Abstract: A micro drive assembly may comprise a substrate, a micro shaft oriented in-plane with the substrate and at least one micro bearing to support rotation of the micro shaft. The micro shaft and micro bearing may be in or less than the micrometer domain.

Abstract: A device for vehicle brakes, such as truck brakes actuatable by an S-cam, and of the type having a camshaft support bracket. The device includes an S-cam shaft, and the S-cam shaft has a shaft and an S-cam provided on an end of the shaft. The device includes a mounting adapter bracket, and a bushing support tube. The mounting adapter bracket is configured for supporting the bushing support tube on the camshaft support bracket of the vehicle. The bushing support tube is configured for receiving the S-cam shaft in it. There are a number of modular bushings provided in the tube, and each of the modular bushings is spaced apart along the length of the tube. The shaft extends through the modular bushings and is supported by them.

Abstract: At least two rigid segments of a tapered bearing sleeve are interconnected y deformable elastomeric sections for rotational support of a shaft or pin about a fixed axis established within a housing into which the bearing sleeve is inserted and held therein by an adjustment closure ring under axial pressure of a spring through which radial clearance between the sleeve segments and the shaft varied during transient loading of the shaft, is minimized to reduce vibrational noise and wear.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of half bearings with flanges rigidly connected thereto, made of a steel plate with an antifriction layer, in which the plain (i.e. not yet flanged) half bearing and a pair of flanges are produced and worked separately, and subsequently the two flanges are fixed, in the correct position, onto the half bearing by a welding operation carried out by projection or by condenser discharge. The preparation and working of the thus separate components results in being very economical owing both to the reduction of the operational costs and to a considerable reduction of the cost of the necessary equipment, and the production times are remarkably reduced. The welding step requires very short times and, by the suitable choice of the process used for the welding operation, no deterioration of the antifriction layer applied to the support steel plate occurs, nor any deformation of the plate itself, so that no further working on the finished piece is required.

Abstract: This is a method for supporting a pump shaft, or the like, within a tubing wherein bearing supports are provided which can be inserted and removed from the tube for maintenance purposes, or the like, with or without disturbing the location of the tube, and wherein the method is practiced by utilizing expanding bushings within the tubing, which bushings will support a shaft extending through the bushings. The bushings are caused to clamp to the internal surface of the tubing by means of an expandable split sleeve as a part of each such bushing which is normally of a smaller size than the interior of the tubing, but which is caused to expand by having a tapered inner surface which is forced upward on a tapered supporting surface by means of a threaded sleeve and, thus, is caused to expand against the interior of the tubing.