When designing bearings, competing requirements must be considered. For angular contact thrust ball bearings intended for use in screw drives, the most important factor is to provide a high degree of bearing stiffness while keeping the bearing friction at the lowest level.
A further requirement is the ability to cope with high speeds and rapid accelerations. Maintaining an adequate load-carrying cap-acity and providing high accuracy is typically taken for granted.
The new assortment of super-precision single direction angular contact thrust ball bearings for screw drives come with a combination of visible and invisible features: