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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
May. 31, 1995
Yoshikazu Fukumura, Iwata, JP;
NTN Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A bearing assembly for a vehicle wheel having a wheel driving ring having a flange for coupling a vehicle wheel at one end, a cylindrical knuckle supporting the wheel driving ring, a pair of counterbored outer rings mounted in the knuckle with their thicker ends facing each other, balls received in two rows of ball raceways formed on the counterbored outer rings and two rows of ball raceways formed in the outer periphery of the wheel driving ring, two diametrically divided spacers inserted between the pair of counterbored outer rings for keeping the balls preloaded, the knuckle having a flange provided on its inner periphery at one end thereof to prevent axial movement of the counterbored outer rings. A retaining ring is pressed against the inner periphery of the knuckle at the other end and at the same time pressed against the thinner end of one of the counterbored outer rings to axially urge the one of the counterbored rings.