a guide rail, has... Agent: Cozen O''connor

20090245702 - Sliding bearing: Disclosed is a sliding bearing having excellent fatigue resistance property under a high specific load. The sliding bearing has a back metal layer 2, an Al-base alloy intermediate layer, and an Al-base bearing alloy layer which contains grains of an intermetallic compound consisting of Al and at least two other... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090245703 - Linear motion guide unit: A linear motion guide unit has a binding strip adapted to fasten a retainer plate to a carriage miniature in dimension, but long in lengthwise direction. The linear motion guide unit has a retainer plate lying lengthwise of the carriage in opposition to load-carrying race to keep more than one... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090245704 - Sealed spherical bearing device: The present invention describes methods and apparatus to improve the operation of, and reduce the maintenance required by, a spherical bearing. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a sealed spherical bearing device including a spherical bearing and a flexible shield surrounding a portion of the spherical bearing enabled... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20090245705 - Cross shaft joint: A washer is disposed between a lid part of a cup and an end surface of a shaft portion of a cross-shaped shaft so as to be relatively rotated with respect to the end surface of the shaft portion. The washer is provided with a projected portion which is projected... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20090245706 - Rolling bearing: An outer ring and an inner ring of a rolling bearing are constituted of steel containing 0.77 to 0.85% of carbon, 0.01 to 0.25% of silicon, 0.01 to 0.35% of manganese, 0.01 to 0.15% of nickel, 3.75 to 4.25% of chromium, 4 to 4.5% of molybdenum and 0.9 to 1.1%... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090245707 - Assembly and method for mounting a pump bearing in/on plastic coolant pump housings: The invention relates to an assembly and a method for mounting a pump bearing in/on plastic coolant pump housings. The aim of the invention is to create an assembly that is easy to produce and mount as well as an inexpensive and simple method for arranging pump bearings in/on plastic... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.c.

20090245709 - Pore-sealing agent, member for coating spray deposit, and beaning: The present invention provides a pore-sealing agent and a member of coating a spray deposit. The pore-sealing agent is excellent in permeability into pores (gaps) of a spray deposit and can be favorably filled thereinto and is capable of sealing pores until a state in which gaps in a spray... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.c.

20090245708 - Roller bearing: [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] The roller bearing includes an outer ring (12), an inner ring (14), a plurality of rollers (16), and a plurality of spacers (18) interposed between adjacent rollers (16). Surfaces (18b) of each spacer (18) that face respective rolling contact surfaces (16a) of the rollers each... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20090245710 - Multiple surface bearing high speed differential mechanism: An improved speed differential bearing system, comprising an inner rotating member with two races and a channel, and outer rotating member with a single race wherein bearings with rolling surfaces of differentiated size are disposed between the rotating members in a manner that connects the races of the inner rotating... Agent: Lauson & Tarver LLP

20090245711 - Rolling bearing cage, ball bearing and roller bearing: A multilayer film 21 is formed by layering layers whose adjoining layers are made of mutually different metals or alloys by an electroplating process on a surface of a metallic annular main body part 20 that has a pocket to accommodate a ball by holding the ball from both sides... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090245712 - Bearing unit and pivot device: To extend a life and to stabilize torque and resonance, provided is a bearing unit, including four rolling bearings adjacently disposed in an axial direction, each of the four rolling bearings including an inner race, an outer race, and rolling elements, a shaft fitted to the inner race of each... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks