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US 7,921,749 B2Granted
Case
AssigneesAisin Ai Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoji Wakabayashi, Daisuke Saito, Yoshiyuki Aoyama, Satoshi Munakata
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Abstract
A case includes an assembling hole portion and a snap ring preassembled hereto. When fixing a bearing to the case, a first distance between both ends of the snap ring can be expanded within the assembling hole portion. The bearing is used for supporting a rotational shaft of the case. The assembling hole portion includes dual hole portions, which open at respective positions where the both ends of the snap ring can be expanded within the dual hole portions.
Claims5
A case, comprising:
- a bearing for supporting a rotational shaft;
- an assembling hole portion including a dual hole portions;
- and
- a snap ring preassembled to the case, the snap ring possessing opposite ends, one of the ends of the snap ring being positioned in one of the hole portions, the other end of the snap ring being positioned in the other hole portion;
- wherein
- a first distance between the ends of the snap ring is configured to expand within a range of the dual hole portions, which open at respective positions where the ends of the snap ring are expandable within the dual hole portions when fixing the bearing to the case.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.