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US 8,632,257 B2Granted
Rolling bearing and method for the production thereof
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsAlexander Weidner, Markus Hennefelder, Paul Graf
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Abstract
A bearing ring comprises a raceway for a rolling member as well as at least one lateral rim for axially guiding the rolling member. To produce the bearing ring a notch is introduced into a running surface of the bearing ring which faces the rolling member. A final contour of the bearing ring is created by means of a hard turning process.
Claims8
A bearing assembly, comprising:
- a plurality of roller bodies having an end face, the end face having a flat central region and a single curved region continuously curving in a single axial direction away from a plane of the central region at each end of the central region;
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- a bearing ring having a raceway for the roller bodies and a lateral rim extending radially from an end of the raceway, the lateral rim axially guiding the roller bodies and having a rim running face opposing the roller bodies, and a corner region with a notch being formed between the raceway and the rim running face such that the notch and the rim running face merge with one another essentially without an edge,
- wherein the end face of the rolling body is subjected to a hard-turning process, wherein the rim running face is subjected to a hard-turning process and is not ground and the raceway is ground,
- wherein only the curved regions of the roller bodies contact the rim running face at a single point and the central region of the roller bodies does not contact the rim running face.
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