Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing apparatus with an increased adhesive strength between a component having an adhesion fixing face and a bracket is provided by appropriately controlling the adhesion gap. Materials for a bracket 6 and a housing 7 are selected so that the value obtained by dividing the linear expansion coefficient of the housing 7 fixed to the inner periphery of the bracket 6 by the linear expansion coefficient of the bracket 6 having a portion 6b for mounting a stator coil 4 of a motor is not lower than 0.5 but not higher than 2.0. An adhesion fixing face 7e formed on the outer periphery of the housing 7 is adhesively fixed to the inner circumferential surface 6a of the bracket 6 with an anaerobic adhesive or an epoxy-based adhesive.

Abstract: A sealing member, for sealing urea compound-containing grease enclosed in a rolling bearing, in which an elastic body deteriorates to a low extent when the rolling bearing is subjected to a high temperature and which is capable of maintaining a preferable sealing performance for a long time and excellent in reliability and durability. The sealing member used for the rolling bearing to seal grease to be enclosed in the rolling bearing includes a rubber molding which contacts the grease. The rubber molding is formed by molding a curable fluororubber composition consisting of a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene, propylene, and a crosslinkable monomer consisting of unsaturated fluoro-hydrocarbon, having two to four carbon atoms, in which a part of hydrogen atoms is substituted with fluorine atoms.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seal ring which can be prevented from being broken by an expansion and a shock applied thereto when the seal ring is fitted on a rotary shaft and does not have a configurative disadvantage such as a burr. Therefore no post-processing is required. The present invention also provides materials of the seal ring and a method of manufacturing the seal ring. The seal ring is made of resin and having two abutments confronting each other and a gate mark formed in an injection molding operation.

Abstract: The present invention provides water-resistant grease which improves the resistance to peeling which occurs from the surface of a bearing composed of carbon steel for machine structural use or the like even in a strict lubricating condition in which water may penetrate into the water-resistant grease during the operation of the bearing, and a rolling bearing and a hub bearing which use the water-resistant grease and have a long life. The water-resistant grease is composed of non-water-based base oil, a thickener, and a water dispersant used as an additive. The saturated amount of water dispersible in the water-resistant grease is 30 to 60 wt %. The water dispersant capable of dispersing the water in the water-resistant grease is a surface active agent. The non-water-based base oil is mineral oil. The thickener is a urea-based compound. The present invention also provides a rolling bearing and a hub bearing in which the water-resistant grease is enclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hub bearing, made of carbon steel for machine structural use, which has a long life even in a strict lubricating condition by improving the resistance to peeling starting from the surface. A grease for the hub bearing contains a base oil, a thickener, and an organozinc compound which is at least one compound selected from dithiozinc carbamate and dithiozinc phosphate. The base oil is a mineral oil or a mixed oil of a mineral oil and a synthetic hydrocarbon oil. The thickener is a urea compound shown by the following formula (1) and is contained at 1 to 40 mass % for the entire grease. The grease for the hub bearing is enclosed in the hub bearing. (In the formula (1), R2 indicates an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms, and R1 and R3 indicate at least one hydrocarbon group selected from an alicyclic hydrocarbon group and an aromatic hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: An object is to provide a heat-resistant, oil-resistant rolling bearing which prevents release of low molecular weight polymers, additives and colorants that remain in trace amounts in the resin retainer from the resin body, thereby preventing deterioration of lubricating oil, and particularly a rolling bearing for use in a compressor of a refrigerating machine which prevents deterioration of refrigerating machine oil and which does not impair the function of capillary tubes of the refrigerating cycle. A heat-resistant, oil-resistant rolling bearing is proposed which includes a retainer made of at least one crystalline resin selected from a polyamide resin (polyamide 4-6, polyamide 6T or polyamide 9T), polyphenylene sulfide and polyetherketone, and having a melting point of not less than 280° C.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cage that can be used in a cryogenic-temperature environment or a vacuum without providing the cage with a complicated construction and without performing special treatment and a bearing using the cage. A cage made of resin has an annular main body having a plurality of pocket portions radially penetrating the main body; and a plurality of pocket members, provided on the annular main body, which hold rolling elements of a rolling bearing. The main body is a molding of a first resin composition consisting of a first resin and a solid lubricant mixed therewith; and at least a rolling element-retaining surface of each of the pocket members is made of a second resin composition containing fluorocarbon resin as a main component thereof. The molding of the first resin composition has a tensile strength of not less than 30 MPa and a heat-resistant temperature of not less than 200° C. The second resin composition is a fluorocarbon resin composition.

