Bearing device

• US 8,393,792 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Company Limited
• Inventors: Takahashi, Masao, Muramoto, Yukitaka, Kondo, Masaru, Goto, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, Phillip A
• Application Number:
  US12/592,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20100247011A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,194 Days
• Field of Search: 384/273, 384/294, 384/420, 384/428, 384/429, 384/430, 384432-434, 384/457
• US Class Current: 384/429
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 17/04 for axial load only
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2360/22 Internal combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/046 divided or split, e.g. half-bearings or rolled sleeves
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 35/02 in the case of sliding-contact bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 41/008 Identification means, e.g. markings, RFID-tags; Data transfer means

Abstract

In a bearing device 1, annular recesses 3a and 6a that house a thrust bearing 7 are formed in side surfaces of a housing 3 and a cap 6, a rotation preventing protrusion 12b is provided in an outer periphery of a lower side half-split thrust bearing 12 in the thrust bearing 7, and a rotation preventing groove 6b into which the rotation preventing protrusion 12b fits is formed in the annular recess 6a formed in the cap 6.

Claims

1. A bearing device comprising:

two half-split main bearings that journal a journal of a crankshaft;

a housing that holds one of the half-split main bearings;

a cap that is secured to said housing and holds the other of the half-split main bearings; and

a ring-shaped thrust bearing that is provided on side surfaces of said housing and said cap, surrounds said journal, and comes into sliding contact with a crank arm of said crankshaft,

an annular recess that houses said thrust bearing being formed in the side surfaces of said housing and said cap, a rotation preventing protrusion being provided on an outer periphery of said thrust bearing, and a rotation preventing groove into which said rotation preventing protrusion fits being formed in said annular recess,

wherein said rotation preventing groove is formed to be deeper than said annular recess, and a groove is formed from the rotation preventing protrusion to an inner peripheral portion of the thrust bearing in a surface of said thrust bearing on a side of the crank arm.

2. The bearing device according to claim 1, wherein said groove formed from the rotation preventing protrusion of said thrust bearing to the inner peripheral portion of the thrust bearing has a wider width than said rotation preventing groove.