Patent ID: 8821028

Claim:
Axial bearing assembly, comprising two axial rolling bearings between which a circular ring-shaped carrier part is arranged, the circular ring-shaped carrier part having two axial sides, each of the axial rolling bearings has a first ring-shaped bearing disk adjacent to one of the axial sides of the carrier part and a second ring-shaped bearing disk provided for attachment to other components of a surrounding construction arranged axially on both sides of the carrier part, each of the bearing disks is made from a thin steel sheet and a plurality of rolling bodies arranged one next to another roll between axial inner sides of the bearing disks, the rolling bodies are each held by a bearing cage at a uniform spacing to each other and together form a needle-roller assembly, additional recesses are arranged on an inner diameter of the circular ring-shaped carrier part and the first bearing disks of both axial rolling bearings are connected to each other in a manner that prevents faulty assembly and are also attached on the carrier part in a captive and rotationally locked manner by a centering collar guided through the inner diameter of the carrier part on one of the first bearing disks and also by outward moldings on the centering collar of the one of the first bearing disks, wherein the outward moldings are complementary to the recesses on the carrier part, and by inward moldings on an inner diameter side of the other of the first bearing disks, wherein the inward moldings are complementary to the outward moldings on the centering collar, so that the carrier part together with the first bearing disks and the needle-roller assemblies located thereon are inherently alignable via the inward modlings, the outward moldings, and the recesses to form a pre-assembled unit.