Abstract: A porous solid lubricant includes a lubricating component, and a resin component. The lubricating component is a solid material made porous by foaming, and is occluded in the resin. A bearing or a constant-velocity joint has the above porous solid lubricant sealed therein. Since the lubricating component is occluded in the resin while foaming the resin component, the lubricating component can be slowly exuded through molecules of the resin due to deformation of the flexible resin under external force such as compression, expansion, bending and twisting. The amount of lubricating oil retained is larger than the amount of oil retained in pores by mere impregnation. Thus, such a bearing which has a long life, can be operated at a high speed, and can be manufactured at a low cost. Also, such a constant-velocity joint has a long life and has a rubber boot less likely to be damaged.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic bearing device which allows production of a smaller housing at low cost and which suppresses ion elution from the resin portion to thereby maintain cleanliness in the dynamic bearing device and exert a desired bearing performance. A dynamic bearing device 1 is equipped with a bearing sleeve 8 fixed to the inner periphery of the housing 7, and a rotary member rotatable relative to the bearing sleeve 8 and the housing 7, in which the rotary member is supported in the radial direction and the thrust direction in a non-contact manner by a dynamic pressure action of a lubricant fluid generated in a bearing clearance. The housing 7 is formed by injection molding of a resin composition containing polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) as the base resin and PAN type carbon fibers as a filler.

Abstract: The present invention provides a grease composition capable of securely preventing generation of a low-temperature abnormal noise when it is cold and a grease-enclosed bearing. A grease composition comprises a base oil and a thickener, wherein the base oil has a pour point not more than ?50° C. and a kinematic viscosity not less than 15 mm2/s at 40° C. The base oil is at least one oil selected from a PAO oil and a perfluoro ether oil. The thickener is at least one substance selected from a urea compound and a fluororesin. A mixing consistency of the grease composition is in the range of 250 to 350. A grease-enclosed bearing has an inner ring, an outer ring, rolling elements interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and a grease composition enclosed on a periphery of the rolling elements. The grease-enclosed bearing is used for an automotive electric auxiliary machine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reliable and durable rolling bearing incorporated in various industrial machines, vehicles, and the like, having a sealing member which deteriorates to a low extent and maintains preferable sealing performance for a long time. The rolling bearing includes an inner ring; an outer ring; a plurality of rolling elements interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring; and the sealing member provided at an open portion which is disposed at both axial ends of the inner ring and the outer ring. The sealing member comprises a rubber molding that contacts at least water, an alkali solution, grease, or the like. The rubber molding is made of a vulcanizable fluororubber composition which comprises a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene; propylene; and a crosslinkable monomer which is an unsaturated hydrocarbon having two to four carbon atoms, in which a part of hydrogen atoms is substituted with fluorine atoms.

Abstract: A sliding material including a resinous porous article having an interconnected hole porosity of not less than 30% and a lubricating oil which impregnates the resinous porous article is disclosed. The resinous porous article has an interconnected hole formed by molding a resin mixed with a pore-forming substance into said resin, and extracting said pore-forming substance from said molded article with a solvent which dissolves said pore-forming substance and does not dissolve said resin. A sliding bearing composed of a sliding material having a sliding surface which slides on a mating member and a lubricating oil supply layer which supports the sliding material and supplies the sliding surface with the lubricating oil.

