Patent ID: 7066467
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: F16C,F16J

Abstract:
1. A sealing device for use on a side of an impeller of a water pump bearing configured by using a pump shaft as an inner race, said impeller being attached to one end of said pump shaft, a pulley being attached to an other end of said pump shaft, and by externally attaching an outer race via rolling elements to an outer peripheral face of said pump shaft, the sealing device comprising: an annular slinger having an inner cylindrical portion, a disk portion which is extended in a radial direction, and an outer cylindrical portion which is extended from an outer periphery of said disk portion toward said other end of said pump shaft in an axial direction, said inner cylindrical portion being positioned axially adjacent to a shoulder portion provided at a one end of said outer race in the axial direction and externally fitted and fixed to said outer peripheral face of said pump shaft; an annular seal member which is fixed to said shoulder portion, an intermediate portion of said seal member having a section shape which is bent into an approximate U-shape in a region corresponding radially along said disk portion of said slinger, a closed end of said approximate U-shape extending axially from a remainder of said annular seal member in a direction towards said disk portion such that a labyrinth seal portion is thereby formed between said seal member, and said disk portion and said outer cylindrical portion of said slinger, said annular seal member further including at least one radial lip disposed on an inner periphery of said seat member, said labyrinth seal portion defining a gap between said seal member and said slinger which extends continuously from said inner periphery of said seal member to said outer cylindrical portion of said slinger; and said annular seal being without a lip projection extending from said intermediate portion to said slinger.