Bearings inventions

20080170815 - Hydrodynamic bearing assembly: This invention provides a hydrodynamic bearing assembly which realizes a high rotation rate in a stable manner with robust rigidity. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly has a total radial gap of 3 microns or less for preventing contact with the thrust bearing. The thrust bearing is a pump-out type, and the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080170816 - Rolling bearing, cam shaft assembly and cam shaft supporting apparatus: A cam shaft assembly is provided which includes a rolling bearing providing for effective oil feeding to a raceway. The assembly includes: a shaft 1; the rolling bearings 3 rotatably supporting the shaft 1; and cams 2 fitted on the shaft 1. The rolling bearing 3 includes a circumferential groove... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170817 - Bearing assemly with integrated sensor system: The bearing assembly with integrated sensor system includes a hub defining a bore for coupling with a shaft, a housing, and at least one row of rolling elements positioned between the hub and the housing allowing rotational motion therebetween while confining the hub axially and radially within the housing. It... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080166075 - Dust proof assembly of a five communicated tube: A dust proof assembly of a five communicated tube comprises a bearing; an inner edge of the bearing having an annular recess; a cover being a hollow annular ring; the cover having a buckle corresponding to the annular recess. By above mentioned components, the cover is buckled to the bearing;... Agent: Chiung-ling Chang

20080166076 - High speed aerospace generator resilient mount, combined centering spring and squeeze film damper: A rotor mount assembly for an electrical machine, such as a high speed aerospace generator, comprises a spring having a simple annular structure together with an oil squeeze film damper (SFD). The spring is engineered to move the rotor critical speeds outside of the extremes of the operating speed range... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080166077 - Self-lubrication alignment bearing: An self-lubrication alignment bearing includes a sleeve having therein a top recess defined in a top portion thereof, a bottom recess defined in a bottom portion thereof to communicate with the top recess via a longitudinally defined channel in which the shaft is rotatably received, a bottom cap received in... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20080166078 - Sealing arrangement: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement (2) that seals at least one radial intermediate space (21) between at least one inner bearing ring (3) and at least one outer bearing ring (5). Said sealing arrangement (2) comprises at least one first support (17) that supports at least one elastic... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080166079 - Wheel bearing arrangement comprising an encoder: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement comprising an encoder arranged in a radial annular region between an inner part and an outer part.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080166080 - Grease composition and grease-enclosed rolling bearing: The present invention provides a grease composition capable of securely preventing an abnormal noise from being generated when it is cold and having a long life at a high temperature, and a rolling bearing in which this grease is enclosed. The grease composition having heat-resistant properties and performance of preventing... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080166081 - System and method for retaining rollers of a full complement needle bearing: A full complement needle bearing includes a race and a plurality of rollers. The race defines an opening for receiving an associated shaft. The race has first and second radially inwardly directed collars on opposing ends of the race to form a channel. The first collar includes a first groove... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC (illinois Tool Works)

