Abstract: A slide bearing bush with an integrated sealing element permits a relatively simple and economical production of the slide bearing bush. The slide bearing bush includes a bush part and a cover part. The bush part and/or the cover part is provided with an annular groove formed for holding the sealing element, and the slide bearing bush comprised of the bush part and the cover part possesses a cylindrical outside contour.

Abstract: An engine bearing shell with improved side load capability is disclosed. The engine bearing includes an upper bearing shell having a first single side relief portion. The engine bearing also includes a lower bearing shell having a second side relief portion. The upper bearing shell and the lower bearing shell may be assembled to form a cylindrical bore that is disposed therebetween. The first and second single side relief portions are configured to compensate for any offset shift that occurs at parting lines located between the assembled upper and lower bearing shells.

Abstract: CuFe2P is used in a plain bearing or as a plain bearing material. A plain bearing composite material which comprises a supporting layer is provided with a bearing metal layer based on CuFe2P.

Abstract: The invention concerns a drum motor comprising a drum tube, a spatially fixed shaft in the interior of the drum tube. To provide a drum motor in particular for use in hygiene areas a drum motor (10) according to the invention comprises: a drum tube (11), a spatially fixed shaft (13) in the interior of the drum tube (11), an inner cover (13) for accommodating a bearing (14) to support the drum tube (11) rotatably about the shaft (13) and for internally sealing off the interior (12), and an outer cover (30) for covering a drum tube end and for externally sealing off the interior (12).

Abstract: A bushing can include a load bearing substrate having a first major surface, an adhesive film overlying the first major surface, and a friction reducing layer overlying the adhesive film. A method can include extruding an adhesive film, laminating a friction reducing layer to a load bearing substrate with the adhesive film therebetween to form a composite, and shaping the composite to form a bushing. The adhesive film can include a first adhesive layer, such as and a fluoropolymer layer. The adhesive layer can include a modified ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, and the fluoropolymer layer can include an ethylene tetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a resin composition whose flowability is secured when the resin composition is injection-molded into injection-molded articles such as a resin-made crown-shaped cage and a resin-made seal both for a rolling bearing and a resin-made sliding bearing and which is capable of enhancing the mechanical strengths and toughnesses of these injection-molded articles to such an extent that these injection-molded articles can be used as bearing members. The resin composition is formed into a molded article and used as a bearing member. The resin composition is composed of polyamide resin or polyester resin to which polycarbodiimide is added. The polyamide resin is at least one resin selected from among polyamide 66 resin and polyamide 11 resin. The polyester resin is polytrimethylene terephthalate resin. 0.5 to 6 wt % of the polycarbodiimide is contained in an entirety of the resin composition.

Abstract: A drive ring bearing has a body with a generally cylindrical outer peripheral surface, and a generally u-shaped cross-section, with over a circumferential portion of the body. A web defines the outer peripheral surface. Radially inwardly extending legs define the u-shape in combination with the web. A plurality of circumferentially spaced feet extend from the outer peripheral surface of the body to an inner peripheral surface of the body. In addition, a diffuser assembly incorporating the drive ring bearing, a compressor assembly including the diffuser assembly, and a method of mounting the drive ring bearing are also disclosed.

Abstract: A low-friction sliding mechanism includes first and second sliding members having respective sliding surfaces slidable relative to each other and a lubricant applied to the sliding surfaces of the first and second sliding members. At least the sliding surface of the first sliding member is made of a diamond-like carbon material, and at least the sliding surface of the second sliding member is made of either an aluminum-based alloy material, a magnesium-based alloy material or a diamond-like carbon material. The lubricant contains a base oil and at least one of an ashless fatty-ester friction modifier and an ashless aliphatic-amine friction modifier.

