IP Library Granted Patent US 8,449,188
Granted Patent B2
US 8,449,188 · App. 12/600,575 · Granted May 28, 2013

Round table bearing

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Patent No.
US 8,449,188
App. No.
12/600,575
Granted
May 28, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A round table bearing, which has a radial, axial roller bearing for mounting a first bearing ring part relative to a second bearing ring part, and a squeeze-film damper which is connected parallel to the radial, axial bearing. The squeeze-film damper has a basic damper component which is coaxial to the bearing ring parts and which is fastened, together with a rolling element of the bearing ring part which contacts the radial, axial roller bearing, to a rotary table base part.

Claims (18)

1. A rotary table bearing, comprising:

a radial-axial rolling bearing for mounting a first race ring part relative to a second race ring part; and

a squeeze film damper which is connected in parallel with the radial-axial rolling bearing,

wherein the squeeze film damper has a damper base component which is coaxial with respect to the first race ring part and the second race ring part and which is fastened together with the first race ring part, which makes contact with rolling bodies of the radial-axial rolling bearing, to a rotary table base part, and

wherein the squeeze film damper includes a damping gap disposed at an axial end of the damper base component.

2. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the damping gap of the squeeze film damper has a rectangular cross-section.

3. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the damping gap of the squeeze film damper has a V-shaped cross-section.

4. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the damping gap is sealed off by means of seals arranged in the damper base component.

5. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the squeeze film damper has a gap width of at least 20 μm.

6. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the squeeze film damper has a gap width of at most 500 μm.

7. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the squeeze film damper is filled with an electrorheological or magnetorheological liquid.

8. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein a screw connection, which extends through the damper base component and through the first race ring part, fastens the damper base component and the first race ring part to the rotary table base part.

9. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the damper base component and the first race ring part bear on a single planar surface of the rotary table base part.

10. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the first race ring part engages into an annularly encircling step of the damper base component so as to form an overlap region.

11. The rotary table bearing of claim 10 , wherein the overlap region between the first race ring part and the damper base component is narrower in a radial direction of the radial-axial rolling bearing than a raceway on which the rolling bodies, which serve for radial mounting, roll.

12. The rotary table bearing of claim 10 , wherein a height, measured in an axial direction of the radial-axial roiling bearing, of the overlap region amounts to at least haft of a height, measured in a same direction, of the damper base component.

13. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the squeeze film damper is arranged radially outside the radial-axial rolling bearing.

14. The rotary table bearing of claim 1 , wherein the squeeze film damper and the radial-axial rolling bearing take up a same axial installation space.

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 Dec 2, 2009
From: GRUNAU, ARBOGAST; HILBIGER, JUERGEN; SCHWINGHAMMER, REINHARD
To: SCHAEFFLER KG
Reel/Frame 023592/0977 →