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US 2015/0049977 A1Published application
Two piece cage for a needle bearing
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorSimon Xunnan He
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Abstract
A two piece rolling element cage for a bearing assembly comprising a first and second cage, with axial projections extending from a cage body, oriented toward each other and inserted between rolling elements, on opposite axial ends of the rolling elements.
Claims19
A bearing assembly comprising:
- an outer ring;
- an inner ring;
- a plurality of rolling elements disposed between the outer and inner rings;
- a two piece cage assembly comprising;
- a first cage;
- a second cage;
- each of the first cage and second cage comprising a disc-shaped cage body, with a plurality of axial projections extending from a single axial surface of the cage body corresponding to each of the plurality of rolling elements, forming rolling element pockets;
- the axial projections of the first cage and second cage oriented towards each other;
- the projections of the first cage are inserted between adjacent rolling elements on a first axial end of the rolling elements;
- and
- the projections of the second cage inserted between adjacent rolling elements on the second axial end of the rolling elements.
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A rolling element cage for a bearing assembly comprising:
- a first cage;
- a second cage;
- each of the first cage and second cage comprising a disc-shaped cage body, with a plurality of axial projections extending from a single surface of the cage body, forming rolling element pockets;
- the axial projections of the first cage and second cage oriented towards each other;
- the projections of the first cage insertable between adjacent rolling elements on a first axial end;
- and
- the projections of the second cage insertable between adjacent rolling elements on a second axial.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.