Bearing arrangement and method for fixing at least one bearing in place in a bearing retainer

US6652150B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AKTIEBOLAGET SKF · SE

Inventors

• Burkhard Buchheim · Schweinfurt, DE
• Berthold Beyfuss · Kaisten, DE
• Helmut Hauck · Euerbach, DE
• Peter Horling · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 2001
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49696
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for fixing at least one bearing in place in a bearing retainer involves positioning the bearing in the depression, providing an elastic element which acts in the axial direction on the bearing either before or after the bearing is positioned in the depression so that the elastic element is supported on the bearing in a first axial direction, and deforming a partial area of the bearing retainer so that the deformed partial area of the bearing retainer supports the elastic element in a second axial direction which extends opposite the first axial direction. A bearing arrangement produced according to the present invention includes a bearing retainer having at least one depression in which is positioned a bearing, with a portion of the bearing retainer overlapping a portion of the bearing to form an interlocking connection between the bearing retainer and the bearing in an axial direction. An elastic element is arranged in an area of the overlap of the bearing and the bearing retainer, and is supported on the bearing in a first axial direction while being supported on the bearing retainer in a second axial direction opposite to the first axial direction.