Abstract:
A bearing assembly includes a hub element or housing element which has an accommodating bore for at least one rolling-element bearing, the rolling-element bearing being disposed with its outer ring in a press-fit arrangement in the accommodating bore, and the outer ring having at least one first axial region along at least one raceway of the outer ring and at least one second axial region extending outside the raceway. To ensure a proper fit of the bearing ring in the hub or housing element over a wide range of operating temperatures, the receiving bore and the outer circumference of the outer ring are configured such that at the ambient temperature the radial clamping force between accommodating bore and outer ring in the first region is smaller than in the second region.
Abstract:
A drive gear includes a plurality of internal radial channels extending between the axial bore and the periphery of the gear, and an axial bore includes a lubricant distribution structure therein to provide lubrication where the teeth of the drive gear mesh with the teeth of a gear driven by the drive gear.
Abstract:
In a bearing unit for a drive shaft mounted cantilevered in a housing by means of two rolling bearings and having a driving bevel gear wherein the drive shaft is mounted in the drive housing via a bearing bush and the bearing bush is axially supported at one end by a bearing bush support part and the rolling bearings are supported in the bearing bush spaced from the one end thereof so that, during heating, the bearing bush expands inwardly toward the driving bevel gear mounted on the shaft whereas the drive housing expands outwardly away from the driving bevel gear, the gear drive housing and the bearing bush consist of a light metal alloy and the bearing bush support part consists of an iron material.
Abstract:
A bearing in which the thickness of the bottom of at least one of the inner ring and the outer ring is 50% or more of the diameter of the balls. Further, the bearing includes an outer ring having an outer diameter of 65 mm or less and balls having a diameter of 4 mm or less and has a width dimension of 45% or less of the inner diameter dimension thereof wherein the pitch diameter of the balls is closer to the outer side of the bearing than to the center of the section of the bearing. The outer side of the outer raceway grooves is tapered, and the inner side of angularly arranged outer raceway grooves is positioned closer to the central axis of the bearing than to the outer side of the outer raceway grooves.
Abstract:
A power transmission device includes a housing, a differential assembly having a case and a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the case within the housing. A preload is applied to the bearing assembly along a load path. A shim is positioned in the load path with the bearing assembly. The shim is constructed at least in part from a material having a predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion such that the shim is operable to compensate for different rates of thermal expansion in the components within the load path to maintain a desired bearing preload or a range of operating temperatures.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a fan apparatus for a chamber of a handler which prevents the breakage of a bearing housing by a guide recess and a key slidable to the guide recess along the axis varied due to a thermal stress generated in the axial direction of the fan apparatus according to a change in temperature of the fan apparatus mounted inside the chamber. The fan apparatus includes: a first housing having a first guide recess formed; a second housing contained in the first housing and slidable therein; a bearing being installed inside the second housing and supporting the shaft; a plurality of labyrinths being installed at both sides of the bearing and supporting the bearing; and a push cover covering the second housing inserted into the first housing.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for automatically dynamically adjusting prestressed bearings of shaft are provided. The apparatus comprises a sleeve assembly having outer and inner sleeves sandwiched between the bearings. An inner diameter of outer sleeve is smaller than an outer diameter of inner sleeve. Hence, outer and inner sleeves are fitted together after cooling. Further, inner sleeve is compressed by the outer sleeve to extend axially. During rotation of shaft, the axial extension of inner sleeve is reduced because the radial expansion of outer sleeve is larger than that of inner sleeve due to an thermal expansion coefficient of outer sleeve larger than that of inner sleeve. This can reduce prestress of bearings without degrading a rigidity thereof.
Abstract:
A bearing device includes a pair of bearings. One of the bearings is exposed to a higher temperature condition than the other. Each of the bearings has an outer ring, an inner ring, a plurality of rolling members disposed in a space between the outer ring and the inner ring and a pair of sealing members fixed to the outer ring. Each of the sealing members has an elastic lip in contact with an outer surface of the inner ring, and the lip of the bearing exposed to a higher temperature condition is made of a material that is more heat-resistant than the lip of the other sealing member.
Abstract:
A device and a method for the holding of a drum in a printer or copier. A star-shaped spring intercepting the differing longitudinal expansions of photoconductor drum and a shaft is arranged between an outer ring bearing the drum and an inner ring.
Abstract:
A galvanometer unit comprises a limited-rotation motor, which has axial symmetry of the major motor components including axial placement of the bearings, stator drive coils, and stator back iron with respect to the magnetic center of the rotor, and which employs a cylindrical magnet having significantly uniform properties along its length. The galvanometer employs independently “hard” and “soft” preloaded bearings, which simultaneously minimize axial displacement and account for thermal expansion of the rotor assembly and which improve the overall efficiency of the galvanometer and extend the service life of the bearings.