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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2021
Jtekt Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Youzou Taniguchi, Kariya, JP;
JTEKT CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A tapered roller bearing includes: an inner ring; an outer ring; a plurality of tapered rollers in rolling contact with an inner and an outer ring raceway; and an annular cage that has a plurality of pockets for accommodating the tapered rollers. The cage has a plurality of first lateral faces respectively facing outer peripheral surfaces of the tapered rollers respectively accommodated in the plurality of pockets from a first side in a circumferential direction of the cage and a plurality of second lateral faces respectively facing the outer peripheral surfaces from a second side in the circumferential direction of the cage. The plurality of pockets includes a first pocket with a first angle as an angle formed by the first and second lateral faces, and a second pocket that has a second angle smaller than the first angle as the angle formed by the first and second lateral faces.