Abstract:
A tapered roller bearing improves durability during a state of insufficient lubrication by sufficiently lengthening the time until rotation becomes impossible due to seizure. Oil retaining concave sections, recessed outward in the radial direction, are formed in portions on the inner circumferential surface of a large-diameter rim section of the retainer whose phase in the circumferential direction coincides with the pockets. A portion of the bottom surface of each of the oil retaining concave sections, open to the inside surface of the pocket, face a concave section formed in an end surface on the large-diameter side of tapered roller that is held inside the pocket. When lubrication becomes insufficient, oil remaining in the concave sections is effectively used for lubricating areas of sliding contact between the end surfaces on the large-diameter side and the inside surface in the axial direction of a large-diameter side flange section.
Abstract:
A ball bearing includes an inner ring having a raceway surface, an outer ring having a raceway surface, a plurality of rolling elements rollably disposed between the raceway surface of the inner ring and the raceway surfaces of the outer ring, and a resin cage configured to retain the plurality of rolling elements between the inner ring and the outer ring. The cage is a crown type cage having an annular base portion and a plurality of pockets formed in an axial end face of the annular base portion, in which the pockets retain the rolling elements. An axial distance between an axial position of a center of gravity of the cage and a curvature center of a spherical or cylindrical inner surface of each of the pockets is 0.6 or more times a radius of curvature of the inner surface. A hybrid vehicle transmission has this ball bearing.
Abstract:
A tandem angular ball bearing is provide that prevent damage from occurring to the rolling surfaces of the balls during assembly and transport to an extent that would cause an excessive decrease in life of the balls, and that can maintain excelled durability without the occurrence of excessive vibration and noise during operation. In order to accomplish this, the entire portion of the inner peripheral surface of an outer ring (5b) from a small-diameter side outer ring raceway (11) to the continuous section (25a) that is continuous with the end surface (23) on the large inner diameter side of the outer ring (5b), and the entire portion of the outer peripheral surface of an inner ring (6b) from a large-diameter side inner ring raceway (12) to the continuous section (25g) that is continuous with the end surface (14) on the small outer-diameter side of the inner ring (6b) are polished smooth surfaces having no indifferentiable corner sections in the cross-section shape. Moreover, the outer ring (5c) comprises groove shoulder sections (16a, 16b, 17a, 17b) in at least one of the portion on one side in the axial direction of the large-diameter side outer ring raceway (10), and the portion on the one side in the axial direction of the small-diameter side outer ring raceway (11), and in the portion on the other side in the axial direction of the large-diameter side outer ring raceway (10) and in the portion on the other end in the axial direction of the small-diameter side outer ring raceway (11).
Abstract:
A hub unit for wheel is described, with an outer ring having two bearing tracks on its inner circumferential surface, and a hub having a wheel mount flange on the outer end side and an end portion on the axially vehicle center side. The hub has a first bearing track corresponding to the axially vehicle outer end side bearing track of the outer ring, and an inner ring element fitted on the end portion side of the hub. The inner ring element has on its outer circumference a second bearing track opposed to the axially vehicle center side bearing track of the outer ring, and is fixed on the end portion by plastically deforming the end portion of the hub radially outwardly. Rolling members are provided between the two bearing tracks of the outer ring and the first and second bearing tracks.
Abstract:
In a telescopic shaft for vehicle steering which is installed in a steering shaft of a vehicle and in which a male shaft and a female shaft are fitted to each other to be unrotatable and freely slidable, a spherical member (7) is interposed between at least one of axial grooves (3, 5) which are respectively formed on the outer peripheral surface of the male shaft (1) and on the inner peripheral surface of the female shaft (2) through an elastic member (9), and a columnar member (8) is interposed between at least another of axial grooves (4, 6) which are respectively formed on the outer peripheral surface of the male shaft (1) and on the inner peripheral surface of the female shaft (2). The elastic member (9) comprises a contact portion (9a) on the spherical member side which is in contact with the spherical member, a contact portion (9b) on the groove surface side which is separated from the contact portion (9a) on the spherical member side by a predetermine distance in a substantially circumferential direction and, at the same time, in contact with the groove surface of the axial groove of the male shaft or the female shaft, and a biasing portion (9c) for elastically biasing the contact portion on the spherical member side and the contact portion on the groove surface side in a direction in which both the contact portions are separated from each other.
Abstract:
A seal member with its base end connected to a metal core has three seal lips. The thickness of the tip end of the intermediate seal lip in the intermediate position is d1, and the thickness of the base end is d2. The thickness of the tip end of the innermost inner seal lip is D1 and that thickness of the base end is D2. In this case, at least part of the base end of the intermediate seal lip and inner seal lip has its thickness regulated to be 0.2·d1≦d2≦0.8·d1, and 0.5·D1≦D2
Abstract:
There is provided a resin cage of a tapered roller bearing. The cage includes a small diameter annular portion, a large diameter annular portion, and a plurality of bar portions arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction to connect the annular portions. The bar portion has a pair of circumferentially-directed side surfaces, each having a roller guide surface, and an inner-side inner peripheral surface, a circumferential width of which is smaller on a side of the large diameter annular portion than on a side of the small diameter annular portion, and has a roller retaining region in which a radially outer side pocket width and a radially inner side pocket width between the opposed circumferentially-directed side surfaces of the adjacent bar portions are smaller than a diameter of the roller.
Abstract:
A resin snap cage 4 comprises a resin-made circular main part 10, a plurality of pockets 11 provided in one axial end face of the circular main part 10, and a circular reinforcing member 12 installed concentrically at the other end face in an axial direction of the circular main part 10. While this reinforcing member 12 is circular along the circular main part 10, a sectional shape in a plane parallel to an axial direction is a rectangle. The reinforcing member 12 is embedded in a recessed portion formed at the other end face in an axial direction of the circular main part 10 to be integrated, an outside diameter surface 12a, an inside diameter surface 12b, and a pocket-side surface 12c of the reinforcing member 12 are covered with the circular main part 10, and a surface 12d thereof opposite to the pocket side is exposed. This resin snap cage 4 is produced by insert molding where the reinforcing member 12 is made as an insert, and the circular main part 10 and the reinforcing member 12 are integrated at the time of the insert molding.
Abstract:
A seal member with its base end connected to a metal core has three seal lips. The thickness of the tip end of the intermediate seal lip in the intermediate position is d1, and the thickness of the base end is d2. The thickness of the tip end of the innermost inner seal lip is D1 and that thickness of the base end is D2. In this case, at least part of the base end of the intermediate seal lip and inner seal lip has its thickness regulated to be 0.2·d1≦d2≦0.8·d1, and 0.5·D1≦D2
Abstract:
A resin snap cage 4 comprises a resin-made circular main part 10, a plurality of pockets 11 provided in one axial end face of the circular main part 10, and a circular reinforcing member 12 installed concentrically at the other end face in an axial direction of the circular main part 10. While this reinforcing member 12 is circular along the circular main part 10, a sectional shape in a plane parallel to an axial direction is a rectangle. The reinforcing member 12 is embedded in a recessed portion formed at the other end face in an axial direction of the circular main part 10 to be integrated, an outside diameter surface 12a, an inside diameter surface 12b, and a pocket-side surface 12c of the reinforcing member 12 are covered with the circular main part 10, and a surface 12d thereof opposite to the pocket side is exposed. This resin snap cage 4 is produced by insert molding where the reinforcing member 12 is made as an insert, and the circular main part 10 and the reinforcing member 12 are integrated at the time of the insert molding.