IP Library Granted Patent US 8,840,314
Granted Patent B2
US 8,840,314 · App. 14/055,255 · Granted Sep 23, 2014

Method for producing a flanged disk for a spherical roller bearing and a spherical roller bearing having a flanged disk produced according to the method

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Patent No.
US 8,840,314
App. No.
14/055,255
Granted
Sep 23, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A spherical roller bearing having a flanged disk designed as a hollow body, formed from a straight pipe section that is bent to form a ring having two ring ends that are joined. The ring is shaped into a flanged disk with a desired axial section geometry in a pressing device with a contour tool in a single pass.

Claims (15)

1. A spherical roller bearing, comprising:

an outer ring;

an inner ring;

at least one roller cage;

a plurality of rollers, which have a convex rolling contour, arranged between the outer ring and the inner ring in the roller cage in at least two rows; and

at least one ring-shaped flanged disk arranged to separate the two rows of rollers from each other,

wherein the flanged disk is a hollow body including a curved tube portion having an axial cross-section completely surrounding a hollow space.

2. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hollow body has a substantially trapezoidal axial cross-section such that a surface area formed radially on an inside of the hollow body is axially shorter than a surface area formed radially on an outside of the hollow body.

3. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hollow body has a wall thickness of less than 3.0 mm.

4. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hollow body has at least one venting bore.

5. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the axial cross-section of the tube portion is substantially trapezoidal and completely surrounds a substantially trapezoidal axial cross-section of the hollow space.

6. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 5 , wherein tube portion includes two planar flanks running radially opposite to one another serving as bearing surfaces for end faces of the rollers, the tube portion further including a radially outer surface area and a radially inner surface area, the hollow space being formed between and inside of the two planar flanks, the radially outer surface area and the radially inner surface area.

7. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the radially inner surface area supports the flanged disk on the inner ring.

8. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the radially outer surface area supports the flanged disk on the outer ring.

9. The spherical roller bearing as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the two planar flanks, the radially outer surface area and the radially inner surface area are connected to each other by rounded transitions.

Assignments (4)
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 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 19, 2014
From: KELLER, TORSTEN; BIEDENBACH, JUERGEN; GESSNER, MANFRED
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 033562/0220 →