Patent ID: 7931404

Claim:
A bearing device comprising: a shaft; a sleeve for supporting the shaft so as to be rotatable freely; and a housing having a through hole into which the sleeve is inserted, wherein a circumferential groove extending in a circumferential direction is formed on either one surface of an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve and an inner circumferential surface of the housing that confronts with the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve, and wherein a gap is provided between the circumferential groove and a circumferential surface confronting with the circumferential groove, and wherein an axial groove that extends approximately in parallel to a central axis of the sleeve is formed on either one surface of the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve and the inner circumferential surface of the housing, and wherein a gap is provided between the axial groove and a circumferential surface confronting with the axial groove, and further wherein the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve is glued to the inner circumferential surface of the housing by adhesive that intervenes in both the circumferential groove and the axial groove.