Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Meg Inc.

Takashi Suzumura

Yutaka Mihara

Tetsuji Egawa

Daisuke Kikukawa

Keiichi Matsunaga

Hidemitu Hamano

A bearing structure includes a radial bearing for rotatably supporting an end of a rotary shaft while the rotary shaft receives a thrust load. The rotary shaft has an outer periphery. The bearing structure is characterized by comprising a rolling body supported in the radial direction of the rotary shaft within the bearing, a support portion for rotatably supporting the rolling body, an extended portion extending from the support portion toward the axial direction of the rotary shaft. The support portion is fit over an outer periphery of the rotary shaft. The extended portion is press-fitted over the outer periphery of the rotary shaft.

Bearing structure

A carrier C is integrally formed of a pair of flanges opposed to each other and designed to rotatably support rotating bodies therebetween and a plurality of joints for connecting the flanges. A groove is formed on the border between the flanges and the joints, and openings are made among the joints. Engagement holes for rotatably supporting rotational shafts of rotating bodies are made in the flanges.

Carrier and method of manufacturing carrier

A process of forming an annular member from a cylindrical member, wherein a force is applied to the cylindrical member in an axial direction thereof, to thereby cause plastic deformation at one of opposite axial end portions of the cylindrical member, such that a flange extends in a generally radial direction from one of opposite axial ends of the cylindrical member which corresponds to the above-indicated one of the opposite axial end portions, and a shearing operation is effected on the flange to punch out the annular member.

Process of forming annular member from cylindrical member having radial flange at one end

According to a hydraulic bulge forming method, a bend pipe is inserted in a cavity, and when the bend pipe is subjected to bulge forming, the bend pipe is elastically deformed by supplying a pressure medium to an interior of the bend pipe so that an inside of the bent portion is bulged along a bulging region formed at a portion of the cavity corresponding to an inside of a bent portion of the bend pipe. Whereby a reduction in a wall thickness of the outside portion of the bent portion is suppressed, so that a danger of causing breaking can be prevented.

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Takashi Suzumura