Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics - Bearings and Tolerance Rings Housing Variable Tolerance Rings RENCOL® HV

The RENCOL® HV style ring is "open" in the free state so that when installed inside a bore, the ring will conform to that bore and be self retaining. The ring sits in the housing with waves on the inside to be compressed by the outer diameter of the mating part. The RENCOL® Tolerance Ring is a precision spring steel device, comprising a thin strip into which corrugations, or waves, are formed, each of which will act as a spring. This strip is then rolled into a ring. Within the elastic limit of the waves that make up a tolerance ring, simple spring theory applies i.e. Force (N) -- F = K · c