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A wide variety of industrial and manufacturing machinery still rely on the ubiquitous ball bearing and bearing assemblies as essential motion control parts. These days, more compact, lighter thin section bearings have been developed in response.
The fast-growing needs of robotics and sophisticated automation, and these high-precision parts have become crucial in a variety of sectors. As an illustration, consider the manufacture of camera gimbals, optical lenses, satellite systems, defence products, and semiconductors.
Without bearings, it is hard to envision how the contemporary industrial period would have evolved. Every machine that needs to move uses bearings in some capacity to smooth its motion and lower friction, and this crucial piece of technology has a lengthy and well-documented history that dates back to the Stone Age.
At the beginning of the industrial period, when Philip Vaughan got a patent for a ball bearing made of steel whose design established the fundamental framework for today’s ball bearing, better metal forming methods assisted in a significant advancement in the development of bearings.
The Global thin section bearings market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
To minimise friction, save weight, utilise less space, enhance design freedom, and ensure excellent running accuracy, thin section bearings were created. These bearings may fulfil very particular and rigorous criteria.
They are often utilised in fields including machine tools, robotics, astronomy instruments, and aircraft. In comparison to normal-sized bearings, our design efficiency can result in considerable space, weight, and cost reductions.
Find out more about our extensive selection of thin-section bearings, materials, cage/separator options, cross-sections, internal clearance or preload options, lubricants, corrosion resistance options, contact angles, and tolerance classes. Additionally, our thin-section bearings may be modified to fit your unique performance needs.
The Kaydon brand, which joined the SKF portfolio, is used to market thin-section bearings. In a variety of sectors, Kaydon thin section bearings have a long history of effectively satisfying some of the most demanding application requirements.
The Kaydon Thin Section Bearings’ small design and lightweight not only fulfil modern robot age standards but frequently do so better than traditional ones. In many situations, space and weight can be reduced by more than 80% with the slim all-rounders from Rodriguez while maintaining great performance and accuracy.
You may learn more about thin section bearings here, including new advancements, uses, and information. The loads are minimised to a few Rolling components distributed over a vast diameter using a typical bearing. On the other hand, a greater number of smaller rolling elements are used over a bigger area with the extremely compact thin section bearing from the drive experts at Eschweiler.
As a result, the structure has an extraordinary stiffness and load-bearing capacity that is comparable to the functionality of standard ball bearings and more than adequate for many applications.
There are 27 3,175mm-diameter balls in a standard thin section bearing with a bore of 50,8mm and a width of 6,35mm. It can support a static axial load of 770 kg. The weight is divided among many balls in a good storage system. Additionally, it maintains the static limit commonly used in the sector for the Hertzian pressure. Precision is not compromised in any way for those who employ thin section bearings. There are thin section bearings in the renowned ABEC accuracy grades 1 to 7.
Industry standards have also been established for thin-section bearings. Before final assembly at the customer’s, these enable the extraordinarily large diameter and flexibility of the inner and outer rings.
The precision can still be raised by modifying the running and starting torque refined careers or through bearings with Ceramic Balls is kept lower. Bearings with thin sections are very adaptable building materials.
They enable the entire storage system to be scaled back in terms of both price and size. For instance, one can save 85% of the space and 83% of the weight by using a thin section bearing rather than a 6010 standard ball bearing.
The even thinner can result in even greater cost reductions. Bearings with an ultra-thin section achieve: Up to 97% of the volume and 99,9% of the weight can be removed. Types A, C, and X of thin-section bearings include angular contact ball bearings, radial bearings, and four-point bearings. Applications requiring low torque and great precision can benefit from Types A and C.
Though it is regarded as a problem solver in many applications, Type X is infrequently found in bearings with normal dimensions. It is necessary to consider a variety of variables, including the type and alignment of the thin section bearing, the size and direction of the operating loads, the permitted amount of free bearing play, and the maximum torque allowed.
