Ball screw
AssigneeSchaeffler KG
InventorsJurgen Osterlaenger, Dieter Adler, Manfred Kraus, Ralf Mayer, Jorg Wagner, Jean Walter, Dietmar Rudy
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AssigneeSchaeffler KG
InventorsJurgen Osterlaenger, Dieter Adler, Manfred Kraus, Ralf Mayer, Jorg Wagner, Jean Walter, Dietmar Rudy
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A ball screw is provided having a ball roller screw (1) and a screw nut (2) arranged thereon, whereby the balls (3) are arranged to endlessly circulate in a ball channel (6) defined by ball tracks (4, 5) on the ball roller screw (1) and the screw nut (2). The ball channel (6) includes a load section (7) wound about the ball roller screw (1), the beginning and end of which are endlessly connected by a load-free return section (8). A minimum of two and a maximum of four balls (3) are housed in a common ball cage (10, 22), the cage pockets (11) of which each house one of the balls (3), whereby the ball cage (10, 22) includes discs (12, 15) at the axial ends thereof and between adjacent balls (3), that engage the ball channels (4, 5), and provided on the sides thereof facing the balls (3) with a concave receptacle (14) for the balls (3).
Ball screw comprising a ball roller screw and a screw nut arranged thereon, wherein balls are arranged to circulate endlessly in an endless ball channel limited by ball tracks of the ball roller screw and the screw nut, the ball channel has a load section, which is wound about the ball roller screw and has a beginning and end that are connected to each other endlessly by a load-free return section, a plurality of common ball cages, each housing at least two and at most four balls in separate cage pockets that each house one of the balls, the ball cages have discs which engage in the ball tracks at axial ends thereof and between adjacent ones of the balls, the discs include a concave receptacle for the balls on sides thereof facing the balls, and two of the discs located at the ends of the ball cages include three-dimensionally partially ball-shaped convex bumpers on sides thereof facing away from each other, each of the bumpers is adjacent to one of the bumpers at an end of another one of the ball cages during operation.
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