IP Library Granted Patent US 8,246,256
Granted Patent B2
US 8,246,256 · App. 11/912,772 · Granted Aug 21, 2012

Hub for a wheel bearing unit

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Patent No.
US 8,246,256
App. No.
11/912,772
Granted
Aug 21, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hub on a wheel bearing unit, which has at least one inner ring, sitting on the hub. The inner ring is axially retained on the hub by a collar, which has a toothing, formed from the hub. The inner ring has a radially inward broken-out section on the front face thereof and the broken-out section is filled with plastically displaced material from the collar such that the material of the inner ring at least engages in the broken-out section and the material in the broken-out section is enclosed in the radial direction by the inner ring.

Claims (8)

1. A hub for a wheel bearing unit, comprising:

at least one inner ring which is seated on the hub, the inner ring being held axially on the hub by means of a collar which is formed out of the hub, the collar having a toothing, and the inner ring having a broken-out section disposed radially on an inside of the inner ring and a flange, which radially delimits the broken-out section with an inner cylindrical lateral surface that, as viewed in cross-section, has a uniform radius with respect to a rotational axis of the hub, the broken-out section being filled with plastically displaced material of the collar in such a way that the material engages behind the inner ring at least in the broken-out section, and that the material in the broken-out section is encompassed by the inner ring in the radial direction,

wherein the toothing is formed at least proportionately in the material which is encompassed radially by the flange of the inner ring in the broken-out section, such that the toothing is formed in a portion of the material which is captively held radially by the flange of the inner ring.

2. The wheel bearing unit as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the broken-out section is a circumferential annular groove which runs around the rotational axis of the hub.

3. The wheel bearing unit as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: radially longitudinally aligned teeth, which are adjacent to one another at a peripheral side, on the collar, wherein tooth tip lines of the teeth run in a common imaginary vertical plane, with the vertical plane being penetrated perpendicularly by a the rotational axis of the hub.

4. The wheel bearing unit as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: a spur toothing or helical toothing having radially longitudinally aligned teeth, which are adjacent to one another at a peripheral side, on the collar, wherein tooth root lines of the teeth are inclined at an acute angle with respect to a common imaginary vertical plane, with the vertical plane being penetrated perpendicularly by the rotational axis of the hub.

5. The wheel bearing unit as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: a spur toothing or helical toothing having radially longitudinally aligned teeth, which are adjacent to one another at a peripheral side, on the collar, wherein tooth tip lines of the teeth are inclined at an acute angle with respect to a common imaginary vertical plane, with the vertical plane being penetrated perpendicularly by the rotational axis of the hub.

6. The wheel bearing unit as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising: a spur toothing or helical toothing having radially longitudinally aligned teeth, which are adjacent to one another at a peripheral side, on the collar, wherein the tooth root lines and tooth tip lines enclose an acute angle between one another, with the tooth tip lines and the tooth root lines running increasingly further apart from one another with increasing radial distance from the rotational axis of the hub.

Assignments (6)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE PROPERTY NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 037732 FRAME 0347. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE APP. NO. 14/553248 SHOULD BE APP. NO. 14/553258. Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 040404/0530 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG; SCHAEFFLER VERWALTUNGS 5 GMBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0228 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0347 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 11, 2012
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 028533/0036 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2012
From: SCHAEFFLER KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 028523/0790 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2007
From: LANGER, ROLAND; MASUR, ERNST; HEISS, RALF; FUELLER, BENNO; NIEBLING, PETER
To: SCHAEFFLER KG
Reel/Frame 020022/0070 →