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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1994
Hiroshi Teramachi, Tokyo, JP;
THK Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The linear movement guide apparatus according to the invention has features that two rows of ball rolling grooves are formed on an upper surface of a tracking base and one or two rows of ball rolling grooves are formed on both side surfaces thereof, respectively, on a concave portion of a sliding base are provided corresponding ball rolling grooves so as to face to the ball rolling grooves formed on the tracking base; the depth of each ball rolling groove about ½ of the diameter of balls to be held therein; and the distance between the ball rolling grooves formed on the upper surface of the tracking base and the distance between said ball rolling grooves and the ball rolling grooves formed on side surfaces are varied with respect to the distances between the corresponding ball rolling grooves formed on the sliding base. Thereby, the pitches between the ball rolling grooves on the tracking and sliding bases can be selected so as to obtain an optimum contact angles of balls for the load condition applied to the linear movement guide apparatus.