Abstract: Bearing elements, assemblies and apparatuses are provided as well as a method of manufacturing such components. In one embodiment, a bearing element comprises a superhard table forming a convex bearing surface and a radiused edge formed on the superhard table adjacent to the convex bearing surface. In another embodiment, a bearing element comprises a superhard table forming a concave bearing surface and a radiused edge formed on the superhard table adjacent to the concave bearing surface. In one embodiment, a bearing apparatus includes an inner bearing race assembly and an outer bearing race assembly. Each of the bearing race assemblies include a plurality of bearing elements. At least one of the inner and outer bearing race assemblies include a bearing element having an arcuate bearing surface and a radiused edge formed adjacent the arcuate bearing surface.

Abstract: A half plain bearing that has a positioning member with a novel construction, and a manufacturing method of the half plain bearing are proposed. If part of a material from which a bearing body 13 is formed is allowed to escape to outside of a tool with a narrow width when pressed by the tool, an amount of protrusion needed for a positioning member 20 to perform a function thereof (an amount of protrusion from an outer peripheral face of the bearing body) can be ensured while suppressing an amount of deformation of the material from which the bearing body 13 is formed in a circumferential direction thereof. The positioning member 20 of the half plain bearing thus formed has a flat portion 21a and a protrusion portion 22. A tip of the protrusion portion 22 is located on a mating face side with respect to a virtual plane that includes the flat portion 21a.

Abstract: Disclosed are motorized litter transport kits and methods and devices relating thereto

Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a hybrid composite journal bearing which is constructed so that a composite liner is positioned on an inner surface of a metal housing having a circular cross-section, thus preventing a journal from being broken or damaged or seized to the bearing, due to friction between the metal or composite journal and the journal bearing. The hybrid composite journal bearing (210) includes a metal housing (211) which is secured on an outer surface thereof to a bearing system and has a circular cross-section. A composite liner (212) is laminated to an inner surface of the metal housing (211) with a uniform thickness so as to minimize friction between the journal bearing and a journal.

Abstract: A tolerance ring with functional layers has an annular band and an elastomeric layer. The assembly also may have a low friction layer, which may be bonded, calendared or laminated thereto. The low friction material may completely encapsulate the annular band.

Abstract: It discloses a wind turbine blade bearing that makes it possible to avoid the collision of the blade with the wind turbine tower by providing a separation thereof via the disposal of the blades at an angle with respect to the wind turbine hub; where said angle is given by the bearing of the blade pitch change system.

Abstract: A clamping assembly comprising a bearing support member (16), the bearing support member being clampable to a shaft (2) by virtue of a clamping member (24) adaptable to tighten the bearing support member to the shaft, wherein at least a portion (16?) of the bearing support member (16) is disposable between a first abutment surface (28) provided on the clamping member and a second abutment surface (25) provided on the shaft; and wherein the portion (16?) of the bearing support member (16) comprises one or more protrusions (30) and one or more depressions (32) provided on an end face (16a, 16b) of the portion of the bearing support member, the protrusions and depressions being arranged to interface with one or more corresponding depressions (36) and protrusions (34) provided on one of the first abutment surface of the clamping member and the second abutment surface of the shaft, the respective protrusions and depressions being disposed so as to resist relative rotation between the shaft and the bearing support

Abstract: An anti-friction layer for a bearing element may comprise a synthetic polymer layer. The polymer layer comprises at least a first part-layer and a second part-layer of a different composition.

Abstract: Method, retention mechanism and bearing device for retaining at least one pad inside the bearing device. The bearing device includes a ring having at least a retaining head, at least one pad disposed inside the ring and having a bottom recess portion configured to receive the at least a retaining head, the at least one pad being configured to pivot on the at least a retaining head, and a retention mechanism configured to retain the at least one pad within a predetermined volume inside the ring. The retention mechanism is configured to apply a retaining force on the at least one pad, in addition to a force between the retaining head and the at least one pad, where the retaining force acts substantially along a radial direction of the ring, away from a center of the ring.

Abstract: A bearing (10) for use in a downhole motor assembly having an inner race (12) formed as a unitary construction. The inner race (12) has an inner surface (14) defining a first diameter (D1) and an outer surface (16) defining an second diameter (D2) and a number of race-ways (18). The bearing (10) also has an outer race (20) having an inner surface (22) defining a first diameter (D3), an outer surface (26) defining a second diameter (D4) and a number of race-ways (28). Bearing elements (30) are provided in the raceways (18, 28) to couple the inner race (12) and the outer race (20) such that, in use, the inner race (12) and the outer race (20) can rotate relative to each other. The inner race (12) of the bearing (10) is configured so that an inner diameter of the inner race is outside a drill through of a downhole motor assembly.

