SLIDE GUIDE AND ITS ROLLER CHAIN WITH ENDS

摘要

A slide guide such as a linear guide for endless slide, a curve guide, or a turning bearing, particularly of the type in which a roller chain with ends for supporting linear motion or rotary motion is inserted into an endless track. The slide guide comprises a track rail having a rolling path of rollers in a longitudinal direction, a load rolling path opposite to the rolling path, a non-load rolling path for circulating the rollers from one of the ends to the other of the load rolling path, moving bodies moving along the track rail, and a large number of rollers bearing a load, rolling between the moving bodies and the track rail, and circulating in an endless track including the load rolling path and the non-load rolling path. The rollers are rollably arranged in line at predetermined intervals on one or more flexible connecting belts and assembled together with the connecting belts into the endless track of the track of the slide member. The connecting belt circulates with the balls inside the endless track of the slide member while both ends of the connecting belt oppose each other.