Abstract: A bearing configured to actively damp vibration of a shaft in a turbine. In one implementation, the bearing can include actuating members that move in a manner that changes properties of fluid, typically a thin film of lubricant, disposed in the bearing to facilitate rotation of the shaft. These changes effectively manipulate the stiffness and damping of the thin film according to a time periodicity that matches a parametric anti-resonance of the bearing. In turn, the resulting interaction of vibrating modes is favorable to damp vibration amplitudes at critical speeds.

Abstract: An oil bath type bearing device which supports a rotating shaft rotating around an axis the bearing device is provided. The oil bath type bearing device includes a plurality of bearing pads which are arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction along an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft, an annular carrier ring which supports the plurality of bearing pads from an outer peripheral side and in which an oil supply hole through which a lubricant is supplied is formed, and a casing which covers the carrier ring from the outer peripheral side and holds the lubricant between the rotating shaft and the casing. The oil supply hole penetrate the carrier ring from the outer peripheral side to an inner peripheral side and extends toward a rear side in a rotational direction of the rotating shaft as the oil supply hole goes radially inward with respect to the axis.

Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle including a wheel carrier supporting a wheel. The wheel carrier connected via at least one upper camber link, a lower control arm, and a lateral toe link to the vehicle body or subframe. A stabilizer rod connects to the wheel carrier. The wheel suspension including a damper unit and a spring unit wherein the stabilizer rod and the damper unit connect to the wheel carrier at a common connecting point.

Abstract: An agricultural implement including a pair of support members and a pivot assembly coupled between the support members. The pivot assembly includes at least one resilient bushing and a side-play restraint system. The resilient bushing being in contact with a portion of the restraint system.

Abstract: A universal bearing includes a metal piece, a plastic housing and a spherical wheel. The metal piece includes a first insertion portion. The plastic housing wraps around the metal piece and includes a second insertion portion in communication with the first insertion portion. The spherical wheel is pivotally restricted in the first and second insertion portions. The plastic housing reduces the weight of the universal bearing. The plastic housing is formed by injection molding by injection plastic directly around the support portion, therefore, the assembly of the universal bearing will be completed automatically once the plastic housing is formed.

Abstract: An adjustable axial piston machine includes a housing, a pivot cradle and a bearing shell which is arranged between the housing and the pivot cradle. The bearing shell includes a bearing section in the shape of an annular section with an inner end and a bearing shell end region which extends in one plane with an outer end. A bearing surface, the geometry of which corresponds to the bearing section, is provided on the housing. An outer supporting force point at the outer end and an inner supporting force point at the inner end lie on a straight line which extends on the inner supporting force point tangentially with respect to the bearing section. If a force is present in the circumferential direction of the bearing section, the inner supporting force point and the outer supporting force point are subjected to a supporting force substantially parallel to the straight line.

Abstract: A bearing assembly for an oscillation joint on a machine having a tandem wheel drive. The bearing assembly rotatably supports an oscillating hub rotatably connected to a shaft. The bearing assembly includes a frustoconical inboard bearing having a first bearing surface and a frustoconical outboard bearing having a second bearing surface disposed thereon positioned such that the first and second bearing surfaces form a generally v-shaped bearing interface between the shaft and the hub.

Abstract: A bearing mechanism has a rotary member made of a resin, having a cylindrical bearing integrally formed thereof and protruding from a side surface of the rotary member; a base member made of a resin and rotatably supporting the rotary member, the base member having a support shaft protruding from a position facing the cylindrical bearing of the rotary member; and an urging member constantly urging the rotary member in a predetermined direction. The cylindrical bearing of the rotary member has a bearing hole to fit and insert the support shaft of the base member.

Abstract: A rotatable bar pin bushing assembly is disclosed for connecting components in a vehicular system, such as a suspension and/or axle system. The rotatable bar pin bushing assembly includes an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve positioned around the inner sleeve, and an insert positioned between the inner and outer sleeves. The rotatable bar pin bushing assembly also includes a bar pin rotatably positioned within the inner sleeve. The bar pin has at least one end with at least one bore extending therethrough to receive a fastener. The bar pin is rotatable within the inner sleeve to allow indexing of the bar pin for registering the at least one bore of the bar pin with a connector of a different component. A method for assembling the rotatable bar pin bushing assembly is also disclosed.

Abstract: A clip-fastened raceway for a variable compression ratio engine includes: at least one curved segment whose outer surface cooperates with a raceway housed in the transmission member or in the control member of the variable compression ratio engine and whose inner surface is maintained in contact with a curved outer surface housed in the toothed wheel of the engine; at least one clip, housed in at least one of the ends of the curved segment and fastened to one or the other of the ends of the curved outer surface housed in the toothed wheel and hooking onto a hook or protrusion which the wheel includes in the vicinity of the end of its curved outer surface, the hook or protrusion being complementary to that of the clip so as to be able to cooperate with the latter.

Abstract: A shaft support structure for supporting molded articles, a rotating member and a shaft-bearing member, in which a rotating shaft provided on a rotating member is supported in a pair of shaft-bearing openings provided on the shaft-bearing member. The rotating shaft has a held part held in the shaft-bearing opening and has a plurality of outer-perimeter edge parts arranged at a maximal distance from a center of rotation. The shaft-bearing opening has a plurality of inner-perimeter edge parts arranged correspondingly with the outer-perimeter edge parts. A distance from the center of rotation to the outer-perimeter edge parts and a distance from the center of rotation to the inner-perimeter edge parts are the same when the rotating shaft is held, and one part between the outer-perimeter edge parts and the inner-perimeter edge parts is in mutual sliding contact only when the rotating shaft is within a prescribed range of rotation.

