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US 10,330,146 B2Granted
Retainer and tapered roller bearing
AssigneeNtn Corporation
InventorTakashi Kawai
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Abstract
A retainer of a tapered roller bearing includes crossbars having guide surfaces which circumferentially contact the tapered rollers. The crossbars are also formed with first recessed surfaces and second recessed surfaces which are both in the form of cutouts circumferentially recessed from the respective guide surfaces to reduce stirring resistance and shear resistance of oil. To reduce the contact lengths between the rolling surface central portions of the tapered rollers and the guide surfaces, the guide surfaces are smoothly convex in the longitudinal direction of the tapered rollers.
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A retainer formed with pockets configured to each receive one of a plurality of tapered rollers, the retainer comprising:
- a plurality of crossbars separating circumferentially adjacent pairs of the pockets from each other;
- a first annular portion continuously connected to first axial ends of the crossbars;
- and
- a second annular portion having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the first annular portion, and continuously connected to second axial ends of the crossbars which are opposite from the first axial ends of the crossbars,
- wherein each of the crossbars includes:
- guide surfaces configured to circumferentially contact a corresponding one of the tapered rollers;
- first recessed surfaces in the form of cutouts each located between a respective one of the guide surfaces and the first axial end of a corresponding one of the crossbars, and circumferentially recessed from the respective one of the guide surfaces;
- and
- second recessed surfaces in the form of cutouts each located between a respective one of the guide surfaces and the second axial end of a corresponding one of the crossbars, and circumferentially recessed from the respective one of the guide surfaces,
- wherein the guide surfaces are smoothly convex in a longitudinal direction of the tapered rollers,
- wherein each of the tapered rollers includes a rolling surface central portion located at a central portion of an entire length of a respective one of the tapered rollers, and having a straight generating line, and crowning portions each extending from an end of the rolling surface central portion such that a diameter of the crowning portion gradually decreases in a direction away from the end, and
- wherein each of the guide surfaces has a protruding portion having a maximum protruding amount protruding toward the rolling surface central portion of a corresponding one of the tapered rollers, the protruding portion being shorter, in the longitudinal direction of the corresponding one of the tapered rollers, than the rolling surface central portion of the corresponding one of the tapered rollers.
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A retainer formed with pockets configured to each receive one of a plurality of tapered rollers, the retainer comprising:
- a plurality of crossbars separating circumferentially adjacent pairs of the pockets from each other;
- a first annular portion continuously connected to first axial ends of the crossbars;
- and
- a second annular portion having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the first annular portion, and continuously connected to second axial ends of the crossbars which are opposite from the first axial ends of the crossbars,
- wherein the crossbars have guide surfaces configured to circumferentially contact corresponding ones of the tapered rollers,
- wherein the first annular portion includes pocket end surfaces each configured to axially contact a respective one of the tapered rollers, and third recessed surfaces in the form of cutouts each axially recessed from a respective one of the pocket end surfaces,
- wherein each of the third recessed surfaces is located at a circumferentially central portion between a respective circumferentially adjacent pair of the crossbars,
- wherein the guide surfaces are smoothly convex in a longitudinal direction of the tapered rollers,
- wherein each of the tapered rollers includes a rolling surface central portion located at a central portion of an entire length of a respective one of the tapered rollers, and having a straight generating line, and crowning portions each extending from an end of the rolling surface central portion such that a diameter of the crowning portion gradually decreases in a direction away from the end, and
- wherein each of the guide surfaces has a protruding portion having a maximum protruding amount protruding toward the rolling surface central portion of a corresponding one of the tapered rollers, the protruding portion being shorter, in the longitudinal direction of the corresponding one of the tapered rollers, than the rolling surface central portion of the corresponding one of the tapered rollers.
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A retainer formed with pockets configured to each receive one of a plurality of tapered rollers, the retainer comprising:
- a plurality of crossbars separating circumferentially adjacent pairs of the pockets from each other;
- a first annular portion continuously connected to first axial ends of the crossbars;
- and
- a second annular portion having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the first annular portion, and continuously connected to second axial ends of the crossbars which are opposite from the first axial ends of the crossbars,
- wherein the crossbars have guide surfaces configured to circumferentially contact corresponding ones of the tapered rollers,
- wherein each of the guide surfaces is tapered and has a length which is not less than 5% and not more than 20% of an average diameter of a corresponding one of the tapered rollers, in a plane perpendicular to a center axis of the corresponding one of the tapered rollers, and
- wherein the guide surfaces are smoothly convex in a longitudinal direction of the tapered rollers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.