Ntn Corporation

Yuusuke Doi

Masato Shimoda

To provide a retainer for a thrust bearing, which is to be assembled and decomposed regularly for being washed, having superior ball retaining performance itself and being attached and detached easily, and a thrust bearing having the retainer. A retainer for a thrust bearing, which retains a plurality balls intervened between a pair of raceway rings in a thrust bearing, is formed of a ring shaped plate memberformed of an injection molded body of a resin composition containing fluororesin, which is capable of injection molding, as a base resin. The ring shaped plate memberincludes a plurality of ball pocketsin a circumferential direction of a ring shape. Each of the ball pocketsincludes a claw portion divided into two portionsor more to retain a ballin a detachable manner. The claw portionis defined by a slitformed on at least one surfaceamong facing surfaces of the ring shaped plate memberfacing raceway rings, the slitbeing formed around an openingof the ball pocket

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Mie, Japan

Yuusuke Doi