Patent ID: 8459876

Claim:
A bearing assembly, comprising: a plurality of roller bodies having an end face, the end face having a flat central region and a single curved region continuously curving in a single axial direction away from a plane of the central region at each end of the central region; and a bearing ring having a raceway for the roller bodies and a lateral rim extending radially from an end of the raceway, the lateral rim axially guiding the roller bodies and having a rim running face opposing the roller bodies, and a corner region with a notch being formed between the raceway and the rim running face such that the notch and the rim running face merge with one another essentially without an edge, wherein the rim running face is subjected to a hard-turning process and is not ground, the raceway is ground, wherein only the curved regions of the roller bodies contact the rim running face at a single point and the central region of the roller bodies does not contact the rim running face.