Abstract: A rolling bearing, for application in electric auxiliaries for a car, durable owing to high resistance to high temperatures and capable of restraining noises from being generated at low temperatures; and lubricant grease, for low and high temperature application, which can be sealed in the rolling bearing. The lubricant grease includes 100 parts by weight of a mixture of fluorine-containing lubricant grease containing perfluoropolyether oil as a base oil thereof and fluorocarbon resin powder as a thickening agent thereof and urea-containing lubricant grease containing polyester oil as a base oil thereof and a urea compound as a thickening agent thereof; and 3 to 30 parts by weight of polyolefin oil added to the mixed grease. The polyolefin oil has a pour point of not more than ?50° C. and a kinematic viscosity of 10 to 70 mm2/s at 40° C.

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.

Abstract: A cam follower includes a shaft member which is cantilevered at one end and a slide bearing fitted onto the outer periphery of the other end of the shaft member. The slide bearing is composed of a cylindrical matrix made of an Fe-based sintered metal material having an Fe content of 90 wt % or more and a slide layer formed from the inner peripheral surface to the both end faces of the matrix. The slide layer is made of a slide material composition having a base material such as polyethylene resin blended with a lubricant such as silicone oil and a globular porous silica impregnated with this lubricant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a shaft member for a hydrodynamic bearing device which allows production of a shaft member of smaller size at low cost and which suppresses ion elution from the resin portion, thereby maintaining cleanliness in the hydrodynamic bearing device and making it possible to exert a desired bearing performance. A shaft member 2 is equipped with a shaft portion 2a and a flange portion 2b protruding radially outwards from the shaft portion 2a, and has a composite structure composed of a metal material and a resin composition, in which a resin portion 21 is formed by injection molding of a resin composition containing as a base resin a polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) whose Na content is not more than 2,000 ppm and containing PAN type carbon fibers as a filler.

Abstract: A rolling bearing for use in a vehicle, particularly in an electric device on said vehicle, said bearing having a sealing member for sealing urea compound-containing grease, in which an elastic body deteriorates to a low extent when the rolling bearing is subjected to a high temperature and which is capable of maintaining a preferable sealing performance. The grease-sealing member has a rubber molding which contacts the grease. The rubber molding is formed by molding a curable fluororubber composition consisting of a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene, propylene, and a crosslinkable monomer consisting of unsaturated hydrocarbon, having two to four carbon atoms, in which a part of hydrogen atoms is substituted with fluorine atoms.

Abstract: A conductive resin molding for use in the separator of a fuel cell and its producing method in which lowering of production yield and increase of machining cost, which are the most important problems with the spread of fuel cell, can be suppressed. The conductive resin molding is characterized by containing 1-9 vol % of high boiling point oil against the entire resin composition. Alternatively, high density expanded graphite prepared to have a specific gravity of 1.8 or above is employed as a conductive compounding agent. Alternatively, the conductive resin molding can be molded by flash flow compression molding.

Abstract: A sealing member, for sealing urea compound-containing grease enclosed in a rolling bearing, in which an elastic body deteriorates to a low extent when the rolling bearing is subjected to a high temperature and which is capable of maintaining a preferable sealing performance for a long time and excellent in reliability and durability. The sealing member used for the rolling bearing to seal grease to be enclosed in the rolling bearing includes a rubber molding which contacts the grease. The rubber molding is formed by molding a curable fluororubber composition consisting of a copolymer containing tetrafluoroethylene, propylene, and a crosslinkable monomer consisting of unsaturated fluoro-hydrocarbon, having two to four carbon atoms, in which a part of hydrogen atoms is substituted with fluorine atoms.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seal ring which can be prevented from being broken by an expansion and a shock applied thereto when the seal ring is fitted on a rotary shaft and does not have a configurative disadvantage such as a burr. Therefore no post-processing is required. The present invention also provides materials of the seal ring and a method of manufacturing the seal ring. The seal ring is made of resin and having two abutments confronting each other and a gate mark formed in an injection molding operation.