DOUGLAS F SMITH, MD
Osteopathic Medicine at Summit Square Pl, Lexington, KY

6457869, Oct 1, 2002

Sep 18, 2000

09/665199

Douglas H. Smith - Akron OH
Lloyd William Sparrow - Northampton, GB
Geoffrey William Branfield - Northampton, GB

The Timken Company - Canton OH

F16C 1900

384448

A wheel mounting includes an axle provided with a spindle, a hub located around the spindle, and an antifriction bearing located between the spindle and the hub for enabling the hub to rotate on the spindle with minimal friction. The axle also has a cylindrical ring seat located beyond its spindle and a shoulder located between the spindle and the ring seat. The ring seat has a stop located along it. The bearing has a cone located around the spindle, with its back face being against the shoulder, a cup located in the hub, and tapered rollers located between tapered raceways on the cone and cup. Beyond the large end of its raceway the cup is fitted with an excitor ring having a radial wall at the inboard end of the bearing. The ring seat carries a mounting ring having an axial wall provided with a formation that bears against the stop on the seat and an end edge that is against the back face of the inboard cone. Indeed, the axial wall is compressed between the back face of the inboard cone and the stop, so that the formation on the axial wall bears tightly against the stop on the ring seat.

6443622, Sep 3, 2002

Dec 23, 1999

09/446671

Alan Charles Webb - Northampton, GB
Peter Holland - Nottingham, GB
Peter Standring - West Bridgford, GB
Douglas H. Smith - Akron OH
Larry L. Bahney - North Canton OH

The Timken Company - Canton OH

F16C 1938

384448, 384537, 384585, 384589

A hub ( ) includes a spindle ( ) which projects through a housing ( ) and rotates relative to the housing ( ) on a bearing ( ) that is located between the spindle ( ) and the housing ( ). The bearing ( ) has two sets of raceways ( ) that are oblique to the axis x, and in addition rolling elements ( ) arranged in two rows between the sets of raceways ( ). The inner raceways ( ) that fit around the spindle ( ) and have back faces ( ), with the back face ( ) for one of the races ( ) being against a shoulder ( ) from which the spindle ( ) projects. Initially, the end of the spindle ( ) projects straight beyond the back face ( ) of the outer race—indeed, so that the races ( ) can be installed over the spindle ( ). But once the housing ( ) and races ( ) are in a position around the spindle ( ), the projecting end portion of the spindle ( ) is deformed radially and axially in a rotary forming operation such that it transforms into a formed end ( ) that lies behind back face ( ) of the race ( ). With the two races ( ) between the formed end ( ) and the shoulder ( ).

6702474, Mar 9, 2004

Jul 11, 2002

10/195025

Alan Charles Webb - Northampton, GB
Peter Holland - Nottingham, GB
Peter Standring - West Bridgford, GB
Douglas H. Smith - Akron OH
Larry L. Bahney - North Canton OH

The Timken Company - Canton OH

F16C 1938

384537, 384448

A hub ( ) includes a spindle ( ) which projects through a housing ( ) and rotates relative to the housing ( ) on a bearing ( ) that is located between the spindle ( ) and the housing ( ). The bearing ( ) has two sets of raceways ( ) that are oblique to the axis x, and in addition rolling elements ( ) arranged in two rows between the sets of raceways ( ). The inner raceways ( ) that fit around the spindle ( ) and have back faces ( ), with the back face ( ) for one of the races ( ) being against a shoulder ( ) from which the spindle ( ) projects. Initially, the end of the spindle ( ) projects straight beyond the back face ( ) of the outer race—indeed, so that the races ( ) can be installed over the spindle ( ). But once the housing ( ) and races ( ) are in a position around the spindle ( ), the projecting end portion of the spindle ( ) is deformed radially and axially in a rotary forming operation such that it transforms into a formed end ( ) that lies behind back face ( ) of the race ( ). With the two races ( ) between the formed end ( ) and the shoulder ( ).