20080166082 - Multiple-row angular contact antifriction bearing, particularly for mounting the bevel pinion shaft in a motor vehicle rear axle differential: The multiple-row angular contact antifriction bearing has an outer bearing ring, an inner bearing ring, and roll bodies, which are arranged at least in two rows next to one another between the bearing rings. The roll bodies are ball discs having two lateral surfaces that are symmetrically flattened from a... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080159667 - Bearing bush and compound movement using the same: Provided is a bearing bush enabling excellent advancing and retreating movements of a shaft member by eliminating a clearance between the bearing bush and the shaft member to eliminate a backlash therebetween, capable of reducing a load of dimension control on both the bearing bush and the shaft member, and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080159668 - Linear motion guide apparatus having lubricating device: A linear motion guide device includes a slider slidably attached onto the guide rail, a ball bearing device disposed between the slider and the guide rail, and a lubricating device having a housing slidably attached onto the guide rail for receiving and for supplying a lubricant to lubricate the ball... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080159669 - Linear motion guide apparatus having changeable wiper: A linear motion guide device includes a slider slidably attached onto a guide rail, an end cap and a wiper attached to the slider, the wiper includes one or more catches engaged with the end cap for anchoring the wiper to the end cap, and includes one or more spring-biased... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080159670 - Ball bearing slide assembly: A ball bearing slide assembly includes a first slide, a second slide slidably receiving the first slide, a slide-aiding member, and a positioning member slidably attached to the second slide. The slide-aiding member is slidably sandwiched between the first slide and the second slide. The slide-aiding member includes two arms... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080159671 - Anti-friction layer for a bearing element: The invention describes an anti-friction layer for a bearing element comprising a synthetic polymer layer. The polymer layer comprises at least a first part-layer and a second part-layer of a different composition.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080159672 - Joint assembly, particularly for bogie brake linkages: The axle (2) and/or the ring (1) are subjected to a hardening surface treatment by diffusion or by structural transformation followed by a finishing surface treatment and a treatment suitable for reducing the tendency to jamming and for reducing the sensitivity to corrosion, the bore of the said ring and/or... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080159674 - Bearing with cage-mounted sensors: An antifriction bearing (A) for accommodating rotation about an axis (X) comprises an inner race (2) having a raceway (12), an outer race (4) having a raceway (22), rolling elements (6) positioned between the inner and outer races (2, 4) and contacting the raceways (12, 22) of those races (2,... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080159673 - Vehicle wheel bearing apparatus: A vehicle wheel bearing apparatus that protects the encoder, improves the sensing ability of the detecting sensor, prevents penetration of rain water or dust, and prevents leakage of differential gear oil has an inboard side seal (13) with an annular supporting plate (17a) fit onto the outer circumferential surface of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159675 - Wheel bearing apparatus incorporated with a wheel speed detecting apparatus and method of its assembly: A wheel bearing apparatus incorporating a wheel speed detecting apparatus and a method for manufacturing the wheel bearing apparatus has a wheel speed detecting apparatus (21) with a sensor holder (22). The sensor holder (22) includes a steel annular fitting ring (24) to be fit onto the end of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159676 - Ball bearing retainer, and ball bearing employing the same: An inventive ball bearing retainer (4) is entirely composed of a resin composition, and has pocket surfaces (6) for retaining balls (5) and projections (8) provided on the pocket surfaces (6) and containing a solid lubricant (CB). A ball bearing (1) incorporates the ball bearing retainer (4). By the effect... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080159677 - Wheel bearing arrangement with face spline: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement which as at least two rows of rolling bodies which are used to bear a wheel hub which can be driven by means of a drive element and which comprises a wheel bearing arrangement. Said wheel hub is connected to the drive... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080159678 - Ball bearing assembly for bicycle: A ball bearing assembly for a bicycle comprises a outer race, a ball cage, settled in the outer race, a cap, having a center hole and a ring portion extended axially from the periphery of the center hole, an inner race, with the inner surface thereof closely surrounding the outer... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080152268 - Linear roller bearing element: A linear roller bearing element with an endless rolling element channel is composed of a carrier raceway for the load-bearing rolling elements on a carrier body, a return channel for rolling elements that are returning, and turnaround channels that connect the carrier raceway and the return channel at both ends... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080152269 - Thermally stable bearings: A rolling bearing has a first ring, a second ring concentric with the first ring, and a plurality of rolling elements disposed between the first and second rings, the first ring and the second ring both being generally annular and having gaps therein. A rotating mechanism has a support structure,... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080152270 - Fluid dynamic bearing with axial preload: The invention relates to a fluid dynamic bearing system that comprises a bearing sleeve having a bearing bore and a shaft that is rotatably supported in the bearing bore by means of a fluid dynamic radial bearing. An annular first bearing plate connected to the shaft is provided that, together... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080152271 - Self-lubricating guiding member: The invention relates to a self-lubricating guiding element which is characterised in that the body (1) thereof is made from a material with high resistance to wear and/or seizing and corrosion. According to the invention, each of the ends of the bore (1a) is equipped with at least one groove... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080152272 - Instrumented rolling bearing device: Instrumented rolling bearing device for measuring the rotation parameters of the bearing, including a rotating race, a non-rotating race, at least one row of rolling elements placed between the non-rotating and rotating races, a rotating coder and a pliable non-rotating electronic circuit board comprising at least one sensor and at... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080152273 - Oblique contact ball bearing and bearing device for supporting pinion shaft: An oblique contact ball bearing adopted to support a pinion shaft, where a sufficient range of rotation torque is provided for the oblique contact ball bearing to facilitate highly accurate setting, adjustment, and management of preload. To achieve the above, in the oblique contact ball bearing, a rust preventive oil... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080152274 - Bearing for follower or cam: A bearing includes an inner race member having an end surface. An outer race member is disposed about the inner race member. The outer race member has an internal shoulder for engaging the end surface of the inner race member. The inner and outer race members are configured to define... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080152275 - Vehicle wheel hub bearing unit: The present invention provides a vehicle wheel hub bearing unit with the purpose of solving the drawbacks of conventional wheel hub bearing units, such as their complicated structure, which causes difficult assembly, low hardness, strength, and running precision, and high noise and vibration. The vehicle wheel hub bearing unit of... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080152276 - Unitized clutch bearing assembly: The present invention provides a clutch bearing assembly including a split outer cylindrical race having opposed axial edges. One outer race axial edge includes a radially inwardly-extending flange having an inner diameter Y. The clutch bearing assembly also includes an inner cylindrical race having opposed axial edges. One inner race... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP