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US 2013/0031995 A1Published application
Ball screw
OwnerFeng-Tien Cheninventor
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Abstract
A ball screw includes a screw shaft formed with two helical raceways that have the same lead and the same thread angle, a ball nut rotatably sleeved on the screw shaft and formed with two ball grooves that correspond to and complement with the helical raceways, a scraper has two contact parts to contact the two helical raceways, a plurality of bearing balls rollably and selectively disposable between one of the ball grooves and the corresponding helical raceway, and a return unit including two return tubes each having two ends respectively and spatially connected to two ends of the corresponding ball groove.
Claims6
A ball screw comprising:
- a screw shaft including a shaft body with an outer shaft surface formed with two first helical raceways that have the same lead and the same thread angle;
- a ball nut rotatably sleeved on said screw shaft and including a nut body with an inner nut surface formed with two first ball grooves that correspond to and complement with said first helical raceways, respectively;
- a scraper disposed at said inner nut surface and having two first contact parts to contact said two first helical raceways, respectively;
- a plurality of bearing balls rollably and selectively disposable between one of said first ball grooves and the corresponding one of said first helical raceways;
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- a return unit provided at said nut body and including two first return tubes each corresponding to one of said first ball grooves, each having two ends respectively and spatially connected to two ends of the corresponding one of said first ball grooves, and each being configured to permit passage of said bearing balls therethrough.
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