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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2001
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lubrication system for a rolling bearing comprised of, an inner ring fitted on a shaft rotating at high speed inside a housing, on the outer peripheral surface of which an inner ring raceway is formed; an outer ring fitted into the housing, on the inner peripheral surface of which an outer ring raceway is formed; an outer ring spacer fitted into and supported by the housing adjacent to the outer ring and having a lubrication oil path; and a plurality of rolling elements provided between the inner ring race ay and the outes ring raceway; wherein the lubrication oil is supplied through the lubrication oil path in the outer ring spacer into a space where a plurality of the rolling elements are provided between an outer peripheral surface of the inner ring and an inner peripheral surface of the outer ring, wherein any portion where the sloping direction and/or sloping angle suddenly changes does not exist from the smaller diameter end, to the larger diameter end adjacent to the inner ring raceway.