Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle comprises a fuel cell module, a vehicle body frame, a plurality of mounting portions and a tank. A front portion of the vehicle body frame that a front side mounting portion is attached to is configured to be movable upward in a vehicle height direction when a load is applied in the vehicle longitudinal direction. A rear side mounting portion configured to mount a rear side of the fuel cell module in the vehicle longitudinal direction to the vehicle body frame is configured to be more easily breakable, compared with the front side mounting portion, when the load is applied in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Abstract: This sliding bearing comprises a pair of semicircular half bearings formed into a cylindrical shape by bringing both circumferential ends thereof into contact with each other. The axial width of the half bearings is narrower in both circumferential ends and the circumferential center, and wider in the quarter parts located therebetween. During manufacturing of the half bearings, finishing by cutting processing is first performed on the parts of a flat-plate material which after formation are to become the two axial-direction end faces and the two circumferential-direction end faces of the half bearings, and thereafter, the flat-plate material is deformed into a semicircle.

Abstract: The rotation of a bearing is suppressed without the need for a projecting portion on an outer circumferential surface of an arc portion in the bearing. Bearing 10 includes arc portion 11 in which a cross section orthogonal to an axial direction has an arc shape, and rotation suppressing portion 12 and rotation suppressing portion 13 that extend respectively from a first end and a second end of an arc in arc portion 11 and include a portion projecting outward from a circumcircle of arc portion 11 in the cross section orthogonal to the axial direction.

Abstract: There is provided a technique which can realize both of conformability and fatigue resistance. A sliding member and a slide bearing include a base layer and a coating layer provided on the base layer and having a sliding surface on which a counter material slides, and are characterized in that the coating layer is formed of a soft material which is softer than that for the base layer; and that, in the sliding surface, crystal grains of the soft material having an average grain diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less are aggregated into lumps, thereby forming aggregates having an average diameter of 3 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less.

Abstract: A bearing device includes a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing has a bearing surface in a half-split ring shape, and a plurality of oil grooves formed to cross the bearing surface from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side. Further, the thrust bearing includes a first thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing a side of a transmission, and a second thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing an opposite side to the transmission. In the first thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by including a taper surface formed so that a wall thickness becomes thicker toward a rotation direction of the crankshaft. Further, in the second thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by a plane in which a wall thickness is constant.

Abstract: There is provided a technique which can realize both of conformability and fatigue resistance. A sliding member and a slide bearing include a base layer and a coating layer provided on the base layer and having a sliding surface on which a counter material slides, and are characterized in that the coating layer is formed of a soft material which is softer than that for the base layer; and that, in the sliding surface, crystal grains of the soft material having an average grain diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less are aggregated into lumps, thereby forming aggregates having an average diameter of 3 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a sliding bearing including half members, obtained by splitting a cylinder in half in a direction parallel with an axial direction, arranged in an upper and lower direction, may include a first step including forming a narrow groove extending in the circumference direction on an axial direction end of one of the half members on a lower side, on a downstream side in a rotation direction, a second step including performing shot blasting on a surface of the narrow groove; and a third step including forming coating layers on a surface of the half member. The coating layers may be formed only on an upstream-side end and a downstream-side end as parts of the narrow groove.

Abstract: A sliding bearing may include vertically-arranged half members obtained by halving a cylinder, wherein a narrow groove is provided circumferentially to both axial direction ends of a lower half member at a downstream side of a rotational direction. A peripheral section may be formed on a surface on an outer side of the narrow groove. The peripheral section may be formed to have a height from an outer peripheral surface of the half member that is shorter than a height of a contact surface from an outer peripheral surface of the half member. An inclined part that is inclined toward an inner peripheral side is provided to a downstream side end, of the narrow groove, and a coating layer is provided to an inner peripheral surface of the half member only part of an inner peripheral surface of the narrow groove including an inner peripheral surface of the inclined part.

Abstract: A compressor swash plate includes a base member having a flat plate shape, and a coating layer formed on a surface of the base member and having projections formed in a linear shape, in which the following inequalities are satisfied when a plane part formed on a prism is pressed against the coating layer with a pressure of 30 MPa: 0.01?B?0.06 and 10?S?40, where B indicates widths (mm) of surfaces of the projections in contact with the plane part, and S indicates a percentage (%) of a total sum of an area Si of the contact surfaces (a gross area of the surfaces of the projections in contact with the plane part) relative to a reference area (an area of a part of the coating layer against which the plane part is pressed).

