Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co .kg

Jorg Bauer

Bernd Wittmann

Armin Gerner

Matthias Sperber

Peter Siebke

Stefan Ruhl

Marco Frank

Stephan Dreizler

Christian Lehmann

Armin Bender

An integration element including a shaft and a housing, wherein the housing includes a passage for the shaft and the shaft includes connecting elements on the shaft ends which are accessible from outside the housing, these elements providing a rotationally-fixed connection to connecting shafts. The housing has at least one connection for fastening to a connection structure and the shaft together with the housing delimits a measuring equipment space for receiving measuring equipment. The housing is formed by at least two housing parts detachably connected to each other, said housing parts being designed to be separated around the full extent of their circumference surrounding the shaft to allow access to the measuring equipment space. The housing has bearing seats for shaft bearings and these shaft bearings support the shaft in a rotatable manner with respect to the housing.

Integration element for seating measuring equipment

A rotary joint which, in order to limit the mutual rotation of the outer bearing ring () with respect to the inner bearing ring (), is provided with a raceway (), which is limited by one or two stops () and in which a projection connected to the outer bearing ring engages. In order to ensure that a rotation greater than 360&#xb0; is possible, the raceway is of helical design.

Rotary joint

A bearing element for two spatial directions, including a series of first rolling bodies (), which roll on a first side () of an intermediate part () in a first direction, and a series of second rolling bodies (), which roll on a second side () of the intermediate part and on a fastening part () in a second direction that differs to the first direction, the fastening part having a shaft (), and a spring element () being arranged around the shaft. This bearing element addresses the problem of providing a bearing element for two spatial directions, which can absorb great forces perpendicularly to the two spatial directions and which is of compact design.

Bearing element for two spatial directions

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Erlangen, Germany

Jorg Bauer