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Needle roller bearings, known for their long track record as reliable machine elements, are essential for designing radially compact bearing arrangements with very high load-carrying capacity. They typically have rollers that are at least four times longer than their diameter.
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Needle Roller Bearings are bearings that perform exceptionally well under high-speed conditions. Their needle rollers are guided by a special-shaped high-rigidity and precision retainer, ensuring extremely low dimensional tolerances. Despite having a smaller cross-sectional area, these bearings have a high load-carrying capacity, making them highly suitable for bearing configurations with limited radial space.
- Full complement needle roller type, which includes a complete set of needle rollers.
- The second, caged needle, contains a cage for roller guidance and spacing. Caged needle roller bearing have smaller roller assemblies and lower load capacities than full complement bearings. Their advantage is higher speed capacity; retainers prevent high-speed friction between adjacent needles and provide more efficient roller guidance. They also have greater lubricating capacity.
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The Outer ring for drawn cup needle roller bearings (DC type) is made of accurately formed cold-rolled steel strip. It is suitable for applications with limited space and housing that is not sufficiently hardened to serve as a raceway. There is no requirement for axial positioning when the DC needle roller bearing is pressed into the housing.
The drawn outer ring needle roller clutch is a kind of overrunning clutch (one-way clutch), which is composed of high-quality steel stamped outer ring, plastic cage, spring, and a needle roller, and transmits one-way torque.
The needle roller and cage assemblies are separate bearing elements. Each needle is precisely guided and held by a cage. It has the highest load-carrying capacity and high rigidity design in the smallest structure and space. The large distance between the two guide surfaces of the cage ensures precise guidance of the needle roller and cage assembly. Needle roller cage assemblies are suitable when the shaft and housing bore are used as raceways.
Thrust roller bearings are available in sizes from 5 mm to 240 mm (0.1969 – 9.4488 inches) and have a set of needle rollers held in place by a cage.
Solid ring needle roller bearings are compact in structure, small in the radial dimension, and high in carrying capacity. This is suitable for areas with limited radial overall size. It is also widely used for shafts or housings with oscillating motion. Needle roller bearings only bear radial loads and do not bear axial loads. When the shaft has an axial load, it can be used in combination with other bearings. However, it does not limit the axial displacement of the shaft or housing. Needle roller bearings have a low limit speed. When the main engine is running at high speed, try to use needle roller bearings with cages. Like other types of needle roller bearings, in the case of the same radial size, needle roller bearings have a large bearing capacity and high rigidity, but large friction torque.
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