Bearing arrangement

US8398311B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AKTIEBOLAGET SKF · SE

Inventors

• Berthold Beyfuss · Kaisten, DE
• Burkhard Buchheim · Schweinfurt, DE
• Alexander Dilje · Schweinfurt, DE
• Hans-Jürgen Friedrich
• Helmut Hauck · Euerbach, DE
• Holger Kristandt · Euerbach, DE
• Alfred Radina · Poppenlauer, DE
• Jonas Schierling · Haßfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 1, 2009
• Grant date: Mar 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2361/65
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bearing assembly comprises at least two adjacently-disposed bearings. Each bearing includes a bearing outer ring having a cylindrical outer circumferential surface. A bearing support retains the at least two bearings such that respective rotational axes of the at least two bearings extend in parallel. A spacer has at least two cylindrical openings configured to receive the respective cylindrical outer circumferential surfaces of the bearing outer rings such that a circumferential inner surface of each opening covers at least a portion of a width of the bearing outer ring received therein and surrounds an entire circumference of the bearing outer ring received therein. The bearing support is not fixedly connected to the spacer.