Bearings inventions

20090263052 - Dual sliding apparatus: Disclosed is a dual sliding opening/closing apparatus adapted for various electronic devices of a sliding opening/closing type (e.g. cellular phones, PDAs, laptop computers) to guarantee the stability of sliding movements. The apparatus is installed between first and second bodies so that the second body can slide between first and second... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090263054 - Guide table device: A guide table device is provided with a lower-side plate 10 provided with a pair of rolling member rolling grooves 11 formed in a first (X) direction, an upper-side plate 30 provided with a pair of rolling member rolling grooves 31 formed in a second (Y) direction, an intermediate member... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090263053 - Plain bearing composite material, use thereof and production methods therefor: The invention relates to a plain bearing composite material with a supporting layer made of steel, a bearing metal layer made of a copper alloy, and with a lining applied to the bearing metal layer. The copper alloy can contain 0.5 5% by weight of nickel, 0.2 to 2.5% by... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090263055 - Linear roller bearing with separate rolling surface parts: A guide carriage for a linear roller bearing is supportable in a longitudinally displaceable manner via at least one row of rollers on a guide rail which extends in a longitudinal direction, a separate rolling surface part which includes a rolling surface for the rollers is assigned to each row... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090263056 - Linear guide: The invention relates to a linear guide comprising a rail (100) with profiled elements (101, 102) on two opposite sides, and a roll unit (200). The roll unit (200) and the rails (100) can be displaced in relation to each other in the longitudinal direction of the rails. The roll... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090263057 - Bearing damper element, bearing, and gas turbine engine: A damper element of the present invention is applied to a bearing damper element disposed between a rotating object and a supporting object. The damper element includes a slit that is formed between an inner surface and an outer surface of an annulus being supported by the supporting object, and... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090263058 - Squeeze-film damper arrangement: A squeeze-film damper arrangement comprising: concentric inner and outer components defining an annular gap there between for accommodating radial motion of the inner component within the outer component; and a fluid filling the annular gap around the outside of the inner component for damping said radial motion of the inner... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090263059 - Method and device for lubricating and cooling a bearing that is subject to high loads: The invention relates to a method for lubricating and cooling a bearing that is subject to high loads and to a device for carrying out said method. The invention is characterized by dissolving a lubricant in a supercritical gas that is cooled down to a low temperature and feeding the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090263060 - Spindle bearing for a double-thread twisting spindle: A spindle bearing for a two-for-one twisting spindle, with a spindle rotor having a thread guide body and a spindle shaft rotatablv mounted in a vertical arrangement by a lower bearing device in a bearing housing which can be fastened to a spindle bank and which has an upper bearing... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090263061 - Bearing with rotation detecting device: A bearing assembly with a rotation detecting device (20) includes an inner race (21), an outer race (22), rolling elements (23) interposed between the inner race and the outer race, a magnetic generating element (2) provided on the outer ring side of the bearing assembly and having a directionality around... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090263062 - Active preload control for rolling element bearings: A method and apparatus for controlling the preload of duplex rolling element bearings systems under various temperatures is described. A spacer or a plurality of spacers may be located adjacent to the rings of the duplex rolling element bearings. The spacer or spacers may be heated or cooled to increase... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090263063 - Wheel bearing apparatus for a vehicle: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member with a wheel hub and an inner ring. Double row rolling elements are freely rollably contained between the inner and outer raceway surfaces, respectively, of the inner member and the outer member. Seals are mounted in annular openings... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090263064 - Angular ball bearing assembly for supporting a gear shaft assembly: The angular ball bearing assembly for supporting a rotatable shaft with gears has two sets of ball bearing members where the ball bearing member located adjacent the gears has an inner raceway formed integrally with the shaft. By forming the inner raceway directly on the shaft a reduction in friction... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090263065 - Bearing unit raceway ring member, bearing unit, and method and apparatus for manufacturing bearing unit raceway ring member: There is provided a bearing unit including one raceway ring 2 which is mounted on a vehicle body, the other raceway ring 4 which is disposed to face the one raceway ring 2 and is mounted on a wheel, and a plurality of rolling elements 6, 8 which are built... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090263066 - Rolling bearing unit for wheel support: Thermally-hardened layers 16a, 16b are formed, at two locations along an axial direction, in portions of an inner circumferential surface of an outer ring 3 including outer ring raceways 12a, 12b. The thermally-hardened layers 16a, 16b are separated from each other by an unhardened portion 17 in an axially middle... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090263067 - Roller bearing: The invention relates to a roller bearing comprising a roller bearing ring. In order to produce a roller bearing that has a high rotational speed value and operational load using minimum quantity lubrication and in which the heat produced in the bearing can be removed in a rapid and reliable... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

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.