Patent ID: 7419302

Claim:
A linear guide device comprising: a guide rail having a rolling element guide face; a slider arranged capable of being moved relatively with respect to the guide rail, having a load rolling element guide face forming a rolling element track passage together with the rolling element guide face being opposed to the rolling element guide face, also having a pair of direction change passages respectively continuing to both end portions of the rolling element tack passage, also having a rolling element return passage communicated with the pair of the direction change passages; and a plurality of rolling elements rolling and circulating in an infinite circulating passage composed of the rolling element track passage, the pair of direction change passage and the rolling element return passage; and a rolling element accommodating belt having a plurality of rolling element accommodating sections for individually accommodating the rolling elements, the rolling element accommodating belt accommodating the rolling elements in the rolling element accommodating sections and aligning the rolling elements in an aligning direction in the infinite circulating passage, the rolling element accommodating belt having end portions, wherein the linear guide device has a plurality of rows of infinite circulating passages, and the phase of an end portion of the rolling element accommodating belt of at least one row of the plurality of rows of the infinite circulating passages in the aligning direction is different from the phase of the end portion of the rolling element accommodating belt of the other infinite circulating passage in the aligning direction.