Porous Member Patents (Class 384/902)
  • Patent number: 11739813
    Abstract: A planetary reduction gear using a helical gear is configured such that a rear-stage sun gear is rotatably supported by a device housing via a radial bearing on one side in the direction of a center axis, and is rotatably supported by a rear-stage planetary carrier via a thrust bearing on the other side. The rear-stage planetary carrier is rotatably supported by the device housing via a rear-stage carrier bearing. A preload is applied to the thrust bearing by a preload mechanism mounted to the rear-stage planetary carrier. Displacement of the rear-stage sun gear caused by a thrust force generated due to engagement with a rear-stage planetary gear can be suppressed, and an angle error between input rotation and output rotation can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Isobe, Kenta Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9033320
    Abstract: An anti-vibration rubber member includes: a rubber elastic body that is made of a self-lubricating rubber containing an elastomer and a bleeding lubricant; a coating film that covers at least a portion of a sliding inner surface that is among a surface of the rubber elastic body and disposed on an inner side of the sliding surface, contains a resin having a mercapto group, is deformable to follow up deformation of the rubber elastic body, and is formed with a plurality of minute holes capable of reserving the bleeding lubricant which has oozed out of the rubber elastic body; and a lubricating film that covers at least a portion of a surface of the coating film, is formed to include the bleeding lubricant penetrating the coating film from the rubber elastic body and oozing onto the surface of the coating film, and forms at least a portion of the sliding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, STT INC.
    Inventors: Yorikazu Nakamura, Hiroyuki Matsumura, Takahisa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8821022
    Abstract: Provided are a novel sliding bearing and a construction machine provided with same, the sliding bearing being capable of maintaining an excellent sliding performance over a long period of time and exhibiting an excellent strength. A sliding bearing includes at least a brush and a shaft part, the shaft part being provided with a grease feeding pathway for feeding grease from the exterior to the sliding surfaces of the shaft part and the bush, the bush being formed from a porous sintered metal, and a decomposition catalyst being adhered to the sliding surface of the bush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Akita, Osamu Gokita, Shigeyuki Sakurai, Yasuchika Nagai
  • Patent number: 8696205
    Abstract: A sliding bearing for structural engineering applications, in particular for civil works such as bridges, buildings, structures that are required at the same time to withstand vertical loads and to allow relative movements and/or rotations, and structures to be protected against seismic events, said bearing having a low friction coefficient and being suitable for being used in severe operating conditions, both due to the loads applied and to particularly high operating temperatures. The bearing, which is of the type comprising a first part (2) connected to a supporting structure (P), a second part (3) connected to an element (G) to be supported by the supporting structure (P) and means suitable for allowing said second part (3) to translate and/or rotate with respect to said first part (2), the means comprising plates (4) and/or strips of a low-friction polymer material, is characterized in that the low-friction material is a polyamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: CVI Engineering S.R.L.
