Patents Represented by Attorney Hedman & Costian, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7785013
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-accuracy sliding bearing which eliminates the need for treating a gate mark, has a high accuracy, is excellent in its mechanical strength, and is in its productivity. A sintered metal (2) is used as a bearing peripheral part. A resin material is molded at a sliding portion of the bearing peripheral part to form a resin layer (3). In the resin layer (3), a product of a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the resin material and a thickness of the resin layer is not more than 0.15. The resin layer (3) is molded through tunnel gates. The resin layer comprises a plurality of axial grooves (4A) and (4B) on a bearing sliding surface thereof, and the tunnel gate marks (5) are alternately formed on a bottom of each of the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignees: NTN Corporation, Nakanishi Metal Works Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Egami, Seiji Shimizu, Takeshi Tanimaru