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US 12,287,007 B2Granted
Cage segment for a segmented cage
AssigneeAktiebolaget Skf
InventorsBerthold Beyfuss, Hans-Juergen Friedrich, Alfred Radina, Maximilian Soellner, Jonas Schierling, Martin Kemmer
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Abstract
A bearing cage segment for a segmented bearing cage includes a plurality of walls that define a pocket configured to receive a rolling element and an insert element captively retained in an opening in a first one of the plurality of walls. The insert element may be configured to guide a rolling element retained in the bearing cage and/or be configured as a lubricant reservoir.
Claims16
A bearing cage segment for a segmented bearing cage comprising:
- a plurality of walls that define a pocket configured to receive a first roller, the plurality of walls including a first side element and a first bridge element, and
- an insert element captively or releasably retained in an opening in the first bridge element,
- wherein the insert element extends through the first bridge element such that a first portion of the insert element is located on a first side of the first bridge element inside the pocket and a second portion of the insert element is located on a second side of the first bridge element outside the pocket and opposite the first side,
- wherein the first portion of the insert element has a first concave surface configured to interact with a conical or cylindrical wall of the first roller, and
- wherein the second portion of the insert element has a second concave surface configured to interact with a conical or cylindrical wall of a second roller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.