摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set up at low cost a rolling bearing without causing permanent deformation (plastic deformation) in the inner and the outer rings. <P>SOLUTION: The rolling bearing comprises an inner ring 2 and an outer ring 4 oppositely placed so as to be capable of relative rotation, and a specified number of rolling elements (balls) 6 (6a, 6n) arranged rotatably between the raceways 2s, 4s respectively of the inner and the outer rings. In setting up the rolling bearing, the inner ring and the outer ring are relatively eccentrically placed in the same plane, and in the state of constituting a nearly crescent-shaped space G between the inner and the outer rings, the specified number of rolling elements are inserted one by one in the space G to arrange the rolling elements along the outer-ring raceway. Prior to or subsequent to the insertion of the specified number of rolling elements, in the state in which the inner ring or both the inner and the outer rings are elastically deformed along the direction of the inner and the outer rings being eccentric, the inner and the outer rings are relatively moved to the positions where the centers of the inner and the outer rings coincide with each other. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |