Groove Patents (Class 384/291)
  • Patent number: 11808262
    Abstract: A linear compressor includes a cylinder that defines a compression space of a refrigerant and has a cylindrical shape, and a piston disposed in the cylinder and reciprocating along an axis of the cylinder. The cylinder includes a supply port radially passing through the cylinder, and a recess formed on an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder and communicating with the supply port. The supply port includes a first supply port and a second supply port disposed in a rear of the first supply port, and the recess includes a first recess and a second recess disposed in a rear of the first recess. The first recess and the second recess are formed in different shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangik Son, Wooju Jeon, Jaehyeok Lee, Donghan Kim
  • Patent number: 11773947
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for pressing a toothed rack against a pinion, having a pressure piece. The pressure piece can be arranged so as to be displaceable inside a housing and in an axial direction of a centre longitudinal axis. A bearing element that can be fixed on the housing in an axial direction with respect to the centre longitudinal axis, having a prestressing element that acts in an axial direction. Action of the prestressing element arranged between the bearing element and the pressure piece subjected the pressure piece to a prestressing force in an axial direction with respect to the centre longitudinal axis and directed away from the bearing element. A sliding element is arranged on a side, facing away from the prestressing element, of the pressure piece for the purpose of bearing against the toothed rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Automotive Italia S.r.l.
    Inventor: Angelo Piantoni
  • Patent number: 11754152
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for pressing a toothed rack against a pinion, having a pressure piece, wherein the pressure piece can be arranged so as to be displaceable inside a housing and in an axial direction of a centre longitudinal axis, having a bearing element that can be fixed on the housing in an axial direction with respect to the centre longitudinal axis, having a prestressing element that acts in an axial direction, wherein, as a result of the prestressing element being arranged between the bearing element and the pressure piece, the pressure piece is subjected to a prestressing force in an axial direction with respect to the centre longitudinal axis and directed away from the bearing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Automotive Italia S.r.l.
    Inventor: Angelo Piantoni
  • Patent number: 11739660
    Abstract: Gearboxes for aircraft gas turbine engines, in particular to arrangements for journal bearings such gearboxes, and to related methods of operating such gearboxes and gas turbine engines. Example embodiments include a gearbox for an aircraft gas turbine engine, the gearbox including: a sun gear; a plurality of planet gears surrounding and engaged with the sun gear; and a ring gear surrounding and engaged with the plurality of planet gears, each of the plurality of planet gears being rotatably mounted around a pin of a planet gear carrier with a journal bearing having an internal sliding surface on the planet gear and an external sliding surface on the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Mark Spruce
  • Patent number: 11732607
    Abstract: Provided is a bearing structure that can support a rotary shaft with a small number of components. The bearing structure includes: a cylindrical sleeve (32) provided so as to surround the outer circumference of a rotary shaft (4) that rotates about a center axis line (CL) and configured to rotate together with the rotary shaft (4); thrust collars (34a, 34b) provided so as to abut against both ends in the center axis line (CL) direction of the cylindrical sleeve (32), respectively, having a larger diameter than the cylindrical sleeve (32), and configured to rotate together with the rotary shaft (4); and a compressor-side journal bearing (12) arranged on the outer circumference side of the cylindrical sleeve (32) and between the thrust collars (34a, 34b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiyo Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Wada, Yukihiro Iwasa, Tetsuya Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11713716
    Abstract: A fuel pump assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a shaft for transmitting motion, a gear connected to and coaxial with the shaft with the gear having a first wear surface, a first bearing coaxial with the shaft with the first bearing being configured to support the gear and having a second wear surface positioned to interact with the first wear surface, and a plurality of indents. The indents are distributed in the first wear surface or the second wear surface and at least two of the plurality of indents are partially aligned in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Edward W. Goy, Weishun William Ni
  • Patent number: 11648758
    Abstract: A formed article according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cylindrical base layer containing a polyimide as a main component, a sliding layer disposed on an inner circumferential surface side of the base layer and containing a polyether ether ketone as a main component, and an outermost layer disposed on an outer circumferential surface side of the base layer and containing a fluororesin as a main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC.