6501382, Dec 31, 2002

Jun 11, 2001

09/878485

Kevin E. Rehfus - North Canton OH
Douglas H. Smith - Akron OH

Timken Company - Canton OH

G08B 1314

3405728, 3405721, 340539, 384459, 23546246

A product with an automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) device associated with a physical measurement, authentication code or operating condition of the product is disclosed. A bearing with an embedded transponder is illustratively described. The transponder contains data specific to the manufactured bearing, such as physical measurements or identification numbers.

6640438, Nov 4, 2003

May 11, 2001

09/854060

Alan Charles Webb - Northampton, GB
Peter Holland - Nottingham, GB
Peter Standring - West Bridgford, GB
Douglas H. Smith - Akron OH
Larry L. Bahney - North Canton OH

The Timken Company - Canton OH

B21D 5310

29894362, 29894361, 2989436, 2989807, 29898062, 29511, 2940708, 29715, 29724, 72 74, 72 82, 72 84, 72 85, 7237011

A hub ( ) includes a spindle ( ) which projects through a housing ( ) and rotates relative to the housing ( ) on a bearing ( ) that is located between the spindle ( ) and the housing ( ). The bearing ( ) has two sets of raceways ( ) that are oblique to the axis x, and in addition rolling elements ( ) arranged in two rows between the sets of raceways ( ). The inner raceways ( ) that fit around the spindle ( ) and have back faces ( ), with the back face ( ) for one of the races ( ) being against a shoulder ( ) from which the spindle ( ) projects. Initially, the end of the spindle ( ) projects straight beyond the back face ( ) of the outer race—indeed, so that the races ( ) can be installed over the spindle ( ). But once the housing ( ) and races ( ) are in a position around the spindle ( ), the projecting end portion of the spindle ( ) is deformed radially and axially in a rotary forming operation such that it transforms into a formed end ( ) that lies behind back face ( ) of the race ( ). With the two races ( ) between the formed end ( ) and the shoulder ( ).

2004016, Aug 26, 2004

Feb 23, 2004

10/784459

Alan Webb - Northampton, GB
Peter Holland - Nottingham, GB
Peter Standring - Nottingham, GB
Douglas Smith - Akron OH, US
Larry Bahney - North Canton OH, US

E21B010/00, F16C043/00

384/537000

A hub () includes a spindle () which projects through a housing () and rotates relative to the housing () on a bearing () that is located between the spindle () and the housing (). The bearing () has two sets of raceways () that are oblique to the axis x, and in addition rolling elements () arranged in two rows between the sets of raceways (). The inner raceways () that fit around the spindle () and have back faces (), with the back face () for one of the races () being against a shoulder () from which the spindle () projects. Initially, the end of the spindle () projects straight beyond the back face () of the outer race—indeed, so that the races () can be installed over the spindle (). But once the housing () and races () are in a position around the spindle (), the projecting end portion of the spindle () is deformed radially and axially in a rotary forming operation such that it transforms into a formed end () that lies behind back face () of the race (). With the two races () between the formed end () and the shoulder (). During the rotary forming operation the hub () rotates, and the end of its spindle () is forced against a rotating forming tool and the force is monitored. The housing () is restrained and the torque transferred from the rotating hub () to the housing () is monitored.

2003016, Sep 4, 2003

Mar 2, 2001

09/798188

Douglas Smith - Akron OH, US

The Timken Company

G06G007/00

705/050000

A method of sharing manufacturing data with a consumer of a product is disclosed. A unique identifying indicia, such as a serial number or bar code is associated with each manufactured product. That identifying indicia is detected by the consumer of the product, through communication with the manufacturer of the product, preferably via the Internet. The manufacturer maintains a record of both the unique identifying indicia and physical properties of the specific product corresponding to the unique identifying indicia. Upon receiving a request from the consumer of the product, the manufacturer communicates the desired physical properties of the specific product associated with the unique identifying indicia to the consumer. It is therefore possible for the consumer to avoid a step of precision physical measurement of the product, since the actual physical properties have been measured by the manufacturer and recorded previously.