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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2012
Applicant:
Nsk Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toshio Yoshida, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
NSK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 33/00 (2006.01); F16C 29/08 (2006.01); F16C 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 29/086 (2013.01); F16C 29/06 (2013.01); F16C 29/0609 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide a side seal capable of preventing the entrance of the foreign matter to the inside of the slider and the outflow of the lubricant without damaging or reducing the original function of the lip, and to provide a linear guide apparatus including the above described side seal. A linear guide apparatus () includes a side seal () attached to an end of the slider () in the axial direction and including a lip portion () coming into sliding contact with the guide rail (). The side seal () includes a thin film () coming into sliding contact with the guide rail () and filling a part of a gap () of the lip portion ().