    Inventor: Charlotte Tavecchio
  • Patent number: 8435018
    Abstract: A cooling fan (1) includes a fan housing (10), a stator (20), a rotor (30) and a bearing assembly (40). A tube (111) extends upwardly from a central portion of the fan housing. The stator is mounted around the tube. The bearing assembly includes a ball bearing (333) and a sleeve bearing (335) received in two ends of the tube, respectively. The rotor has a shaft (336) extending into and rotatably supported by the bearing assembly. An elastic element (332) is arranged on the ball bearing to provide a pressing force on the ball bearing toward the sleeve bearing. An oil retaining element (339) is arranged around a bottom end of the shaft and spaced from the shaft. The oil retaining element is attached to the sleeve bearing to provide oil for the sleeve bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Kang Zhang, Zhi-Ya Yang, Ying-Liang Li
  • Patent number: 8303184
    Abstract: A bearing that is used in a motor pump in which a liquid is, not only pumped by means of an impeller driven by the pump, but also is used to lubricate components of the motor pump including the motor pump shaft. The bearing is for supporting the shaft at at least one location of the shaft. The bearing is constructed of a bronze material having added thereto a small amount of graphite, preferably around 2.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: AquaMotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Benno Lebkuchner, Hans L. Kuster
  • Patent number: 8267589
    Abstract: A bush bearing (1) is a wrapped bush bearing which has a cylindrical inner peripheral surface (2) serving as a sliding surface as well as an outer peripheral surface (3), and whose abutting faces (4) are abutted against each other. The outer peripheral surface (3) includes a cylindrical surface (11); a tapered surface (13) interposed between the cylindrical surface (11) and one annular end face (12) in an axial direction X and formed by roll forming; a smooth circular arc surface (14) interposed between the tapered surface (13) and the cylindrical surface (11); and a smooth circular arc surface (15) interposed between the tapered surface (13) and the end face (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Oiles Corporation
    Inventors: Kohachi Tsuji, Yuzo Makinae, Shigeru Kajiwara
  • Patent number: 8210749
    Abstract: The present invention provides a PM main bearing cap, and its precursor compact, with an undercut breathing window that is formed during a compaction process. By fabricating the undercut during the compaction process, the invention eliminates the need for a secondary machining operation to form the undercut feature in the bearing caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel H. Mandel, Donald J. Phillips, Rainer Schmitt
  • Patent number: 8157656
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bearing cup assembly for a universal joint comprising a cylindrically elongated bearing cup, the bearing cup having a cylindrical sidewall, a closed bottom wall, and an open top. The bearing cup is positioned over, and rotates freely on, a cylindrically elongated trunnion which is associated with the universal joint. The bearing cup assembly further comprises a lubricant-impregnated powder metal mass disposed within the bearing cup and positioned between the sidewall and closed bottom wall of the bearing cup and the trunnion. The assembly further comprises a circular seal having an open center and being disposed about the open top of the bearing cup. The trunnion is disposed within the open center of the circular seal and the seal is in close interfitment with the open top and the trunnion so as to form an impenetrable closure therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventor: Bryan Prucher
  • Patent number: 8132965
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic type oil-impregnated sintered bearing includes a porous bearing body of sintered metal having a bearing surface in which hydrodynamic pressure generating grooves slating against an axial direction are provided. Lubricating oil or the base oil of lubricating grease to be impregnated into the bearing body is selected from among (a) mixtures of poly-?-olefin or hydrogenated compound thereof and ester and (b) ester. The ester is preferably polyol ester. In the cases of the lubricating grease, the thickener of the lubricating grease is preferably composed of urea compound. A plurality of bearing surfaces may be formed on the inner periphery of the bearing body so as to be separated from one another. The hydrodynamic type oil-impregnated sintered bearing may be suitably applied to a spindle motor for information equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuhiko Mori, Katsumi Nagano, Yoshihiko Oeda
  • Patent number: 8100673
    Abstract: A cooling fan (1) includes a fan housing (10), a stator (20), a rotor (30) and a bearing assembly (40). A tube (111) extends upwardly from a central portion of the fan housing. The stator is mounted around the tube. The bearing assembly includes a ball bearing (333) and a sleeve bearing (335) received in two ends of the tube, respectively. The rotor has a shaft (336) extending into and roratably supported by the bearing assembly. An elastic element (332) is arranged on the ball bearing to provide a pressing force on the ball bearing toward the sleeve bearing. An oil retaining element (339) is arranged around a bottom end of the shaft and spaced from the shaft. The oil retaining element is attached to the sleeve bearing to provide oil for the sleeve bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Kang Zhang, Zhi-Ya Yang, Ying-Liang Li
