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.

Abstract: A sintered friction bearing for motors and gears with a bearing surface, which is formed by a bearing bore and can have a lubricant from lubricant depositories in the bearing. The bearing bore has alternating highly compressed, small-pored bearing surfaces distributed over the circumference and slightly compressed, open-pored lubricant depositories from one front face to the other front face of the bearing. Lubrication of the sintered friction bearing is improved because the lubricant depositories are embodied as grooved structures with at least two longitudinal grooves, which are inclined at an acute angle with respect to a center axis of the bearing bore from one front face to another front face of the bearing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new benzimidazole compounds with the following general structure (I): in which Y—X is >C═X when X is NR8, O, or S and R2 is H, alkyl, substituted alkylaryl or substituted aryl; or Y—X is >C—X when X is H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, OR9 or NHR9 and R2 is a bond to Y; Z is O, S or NR12; R1 is H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl; R3 is H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl, OR9 or NHR9; R4, R5, R6 and R7 are H, halogen, OR10, NR10, R11, NO2, CF3, CN, COR8, COOR8, CONHR8 and/or N3 in any combination and/or two adjacent R4, R5, R6 or R7 form a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; and R8, R9, R10, R11, R12 and R13 are H, alkyl, substituted alkylaryl, aryl and/or substituted aryl in any combination. These compounds are useful as a human Growth Hormone (hGH) mimetic, which trigger GH agonist effects in animals and especially as an orally available human Growth Hormone (hGH).