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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2001
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a linear guide bearing apparatus wherein a separator is interposed between adjacent balls K and K moving following a curved circulating path , and the ball K contacts concave faces W of the separator T at both ends in an axial line direction and at the same time the ball K rolls as contacting a guide face of an outside guiding member and a guide face of an inside guiding member , the separator has an outer diameter larger than a maximum outer diameter L&phgr; under a condition where the ball rolls as simultaneously contacting both curved faces of the inside and the outside of the curved circulating path , and the radius of curvature of the guiding face in the curved circulating path is reduced to a size not contacting the separator T.