  • Patent number: 8083414
    Abstract: A bush bearing (1) is a wrapped bush bearing which has a cylindrical inner peripheral surface (2) serving as a sliding surface as well as an outer peripheral surface (3), and whose abutting faces (4) are abutted against each other. The outer peripheral surface (3) includes a cylindrical surface (11); a tapered surface (13) interposed between the cylindrical surface (11) and one annular end face (12) in an axial direction X and formed by roll forming; a smooth circular arc surface (14) interposed between the tapered surface (13) and the cylindrical surface (11); and a smooth circular arc surface (15) interposed between the tapered surface (13) and the end face (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Oiles Corporation
    Inventors: Kohachi Tsuji, Yuzo Makinae, Shigeru Kajiwara
  • Patent number: 8057101
    Abstract: There is provided an oil-impregnated sintered bearing which enable to prevent oil leakage from an outer peripheral surface of an bearing body. The oil-impregnated sintered bearing includes a bearing body which is made of a porous sintered alloy containing vacancies and has a bearing hole in which a rotary shaft can be inserted, wherein the vacancies opened on an outer peripheral surface of the bearing body are crushed. The vacancies may be crushed in the state of a green compact, or in the state of a sintered alloy after sintering the green compact. Consequently, the oil leakage from the outer peripheral surface of the bearing can be prevented, and oil pressure in the bearing hole can be preserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Diamet Corporation
    Inventors: Teruo Shimizu, Tsuneo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7998238
    Abstract: A sintered sliding member comprises a back metal (21a) and a ferrous sintered sliding body (20) which is sintering-bonded to the back metal (21a). The ferrous sintered sliding body (20) has martensite phase having a solid soluble carbon concentration of 0.15 to 0.5 wt % and contains carbide in a content of 5 to 50% by volume. The sintered sliding member is excellent in abrasion resistance, seizing resistance and heat crack resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemori Takayama, Tetsuo Ohnishi, Kazuo Okamura
  • Patent number: 7922393
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a plain porous bearing for motors and transmissions with a circular bearing bore that displays, distributed alternatingly across the bearing bore, highly compressed at least approximately closed-pore areas and slightly compressed, open-pore areas, where the bearing bore diameters of the highly and slightly compressed areas are at least approximately identical. Also provided is a procedure and device for production of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals GmbH and Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Vogt, Gerd Dornhofer, Hans-Peter Koch, Werner Stehr, Christina Messner, Peter Kronbichler, Kurt Goller, Heinrich Hecher
  • Patent number: 7882932
    Abstract: There is described a transmission for a helicopter, the transmission having a movable transmission member; a casing housing the movable member; lubricated supporting means for supporting the movable member inside the casing and for rotation about an axis; and feed means for feeding a lubricating fluid to the supporting means; the transmission also has storage means permitting gradual release of the lubricating fluid, and which are connected fluidically to the feed means and to the supporting means to permit lubrication of the supporting means in the event of breakdown of the feed means; and the storage means are angularly integral with the movable member and located radially inwards of the supporting means to feed the lubricating fluid centrifugally to the supporting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Agusta S.p.A
    Inventors: Roberto Regonini, Giuseppe Gasparini, Giampaolo Solda′
  • Patent number: 7871200
    Abstract: Provided is an aerostatic bearing spindle system using a unidirectional porous metal. The aerostatic bearing spindle system using a unidirectional porous metal may be used to serve as bearings in a region is in contact with the unidirectional porous metals when the unidirectional porous metals are rotated at a high speed, the unidirectional porous metals being manufactured with high porosity and directionality using the metallurgical method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Gyeongsang National University
    Inventors: Bo Young Hur, Yong Su Um, Jae Hong Yoon
  • Patent number: 7870674
