US Patent 7926817 Sealing apparatus and bearing apparatus having the same

Patent 7926817 was granted and assigned to JTEKT on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

JTEKT

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7926817

Patent Inventor Names

Masahiro Tabata0

Kazutoshi Yamamoto0

Date of Patent

April 19, 2011

Patent Application Number

12068307

Date Filed

February 5, 2008

Patent Primary Examiner

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Vishal Patel

Patent abstract

A sealing apparatus includes a slinger which includes a cylindrical portion, and radially-extending portions and provided respectively at axially-opposite ends of the cylindrical portion and an elastic member which includes a base portion fixed to a surface of an inner radially-extending portion of a radially-extending core metal member, and a lip portion connected with the base portion. The lip portion is formed by a first axial lip contacting one radially-extending portion of the slinger and a second axial lip contacting the other radially-extending portion of the slinger. The elastic member is formed such that in an axial cross-section, the distance between a cylindrical portion-opposing surface of the elastic member radially opposed to the cylindrical portion and the cylindrical portion is increasing generally uniformly axially outward.