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Bearing support with additional axially resilient ring

US4966475A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Fag Kugelfischer Georg Shäfer AG · DE

Inventors

Gerhard Ankenbauer · Bad Hersfeld, DE
Oswald Bayer · Aidhausen, DE
Jan de Boer · Baarn, NL
Thomas Rasp · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 15, 1990
Grant date	Oct 30, 1990
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 15, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF16C2204/20
WIPO fieldMechanical elements
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A bearing support in the form an aluminum die casting wherein an antifriction bearing ring is cast in the support. Axially adjacent one axial side of the bearing ring is disposed axially resilient ringlike part that is in the form of either a sheet metal ring or a spring washer. The part has a generally L-shaped or the like cross-section. The thickness of the cast bearing materials around the peripheries of the antifriction bearing ring and the resilient element next to it is about 1/3 to 1/5 of the thickness of the antifriction bearing ring.

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