Bearing cartridge
AssigneeRomax Technology Limited
InventorsSiu Yun Poon, Michael Barnes
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Abstract
A bearing cartridge for a rotatable shaft of a wind turbine comprising a shaft and a back-to-back tapered roller bearing arrangement coupled to the shaft. The bearing arrangement comprising a first bearing having a first outer ring, a first inner ring and a plurality of tapered rollers; and a second bearing having a second outer ring, a second inner ring and a plurality of tapered rollers. The bearing cartridge further comprising a gear located on the shaft between the first bearing and second bearing and a sleeve for supporting an axial load between the first and second bearings and having one or more apertures that expose the gear for coupling to an external gear.
Claims13
A bearing cartridge for a wind turbine having a rotatable shaft, the bearing cartridge comprising:
- a shaft;
- a back-to-back tapered roller bearing arrangement coupled to the shaft, comprising:
- a first bearing having a first outer ring, a first inner ring and a plurality of tapered rollers;
- and
- a second bearing having a second outer ring, a second inner ring and a plurality of tapered rollers;
- a gear located on the shaft between the first bearing and second bearing;
- a sleeve for supporting an axial load between the first bearing and the second bearing and having one or more apertures that expose the gear for coupling to an external gear;
- and
- at least one adjuster positioned on a side of the first outer ring that faces the second bearing, the at least one adjuster configured to adjust an axial distance between the first bearing and the second bearing to an adjusted distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.