# US 10,865,830 B2 · Tapered roller bearing

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- Number: US 10,865,830 B2
- Document ID: US10865830B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/590,605
- Filed: 2019-10-02
- Published: 2020-04-16
- Granted: 2020-12-15
- Earliest claimed: 2018-10-12
- Assignees: Jtekt Corporation
- Applicants: Jtekt Corporation
- Inventors: Youzou Taniguchi; Kanichi Koda; Haruo Kimura; Yuichi Masuda
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10865830B2

## CPC

- F16C 19/364: {with tapered rollers, i.e. rollers having essentially the shape of a truncated cone}
- F16C 43/06: Placing rolling bodies in cages or bearings
- F16C 19/36: with a single row of rollers
- F16C 33/4635: {made from plastic, e.g. injection moulded window cages}
- F16C 33/467: {Details of individual pockets, e.g. shape or roller retaining means}
- F16C 33/4676: {of the stays separating adjacent cage pockets, e.g. guide means for the bearing-surface of the rollers}
- F16C 33/4682: {of the end walls, e.g. interaction with the end faces of the rollers}
- F16C 2202/08: Resilience, elasticity, super-elasticity
- F16C: SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS

## Abstract

A tapered roller bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of tapered rollers, and an annular cage. The annular cage includes a small-diameter annular portion, a large-diameter annular portion, and a plurality of cage bars that couple the small-diameter annular portion and the large-diameter annular portion together. The cage bar has a first facing surface that faces the outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller that is housed. The first facing surface includes a large-diameter-side facing surface, a small-diameter-side facing surface arranged farther away from the outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller than the large-diameter-side facing surface, and an intermediate facing surface inclined gradually away from the outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller with increasing distance from the large-diameter-side facing surface to the small-diameter-side facing surface.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A tapered roller bearing comprising:
an inner ring including a small rib that is provided on a first axial side and protrudes radially outward and a large rib that is provided on a second axial side and protrudes radially outward;
an outer ring arranged on a radially outer side of the inner ring;
a plurality of tapered rollers arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring; and
an annular cage including a small-diameter annular portion on the first axial side, a large-diameter annular portion on the second axial side, and a plurality of cage bars that couple the small-diameter annular portion and the large-diameter annular portion together, the annular cage being configured to house each of the tapered rollers between the large-diameter annular portion and the small-diameter annular portion and between the cage bars adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction, wherein
the cage bar has a first facing surface that faces an outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller that is housed,
the first facing surface includes a large-diameter-side facing surface arranged closer to the large-diameter annular portion, a small-diameter-side facing surface arranged closer to the small-diameter annular portion and arranged farther away from the outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller than the large-diameter-side facing surface, and an intermediate facing surface that connects the large-diameter-side facing surface and the small-diameter-side facing surface together and is inclined gradually away from the outer peripheral surface of the tapered roller with increasing distance from the large-diameter-side facing surface to the small-diameter-side facing surface,
the small-diameter annular portion has a second facing surface arranged so as to face a roller small end face of the tapered roller, and
the second facing surface includes an outer facing surface located relatively on the radially outer side, and an inner facing surface located relatively on a radially inner side and arranged farther away from the roller small end face in a direction of a central axis of the tapered roller than the outer facing surface.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The tapered roller bearing according to claim 1, wherein the second facing surface includes an intermediate facing surface that connects the outer facing surface and the inner facing surface together.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The tapered roller bearing according to claim 1, wherein, in the first facing surface, an inclination angle of the intermediate facing surface with respect to the large-diameter-side facing surface is 5° or more and 10° or less.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The tapered roller bearing according to claim 1, wherein, in the first facing surface, the large-diameter-side facing surface and the small-diameter-side facing surface are provided in parallel to each other.