IP Library Granted Patent US 8,480,307
Granted Patent B2
US 8,480,307 · App. 13/496,599 · Granted Jul 9, 2013

Ball roller bearing

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Patent No.
US 8,480,307
App. No.
13/496,599
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A ball roller bearing which has an outer and inner bearing ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in groove-shaped tracks in the rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage. The cage has two lateral angle ribs, pocket bridges, which connect the ribs and cage pockets separated by the pocket bridges. The pockets have a cross-shaped hole formed from a contour perpendicular to the circumferential direction and a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction. The side edges are formed from the pocket bridges, which have radii of arch-shaped guide surfaces corresponding to the running surfaces of two ball rollers. The pocket bridges have additional material profiling between the side edges and on the guide surfaces for axial stiffening of the cage and damping bearing noise.

Claims (11)

1. A ball roller bearing, comprising:

an outer bearing ring having a first groove-shaped race machined into an inner side of the outer bearing ring;

an inner bearing ring having a second groove-shaped race machined into an outer side of the inner bearing ring; and

a plurality of ball rollers arranged between the bearing rings, the ball rollers have running surfaces and roll between the first groove-shaped race of the outer bearing ring and the second groove-shaped race of the inner bearing ring; and

a bearing cage arranged to hold the ball rollers at uniform distances from one another in a circumferential direction,

wherein the bearing cage is a window cage having two lateral angular flanges of identical diameter, a plurality of pocket webs that connect the angular flanges to one another and form a plurality of cage pockets that are separated from one another by the pocket webs and have a capstan shape which is formed from a free contour that is arranged transversely with respect to the circumferential direction for inserting the ball rollers into the bearing cage and from a cross-sectional contour of the ball rollers, the cross-sectional contour is integrated in the free contour and is arranged longitudinally with respect to the circumferential direction,

wherein the pocket webs have side edges configured with radii of arcuate guide faces for the ball rollers by the capstan shape of the cage pockets,

wherein the guide faces correspond to the running surfaces of two adjacent ball rollers, and

wherein the pocket webs have additional material profiles for an axial reinforcement of the bearing cage, both between the side edges and on the guide faces, and the material profiles on the guide faces are simultaneously configured to dampen against bearing noise.

2. The ball roller bearing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the material profiles between the side edges of the pocket webs are beads machined longitudinally centrally into surfaces of the pocket webs.

3. The ball roller bearing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the material profiles on the guide faces of the pocket webs are radially outwardly directed borders of material tabs which are additionally formed integrally on the guide faces.

Assignments (3)
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 →