Sensor-holding lid for a wheel hub bearing

• US 7,137,740 B2
• Filed: 01/03/2003
• Issued: 11/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SKF Industrie SPA (ABet SKF)
• Original Assignee: SKF Industrie SPA (ABet SKF)
• Inventors: Vignotto, Angelo, Marivo, Massimo
• Primary Examiner(s): Bellinger, Jason R.
• Application Number:
  US10/336,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20030132662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,418 Days
• Field of Search: 3011081-1085, 301/105.1, 384/189, 384/190.6, 384/190.7, 384/448, 384/449
• US Class Current: 384/448
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 27/00 Hubs non-metallic B60B5/00; of high resiliency B60B9/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/186 with three raceways provided integrally on parts other than race rings, e.g. third generation hubs
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2326/02 Wheel hubs or castors in general B60B
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/723 Shaft end sealing means, e.g. cup-shaped caps or covers
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 41/007 Encoders, e.g. parts with a plurality of alternating magnetic poles
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/026 for speed measuring devices, e.g. pulse generator
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/443 mounted in bearings bearings F16C

Abstract

Sensor-holding lid for a wheel hub bearing, the lid presenting a base wall which is externally delimited by a peripheral border, an axial ledge which is integral to the wall and which is provided with a passing hold for housing the sensor, and a cylindrical wall which is transverse to the base wall and which is arranged radially inside the peripheral wall in order to be fixed onto an external border of the bearing; at least two annular static sealing elements which are made of rubber and which are co-molded, respectively, into the peripheral border on the outside of the cylindrical wall and inside an entry border of the passing hole.

Claims

1. A sensor-holding lid for a wheel hub bearing, the lid comprising a base wall which is externally delimited by a peripheral border, an axial ledge which is integral to the wall and which is provided with a passing hole in order to house a sensor, and a cylindrical wall which is transverse to the base wall and which is arranged radially inside the peripheral wall in order to be fixed onto an external border of the wheel hub bearing;

the lid having a first annular static sealing element which is made of rubber and which is co-molded radially outward from the cylindrical wall and into the peripheral border, and a second annular static sealing element which is made of rubber and which is co-molded inside an entry border of the said passing hole, wherein the first annular static sealing element overlaps axially in relation to an internal axial surface of the peripheral border, and is suitable for being axially compressed between the peripheral border and the external border of the bearing.

2. The sensor-holding lid according to claim 1, wherein the second annular static sealing element overlaps axially in relation to an external axial surface of the entry border, and is suitable for being compressed between the entry border itself and the said sensor.

3. The sensor-holding lid according to claim 2, wherein the second annular static sealing element overlaps radially in relation to an internal cylindrical surface of the entry border, and is suitable for being radially compressed by the said sensor.

4. The sensor-holding lid according to claim 1, further comprising a fixing housing for the sensor which is provided with an internal bushing and a third annular static sealing element which is arranged in correspondence with an entry border of the bushing itself.