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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1998
Seizo Miyazaki, Fujisawa, JP;
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An outer ring spacer for use in a double row rolling bearing unit fitted onto a shaft and comprising inner rings externally secured to the shaft having a pair of spaced apart inner ring raceways, a pair of outer rings having an inner peripheral face formed with outer ring raceways facing respective inner ring raceways, and a plurality of rolling elements provided between the inner ring raceways and outer ring raceways, the outer ring spacer fitted between the outer rings, and comprising a cylindrical spacer body formed with axially opposite parallel end faces abutted against the mutually facing end faces of the outer rings, and a displacement prevention ring internally secured to one axial end of the spacer body, and having a portion protruding from one of the parallel end faces of the spacer body so as to be engaged with the inner peripheral surface of one end portion of the outer rings to prevent the spacer body from being displaced radially.