For Brass Bearing Patents (Class 384/162)
  • Patent number: 10935076
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprising a gearbox, the gearbox having gear(s). A journal bearing assembly rotatably supports the gear, the journal bearing assembly having at least a pin, and a journal having a tubular body defining a pin-receiving inner cavity having an inner surface, a first cavity and a second cavity defined in the inner surface of the pin-receiving inner cavity, a rib support located between the first cavity and the second cavity, the rib support being aligned with a longitudinal center of the tubular body, with the first cavity and the second cavity on opposed axial sides of the rib support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Bruno Martin, Louis Brillon, Julien Simard-Bergeron
  • Patent number: 10822983
    Abstract: A hydrostatic seal assembly includes a seal support, a seal shoe integral to the seal support and radially movable relative to the seal support. A plurality of seal teeth are located at a radially inboard surface of the seal shoe. The seal shoe is formed from a first material and the radially inboard surface is formed from a second material softer than the first material such that the radially inboard surface is abradable in the event of a rub between the radially inboard surface and an adjacent rotating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORTATION
    Inventors: Michael L. DiFrancesco, Tara L. D'Ambruoso
  • Patent number: 10519843
    Abstract: A valve body for a gas exchange valve of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine can be brought to lie against a valve seat of the gas exchange valve for closing the gas exchange valve and can be removed from the valve seat to open the gas exchange valve. The valve body is formed in multiple parts and has a first valve disc part interacting with the valve seat and a second valve disc part that is connected to the first valve disc part in a fixed manner and faces a combustion chamber of the cylinder. Between the first valve disc part and the second valve disc part a hollow space serving at least for the cooling of the second valve disc part is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Georg Litzel
  • Patent number: 9657769
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction-reducing effects are obtained and the total volume of effluent oil is limited. In a slide bearing an end of the narrow groove on a downstream side of the rotation direction is disposed at the position which is adjacent to a mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction and not communicated with the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction and an end of the narrow groove on an upstream side of the rotation direction is disposed at the position which is the upstream side from the end on the downstream side of the rotation direction and is rotated by an angle no more than 90 degrees from the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata, Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9458880
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing element (7) for supporting the rotor hub (4) of a wind turbine (1), comprising at least one inner ring element (10, 40) and at least one outer ring element (11, 41), wherein a plain bearing is formed between the inner ring element (10, 40) and the outer ring element (11, 41), and wherein the plain bearing is formed by at least two plain bearings (8, 9, 38, 39) arranged at an axial distance (44) from one other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Kari, Christian Forstner