Abstract: Provided is a molding device for manufacturing a molded product having an arc-shaped bent inner space, wherein the molding device includes: a pair of molds which is joinable to each other and separable from each other, and is capable of forming a cavity C which has a shape corresponding to an outer shape of the molded product in a joined state during molding; a core which has a shape corresponding to an inner shape of the molded product, and is disposed in the inside of the cavity C which the pair of molds forms during molding; and a rotation member which is joined to a terminal end of the core, and is rotatable together with the core after molding. Compared to a conventional molding device, the molding device of the present invention becomes a molding device capable of suppressing the occurrence of a defect on a molded product having an arc-shaped bent inner space at the time of taking out the molded product.

Abstract: When a Cu—Sn—Bi had—particle based sliding material is used for sliding, Cu of Cu matrix flows and covers up Bi phase. Seizure resistance lowers as time passes. A Pb-free sliding material preventing the reduction of seizure resistance is provided. (1) Composition: from 1 to 15% of Sn, from 1 to 15% of Bi, from 0.02 to 0.2% of P, and from 1 to 10% of hard particles having an average diameter of from 50 to 70 ?m, with the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities. (2) Structure: Bi phase and the hard particles are dispersed in the copper matrix, and all of said hard particles are bonded to the copper matrix.

Abstract: There is provided a slide bearing capable of preventing or reducing a temperature increase in lubricant. A cylindrical main bearing is formed by combining a pair of upper bearing and lower bearing and rotatably supports a crank journal. The lower bearing includes a downstream crush relief formed at a downstream end in the rotation direction of the crank journal in an inner periphery of the lower bearing; and an oil groove formed in the inner periphery of the lower bearing so as to communicate with the downstream crush relief.

Abstract: There is provided a slide bearing capable of preventing or reducing a temperature increase in lubricant. A cylindrical main bearing is formed by combining a pair of upper bearing and lower bearing and rotatably supports a crank journal. The lower bearing includes a downstream crush relief formed at a downstream end in the rotation direction of the crank journal in an inner periphery of the lower bearing; and an oil groove formed in the inner periphery of the lower bearing so as to communicate with the downstream crush relief.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a washer capable of improving a material yield is provided. The method includes: a preparation step of preparing a longitudinal member which includes an upper corrugated portion and a lower corrugated portion including crest portions formed on at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface and valley portions continuous to the crest portions in the right-left direction; and a deformation step of deforming the longitudinal member such that the upper surface and the lower surface are arcuate as viewed in the direction from the front to the rear.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a washer capable of improving a material yield is provided. The method includes: a preparation step of preparing a longitudinal member which includes an upper crest portion and a lower crest portion formed on at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the longitudinal member, and an upper valley portion and a lower valley portion continuous to the upper crest portion and the rower crest portion in the right-left direction, respectively, the upper valley portion and the lower valley portion provided with projections, respectively; and a deformation step of deforming the longitudinal member such that the upper surface and the lower surface are arcuate as viewed in the direction from the front to the rear.

Abstract: There is provided an oil feed member capable of preventing lubricant from being excessively fed from an oil feed member to lubrication portions of valve gears, and a lubricant feed mechanism for an engine provided with the same. An oil feed member for feeding lubricant to lubrication portions of valve gears for opening and closing intake valves and exhaust valves of an engine, the oil feed member including: an upper panel member and a lower panel member laid over each other; and an oil feed passage formed by recessing laid surfaces of the upper panel member and the lower panel member, wherein the oil feed passage includes basis oil passages formed on a downstream side, and an introduction oil passage formed on an upstream side and having a smaller lubricant flow area than that of the basis oil passages.

Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing 1 with which friction can be reduced and the total amount of effluent oil can be reduced. In the slide bearing in which halved members, made by dividing a cylinder in two in a direction parallel to the axial direction are disposed vertically, grooves are provided at an end of the axial direction of the lower halved member in the circumferential direction and the depth of the groove in the radial direction is changed corresponding to the circumstance direction and the gradient of the depth (d) of the groove in the radial direction is configured in asymmetry using the center (the bearing angle (?) is (?2)) in the circumferential direction as a symmetry axis.

Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction can be reduced and the total amount of effluent oil can be reduced. In the slide bearing in which halved members, made by dividing a cylinder in two in a direction parallel to the axial direction are disposed vertically, grooves are provided at an end of the axial direction of the lower halved member in the circumferential direction and the height of a peripheral edge part configured at the outside of the groove in the axial direction is changed corresponding to the circumstance direction and the gradient of the height of the peripheral edge part is configured in asymmetry using the center (the bearing angle (?) is (?2)) in the circumferential direction as a symmetry axis.