    Inventor: Hong-Phuc Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11628905
    Abstract: A bushing bypass. The bushing bypass includes a bushing having a top surface and a bottom surface. The bushing also includes an inner diameter surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The bushing also includes an outer diameter surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The bushing further includes a channel formed in the outer diameter surface. The channel extends from the top surface of the bushing to the bottom surface of the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel McCormick, Joshua Coaplen
  • Patent number: 11460111
    Abstract: A pivot joint comprises a pivot pin mounted to a first member and a second member with a housing defining a bore receiving the pivot pin, thus forming a pivot axis for pivotal movement of one member relative to the other. A resilient toroidal gasket is provided at either end of the housing in the bore at axially spaced positions of the pivot pin, and a circumferential recess receives each gasket in fixed axial location along the pivot pin. The gasket spans radially of the pivot pin from a base of the recess and across a circumferential gap formed between an inner surface of the bore and an outer surface of the pin where lubricant is suitably received. Thus the gaskets form a sealed interior of the bore closed at either end by the respective gasket so as to maintain the lubricant therein and contaminants out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Brian Cameron McDonald
  • Patent number: 11415021
    Abstract: A bearing device includes: a bearing housing; a floating metal having a cylindrical shape and disposed in a housing hole of the bearing housing and in which a rotational shaft is inserted; and a positioning pin for positioning the floating metal with respect to the bearing housing, the positioning pin being disposed along a radial direction of the rotational shaft. The positioning pin includes a first oil supply hole formed so as to penetrate the positioning pin and communicating with a first space between an inner peripheral surface of the floating metal and an outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft, and a second oil supply hole formed inside the positioning pin so as to connect a second space to the first oil supply hole, the second space being disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the floating metal and an inner peripheral surface of the housing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiyo Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Wada, Yukihiro Iwasa, Tetsuya Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11353040
    Abstract: A turbocharger assembly can include a housing that includes a bore defined by a bore wall and a pin socket that forms an opening in the bore wall; a bearing that includes a pin opening defined by a pin opening surface; a pin, where the pin includes a longitudinal pin axis and a pin surface; a groove in the pin opening surface or the pin surface, where the groove includes an axial length; wherein, in a positioned state of bearing in the bore and the pin in the pin socket with part of the pin in the pin opening, a clearance exists between the bearing and the bore wall, where the groove is in fluid communication with the clearance to form a supply path for lubricant from the clearance to an interface between the pin surface and the pin opening surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Theiss, Shane Fong Jung, Juan Gabriel Guadiana Cerrillo, Mrunal Sawant, Colin Joseph Hussey
  • Patent number: 11339794
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes ball bearings each including an inner ring and an inner ring mounted to a shaft, and an outer ring and an outer ring provided so as to be relatively rotatable in a bearing hole, and damper portions formed in at least one of outer peripheral surfaces of the outer ring and the outer ring and opposed surfaces of inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole opposed to the outer peripheral surfaces of the outer ring and the outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Uneura, Hideyuki Kojima, Takahiro Tanaka, Shunsuke Nishii, Hiroki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11248654
    Abstract: On an inner peripheral surface of a bearing hole into which a shaft is inserted, concave oil supply surfaces arranged dispersively like separated islands and a sliding surface continuous around the oil supply surfaces to hold an outer peripheral surface of the shaft are formed: a maximum height difference between the sliding surface and the oil supply surfaces is not less than 0.01% and not more than 0.5% of an inner diameter Di of the sliding surface; a surface aperture area ratio of pores at the sliding surface is not more than 10%; a surface aperture area ratio of pores at the oil supply surfaces is more than 10% and less than 40%; and an area of each of the oil supply surfaces is not less than 0.03 mm2 and not more than 0.2×Di2 (mm2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION, DIAMET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kouno, Yoshinari Ishii, Tsuneo Maruyama, Jyun Katou, Kenji Orito
  • Patent number: 11236783
    Abstract: Provided is a bearing structure including a recess portion, which is formed in at least one of a first opposed surface of a positioning pin or a second opposed surface of a through hole, and is recessed in a separating direction in which the first opposed surface and the second opposed surface separate apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Shunsuke Nishii
  • Patent number: 11225998
    Abstract: A semi-cylindrical half bearing for a sliding bearing includes at least one axial groove formed on its inner circumferential surface that includes a smooth groove surface formed back away from the inner circumferential surface toward a radially outer side. The half bearing further includes a plurality of axial narrow grooves and a plurality of circumferential narrow grooves that are formed further back away from the groove surface toward the radially outer side, and extend in circumferential and axial directions, respectively, so as to cross each other. A depth of the axial narrow groove from the groove surface is greater than a depth of the circumferential narrow groove from the groove surface, and a width of the axial narrow groove on the groove surface is greater than a width of the circumferential narrow groove on the groove surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho Goto, Seiji Amano, Ryota Ito
  • Patent number: 11111953
    Abstract: A fluid flow control device includes a valve body forming a channel defining a fluid flow path extending from an inlet to an outlet, a shaft having a first portion and a second portion, a flow control member coupled to the first portion of the shaft, and a bearing comprising an elongated body having a first end, a second end, an inner surface defining an interior volume, and an outer surface. The bearing is dimensioned to accommodate the shaft in the interior volume and includes at least one opening extending between the inner surface and the outer surface and at least one elongated channel formed on the outer surface. The elongated channel extends a length between the first end and the second end of the elongated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: EMERSON AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS FINAL, CONTROL ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luca Vertova, Mauro Amici
