Miniature ball bearings and miniature ball bearings are exceptionally crafted for use in a vast variety of areas. It’s specifically critical to acquire these bearings from very respected companies, such as NSK and Timken. If you don’t have a good quality product, then you are risking future dissapointment as your purchases are quite likely to fail. Natural weakening may be expected because of hard work, but amazingly, that is not often the case. Many times these types of bearings retire way too early!

Manufactured in stainless steel, the new ultra small ball bearings have the same high precision, durability and rigidity structure as all the other miniature ball bearings that Minebea manufactures. The width of 0.65mm can be slimmed down to 0.4mm for low speed. This ultra small ball bearing contains 6 balls with a diameter of 0.25mm.How small is small? With an outside diameter of 1.50mm, inside diameter of 0.50mm, width of 0.65mm, and capable of high speed rotation of more than 5,000 rpm, this new ultra small ball fag bearing is definitely tiny.

Applications for this new product will be in ultra small devices that require extreme precision on a nano scale, such as miniaturized medical devices, micro-motors, micro machines and others.With a 60% share of the global market, Minebea is the leading manufacturer of miniature ball bearings with outer diameter of less than 22mm. To this distinction we now add: the largest manufacturer of the world's smallest ball bearing.

small ball bearings are composed in a variety of parts, including an outer and inner ring, balls, retainers and snap rings. They may also have shields or seals, flanges and steel ball cages. Miniature ball bearings come in a number of different types. They can be radial ball bearings, designed for radial loads, which will be either deep groove or angular contact koyo bearings, or they can be axial bearings, designed for thrust loads. They can have flanges for stability or no flanges. They can be shielded or open. Shielded small bearings offer additional protection in both directions, as they help prevent contamination into the bearing and also help prevent lubrication leakage from the bearing into the application.

Smaller balls or rollers deform more sharply, and so tend to fatigue faster. Pressure-induced welding can occur when two metal pieces are pressed together at very high pressure and they become one. Although balls, rollers and races may look smooth, they are microscopically rough. Thus, there are high-pressure spots which push away the "miniature ball bearings" lubricant. Sometimes, the resulting metal-to-metal contact welds a microscopic part of the ball or roller to the race. As the bearing continues to rotate, the weld is then torn apart, but it may leave race welded to bearing or bearing welded to race.