Abstract: A plain bearing is described having a bearing metal layer, supported by a support shell, made of an aluminum or copper alloy and having a lead-free running layer, possibly applied to the bearing metal layer over an intermediate layer, made of a zinc matrix having at least one further alloy element. To achieve good tribological properties, it is suggested that the zinc matrix of the running layer contains 1 to 49 wt.-% bismuth as an additional alloy element.

Abstract: A plain bearing has two components, each having a bearing surface; the bearing surfaces being in sliding engagement with each other. The bearing may be a spherical plain bearing having an outer ring that has a concave bearing surface and an inner ring that has a convex bearing surface. One of the bearing surfaces comprises a layer comprising tungsten carbide. One component may have spaced-apart seating surfaces for engaging a moving structure and a generally concave interior that includes an internal rib between the seating surfaces. A spherical plain bearing can be made by providing an outer ring and an inner ring includes an internal rib, and disposing the outer ring around the inner ring with the convex bearing surface engaging the concave bearing surface. The bearing may be used in a swashplate assembly.

Abstract: A sliding device includes a sliding bearing, and a shaft which is rotatable and in slidable contact with the sliding bearing in presence of a lubricating oil. The sliding bearing has a surface hardness smaller than a surface hardness of the shaft. Additionally, the sliding bearing has a surface roughness Ra of not larger than 0.2 micrometer, and the shaft has a surface roughness of not larger than 0.05 micrometer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bearing assembly, having at least one first bearing element and a second bearing element being movable relative to the first bearing element, wherein at least one of the bearing elements is made of ELTIMID.

Abstract: A handle has at least one fastening plate or holding part which can be fastened in a through-hole in a thin wall such as a sheet-metal wall by means of snap devices. According to the invention, the fastening plate forms or carries a pivot bearing for the at least one end of a handle, or the like, which is bent, for example, from a round material such as thick wire, this end having a round cross section.

Abstract: A metal bearing having a long operating life that is not affected by the operating temperature. The metal bearing includes a bearing surface capable of slidably contacting with a shaft member, including pores in a surface and interior thereof, and being composed of a sintered compact having a metal or alloy as a main component. A dispersion solvent is provided inside the pores, and maghemite particles exist in the dispersion solvent together with at least one of a gas and a liquid that has a boiling point lower than a boiling point of the dispersion solvent.

Abstract: A vacuum pump (10) has a pump rotor (16), an active magnetic bearing (20,21), a safety bearing (22,23) associated with the magnetic bearing (20,21), an electric drive motor (18) having a motor stator having a plurality of stator coils (191,192,193) for driving the pump rotor (16), a brake relay (42) having a plurality of changers each having a base contact (62,63,64), a brake contact (44,45,46) and an operational contact (47,48,49), and a short circuit point (60) by way of which all brake contacts (44,45,46) of the brake relay (42) are directly connected to each other. All stator coils (191,192,193) are connected to the base contacts (62,63,64) of the changer, and can be connected directly to each other by way of the brake contacts (44,45,46) of the brake relay (42) and by way of the short circuit point (60), and can be connected to an inverter module (32) by way of the operational contacts (47,48,49).

Abstract: A method is provided for supporting rotatable devices, particularly a medical scanner having an inner ring and an outer ring. According to the invention, the inner ring and outer ring are guided without contact in the axial and/or radial direction by the magnetic field of electromagnets, and the distance between them is monitored and controlled by means of distance sensors. For a bearing implementing said method according to the invention, the outer ring is made in multiple parts and has a U-shaped cross section that is open to the inside in the assembled state, into which the inner ring (1, 10, 11) extends, and electromagnets and distance sensors are disposed in the axially and radially opposite areas of the inner ring or outer ring.

