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Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2020
Applicant:

The Timken Company, North Canton, OH (US);

Inventors:

Matthew G. Wilmer, North Canton, OH (US);

Carl E. Faust, Merrimack, NH (US);

Assignee:

The Timken Company, North Canton, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 19/36 (2006.01); F16C 43/06 (2006.01); F16C 23/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 19/362 (2013.01); F16C 23/086 (2013.01); F16C 43/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A bearing includes a plurality of rolling elements () spaced around a three-hundred and sixty degree circumferential extent of the bearing. An odd, non-singular number of high-points are positioned as near to evenly as possible about the circumferential extent of the bearing, the high-points defined by locations at which rolling elements with the largest diameters are positioned. An odd, non-singular number of low-points are positioned as near to evenly as possible about the circumferential extent of the bearing, the low-points defined by locations at which rolling elements having the smallest diameters are positioned. The odd, non-singular number of high-points is the same as the odd, non-singular number of low-points, and each low-point is positioned as near to evenly as possible between two adjacent high-points.


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