Linear guide for roller bearings
AssigneeSchneeberger Holding AG
InventorsHans-Martin Schneeberger, Georg Michaelsen
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AssigneeSchneeberger Holding AG
InventorsHans-Martin Schneeberger, Georg Michaelsen
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A guide member for a linear movement guide, which guide member is arranged on and can execute movements in longitudinal direction along a rail (1). Guide members (2) of this type are provided with at least one roll body circuit (6a-6d), wherein each roll body circuit comprises a return channel, a bearing zone (11), as well as two deflection channels (13) that connect the return channel (12) and the bearing zone (11). Each roll body circuit contains several roll bodies (7), wherein guide means are provided for guiding the roll bodies inside the roll body circuit. A roll body circuit of this type is intended to dispense with the feeding of lubricants. For this, the invention suggests that at least some of the guide means, at least in the region of the running surfaces for the roll bodies, be provided with a plastic material having at least two components. The first component is embedded in the form of particles in the second component. The first component has a lower friction coefficient than the second component, relative to a metal or ceramic friction partner, and the respective guide means are created by spraying on the plastic material with the aid of an injection-molding technique, at least in the region of the running surfaces.
The use of a heterogeneous plastic with at least two components, wherein the first component contains particles with PTFE, the second component contains a thermoplastic, characterized in that the plastic is used to form a guide means in a roll body circuit for a guide member of a linear movement guide.
A guide member for a linear-movement guide, which is arranged on a rail so as to execute movements in longitudinal direction, said guide member having at least one roll body circuit, wherein each roll body circuit comprises a return channel, a bearing zone, as well as two deflection channels that connect the return channel and the bearing zone, each roll body circuit further comprising several roll bodies, wherein the guide member is provided with guide means for guiding the roll bodies in the roll body circuit, said guide means having running surfaces, characterized in that at least some of the guide means comprise a plastic material with at least two components in a region of the running surfaces of the guide means for the roll bodies (7), of which the first component is incorporated into the second component in the form of particles, the first component has a friction coefficient lower than a friction coefficient of the second component, relative to a metal or ceramic friction partner, and the respective guide means are produced by spraying on plastic with an injection-molding technique, at least in the region of the running surfaces.
A roll body circuit for a linear movement guide that is provided with roll bodies for the circulation, said roll body circuit comprising a return channel, a bearing zone, as well as two deflection channels that connect the return channel and the bearing zone and having guide means for guiding the roll bodies, said guide means having running surfaces, characterized in that at least some of the guide means are provided at least in a region of the running surfaces for the roll bodies with a heterogeneous plastic, having at least two components, and that the first component is embedded in the second component in the form of particles and the first component has a lower friction coefficient than the second component, relative to a metal or ceramic friction partner.
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