Abstract: A bearing bush, disposed in a shaft hole of an external gear of a seat reclining device, which slidingly contacts wedge-shaped pieces. The seat reclining device has a differential transmission mechanism for adjusting an open angle of a hinge connecting a seating surface of a seat and a backrest thereof to each other. The differential transmission mechanism has an internal gear; an external gear, having a smaller number of teeth than the internal gear, which engages the internal gear; a pair of the wedge-shaped pieces disposed in a circular arc-shaped gap formed between the shaft hole of the external gear and a shaft of the internal gear with tapered ends of the wedge-shaped pieces opposed to each other; and a compression coil spring for imparting an elastic force to the wedge-shaped pieces in a direction in which the wedge-shaped pieces depart from each other.

Abstract: An adjusting device for positioning a load comprises a spindle-type lifting gear, first and second bearing brackets with bearing pins that engage in a respective bearing bush of the gear unit housing for the swivelable bearing support of the gear unit housing of the spindle-type lifting gear, a driving motor with a motor shaft, and a motor flange unit with a flange housing that is rigidly connected to the driving motor on one side and to the gear unit housing on the other side. The flange housing is secured to one of the side surfaces of the gear unit housing at which the bearing bushes of the gear unit housing are arranged. The driveshaft of the spindle-type lifting gear extends parallel to the swiveling axis around which the spindle-type lifting gear is swivelable. The flange housing has, on the side facing the swiveling axis, a recess into which part of the end portion of the arm of the bearing bracket adjacent to the flange housing projects.

Abstract: A maintenance-free plain bearing includes a metal support, an intermediate layer applied directly thereto and a sliding layer applied to the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes at least one functionalized thermoplastic polymer having functional groups of the formula —COOH and/or —COOR, where the radicals R are cyclic or linear organic radicals having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing and/or assembling a bearing with a bearing bore, a journal which is located in the bearing bore and at least two bearing shells which at least partially encompass the journal in the bearing bore, there being a number n of tolerance classes. Here the bearing class width C1 for the bearing bore and/or the journal should obey a relation C1=T1=t2=T3= . . . =tn/Tn, and another bearing class width C2 for at least the first of the bearing shells and/or at least one other of the bearing shells should follow the relation C2=t1=T2=t3= . . . =Tn, Ti (with i=1, . . . , n) being tolerance range values of the bearing bore and/or of the journal and ti (with i=1, . . .

Abstract: A plain bearing unit is provided in which a sliding member made of thermoplastics having high recyclability and not containing solid lubricant provides low frictional coefficient and improves wear resistance even under circumstances where oil or grease cannot be used. A rotating, and/or swinging and/or reciprocating plain bearing unit includes a bearing made of resin containing glass and/or a carbon material; a shaft; and a gas supply portion adapted to supply dry gas subjected to dust removal to a bearing sliding portion where the bearing portion and the shaft slide with each other.

Abstract: A plain bearing is described, comprising a steel support shell and a lead-free bearing metal layer on the basis of copper with the main alloy elements of tin and zinc applied to the support shell. In order to achieve advantageous bearing properties it is proposed that the bearing metal layer has a tin fraction of 2.5 to 11 percent by weight, a zinc fraction of 0.5 to 5 percent by weight, a fraction of zirconium and titanium together of at least 0.01 percent by weight and a fraction of phosphorus of at least 0.03 percent by weight, with the sum total of the fractions of zirconium, titanium and phosphorus being at most 0.25 percent by weight and the sum total of the fractions of tin and zinc being between 3 and 13 percent by weight.

Abstract: A preform main body of an iron species preform for forming a metal matrix composite inserted in an aluminum species alloy base material to be cast-in is bored with a first to fourth through holes communicating an inner peripheral face and an outer peripheral face. In a cast-in step, shrinkage in a peripheral direction of the inner peripheral face and the outer peripheral face of the iron species preform in accordance with solidification of the melted aluminum species alloy is uniformly received by shrinkage in accordance with solidification of the melted aluminum species alloy invading the through holes, movement thereof in the peripheral direction is restrained, a clearance can be prevented from being brought about at an interface, a cast-in performance is excellent and a stable bonding strength of the interface is achieved.