Abstract: An adjustable axial piston machine includes a housing, a pivot cradle and a bearing shell which is arranged between the housing and the pivot cradle. The bearing shell includes a bearing section in the shape of an annular section with an inner end and a bearing shell end region which extends in one plane with an outer end. A bearing surface, the geometry of which corresponds to the bearing section, is provided on the housing. An outer supporting force point at the outer end and an inner supporting force point at the inner end lie on a straight line which extends on the inner supporting force point tangentially with respect to the bearing section. If a force is present in the circumferential direction of the bearing section, the inner supporting force point and the outer supporting force point are subjected to a supporting force substantially parallel to the straight line.

Abstract: There is a requirement to provide bearings in relatively low speed non continuous situations such as with regards to turnover stands for engine and winding assembly. Previous bearings incorporating rolling elements are relatively expensive and over specified for such activities. By providing annulus members in a bearing cluster upon rocker members such that the annulus members can articulate in order to provide an appropriate bearing. Lubricating oil generally passes between the annulus members in a laminar stack such that the members can radially slide past each other to accommodate for eccentricities in a shaft supported by the bearing.

Abstract: An unlubricated bearing structure for supporting a rocking arm of an IC socket includes an arm support as an operating member that supports the rocking arm, a support shaft, made of metal, fitted and fixed to the arm support, and a cylindrical bush, made of metal, mounted to the support shaft so that the cylindrical bush is fitted into a bearing hole formed to the rocking arm. The support shaft, the cylindrical bush and the rocking arm are arranged such that a first clearance is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the support shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical bush, and a second clearance is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical bush and an inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole.

Abstract: A tilt and swivel positioning device for positioning a servo flap in a rotor blade. The device contains a tilt element and a bearing element. The tilt element is swivellably attached to the bearing element. The bearing arrangement has a convex roll-off surface resting against a concave roll-off surface. The radius of the concave roll-off surface exceeds the radius of the convex roll-off surface.

Abstract: A conjugate drive mechanism of a motion converter includes a conjugate driver, which is rotatably mounted on a crankpin, and a bearing conjugate, which is mounted on a linearly movable shuttle. The conjugate drive mechanism is lubricated by supplying lubricating fluid from a pressurized source to an interface between trackable profiles of the bearing conjugate and the conjugate driver. The trackable profiles, which are in continuous conjugating engagement, have equal circumferential lengths.

Abstract: A device for translating rotary to linear motion and vice versa includes a reciprocating linearly moving shuttle with a central aperture. The aperture has a pair of opposing conjugate bearings protruding towards the center and which capture therebetween a pair of conjugate drivers rotatably mounted to the crankpin of a rotatable crankshaft with the axis of crankshaft rotation perpendicular to the linear path of the shuttle. The conjugate drivers are free to rotate about the crankpin and articulate independently of each other through a selected angular range. When the crankpin, including the conjugate drivers, is inserted into the aperture of the shuttle with the conjugate drivers engaging the racks, motion is transferable between the crankpin and the shuttle through the conjugate drivers.

Abstract: A bearing assembly for two pivoting members of a rocking chair or the like, consisting of a self-threading screw adapted to prevent axial separation of a shaft mounted in one member from a bushing mounted in the other member.

Abstract: An adjusting transmission of a motor vehicle for a motorized seat adjustment with a transmission housing and a worm arranged on a bearing shaft which is supported at the transmission housing in two shaft bearing parts retaining the shaft and inserted into a respective housing aperture on both sides of the worm; at least one of the two shaft bearing parts is thereby tiltably supported within the coordinated housing aperture in at least a plane containing the bearing shaft axis. A self-alignment of the two bearing parts is achieved thereby so that one obtains without large expenditures a transmission operation which is low in friction and freely movable. The bearing part can be constructed as ring with spherical surface which abuts at prism surfaces of the housing aperture as well as of a pressure member.

Abstract: This shaft mounting assembly includes a fixed support providing a pair of spaced, downwardly depending support members having inwardly extending, axially aligned pins attached thereto. The assembly also includes a bearing member, receiving the shaft in rotational relation and providing a pair of upwardly extending sidewalls having vertical open-ended slots receiving the pins; and a retainer member providing a pair of upwardly extending sidewalls having horizontal open-ended slots receiving the pins. The retainer member sidewalls are received between the support members and the bearing member sidewalls and the retainers acts to latch the bearing member to the fixed support and to provide a seat supporting the bearing member and the shaft against downward movement.

Abstract: A tilting pad journal bearing in which the bearing contributes to vibration damping of the supported rotating part without the necessity of substantially preloading the pads against the journal. In a preferred embodiment for a horizontally mounted shaft, the upper, lesser loaded pads are preloaded lightly against the journal by supplying lubricating oil at low pressure to a narrow interstitial space between each such preloaded pad and the bearing casing. In operation, the interstitial space acts as a flow restriction means to prevent a rapid outflow of oil, restricting the pad and shaft from sudden, vibratory movements.

Abstract: A device for preventing a tubular bushing assembly from slipping out of a hole in a bushing receiving portion, wherein the tubular bushing assembly is incorporated in a pivot coupling portion between two members, and includes an inner sleeve, a resilient member and an outer sleeve, the tubular bushing assembly being fitted under pressure into a hole provided in the bushing receiving portion provided in the other member of the aforesaid two members, so as to receive in the inner sleeve a pivot extending from one of the aforesaid two members. A flange extends from one end of the outer sleeve radially outward of the sleeve along the opening edge of the bushing receiving portion, and the flange is held between the opening edge portion and a holder member removably joined to a support member provided in the bushing receiving portion.