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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2004
Soichiro Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Akiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Soichiro Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Akiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A separator for use in a linear guide having a guide rail, a slider disposed on the guide rail so as to move relatively each other, and a plurality of roller-shaped rolling elements incorporated in the slider, the separator has a separator main body having, on both sides in a front and rear direction thereof, recessed surface sections which contact circumferential sections of the rolling elements; and at least a pair of arm sections provided parallel to each other on both sides of the separator main body while being oriented in the same direction, wherein a length of the arm section is equal or shorter than a distance between centers of two adjacent rolling elements with the separator main body sandwiched therebetween, with respect to a lateral direction of the separator main-body.