Patent 7101088 was granted and assigned to NTN on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cage of a cylindrical roller bearing includes an annular section, a plurality of pillars that extend axially in an integrated, continuous manner from the inside surface of the annular section, and a plurality of pockets, which are formed between the inner circumferential direction side faces of adjacent pillars, and hold the cylindrical rollers in a freely rotatable manner. The circumferential direction side faces of the pillars incorporate a circular arc surface formed in both the inside and outside diameter directions from the pocket PCD which passes through the pocket center of the pocket, and a roll-off section (lubricant reservoir) provided at the tip end inner circumferential section.