Patent ID: 7316168

Claim:
A rolling bearing comprising: inner and outer rings having opposing, cooperating curved raceways and each ring having an inner and an outer diameter; a plurality of rolling bodies arranged between the raceways for rolling along the raceways in a circumferential direction of the bearing rings and the rolling bodies also being movable in an axial direction of the bearing rings upon application of a force to the rings; a plurality of strain gauge sensors arranged on at least one of the outer diameter of the outer ring and the inner diameter of the inner ring, wherein each of the strain gauge sensors comprises a plurality of circumferentially extending, conductor track sections arranged in a row of the sections in the axial direction of the bearing rings, and the lengths in the circumferential direction of two adjacent ones of the conductor track sections of the strain gauge sensor differ such that positions of the rolling bodies in the axial direction are detectable by the sensors.