US 12,272,516 B2
Rotary anode bearing assembly and rotary anode for X-ray tube and method for assembling a rotary anode bearing assembly
Florian Weber, Leutkirch (DE); Peter Andreas Muller, Leutkirch (DE); and Alfred Sipple, Leutkirch (DE)
Assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC., Nagano (JP)
Filed by MINEBEA MITSUMI INC., Nagano (JP)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/701,457.
Claims priority of application No. 102021204081.0 (DE), filed on Apr. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0344122 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H01J 35/10 (2006.01); H05G 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01J 35/1024 (2019.05) [H05G 1/02 (2013.01); H01J 2235/1006 (2013.01); H01J 2235/1046 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rotary anode bearing assembly for an tube,
comprising at least one bearing outer ring and rolling elements arranged inside the at least one bearing outer ring, which robin elements roll on the at least one bearing outer ring and enclose a radially inner receiving space for receiving a rotor of an X-ray tube,
comprising a bearing housing in which the at least one bearing outer ring is mounted, wherein the bearing housing circumferentially surrounds the at least one bearing outer ring;
characterized in that
an end face of at least one bearing outer ring or of a caulking ring axially adjoining the hearing outer ring is caulked with an end face of the bearing, housing by plastic deformation of material of the bearing housing and/or of the ba atinz outer nng and; or of the caulking ring.