Something About Bearing Manufacturing Process

At present, parameters of the internal structureThe main problem is that the ripple is not
of China's sealed deep groove ball bearings arecontrolled.
almost the same as that of foreign products.As to the rings, most serious impacts on the
However, the level of vibration and noise of suchbearing vibration are the channel waviness and
products is very different from that of foreignsurface roughness. For example, if the circularity
products. It is mainly resulted from theof inside and outside channel of small and medium
manufacturing factors and working conditions.sized deep groove ball bearings is larger than
From the point of view of the bearing industry,2μm, it will have distinctive effect on the
the working condition factors can be consideredbearing vibration.
through making reasonable demands on the mainThe waviness is resulted from grinding as to the
engine. However, how to reduce vibration andsteel balls and rings. Although superfinishing can
noise that are caused by the manufacturing isimprove the waviness and decrease roughness,
become an urgent problem for the bearingthe most fundamental measure is to reduce the
industry.grinding process of waviness and avoid random
Many tests from home and abroad show that:bump and hurt.
the processing quality of the cage, bearing ring,How to reduce noise of ball bearings? There are
and steel balls has different effect on the bearingtwo points which should be taken into
vibration. Among all of them, the processingconsideration. One is the manufacturing process.
quality of steel balls has the most significantThe refinement of the manufacturing process
effect on the bearing vibration. The main factorsmainly refers to the shortness of the process and
that have influences are roundness of bearingthe combination of the process and
rings, the waviness, surface roughness andmanufacturing. The process of the manufacturing
surface bump and hurt.should be clean. Besides, bearings should be
The most prominent problem of China's steel ballproduced in a large scale for this can improve the
products is that vibration value is large. Thecompetitiveness in the world market. The other is
surface has serious defects (such as single point,the equipment. High-speed grinding, spindle
cluster points and pits). Even though the surfaceaccuracy, stiffness and many other detection
roughness, size, shape and errors are not lowerperformances have much impact on the grinding
than the level of outside rings, the bearingaccuracy and efficiency.
vibration value is very high after the combination.