Cageless, Multilayered, Full Complement Axial Ball Bearing

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A new bearing concept I've recently been inspired into designing and modelling now that I've started modelling or remodelling bearing concepts I actually originally came up with back in 2014. This particular design isn't one I came up with back then.It's very similar to the 'Cageless, Multilayered, Full Complement Radial-Axial Ball Bearing - design 01' bearing concept but this design is mainly focused on predominantly axially laden applications.As such, there are two important differences between that design and this one. 1. This bearing's races are separated by a planar cut perpendicular to the bearing's shaft axis, rather than by a circular/cylindrical cut concentric with that axis.Consequently, the bearing shell's two halves are fully symmetrical to each another, as opposed to being concentric - with one smaller than the other and situated inside the larger one.2. Although all of the bearing's spherical rolling elements have the same radius, in this particular design, the spheres in the inner layer are grouped closed together both along the bearing's circumference and axially, along the bearing's shaft axis. Rather than just being packed closer together along the circumference only.Conversely, the spheres in the outer layer are spaced further apart, both along the bearing's circumference and axially as well. Again, as opposed to only being packed looser along the circumference and not axially as well.Thus, the spheres in the inside and outside layers are positioned such that they would be tangent to the surfaces of two cones which are themselves concentric with the bearing, opposed at the tip to each other and whose tips touch at the bearing's centre of symmetry.