    Abstract: An end surface 1a of sintered bearing 1 is abutted on a die 10 so that the sintered bearing 1 is mounted thereon, and a tool 40 is abutted on the other end surface 1b of the sintered bearing 1. While the sintered bearing 1 is pressed by the tool 40, high frequency vibration in an axial direction is supplied from a horn 30 to the tool 40 by operating a vibrator 20 so as to give repeated impacts to both end surfaces 1a and 1b of the sintered bearing 1, and pores of the end surfaces 1a and 1b are thereby sealed. The die 10 and the tool 40 have surfaces abutting the sintered bearing 1, and the surfaces have roughness of 0.4 s or less and hardness of HRA 60 or more, and the tool presses the sintered bearing at a pressure of 70 to 700 kPa. The high frequency vibration supplied to the tool 40 has a power of 50 to 3000 W/cm2, and it has a frequency of 10 to 50 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Kondo
  • Patent number: 7619339
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a fluid dynamic bearing assembly for directing bubbles. The assembly includes a stator with a stator bearing surface. A rotor with a rotor bearing surface rotates with respect to the stator such that the rotor bearing surface opposes the stator bearing surface. Lubricating fluid is disposed between the stator bearing surface and the rotor bearing surface. Features disposed on either the stator bearing surface or the rotor bearing surface direct the bubbles such that the fluid dynamic bearing assembly does not require a recirculation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Ferdinand Hendriks
  • Patent number: 7581888
    Abstract: A bearing for storing a lubricant and supplying the lubricant to a shaft is provided. The bearing includes an inner wall defining an axial bore adapted for receiving the shaft therethrough and an outer wall spaced apart from the inner wall. The bearing also includes a connecting portion disposed between the inner and outer walls and extending axially between first and second faces. At least one reservoir extends axially into the connecting portion between an open end at the first face and a closed end spaced apart from the second face for retaining and supplying the lubricant to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Permawick Company
    Inventors: John Lane, Joe Hobson, Kevin S. Hollowell
  • Patent number: 7429132
    Abstract: A hydrostatic air bearing in which a journal rotates within a cavity formed within a bearing race, and a sleeve that rotates with the journal within the cavity of the bearing race, where the sleeve is formed of a porous metallic material that allows for a bearing fluid such as air to flow from a high pressure side of the journal to a low pressure side of the journal through the porous sleeve that acts to dampen the bearing fluid flow, and therefore dampen the bearing. Another embodiment is for a hydrodynamic air bearing with an annular sleeve arranged between the rotating journal and the bearing race, where the annular sleeve is formed of a porous metallic material to dampen air flow across the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Walter Marussich
  • Patent number: 7387444
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-impregnated sintered bearing in which local relative sliding between the oil-impregnated sintered bearing and the shaft is avoided, thereby mitigating stress concentration on the bearing surface of the oil-impregnated sintered bearing. An oil-impregnated sintered bearing 1 which has in its inner periphery a bearing surface 1a making relative sliding with the outer peripheral surface 22a of a shaft 22 and which has at both axial ends of the bearing surface 1a crowning portions 1c which are of a configuration satisfying the following conditions: 1.75×10?3??/b1?5.2×10?2, and 1.75×10?3??/b2?5.2×10?2, and 0.2?(b1+b2)/a?0.8, where ? is the maximum radial drop amount of the crowning portions 1c, b1 is the axial length of the crowning portion 1c at one axial end; b2 is the axial length of the crowning portion 1c at the other axial end; and a is the total axial length of the oil-impregnated sintered bearing 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Shimizu, Tomokazu Sonozaki
  • Patent number: 7306374
    Abstract: The invention provides a special type bearing device that is insusceptible to damage, is light in weight, has a long service life and excellent wear resistance, is insusceptible to the effect of change in temperature, is easy to fabricate, and has little offensiveness towards mating members. Further, the same is capable of sufficiently retaining a lubricant such as oil and grease, and retaining the lubricant for a long period of time without the need of supplying oil during operation, thereby rendering it maintenance-free. That is, the special type bearing device as described above has an axial shaft, a pair of rotating bodies fixedly attached to the shaft, and a supporting body with which the rotating bodies are in contact, wherein any one of the shift, the rotating bodies, and the supporting body is made of RB ceramic or CRB ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hokkirigawa, Rikuro Obara
  • Patent number: 7287907
