The Cam Follower is a compact and highly rigid bearing with a shaft. It contains needle rollers and
is used as a guide roller for cam mechanisms or straight motion.
Since its outer ring rotates while keeping direct contact with the mating surface, this product is thickwalled and designed to bear an impact load.
Inside the outer ring, needle rollers and a precision cage are incorporated. This prevents the product
from skewing and achieves a superb rotation performance. And, as a result, the product is capable
of easily withstanding high-speed rotation.
There are two types of the outer ring in shape: spherical and cylindrical. The spherical outer ring
easily absorbs a distortion of the shaft center when the cam follower is installed and helps lighten a
biased load.
The Cam Follower is used in a wide range of applications such as cam mechanisms of automatic
machines, dedicated machines as well as carrier systems, conveyors, bookbinding machines, tool
changers of machining centers, pallet changers, automatic coating machines, and sliding forks of
automatic warehouses.