Patent ID: 8292508

Claim:
A bearing arrangement comprising: a bearing outer element that defines a first plurality of races opening radially inwardly; a bearing inner element that defines a second plurality of races opening radially outwardly; a bearing middle element defining a third plurality of races at a radially outer surface thereof and a fourth plurality of races at a radially inner surface thereof; and sets of rolling elements receivable in said first, second, third, and fourth pluralities of races; wherein said bearing middle element includes an axial protrusion of reduced outer diameter at least at one end thereof that surrounds the bearing inner element and is securable by press-fitting to a housing with respect to which the bearing outer and inner elements are rotatable and the bearing middle element is non-rotatably connected, and a circumferentially extending wall, at a junction of the axial protrusion and a remainder of the bearing middle element, abuttable with the housing for proper relative positioning of the bearing middle element and the housing.