RELIANCE ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110135234 | Two-Piece Bearing Cage with Side Face Grease Carrying Cavities - A retainer portion of a cage of a bearing has a plurality of spokes and web sections extending between an outer ring section and an inner ring section with a plurality of cavities formed on an annular side face of the retainer portion. The cavities communicate with socket portions formed in the retainer portion to provide lubrication to rotational elements of the bearing. A latch and catch mechanism secures like retainer portions together to form a cage of the bearing. | 06-09-2011 |
20110130209 | Flexible Coupling Assembly with Embedded Torque Transmitting Elements - A flexible coupling element for connecting two shafts in a coaxial alignment has a resilient member with an inner surface and an outer surface. The resilient member inner surface has a plurality of notches adapted to receive connection members projecting axially from respective ends of the shaft. The resilient member has a plurality of torque-transmitting elements disposed between the notches. The torque-transmitting elements are more rigid than the resilient members, thereby allowing the torque to be transmitted between the two shafts in the event the flexible element fails. | 06-02-2011 |
20100316318 | Outer Ring Seal for a Bearing and Method of Installing the Same - A bearing has an outer ring with an annular side face with an outer ring raceway on an inner peripheral surface of the outer ring and an interface formed on an outer peripheral surface at an axial end portion of the outer ring adjacent the annular side face. A compressible element is disposed at the interface. A seal carrier is deformingly connected to the outer ring with a portion of the seal carrier conforming to the interface with the compressible element disposed therebetween forming a seal between the outer ring and the portion of the seal carrier attached thereto. | 12-16-2010 |
20100150748 | Method of Installing a Permanent Magnet Motor in a Cooling Tower and a Shroud Used in Connection Therewith - A method comprises providing a motor with a stator comprising a plurality of laminations stacked side to side to form a contiguous stator core with each of the laminations having a plurality of radial fins projecting outward from a periphery of the lamination, and a rotor with permanent magnets spaced about the rotor configured to synchronously magnetically couple with a rotating magnetic field in the stator. The method further comprises providing a cooling tower with a fan disposed therein having a shaft extending from a center of the fan for rotating the fan. The motor is installed in the cooling tower such that the rotor of the motor is coupled directly to the fan shaft and rotates the fan when the motor is energized during normal operation of the cooling tower. | 06-17-2010 |
20100046874 | Extension Member for a Flinger of a Bearing - A bearing is disclosed comprising an inner ring concentrically disposed with an outer ring with rotational elements therebetween adapted for allowing rotational movement of the inner ring relative to the outer ring. A flinger may be secured to the inner ring having an extension member formed from a resilient material. The extension member may extend radially outward from the flinger along an axial side of the bearing and engages a portion of a side face of the outer ring during operation of the bearing. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046867 | Waveform Expansion Sleeve for a Bearing - A bearing is disclosed. The bearing has an inner ring concentrically disposed with an outer ring with rotational elements therebetween adapted for allowing rotational movement of the inner ring relative to the outer ring. The outer ring has a crowned outer surface. A waveform expansion sleeve is disposed about the outer ring. The waveform expansion sleeve has a cylindrical outer surface dimensioned to be received in a bore of a bearing housing and an inner surface with a profile matching the outer ring outer surface. The waveform expansion sleeve has an undulating radial cross-section sufficient to exert radial pressure at its inner surface against the outer ring outer surface when mounted in the bore of the bearing housing to sufficiently secure the bearing in the housing. The expansion sleeve inner surface forms a seal with the outer ring outer surface when the bearing is installed in the bearing housing. | 02-25-2010 |