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In a ball bearing [link], we will assume that there are four lines on the races along which the balls make contact, two on the
inner and two on the outer races (as in the second illustration in the article, captioned "a 4-point angular contact ball
bearing"). Now, we'll make half of one race out
of a different material, such that that different material is what's in contact
with the balls along one of those four lines. This different material has a slightly higher or lower coefficient of rolling
resistance with the bearing balls, compared to the material used for the other three-quarters of the races. The result is that
the balls turn sideways (each one about a bearing-radial axis passing through its center) in a slow and somewhat controlled
fashion as the bearing rotates. This has the obvious advantage of evening out wear over the surface of each ball, which
could result in a longer-lived bearing.
Another, less obvious, advantage is that, in the application of a ball-bearing motor [link], each spot on each ball has a
longer time of non-contact with the races between each moment of contact, as the bearing rotates. This means it has more
time to cool down before needing to heat up again. This should increase the ball-bearing motor's endurance. (It often stops
after only a few seconds of operation, due to the bearing balls overheating and expanding all over, meaning they can't
expand at the contact points anymore, meaning there's no driving force for the motor. However, my contention is that the
bearing balls don't actually expand all over, just around the ring that's been in contact with the races since the motor was
started. If the balls are made to rotate sideways as well as rolling, this heating should be spread out over more of each ball's
surface.)
N/A [2019-09-25]
Wikipedia: Ball bearing
https://en.wikipedi...g/wiki/Ball_bearing
Mentioned in idea body [notexactly, Sep 25 2019]
Mike's Electric Stuff: Ball-Bearing Motor
http://electricstuff.co.uk/bbmotor.html
Mentioned in idea body [notexactly, Sep 25 2019]
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// This has the obvious advantage of evening out wear over the surface of each ball // |
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No it doesn't, because with the existing symmetric design the rotation (libration? ) of the balls is pseudo-random; if you introduce a deliberate asymmetry, then the wear will also become predictably asymmetric, and the bearing will fail sooner. |
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// with the existing symmetric design the rotation (libration? ) of the balls is
pseudo-random // |
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Ideally, yes. But, once a spot or a ring on ball wears down a little bit, won't the ball favor
that spot or ring for further contact, since it's narrower in that axis? Won't that cause
positive feedback in uneven wear? If it's a ring that it favors, which seems more likely,
that positive feedback will be even stronger, because it will be very easy to stay in that
rut; it'll start to act like a roller bearing. |
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As well, my forced rotation of the balls still isn't entirely deterministic. There's still a
random component; it just forces that random component to be more uniformly
spread out. |
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//Asymmetric ball-bearing races// Hitler would have won. |
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So no betting or unique carving and coatings. |
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