IP Library Granted Patent US 8,256,960
Granted Patent B2
US 8,256,960 · App. 12/499,476 · Granted Sep 4, 2012

Seal of an opening

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Patent No.
US 8,256,960
App. No.
12/499,476
Granted
Sep 4, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A seal for an opening of a bore in a component, with a threaded screw, around a core shaft of which a helical screw thread is arranged. The screw engages in the bore and the thread creates a mating thread in a wall of the bore. The diameter of the bore is larger than the diameter of the core shaft. A helical channel, which is located between the core shaft of the screw and a wall of the bore, and which is delimited by the thread, is interrupted at a minimum of one point in a liquid-tight and/or gas-tight manner.

Claims (10)

1. A seal of an opening of a bore provided in a component with a threaded screw, around a core shaft of which a helical screw thread is arranged, wherein the screw engages in the bore and the thread creates a mating thread in a wall of the bore, wherein a bore diameter of the bore is larger than a diameter of the core shaft, and wherein a helical channel, which is located between the core shaft of the screw and the wall of the bore, and which is delimited by the thread, is interrupted at a minimum of one point in a liquid-tight and/or gas-tight manner.

2. The seal according to claim 1 , wherein the bore comprises a radial constriction at a minimum of one point on a circumference, wherein a radial distance between the radial constriction and the wall opposing the bore is dimensioned in such a way that, after the screw has been screwed in, the radial constriction interrupts the helical channel in a liquid-tight and/or gas-tight manner.

3. The seal according to claim 2 , wherein the radial constriction is a flattened area.

4. The seal according to claim 2 , wherein the radial distance is equal to or less than the diameter of the core shaft of the screw.

5. The seal according to claim 1 , wherein a sealing strip, which extends along the bore, is arranged between the screw and the component, and the sealing strip bears in a liquid-tight and/or gas-tight manner against the wall of the bore on one side and against the core shaft and the thread of the screw on the other side.

6. The seal according to claim 5 , wherein the sealing strip is divided by the thread of the screw into a plurality of sealing strip sections in correspondence with a number of turns of the thread, wherein each sealing strip section rests in the helical channel against the wall of the bore on one side and against the core shaft and the thread of the screw on the other side in a liquid-tight and/or gas-tight manner.

7. The seal according to claim 5 , wherein the sealing strip is designed as a bead formed as an integral part of the component.

8. The seal according to claim 7 , wherein the bead projects radially inward from the bore wall and extends along an axis of the bore.

9. The seal according to claim 1 , wherein the helical channel is interrupted in a liquid-tight and/or gas-tight manner at several separate points distributed around a circumference of the bore.

10. A guide carriage of a linear guide with a support body, which is supported by rolling elements on a guide rail, and with plastic parts connected to the support body, which are provided with lubricating openings for lubrication of a rolling element channel holding the rolling elements, according to claim 1 , wherein the component forms the plastic parts and wherein the bore forms the lubrication openings.

Assignments (5)
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 →