Nsk Corporation

Yoshiro Ide

Kazuto Kobayashi

Yuko Kamamura

Toshio Nakamura

Keiichi Horino

Yukio Ooura

Masatake Ichimaru

A method of manufacturing a retainer for a roller bearing made of a metal plate and has a tubular main portion, pockets formed in the main portion intermittently concerning a circumferential direction and capable of retaining rollers rollably, and an outwardly oriented flange-like collar portion. An annular intermediate material is formed by die cutting the metal plate, and after a second intermediate material is formed by forming through holes in the intermediate material intermittently, a portion of the second intermediate material excluding a radially outer end portion is plastically deformed into a tubular shape. The portion plastically deformed tubular shape is formed as the main portion, a portion corresponding to the radially outer end portion of the second intermediate material is formed as the collar portion or a collar portion element for forming the collar portion, and portions corresponding to the through holes are formed as the pockets.

Method of manufacturing a retainer for a roller bearing

A roller bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of cylindrical rollers each provided between rolling contact surfaces of the inner ring and the outer ring. Each of the cylindrical rollers includes an end face having a peripheral part that is crowned. A flange portion is formed at an outer circumferential face end part of the inner ring and/or an inner circumferential face end part of the outer ring. The peripheral part is crowned in a curving shape represented by an exponential function of y=a&#xb7;exp(&#x2212;b&#xb7;x); where a and b are constants, x is a distance from the rolling contact surface in a radial direction of the cylindrical roller, and y is a crowning fall-off amount from a central part of the end face of the cylindrical roller in an axial direction of the cylindrical roller.

Roller bearing

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiro Ide