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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2005
Yoshinobu Akamatsu, Kuwana, JP;
Masatsugu Mori, Kuwana, JP;
Takuji Kobayashi, Kuwana, JP;
Sun-woo Lee, Kuwana, JP;
Yoshinobu Akamatsu, Kuwana, JP;
Masatsugu Mori, Kuwana, JP;
Takuji Kobayashi, Kuwana, JP;
Sun-Woo Lee, Kuwana, JP;
NTN Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A rolling bearing assembly has an inner race, an outer race and a plurality of rolling elements interposed between respective raceway surfaces of the inner and outer races. A stationary raceway member, which is one of the inner and outer races that are a raceway member and which is non-rotatable, is provided with a stepped face continued with the corresponding raceway surface and located in a direction away from the rolling elements, and is also provided with a gap defining piece having a tip held in face-to-face relation to the stepped face with a gap intervening between it and the stepped face and defining a flow path between a peripheral wall thereof and the stationary raceway member; there being provided a grease reservoir communicated with the flow path.