    Abstract: A high performance main bearing cap has particular surfaces densified for improved fatigue crack resistance. The surfaces densified are the bolted face inside of a perimetral margin and outside of bolt head interface areas around the main bolt holes, the surfaces of the main bolt holes and the side bolt hole threads. Preferred methods of densification are single needle programmable pattern peening of the bolted face peened area, over-burnishing of the bolt holes, and forming the threads rather than cutting them for the side bolt threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan M. Cadle, legal representative, Joel H. Mandel, Donald J. Phillips, Terry M. Cadle, deceased
  • Patent number: 7249890
    Abstract: A friction bearing composite material comprises a metal base layer, a porous support layer applied thereto, and a low friction layer made from PTFE forming a bearing surface for a bearing partner. The low friction material forming the sliding surface also fills the pores in the support layer and comprises at least 60 vol. % PTFE and 10-25 vol. % zinc sulphide. In order to achieve a high wear resistance with a low coefficient of friction, the low friction material further comprises 1.5-3.5 vol. % carbon fibers and 1-7 vol. % PFA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: KS Gleitlager GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bickle, Werner Schubert, Thomas Storch
  • Patent number: 7186028
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing device capable of inhibiting leakage of a working fluid to an outside of a bearing and preventing reduction in radial bearing rigidity, and capable of keeping a gap between a thrust bearing and a radial bearing favorable and rotating stably. The hydrodynamic bearing device includes a shaft relatively rotatably inserted into a bearing hole of a sleeve, a radial bearing surface having dynamic pressure generating grooves formed on at least one of an outer peripheral surface of the shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the sleeve, and a gap filled with a working fluid between the shaft and the sleeve. The shaft is made of high manganese chrome steel or stainless steel, and the sleeve is entirely made of sintered metal of metal particles including at least 60% by weight of iron or copper. Resin, metal or water glass is impregnated in pores on a surface of the sintered metal and cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Asada, Tsutomu Hamada, Hideaki Ohno, Yasunori Tokunou
  • Patent number: 7168857
    Abstract: The invention provides a special type bearing device that is insusceptible to damage, is light in weight, has a long service life and excellent wear resistance, is insusceptible to the effect of change in temperature, is easy to fabricate, and has little offensiveness towards mating members. Further, the same is capable of sufficiently retaining a lubricant such as oil and grease, and retaining the lubricant for a long period of time without the need of supplying oil during operation, thereby rendering it maintenance-free. That is, the special type bearing device as described above has an axial shaft, a pair of rotating bodies fixedly attached to the shaft, and a supporting body with which the rotating bodies are in contact, wherein any one of the shift, the rotating bodies, and the supporting body is made of RB ceramic or CRB ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hokkirigawa, Rikuro Obara
  • Patent number: 7168858
    Abstract: A high performance main bearing cap has particular surfaces densified for improved fatigue crack resistance. The surfaces densified are the bolted face (F) inside of a perimetral margin and outside of bold head interface areas around the main bolt holes (B), the surfaces of the main bolt holes and the side bolt hole threads (S). Preferred methods of densification are single needle programmable pattern peening of the bolted face peened area, over-burnishing of the bolt holes, and forming the threads rather than cutting them for the side bolt threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan M. Cadle, legal representative, Joel H. Mandel, Donald J. Phillips, Terry M. Cadle, deceased
  • Patent number: 7147378
    Abstract: A friction-reducing abrasion resistant bearing material is described. The material comprises a monolithic, porous polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) having dispersed therein a wear-resistant thermosetting or thermoplastic resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaokang Chu, James R. Hanrahan
  • Patent number: 7101087
    Abstract: A sliding member includes a substrate, a porous layer provided on the surface of the substrate and a sliding layer with which the porous layer is impregnated and coated. The sliding layer contains polybenzimidazole, 1–70 vol % of a solid lubricant and 0.1–10 vol % of hard particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Hiramatsu, Takuya Tanaka, Hideyuki Nakajima, Masahito Fujita, Takayuki Shibayama
  • Patent number: 7083385
    Abstract: An axial flow fan motor having an impeller molded integrally with a shaft from a synthetic resin. The shaft is easily assembled with a bearing arrangement by being brought into tight contact with the inner ring of the bearing arrangement and is reliably fixed thereto in the elastic region of the shaft. A through hole is formed in the shaft along its central axis. After the shaft is fit into the inner ring of the bearing arrangement, a metal pin is pressed into the axial through hole. Because the pin is pressed in, the shaft is elastically expanded and brought into tight contact with the inner ring and fixed thereto in the elastic region of the shaft. Furthermore, the distal end portion of the shaft elastically outwardly expands and is pressed against the end surface of the inner ring, thereby preventing the bearing arrangement from coming off the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Omi
