Overview Of Ball Bearings
A ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that serves three main functions while it facilitates motion: it carries loads, reduces friction and positions moving machine parts. They can bear both radial and axial loads, so they can be developed for many different applications, load types, and speeds.
Ball bearings are usually made of different materials such as stainless steel, ceramic, or chrome steel, but the materials and overall design can vary greatly depending on the specific job at hand. The bearing materials can also include flanges, cages, and multi-row bearings to achieve higher performance to meet specific application requirements.
Features of Ball Bearings
The inner ring of this type of bearing has two raceways and the outer ring has a single spherical raceway with its center of curvature coincident with the bearing axis. Therefore, the axis of the inner ring, balls, and cage can deflect to some extent around the bearing center.
Applications of Ball Bearings:
Different types of ball bearings may have different applications, let’s check them out:
Angular Contact Bearings: designed to work under combined radial and axial loads.
Axial Bearings: also called thrust ball bearings, these are designed to work under the force applied parallel to the bearing's axis, or thrust loads.
Deep-Groove Bearings: designed to carry both radial and light axial loads.
Linear Bearings: designed to allow movement in one direction along a linear axis.
Self-aligning Ball Bearings: bearings with two sets of balls that are self-aligning and to carry both radial and light axial loads.
High-Speed Angular Contact Bearings: another type of precision ball bearing is a high-speed angular contact bearing. As the name implies, high-speed bearings are designed to handle high RPMs with precision and accuracy.
BMB Bearings (Linqing Baoma Bearing Co., Ltd.) is an ISO 9001 certified company and a leading supplier of ball bearings and bearing related products across a large spectrum of customers, primarily OEMs and major distributors. If you are looking for ball bearings, please feel free to contact us.
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