Abstract: A bearing including a wearable section including a wear sensor is provided. The bushing includes a wear sensor that provides feedback to a user relating to the amount of useable life of the bearing that has been used. The sensor may be in the form of a wire imbedded in the wearable section of the bearing such that as the wearable section wears over time, the wire may be worn through breaking a circuit including the wire. An indicator module can sense the breakage of the wire and determine the amount of useable life of the bearing that has been used. In one implementation, the bearing is used in a drying drum. In one form of the invention, a method of monitoring wear of the bearing is provided that includes monitoring changes in electrical properties of a sensor mounted in the bearing.

Abstract: A pitch bearing for a wind turbine rotor comprises a rotor hub and at least one rotor blade, the pitch bearing comprising a cylindrical inner bearing ring connectable to a rotor blade of the wind turbine rotor, a cylindrical outer bearing ring connectable to the rotor hub of the wind turbine rotor and an annular reinforcement section for reinforcing the outer bearing ring. The annular reinforcement section adjoins the cylindrical outer bearing ring at its radial outer surface.

Abstract: A bushing assembly for a turbine vane includes a bushing and a housing. The bushing includes a bore for receiving a trunnion of the vane, a first electrical contact carried on an outer surface thereof, and a first conductor extending from the first electrical contact. The first electrical contact is adapted to be connected to a heater element disposed on the vane. The housing is positioned over the bushing and rotatable relative to the bushing. The housing includes a second electrical contact disposed in contact with the first electrical contact and a second conductor extending from the second electrical contact for connection to an electrical power source.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing bearings and wear resistant surfaces usable in various downhole tools are described herein. A housing is provided. A laser configured for insertion into the housing, such as an inner diameter laser, is used to connect a fusible material to the inner surface of the housing or an insert disposed therein to form a hard facing layer on the inner surface. Simultaneously or independently, the laser can be used to connect the fusible material to the outer surface of a mandrel within the housing to form a second hard facing layer. The present methods thereby produce durable radial bearings having extended operational life, which can be produced within a bearing housing, or externally for transport and installation in existing bearing housings.

Abstract: Bearing arrangement for a creel for holding a wind-on bobbin for winding on an elongate textile strand, wherein the bearing arrangement has a bushing, which surrounds a pin, wherein alternatively either the bushing or the pin is non-rotatably connected to the creel, and wherein the pin and bushing can be rotated relative to one another, so the creel is pivotable. According to the invention, the bushing (15, 15A) is fixed by means of a press ring (16, 16A) positioned with a press fit on the bushing (15, 15A).

Abstract: A dynamic bushing and/or gripper mechanism comprises an apparatus for retaining a tubular member in a position during processing so that the tube does not move transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bushing, but wherein the tube may be rotated within the confines of the bushing and/or in the case of the gripper mechanism the tube may be moved longitudinally within the confines of the gripper.

Abstract: The invention relates to a slide bearing material comprising a metallic supporting layer and a metallic lead-free porous carrier layer which is sintered on the supporting layer and used to receive a sliding layer material based on a polymer, said carrier layer consisting of a tin bronze with bismuth additives. The aim of the invention is to achieve a higher scoring resistance. To this end, the carrier layer consists of a sintering powder consisting of powder particles containing between 9.5 and 11 wt. % of tin and between 7 and 13 wt. % of bismuth and copper, and the powder particles have a bulbous shape deviating from the regular spherical shape but without edges and undercuts.

Abstract: A bushing assembly is disclosed and includes a bushing that can have an outer surface and an inner surface that can define an opening. The bushing can be configured to fit into a bore and receive a shaft through the opening. An engagement torque, T, between bushing and the shaft does not increase more than twenty-five percent as an interference fit between the bushing and the bore increases. The interference fit can be quantified by a reduction in outer radius, I, by at least 0.025 mm.