  • Patent number: 7014367
    Abstract: An oil-impregnated sintered sliding bearing formed of a porous iron-based sintered alloy with quenched structure and receiving a high surface pressure capable of reducing the number of finishing steps by cutting and grinding and providing a bearing performance equivalent to or higher than that of conventional bearings, wherein a plurality of ridge-and-groove lines having a height difference of 2 to 12.5 ?m and extending in circumferential direction are axially arranged in parallel with each other by boring the bearing surface thereof to form a wavy surface in axial direction, and the portion thereof deeper by 10 to 60 ?m from the outer layer of the bearing surface is formed dense to seal surface pores so as to reduce the pores opening to the outer surface to 1 to 10 percent by area, whereby the bearing can be used at a surface pressure of 6 kgf/mm2 (58.5 MPa) or higher and a sliding speed of 2 to 5 cm/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignees: Hitachi Powered Metals Co., Ltd., Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiro Miyasaka, Kazuo Maruyama, Michiharu Mogami, Junichi Kobayashi, Hideki Akita, Osamu Gokita
  • Patent number: 6951423
    Abstract: A sintered bearing is produced by a production method comprising: compacting a metallic raw material powder into a bearing green compact; sintering the green compact into a sintered compact; forming a resin coating 20 over the entire surface of the sintered compact; removing the resin coating 20 on a bearing surface 14a of the sintered compact; and impregnating a lubricating fluid L through the bearing surface 14a from which the resin coating 20 is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignees: Minebea Co., Ltd., Hitachi Powdered Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshimura, Katsutoshi Nii
  • Patent number: 6951424
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor section with a rotor shaft having an end section, and a stator section including a yoke section disposed opposite the rotor section. The motor is also equipped with a bearing assembly having a bearing member that includes a main bearing section with a recess section and a ball bearing received in the recess section wherein the ball bearing rotatably support the end section of the rotor shaft, and a bearing holder defining a center through hole that slidably holds the main bearing section of the bearing member in the axial direction, wherein the bearing holder is formed from a sintered compact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Sankyo Seiki MFG. Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Mutai, Kenichi Hoshina
  • Patent number: 6942388
    Abstract: A bearing structure includes a cylindrical first member (10), and a second member (20) received in the first member. The first member is made of ceramic sintered material. The first member defines a first axle hole (11), and the first axle hole has a first radius. A chamber (12) is transversely defined through a middle portion of the first member, the chamber receiving the second member therein. The second member is made of metallic sintered material. The second member defines a second axle hole (21), and the second axle hole has a second radius. The first radius of the first axle hole is less than the second radius of the second axle hole. A shaft (30) is rotatably received in the first and second axle holes. When the shaft deviates from a central axis of rotation, the shaft only contacts the first member at the first axle hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Hung Chang, Yu-Cheng Chou
  • Patent number: 6846109
    Abstract: A production method for a sintered bearing, comprises compacting a raw metallic material powder into a bearing green compact; sintering the green compact into a sintered compact; and forming a resin coating over the entire surface of the sintered compact by electrodeposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignees: Minebea Co., Ltd., Hitachi Powdered Metals, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshimura, Jun Hirose, Katsutoshi Nii
  • Patent number: 6799893
    Abstract: The invention provides a special type bearing device that is insusceptible to damage, is light in weight, has a long service life and excellent wear resistance, is insusceptible to the effect of change in temperature, is easy to fabricate, and has little offensiveness towards mating members. Further, the same is capable of sufficiently retaining a lubricant such as oil and grease, and retaining the lubricant for a long period of time without the need of supplying oil during operation, thereby rendering it maintenance-free. That is, the special type bearing device as described above has an axial shaft, a pair of rotating bodies fixedly attached to the shaft, and a supporting body with which the rotating bodies are in contact, wherein any one of the shift, the rotating bodies, and the supporting body is made of RB ceramic or CRB ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hokkirigawa, Rikuro Obara
