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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2004
Soichiro Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Wei Xu, Kanagawa, JP;
Soichiro Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Wei Xu, Kanagawa, JP;
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A linear guide apparatus has: a guide rail; a slider including a slider body; and a pair of end caps; a guide groove guiding the arm portions of the separators in a circulation direction of the cylindrical rollers when the cylindrical rollers circulate through the pair of the rolling element rolling grooves, the direction change paths, and the rolling element path; and separators each having: a separator body; and an arm portion integrally formed on the separator body, wherein a width of the guide groove is larger than that of the arm portions, the width of the guide groove in a region of each of the direction change paths is larger than that in a region where the cylindrical rollers linearly move, and end portions of each of the arm portions are Chamfered and directed in the circulation direction.