Ball bearing assembly method and assembly device, and ball bearing produced using said assembly method

Abstract

A ball bearing assembly device includes: an inner and outer ring holding unit which holds an outer ring and inner ring in a state where an outer ring raceway surface and inner ring raceway surface are eccentric to each other on a same plane so as to form a gap space; a stocker; a robot arm; a ball holding mechanism which is disposed at a tip of the robot arm; and a control unit. The control unit controls the ball holding mechanism to hold any ball from the stocker, controls the robot art to transport the held ball to a ball insertion position in the gap space corresponding to a kind of ball bearing, and inserts the held ball into the gap space, which are repeated by the number of balls of the ball bearing.