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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148332 ; 148906 ; 420 89 ; 420 90 ; 384492 ; 384912 ;
Abstract
A water-resistant and long-life rolling bearing used in an environment involving water's seeping in the lubricant thereof, wherein at least one of the inner race, the outer race, and the rolling member is formed of alloy steel containing 0.05 to 0.60% by weight of Cu, 0.10 to 1.10% by weight of C, and 0 to 0.2% by weight of Nb or V. The alloy steel has functions of reducing hydrogen evolution on the surface thereof and of forming a film hardly permeable to hydrogen thereby to retard occurrence of flaking due to hydrogen-induced brittleness.