What can needle roller bearings be combined with and what are the benefits of doing so?

Needle roller bearings can be combined with angular contact ball bearings, thrust ball bearings or cylindrical roller thrust bearings to provide axial load capacity in one or both directions.

These bearings are particularly suitable in applications where other arrangements would take up too much space, or where the application's operating conditions do not permit this.

Combined needle roller bearings are commonly found in:

• Mechanical pumps
• Marine applications
• Power tools
• Industrial machinery
• Steering columns
• Automatic and manual transmissions
• Power transmissions