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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2001
Franck Landrieve, Fondettes, FR;
SKF France, Montigny le Bretonneux, FR;
Abstract
The invention concerns a neutral point setting device for the rotating ring of a roller bearing ( ) provided with an inner ring ( ) and an outer ring ( ), one of the rings being integral with a fixed element ( ) and the other ring being integral with a rotating element ( ). The return device comprises springs designed to apply a return torque on the rotating ring to return it to the neutral point and means for limiting in two directions the rotation of the rotating ring. The device comprises a plate ( ) mounted rotatable relative to the fixed element and two helical springs, a first spring ( ) being arranged on one side of the plate ( ) and fixed thereon by its internal end, a second spring ( ) being arranged on the other side of the plate ( ) and fixed by its internal end on the fixed element, the external end of the first spring ( ) being linked, in a first direction, to the rotation of the rotating ring and the external end of the second spring ( ) being linked, in a second direction opposite to the first, to the rotation of the plate ( ), said device having a diameter not greater than the bore of the inner ring.