Patent ID: 9322430
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: F01L,F16C

Claim Text:
1. A bearing arrangement for a camshaft, comprising: a bearing frame that cannot be disassembled into multiple bearing frame segments such that the bearing frame is a non-split bearing frame, the bearing frame having an inner frame surface configured to receive an outer sleeve; a rolling element cage having inner and outer cage surfaces and having first and second axial cage ends, the rolling element cage having a cage edge disposed on the first axial cage end which extends radially outwardly from the outer cage surface, the rolling element cage having a radially compressible cage protrusion proximate the second axial cage end which extends radially outwardly from the outer cage surface; and the outer sleeve having inner and outer sleeve surfaces and having first and second axial sleeve ends, a sleeve edge is disposed on the first axial sleeve end and extends radially outwardly from the outer sleeve surface, the second axial sleeve end having a same diameter as the outer sleeve surface, the bearing frame, the rolling element cage and the outer sleeve are configured such that the outer sleeve surface is disposed radially within the inner frame surface, and the cage outer surface is located radially within the inner sleeve surface, and the second axial sleeve end of the outer sleeve is disposed axially adjacent to the cage edge of the rolling element cage while the radially compressible cage protrusion of the rolling element cage axially abuts the sleeve edge of the outer sleeve without abutting the bearing frame, wherein the rolling element cage is configured to have the camshaft positioned therethrough.