Vibration measurement system for a rolling bearing

• US 5,495,764 A
• Filed: 04/06/1995
• Issued: 03/05/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NSK Limited
• Original Assignee: NSK Limited
• Inventors: Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki, Tadokoro, Hisakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Hezron E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MILLER, ROSE MARY
• Application Number:
  US08/417,962
• Time in Patent Office: 334 Days
• Field of Search: 73/593, 73/660, 73/587, 73/665, 340/682
• US Class Current: 73/593
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/527 related to vibration and noise
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 13/045 Acoustic or vibration analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2291/2696 Wheels, Gears, Bearings

Abstract

A vibration measurement system 1 comprises a shrink-type chuck 5, a spindle 14, and a servo motor 16 as mechanical elements, and has a vibration pickup 41 attached to the outer peripheral surface of a jaw 5a holding an outer ring 4 of a roller bearing 2. A ring groove 5b is formed on the inner face of the jaw 5a holding the bearing 2, and a shell 18 with oil pressure as back pressure is fitted into the ring groove 5b. When vibration is measured, the oil pressure of the shell 18 is raised to bring bearing clearance to zero, thereby preventing so-called roller drop from causing impulsive vibration.

Claims

1. A vibration measurement system for measuring a rolling bearing comprising:

means for holding by fitting at least one of an inner ring and an outer ring of a rolling bearing to be measured having at least one bearing ring and a plurality of rolling elements;

means for driving at least one of the inner ring and the outer ring of said rolling bearing fitted into said holding means; and

means for detecting vibration of said rolling bearing, wherein the improvement comprises;

means for elastically deforming uniformly radially said holding means into which said rolling bearing is fitted whereby urging one of the inner ring and the outer ring of said rolling bearing radially toward said rolling elements;

clearance detection means for detecting a bearing clearance of the rolling bearing in a fit state between said rolling bearing and said holding means; and

deformation control means for enabling the elastical deformation to be applied to said deformation means until an amount of the bearing clearance detected by said clearance detection means reaches a predetermined value.

2. The vibration measurement system according to claim 1, wherein said elastically deforming means comprises one of means for deforming said holding means radially inwardly so that the outer ring of the bearing shrinkages radially inwardly and means for expanding said holding means radially outwardly so that the inner ring of the bearing expands radially outwardly.

3. The vibration measurement system according to claim 1, wherein said clearance detection means comprises one of a torque detection means in a case where the rolling bearing is a bearing having no contact angle and a vibration detection means, in a case where the rolling bearing is a bearing having a contact angle, for calculating both a revolution frequency of the rolling elements driven by said driving means and a rotational frequency of a track of the bearing.

4. The vibration measurement system according to claim 1, wherein said deformation control means comprises an outer ring press device for applying an axial pressure to the bearing having a contact angle until the bearing clearance becomes a predetermined value.