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Rotary bearing with current feed-through means

US7387514B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 24, 2005
Grant dateJun 17, 2008
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 25, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01R39/64
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns a rotary bearing with current feed-through means, in particular for a sausage clipping machine, wherein the rotary bearing has a bearing casing and a bearing shaft rotatably accommodated therein and wherein the bearing casing and the bearing shaft are at least partially made from an electrically conducting material. It is further provided that there is at least one current path which passes through the bearing casing and the bearing shaft and which is electrically insulated at least with respect to the electrically conducting portions of the bearing shaft and the bearing casing and which has at least one outer connecting terminal on the bearing casing and the bearing shaft respectively.

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