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US 9,835,254 B2Granted
Sealed bearing assembly with swing and movement
AssigneeApplied Nano Technology Science, Inc.
InventorsMin-Su Hsiao, Wen-Hao Wen, Chun-Ming Lin, Ta-Jung Su
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Abstract
A sealed bearing assembly comprises a bellows to allow a shaft swing and move, and maintains the sealing under stringent conditions.
Claims9
A magnetic sealed bearing assembly including:
- a shaft;
- a sealing ring being fixed on and moved with the shaft, wherein the sealing ring is cylindrical, and an axis of the sealing ring is co-axial to an axis of the shaft;
- a shell;
- a ferrofluid;
- and
- a bellows, having a fixed end connected to a chamber wall and a free end connected to the shell, wherein the bellows is able to be extended, contracted, and bent,
- wherein the sealing ring has an inner magnetic ring, which surrounds the shaft, and the shell has an external magnetic ring, which surrounds the inner magnetic ring;
- wherein the shell includes an adjustment hole, the shaft passes through the adjustment hole, which has a diameter larger than that of the shaft, and the shaft rotates in a rotational direction;
- and
- wherein the ferrofluid is attracted by a magnetic force of the external magnetic ring to be distributed on a surface of the shell toward the shaft, and when the shaft moves linearly relative to the shell and the inner magnetic ring moves with the sealing ring to a section of the external magnetic ring, a magnetic force is generated between the inner magnetic ring and the section of the external magnetic ring to attract the ferrofluid to flow, and thus the ferrofluid forms a shaft seal between the inner magnetic ring and the section of the external magnetic ring by surrounding a periphery of the sealing ring to block gas or liquid in the sealing ring.
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