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US 5,702,187 AGranted
Guide ring for roller bearing
AssigneeFAG OEM und Handel AG
InventorsMichael Weigand, Werner Ganss, Martin Grehn
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Abstract
An antifriction bearing having one or two rows of rolling bodies has at least one guide ring guided on the outside ring race for guidance of the rollers and/or of the separator. The guide ring comprises two partial circumference ring segments which are arranged loosely between or adjacent one or each of the rows of rolling bodies and are held in form-locked manner in the spherical surface of the outer ring due to resilience of the ring segments.
Claims17
An antifriction bearing comprising:
- an inner ring, an outer ring, the rings having opposing races;
- at least one row of rolling bodies between the rings and shaped for engaging and rolling along the races;
- a separator in the space between the races and separating the rolling bodies;
- at least one guide ring in the space between the inner and outer races and shaped to be guided on one of the ring races for guiding at least one of the rows of rolling bodies and the separator;
- the guide ring comprising at least two ring segments, each ring segment being of a length less than the entire circumference of the bearing and the segments being positioned in the bearing so as to not be entirely overlapping circumferentially;
- the ring segments being arranged loosely along at least one lateral side of the rolling bodies in the at least one row, and the ring segments being shaped and sized to be held in form locked manner to the surface of the one ring race.
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An antifriction bearing comprising:
- an inner ring and an outer ring, the outer ring having a spherical curvature race, the inner ring having two neighboring respective spherical races defining two laterally neighboring rows around the inner ring;
- a respective row of spherical roller bearing rolling bodies between each of the inner ring races and the outer ring race and the rolling bodies engaging and rolling along the respective inner race and the outer race;
- a separator in the space between the inner and the outer races separating the rolling bodies;
- at least one guide ring in the space between the inner and outer races shaped and positioned to be guided on the outer ring race for guiding at least one of the rolling bodies and the separator;
- the guide ring comprising at least two ring segments, each ring segment being of a length less than the entire circumference of the bearing and the segment being positioned in the bearing so as to not be entirely overlapping circumferentially;
- the ring segments being arranged loosely along at least one lateral side of the rolling bodies in the at least one row, and the ring segments being shaped and sized to be held in form locked manner to the spherical curve surface of the outer race.
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