Bearing unit
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsAndre Anger, Klaus Scharinger
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Abstract
A bearing unit which has a bearing shell with a projection which plastically deforms a bore of an adjacent component, on assembly, to produce a recess, thereby securing the bearing shell against being axially displaced in the direction of a bearing axis and from being twisted in the peripheral direction. The position and anti-twist locking effect is thus achieved by producing a recess in the adjacent component in which recess the projection is accommodated in a positive fit. The bearing unit is preferably used for bearing a starter shaft in a starter of a motor vehicle.
Claims7
A bearing unit, comprising:
- a bearing shell
- which is supported with respect to an adjacent component in a region of a hearing seat surface and forms a rolling surface for rolling bodies,
- wherein
- the bearing shell has at least one projection which extends radially beyond the bearing seat surface, before the bearing shell and adjacent component are mounted, and
- at least one partial circumferential region having a substantially partly cylindrical lateral surface without a projection adjoins a partial circumferential region with the at least one projection, in a cross-section of the bearing shell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.