Ntn Corporation

Naoshi Kinpara

Eiji Tajima

Kazuhiro Azuma

Hisashi Ohtsuki

Akira Torii

Shigeaki Fukushima

Kazunari Yamamoto

Motoharu Niki

Masuo Takaki

A reliable brake rotor and wheel bearing assembly are proposed which make unnecessary adjustment of runout of brake rotor at the customer's factory. For runout of each of the mounting surface and back of the brake rotor itself, and runout of the side of the wheel mounting flange of the inner member to which is mounted the brake rotor, the maximum difference between the peaks of crests and troughs in each period of surface runout is restricted within a standard value, and the brake rotor is mounted to the wheel mounting flange, thereby eliminating the necessity of mounting of the brake rotor and adjustment of runout after mounting at the customer's factory to provide a reliable automotive wheel bearing assembly.

Brake rotor and wheel bearing assembly having maximum acceptable runout variation

A wheel bearing assembly has a disk rotor for a brake integrally formed with a wheel-mounting flange of an inner member. Raceways opposite double-row raceways of the outer member are arranged on separate ring members pressed onto a tubular portion of the inner member. Thus, it is unnecessary to mount a brake rotor to the wheel bearing assembly, to reduce the number of parts, and to use different materials for the inner member and the inner ring members. For example, an FC-family cast iron, which is superior in seizure resistance, can be used for the inner member, and a tough bearing steel can be used for the ring member to achieve both excellent brake function and bearing function.

Wheel bearing assembly

Brake rotor and wheel bearing assembly

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Naoshi Kinpara