IP Library Granted Patent US 8,439,571
Granted Patent B2
US 8,439,571 · App. 12/674,116 · Granted May 14, 2013

Sealing arrangement for a bearing

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Patent No.
US 8,439,571
App. No.
12/674,116
Granted
May 14, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sealing arrangement which has a long or increased service life and high reliability even in soiled or aggressive surroundings. The sealing arrangement for a bearing has a first bearing ring and second bearing, which is rotatable relative to the first bearing ring, and a seal that is arranged in the region of the first bearing ring and that extends in the direction of the bearing periphery. The second bearing ring has a peripheral scaling surface and the seal has at least two peripheral sealing lips that sealingly rest on the sealing surface.

Claims (14)

1. A sealing arrangement for a bearing of an airplane landing gear, comprising:

a first hearing ring; and

a second bearing ring, rotatable relative to the first bearing ring,

wherein a circumferential seal extending in a circumferential direction of the bearing is arranged in a region of the first bearing ring and separates an exterior region from an interior region of the hearing,

wherein the second bearing ring has a circumferential sealing surface, and

wherein the circumferential seal has only two circumferential sealing lips that rest sealingly on the sealing surface, one of said circumferential sealing lips facing the exterior region of the bearing and being formed as a projecting extension having a bracket-shaped cross section and being deflectable in a hinged manner and another of said circumferential sealing lips facing the interior region of the bearing and having a circumferential material tip making linear contact with said sealing surface.

2. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the one of the circumferential sealing lips is designed so as to exhibit film-elastic resilience.

3. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the another of the circumferential sealing lips is designed so as to exhibit volume-elastic resilience.

4. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein a spring element presses the another of the circumferential sealing lips onto the sealing surface.

5. The sealing arrangement of claim 4 , wherein the spring element is a spiral spring.

6. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the sealing lips rest against an axially extending portion of the sealing surface.

7. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein at least part of the sealing surface is formed by an axial extension of the second bearing ring.

8. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein at least part of the sealing surface is formed on a sealing plate, which is mounted on an axial extension of the second hearing ring.

9. The sealing arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the circumferential sea is arranged in an end-face receptacle of the first bearing ring.

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 Feb 18, 2010
From: PROESCHEL, CHRISTIAN
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 023958/0573 →