  • Publication number: 20040142199
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite material for a sliding bearing comprising a metallic support layer, a porous carrier layer applied thereon and a PTFE-based sliding layer that forms a sliding surface for a sliding partner. Said material is characterised in that the material that forms the sliding layer also fills the pores of the carrier layer and contains at least 65 vol. % PTFE and 10-25 vol. % zinc sulphide. In order to provide a high degree of wear resistance with a low friction coefficient, the material of the sliding layer contains in addition 1.5-3.5 vol. % carbon fibers and 3-7 vol. % PPSO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bickle, Werner Schubert, Thomas Storch
  • Publication number: 20040071378
    Abstract: Rolling bearing comprising an inner ring, rolling elements and an outer ring. According to one aspect of the invention the inner ring is produced by M62 steel powder metallurgical technique whilst the outer ring is a conventional stool ring. According to another aspect a rolling bearing having at least one component produced by powder metallurgy technique is in a actively lubricated condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: John Michael Beswick, Xiao Bo Zhou
  • Publication number: 20040071374
    Abstract: A bearing material includes: a backing metal made of stainless steel; and a porous sintered metal layer integrated with at least one surface of the backing metal by means of a bonding layer, particles of an inorganic substance being contained in a dispersed manner at grain boundaries of the porous sintered metal layer, wherein the porous sintered metal layer containing the particles of the inorganic substance are composed of 4 to 10% by weight of tin, 10 to 40% by weight of nickel, not less than 0.1 and less than 0.5% by weight of phosphorus, and the balance consisting of copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Tomita, Naofumi Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20040013328
    Abstract: A production method for a sintered bearing, comprises compacting a raw metallic material powder into a bearing green compact; sintering the green compact into a sintered compact; and forming a resin coating over the entire surface of the sintered compact by electrodeposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshimura, Jun Hirose, Katsutoshi Nii
  • Publication number: 20040001656
    Abstract: A sintered bearing is produced by a production method comprising: compacting a metallic raw material powder into a bearing green compact; sintering the green compact into a sintered compact; forming a resin coating 20 over the entire surface of the sintered compact; removing the resin coating 20 on a bearing surface 14a of the sintered compact; and impregnating a lubricating fluid L through the bearing surface 14a from which the resin coating 20 is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yoshimura, Katsutoshi Nii
  • Patent number: 6659647
    Abstract: A ceramic dynamic pressure bearing, includes: a first member having an outer periphery formed with a gap forming surface causing a radial dynamic pressure, and a second member having an inner periphery defining a through hole formed with a gap forming surface causing the radial dynamic pressure. The first member is inserted into the through hole as to form a radial gap. The first member and the second member make rotation relative to each other to cause a fluid dynamic pressure at the radial gap. The first member and the second member are composed of an alumina ceramic including: an aluminum 90% to 99.5% by weight, and an oxide sintering assistant 0.5% to 10% by weight. The outer periphery has cylindricity not larger than 1.0 &mgr;m, and roundness not larger than 0.5 &mgr;m. The inner periphery has cylindricity not larger than 1.5 &mgr;m, and roundness not larger than 1.0 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsutoshi Sugiyama, Hironobu Ishikawa, Tetsuji Yogo
  • Publication number: 20030206670
    Abstract: The present invention is for providing an oil-impregnant sintered bearing, which can reliably preserve an oil film on a sliding face, and a method for manufacturing the oil-impregnant sintered bearing. An oil-impregnant sintered bearing is made by providing an internal diameter, which a rotating axis member is inserted through, in a bearing main body, formed by a porous sintered alloy having internal pores therein, and providing a sliding face in one region of the inner peripheral face of the internal diameter, the sliding face being obtained by closing the pores which have been opened in the inner peripheral face. The density in a section preserving oil pressure, which extends from the sliding face of the bearing main body toward the outer side of the diameter, is made higher than the density in other sections of the bearing main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Maruyama, Junichi Iguchi, Kenji Nishio, Tooru Itoh, Takeshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6626576
