Get To Know Various Angular Contact Ball Bearings and Their Uses In Industries

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You can find the bearing variants of angular contact ball bearings commonly used in different applications. They are fetched to use in applications that ask for supporting combined loads. There are numerous applications that use these bearings for their features.

With the displaced outer and inner ring washers relative to one another in the bearing-axial direction, an angular contact ball bearing is best designed to manage combined radial and axial loads acting concurrently. The increase in the contact angle helps increase the axial load handling capacity of this type of bearing. The contact angle is the line intersecting the points of contact of the ball and raceway washers on the radial plane.

The bearing enables the distribution of the combined loads, along the contact surface area to the ring washers in a line perpendicular on the bearing axis.

Some Common Types of Angular Contact Ball Bearings Used in Applications

An angular contact ball bearing is known for a few typical bearing designs and they are:

1.    Single Row Angular Contact Ball Bearings

Featured to handle one-directional axial loads, a single-row angular contact ball bearing allows a general adjustment against another similar bearing to suit different applications. The other distinguishing feature of it is a non-separable lower and upper shoulders of the rings to enable adjusted arrangements using only one bearing unit without any easy mounting of it possible being adjacent to each other.

Having a large number of rollers incorporated in the lower shoulder, the single row angular contact bearing has the capability of carrying heavy loads. While in operation, it allows rapid accelerations, as well as deceleration at high speeds.

2.    Double Row Angular Contact Ball Bearings

You can have a double-row angular contact ball bearing with two single-row angular contact ball bearings placed back-to-back. It helps accommodate loads, both axial and radial, in both directions and also when the bearing unit undergoes tilting. The uniqueness in the design is due to the bearing’s stiff arrangement, which provides varying performance capabilities, as well as tolerances.

By using less axial space, the bearing is mostly sought-after in applications which require two single-row angular contact ball bearings, which occupies a lot of axial space by using back-to-back. The large number of ball rollers used make the bearing suitable for managing heavy loads.

3.    Four-Point Contact Ball Bearings

Designed to have radial single-row angular contact ball bearings, as well as ring washers, a four-point contact ball bearings manage two-directional axial loads. There are two halves of inner rings giving a separable design. You can interchange the components, where the ball rollers, outer ring and a cage assembly can be dismounted and mounted.

Know Where the Angular Contact Ball Bearings Are Used

You can find various types of angular contact ball bearings used in applications like electric motors, industrial pumps, material handling, compressors, and so on.