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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2008
Masatoshi Kondo, Mino, JP;
Masatoshi Kondo, Mino, JP;
Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inside seal is installed in a recess open downward in the slider to keep load-carrying races kept free of foreign materials that have already crept into the inside of the slider. The inside seal is composed of a metallic core and a sealing member that includes a joint portion secured to the core and a major portion integral with the joint portion. The joint portion has a mating surface to come into engagement with a downward surface deep inside the recess cut in a carriage while the major portion includes a first lip to come into sliding engagement with a guide rail, a second lip come into abutment against an inward sidewall of the recess, and third lip to come into abutment against the downward surface.