Granted Patent B2

US 7,896,555 · App. 11/997,596 · Granted Mar 1, 2011

Abstract

Claims (23)

1. A wheel bearing unit, comprising:

at least one outer part;

at least one inner part; and

at least two rows of rolling bodies between the outer part and the inner part,

at least one inner raceway being formed on the outer part and at least one outer raceway being formed on the inner part for the rolling bodies of a row and the wheel hub having an internal toothing, projecting radially inward in the direction of the axis of rotation, for engagement into an external toothing on a drive journal and being fixedly at least coupled in terms of rotation to the outer raceway, wherein

the ratio of the diameter of a tip circle of the internal toothing to the bearing width of the outer part is greater than 0.9, and

wherein the ratio of toothing diameter to toothing width is greater than 0.9.

2. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the diameter of the reference circle of at least one row of the wheel bearing unit to the diameter of the rolling bodies of the respective row is greater than the numerical value six, the reference circle being an imaginary circle which is concentric to the axis of rotation of the wheel bearing unit and which connects the centers of the rolling bodies of a row circumferentially to one another, and the row spacing between the rows corresponds at most to 1.65 times the diameter of the rolling bodies, the row spacing being the axial spacing, co-directional with the axis of rotation, between the centers of the rolling bodies.

3. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein the axial bearing width of the outer part is at most four times the diameter of the smallest rolling bodies of the wheel bearing unit, the axial bearing width being the maximum spacing, co-directional with the axis of rotation, between two outer contour points of the outer part which are furthest away from one another axially.

4. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein the bearing cross section corresponds at most to twice the diameter of the smallest rolling bodies of the wheel bearing unit, the bearing cross section being the radial spacing which is directed transversely to the axis of rotation and which arises from a difference of the smallest outer dimension of the outer part and of the free inside diameter of the bearing bore, and the smallest outer dimension being the radial spacing between two points of the outer contour which lie opposite one another on the axis of rotation in an imaginary radial plane running through the centers of the rolling bodies.

5. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the ratio of inner ring seat diameter to bearing width is greater than 1.25.

6. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio of inner ring seat diameter to diameter of the rolling bodies is greater than 4.2.

7. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the ratio of inner ring seat diameter to row spacing of the rolling body rows is greater than 3.

8. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the ratio of inner ring seat diameter to bearing cross section is greater than 2.2.

9. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the ratio of toothing diameter to row spacing of the rolling body rows is greater than 2.3.

10. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the ratio of toothing diameter to rolling body diameter is greater than 3.2.

11. The wheel bearing unit according to claim 1 , wherein

the ratio of bearing outside diameter to toothing diameter is less than 2.7.

Assignments (6)