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Angular ball bearing method for assembling the same

  • US 5,026,179 A
  • Filed: 03/14/1990
  • Issued: 06/25/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An angular ball bearing comprising an outer ring having an inner peripheral surface, a ball rolling surface at a central portion of said inner peripheral surface and having a diameter larger than the diameter of said inner peripheral surface of said outer ring, a cage mounted inward of said outer ring and formed at equal circumferential intervals with pockets, an inner ring mounted inward of said cage, said cage having an outer peripheral surface guided by said outer ring, and balls received in said pockets, said cage being formed on the inner surface of said pockets with projections extending outwardly of said cage and toward said inner ring for preventing said balls from coming out of said pockets at said inner surface of said pockets in said cage when said inner ring is removed from said cage, the diameter of the circle circumscribed by said balls being no greater than the diameter of said inner peripheral surface of said outer ring when said balls are in abutment contact with said projections, said balls being out of abutment contact with said projections when said balls are in said pockets in said cage and said outer ring and said inner ring are mounted on said cage and said balls in said pockets in said cage.

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