    Abstract: A main bearing cap (A′) made of powder metal has a body portion (Y) made from one powder metal material (Q), and a bearing arch portion (H), foot joint face portions (S) and/or wings (W) made of a different powder metal material (P). The material (Q) of the body portion (Y) is harder than the material (P) of the other portions (H, S, W), and the material (P) of the other portions (H, S, W) is relatively machinable. For the bearing arch portion (H), the machinability of the material (P) approximately matches the machinability of the bearing support structure (B) to which the bearing cap (A′) is assembled to produce a good quality bore and longer tool life during line boring. The bearing arch material (P) may be a bearing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry M. Cadle, Joel H. Mandel
  • Patent number: 6599018
    Abstract: The present invention is for providing an oil-impregnant sintered bearing, which can reliably preserve an oil film on a sliding face, and a method for manufacturing the oil-impregnant sintered bearing. An oil-impregnant sintered bearing is made by providing an internal diameter, which a rotating axis member is inserted through, in a bearing main body, formed by a porous sintered alloy having internal pores therein, and providing a sliding face in one region of the inner peripheral face of the internal diameter, the sliding face being obtained by closing the pores which have been opened in the inner peripheral face. The density in a section preserving oil pressure, which extends from the sliding face of the bearing main body toward the outer side of the diameter, is made higher than the density in other sections of the bearing main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Maruyama, Junichi Iguchi, Kenji Nishio, Tooru Itoh, Takeshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6540404
    Abstract: A sintered plain bearing for motors and gear drives, having a running surface formed by a bearing bore and capable of having lubricant applied to it from lubricant reservoirs in the bearing, in which the bearing bore has, alternatingly distributed over the circumference, high-compaction small-pore running surfaces and axially extending low-compaction open-pore lubricant reservoirs. Lubrication is improved, especially in the initial phases of operation, by the fact that the lubricant reservoirs are constituted by channel structures having at least two longitudinal channels, and that at least in some of the channel structures, some of the channel crests remaining between adjacent longitudinal channels are in contact with the shaft received by the bearing bore in order to transfer lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Dornhoefer, Hans-Peter Koch, Andreas Vogt, Thomas Broghammer, Guido Kurz, Werner Stehr
  • Patent number: 6511225
    Abstract: A sliding bearing bushing has a first end side, a second end side, an inwardly cylindrical second longitudinal portion which is calibrated by a material compression and adjoins the second end side, a substantially hollow conical first longitudinal portion which adjoins the first end side, and a third longitudinal portion which is arranged between the first and second longitudinal portions, the third longitudinal portion transferring bend-free from a contour of the second longitudinal portion into a continuous curvature so that, in a contour of the cylindrical portion straight lines located parallel to a longitudinal axis of the sliding bearing bushing are tangents to a curvature, and at least in a region of the tangents at the curvature the material of the sliding bearing bushing is compressed by calibration substantially identically strong as in the cylindrical longitudinal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Tasch, Stefan Freund, Hartmut Buschle
  • Patent number: 6505971
    Abstract: A sintered oil retaining bearing has a bearing bore through which a rotary shaft is inserted formed at a bearing main unit made of a porous sintered alloy. The inner circumferential wall serving as the bearing bore includes a center inner circumferential wall located at the center region of the inner circumferential wall, and one end side inner circumferential wall and other end side inner circumferential wall, located at one end side and the other end side, respectively, of the center inner circumferential wall in the direction of the rotary shaft. The center inner circumferential wall has a blinded portion where the air permeability is not more than 0.3×10−3 darcy, and air permeability lower than that of the one end side and other end side inner circumferential wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sugimoto, Toru Okuda, Akihiro Ikenoue, Takeshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6415512
    Abstract: A method for surface processing of sintered oilless bearing and an apparatus thereof are disclosed by which method the efficiency of covering the pores and the surface roughness of protuberance that is nonporous surface may be improved by means of surface processing of inner diameter surface at time of sizing process using a correcting rod where many correction grooves have been formed on its top part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dae Hyun Jeong