Bearings – Rotary bearing – Fluid bearing
Patent
1998-04-14
2000-02-01
Footland, Lenard A.
Bearings
Rotary bearing
Fluid bearing
F16C 1710
Patent
active
060195169
ABSTRACT:
A bearing assembly including a bering cone (50) having a crowned bearing surface (56) with V-shaped grooves (60) that are shallow at their apex (62) and deepest at the outer edges (52, 54). When mated with a female bearing seat, lubricating fluid builds up along the midline of the bearing surface as the bearing seat rotates about the bearing cone.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3174809 (1965-03-01), Mackie
patent: 5697708 (1997-12-01), Leuthold et al.
Addy Roger A.
Grantz Alan L.
Leuthold Hans
Murthy Samnathan
Parsoneault Norbert S.
Footland Lenard A.
Seagate Technology Inc.
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