Encoding Bearing Device and Rotating Machine

• US 20090180721A1
• Filed: 02/15/2006
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ABet SKF
• Original Assignee: ABet SKF
• Inventors: Gallucci, Francesco, Barbera, Stellario, Doyer, Armel-Louis, Gardelle, Jean-Luc
• Application Number:
  US11/884,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20090180721A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 384/448
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/06 with a single row or balls
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2380/26 Dynamo-electric machines or combinations therewith, e.g. electro-motors and generators in general H02K
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/7853 with one or more sealing lips to contact the inner race
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 41/007 Encoders, e.g. parts with a plurality of alternating magnetic poles
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/443 mounted in bearings bearings F16C
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/487 delivered by rotating magnets

Abstract

A rolling bearing device comprising two races 10, 11 able to rotate relative to one another and at least one seal 13 attached to one of the races and provided with an active portion 16 designed to interact with a sensor element to detect a parameter of rotation of the active portion, characterized in that it comprises, at least on one side of the rolling bearing, a groove 20 made in the outer race 10 and a groove 21 made in the inner race 11, said grooves being substantially coplanar, the seal 13 being mounted in one of the grooves of one of the races and interacting with at least a portion of the other groove of the other race in order to provide a dynamic seal.

Claims

1. A rolling bearing device comprising two races able to rotate relative to one another and at least one seal attached to one of the races and provided with an active portion designed to interact with a sensor element to detect a parameter of rotation of the active portion, characterized in that it comprises, at least on one side of the rolling bearing, a groove made in the outer race and a groove made in the inner race, said grooves being substantially coplanar, the seal being mounted in one of the grooves of one of the races and interacting with at least a portion of the other groove of the other race in order to provide a dynamic seal.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seal comprises a sealing portion formed in a material different from the material of the active portion.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seal is attached to the outer race.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seal is attached to the inner race.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seal comprises a deflection portion in order to provide a recirculation of lubricant.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seal comprises a lip in contact with at least a portion of the groove of the other race and/or at least a portion forming a narrow passageway with a portion of the groove of the other race.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seal comprises a framework forming the active portion, covered with a flexible material providing the seal, said framework providing the rigidity of the device.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the active portion is magnetized.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the active portion is magnetizable.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the active portion is ferromagnetic.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the active portion comprises a matrix of synthetic material filled with a powder of magnetized or magnetizable material.

12. The device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the matrix comprises a thermoplastic material having a softening temperature greater than 180°

C.

13. The device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the matrix comprises a material chosen from the group comprising:

polyamide, polyimide, polyethylene-ether-sulfone.

14. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising two grooves made in the outer race on one side and, on the other, rolling elements and two grooves made in the inner race on one side and, on the other, rolling elements, the groove of the inner race and the groove of the outer race placed on the same side being substantially coplanar, the device comprising two seals, each mounted in one of the grooves of one of the sides and interacting with the other groove of the other race on the same side.

15. A rotating machine comprising a device as claimed in claim 1, placed between a fixed support and a rotating part.