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NSK Developed New Series Of Spherical Roller Bearings

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Mar 08,2006
NSK has developed a new series of high-performance spherical roller bearings, the HPS Series, to meet a wide spectrum of needs for a variety of industries. The HPS Series offers innovative performance with twice the running life compared to conventional bearings of the same size, and a maximum limiting running speed that has been improved by up to 20%. The HPS Series provides users with significant benefits by reducing maintenance costs, energy costs, and enabling downscaling of product design. * HPS design provides longer life by minimising slippage - compared with other types of bearings, spherical roller bearings (SRB) have a high load capacity and self-aligning feature that allows for some misalignment of the axis of rotation. The unitised design of the bearings enables easy handling and installation, making them widely popular across a wide range of industries, including steel, pulp and paper, transportation, extraction and construction, which require durability and smooth running performance. Key to the self-aligning performance of SRB is the spherical profile of the bearing rollers acting in the bearing inner and outer ring raceways. However, under rotation these geometrical forms interact to produce slippage at the contact surface points between the raceways and rollers. With its HPS design, NSK has clarified for the first time in the world the mechanism that causes slippage and creates high friction on the surface, leading eventually to damage due to surface fatigue. NSK further verified, by theoretical analysis and bench testing, that the friction can be reduced by controlling the motion of rotating rollers; and that a special surface treatment of the outer ring is effective in achieving this. Based upon these findings, NSK developed mass-production technology and bearings, which can minimise slippage to prolong running life by more than twice that of conventional products. * Higher limiting running speed - the cage of a spherical roller bearing is also an important component that plays a major role in the performance the bearing. Therefore, the cage must have high dimensional accuracy and functionality. NSK has applied a special nitriding surface treatment to the high-precision pressed steel cage of the HPS series, which can significantly reduce wear in harsh operating environments. Compared with usual nitriding, NSK's treatment forms a finer and harder surface with more uniform hardness. Since the special treatment is conducted at high temperatures, the dimensional accuracy of the cage is inevitably affected. NSK has solved this difficult problem, and has achieved a means of ensuring high accuracy of the cage after treatment. As a result, the problem of cage wear under conditions of continuous running at high speeds, which restricted any increase of the limiting speed of the bearing, has been solved. This is evidenced by the 20% increase in limiting speed achieved by the HPS series design. The high durability and superb running performance of the HPS Series of spherical roller bearings are a result of consolidated technologies developed by NSK using the latest analysis technology, severity testing, and refined production methods. Initially, 42 sizes with outside diameters ranging from 80mm to 260mm will be marketed globally by NSK for a wide variety of industries and applications.
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