Needle roller bearing with rimless inner ring
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsPeter Friedrich, Michael Krueger, Reinhart Malik, Steffen Saebsch, Heinz Schaefers, Matthias Fick, Manfred Winkler, Johannes Enders
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Abstract
A needle roller bearing, which has a rimless inner ring or a rimless inner ring bushing and a plurality of rolling elements that are arranged and rotatable in the cage. For coherence of the needle roller bearing after manufacturing and for mounting in an installation space, the cage has, at least on one front end, a radially inward pointing retaining device and the inner ring or the inner ring bushing has a retaining element on its outer periphery that cooperates with the retaining device.
Claims2
A needle roller bearing, comprising:
- a cage having a radially inwardly pointing retaining device on at least one front end of the cage
- a plurality of roiling elements arranged in the cage;
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- a rimless inner ring or a rimless inner ring bushing having a retaining element on an outer periphery of the rimless inner ring or the rimless inner ring bushing that cooperates with the retaining device of the cage, wherein the retaining device of the cage engages over the retaining element on the inner ring or on the inner ring bushing with a lash in an axial and a radially inward direction, and
- wherein the retaining element on the inner ring or on the inner ring bushing is a radially outwardly pointing annular web or a plurality of radially outwardly pointing annular web segments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.