Abstract: Rotary hydrodynamic blood pumps have been used to treat over a thousand patients. The Jarvik 2000 has supported a patient for seven years and uses blood immersed bearings washed by high flow to avoid excessive thrombus formation. This permits the pump to be very simple and small. Nonetheless, the present Jarvik 2000 bearings and all other mechanical blood immersed bearings of the prior art have a supporting structure that predisposes to thrombus adjacent to the bearings. The present invention provides a bearing structure that eliminates this predilection site for thrombus formation, and may provide indefinite thrombus free operation. The rotor of the preferred embodiment includes a tapered hub fabricated of wear resistant material supported by three posts at each end of the rotor, upon which the rotor rotates. Blood washes the unobstructed spaces between the posts to prevent the accumulation of a torus of thrombus that could enlarge excessively.

Abstract: A motor includes a rotor unit, a stator unit, and a bearing mechanism. The bearing mechanism is constituted with a bushing having a hollow substantially cylindrical shape and formed by pressing a metal plate, a first bearing and a second bearing retained radially inside of the bushing, and a spacer arranged axially between the first bearing and the second bearing to determine an axial distance therebetween.

Abstract: The invention describes an anti-friction layer for a bearing element comprising a synthetic polymer layer. The polymer layer comprises at least a first part-layer and a second part-layer of a different composition.

Abstract: A bearing journal projects from an end of a material web wound into a roll. The bearing journal has a bearing surface formed as a rotating surface, a fitting surface not formed as a rotating surface, and an axial guide surface. A dispensing system includes a dispenser that is adapted to receive the roll of web material and to cooperate with the bearing journal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a chassis, a motor, a drive transmission gear that receives rotational force from the motor, a feed roller rotatably supported by the chassis, an intermediate gear that has a circular bearing, receives rotational force from the drive transmission gear, and transmits rotational force to the feed roller gear, and a gear support axle that is inserted through the bearing of the intermediate gear for rotatably supporting the intermediate gear. The gear support axle is provided with a bearing engagement part. The bearing engagement part has at least one flat section, at least one circular section, and at least two support portions formed between the flat section and the circular section, such that the gear support axle is supported by the bearing at at least one of the two support portions.

Abstract: An axle bearing apparatus includes a hub shaft for common use with a driving wheel bearing apparatus and a driven wheel bearing apparatus, the hub shaft including an axle-mounting flange formed at its outer end portion, and a cylindrical portion formed at an inner side of the flange and having a through hole formed in a center portion of the cylindrical portion, and a bearing portion press-fitted on the cylindrical portion of the hub shaft and including an inner ring, an outer ring and rolling elements disposed between the inner and outer rings. The hub shaft is used for the driven wheel bearing apparatus, and alternatively the through hole in the hub shaft is enlarged in diameter, and a spline are formed axially in an inner surface of the diameter-enlarged through hole, and the hub shaft thus processed is used for the driving wheel bearing apparatus.

Abstract: A low-friction sliding mechanism includes first and second sliding members having respective sliding surfaces slidable relative to each other and a lubricant applied to the sliding surfaces of the first and second sliding members. At least the sliding surface of the first sliding member is made of a diamond-like carbon material, and at least the sliding surface of the second sliding member is made of either an aluminum-based alloy material, a magnesium-based alloy material or a diamond-like carbon material. The lubricant contains a base oil and at least one of an ashless fatty-ester friction modifier and an ashless aliphatic-amine friction modifier.

Abstract: A thrust bearing assembly in which each thrust pad is individually mounted on a deflection element. An embodiment of the invention comprises a rotating bearing runner having a wear resistant face and a stationary bearing carrier defining a plurality of cavities disposed annularly around the carrier. A deflection element, such as a Belleville washer, is disposed in a cavity of the plurality of cavities and a pad is disposed over the deflection element. The pad is at least partially disposed within the cavity. The wear resistant face of the rotating bearing runner contacts the pad.

Abstract: A bearing includes an axial hole and a plurality of first grooves. The first grooves are disposed formed on the inner wall of the bearing, and extends through the top surface and to the outer wall of the bearing. The lubricant oil originally hold in the bearing can be guided to flow around the whole bearing effectively.