  • Patent number: 10975727
    Abstract: A bearing bush of a turbocharger for radially mounting a shaft of the turbocharger. The bearing bush on an inner surface facing the shaft to be mounted, which forms a running surface of the bearing bush, has a microstructuring of multiple cup-shaped recesses at least in sections. The recesses have a maximum depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Sven Brandt, Jan-Christoph Haag, Lutz Aurahs, Christoph Heinz, Hannes Benetschik
  • Patent number: 10712557
    Abstract: The present invention improves slidability between a moving part and a support member that supports the moving part. A head-up display device includes: a display that emits display light; a moving part on which a first sliding surface is formed; and a support member on which a second sliding surface that comes into contact with the first sliding surface is formed. The support member movably supports the moving part. The head-up display device displays vehicle information as virtual images from the display light. Linear protrusions and recesses are formed on the first sliding surface and/or the second sliding surface following the trajectory along which the moving part moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Ishikawa, Takanori Shigeno, Hiroyuki Furusawa, Mitsuaki Tsuboya
  • Patent number: 10612594
    Abstract: A main bearing for a journal portion of a crankshaft includes a pair of upper and lower half bearings forming a cylindrical shape. Each half bearing includes a main cylindrical portion including a circumferentially central portion and having a slide surface, and crush reliefs formed on both circumferential sides of the slide surface. Only the upper half bearing includes an oil groove on its inner peripheral surface, and an oil hole pierced from the oil groove to an outer peripheral surface. The lower half bearing includes an axial groove on the slide surface that is arranged apart from the circumferentially central portion toward the forward side by a circumferential angle of 10° or more, and apart from the crush relief located on the forward side by a circumferential angle of 10° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Amano, Shinichi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10557495
    Abstract: A connecting rod bearing for a crankpin of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine includes a pair of half bearings forming a cylindrical shape. Each half bearing has a main cylindrical portion including a circumferentially central portion of the half bearing, and crush reliefs formed on both circumferential sides of the main cylindrical portion with a wall thickness being smaller than that of the main cylindrical portion. At least one half bearing has an axial groove which extends in an axial direction on a slide surface of the main cylindrical portion, and is apart from the circumferentially central portion by a circumferential angle of 10° or more toward a forward side in a rotation direction of the crankpin, and apart from the crush relief by a circumferential angle of 10° or more toward the circumferentially central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Amano, Shinichi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10557498
    Abstract: A full-floating bearing for reducing vibration of a shaft of a turbocharger has a central axis and includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface is configured to face away from the central axis. The inner surface is configured to face the central axis and is radially spaced from the outer surface such that the inner surface is configured to be disposed between the central axis and the outer surface. An aperture is defined between the outer surface and the inner surface and configured to allow lubricant to flow between the outer surface and the inner surface. The inner surface has a surface profile for reducing vibration of the shaft of the turbocharger. The surface profile is defined by the equation Ro=Rb+A Sin(3?+?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Richard Bischof, Zachary S. Ashton
  • Patent number: 10443651
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing includes an annular inner surface surrounding a rotary shaft to support and guide rotation thereof about the longitudinal rotation axis thereof in an upstream to downstream rotation direction. The inner surface includes an orifice for supplying lubricant and first and second discharge recesses distributed on either side of the supply orifice according to the width of the bearing. The first discharge recess opens into a first side groove and the second discharge recess opens into a second side groove. The first and second side grooves extend along a portion of the circumference of the bearing on lateral sides of the inner surface of the bearing, from the respective first and second discharge recesses towards a third discharge recess located downstream of the two recesses, to direct the lubricant collected by the first and second discharge recesses towards the third recess to be discharged outside the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Flender-Graffenstaden S.A.S.
    Inventors: Thomas Gaulier, Pierre Hamy, Eric Jallat
  • Patent number: 10408265
    Abstract: An engine bearing shell may include a concave bearing surface, opposed axial end faces with an axial width therebetween, circumferential joint faces, and an oil distribution groove circumferentially extending along the concave bearing surface towards the axial end faces. The oil distribution groove may have a groove width that is 4% to 9.25% of the axial width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: Mahle International GmbH, Mahle Engine Systems UK Ltd
    Inventors: Hugh Gibson, Omar Mian, Konstantinos Kalogiannis, David Merritt
  • Patent number: 10393010
    Abstract: A multi-arc bearing includes: a bearing surface a cross-sectional shape of which perpendicular to an axial direction of a shaft includes a plurality of arcs; and an oil supply groove provided on the bearing surface and extending in the axial direction of the shaft, the oil supply groove having a bearing clearance at a front side end portion in a rotation direction of the shaft smaller than a bearing clearance at a rear side end portion in the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 10288112
    Abstract: A floating-bush bearing device (1) for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft (2), includes: a floating bush (3) having a cylindrical shape and including a bearing hole (33) into which the rotational shaft (2) is to be inserted; and a bearing housing (4) which rotatably houses the floating bush (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Futae, Yasuaki Jinnai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Takashi Nambu, Noriyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9964139
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing 1 with which friction can be reduced and the total amount of effluent oil can be reduced. In the slide bearing in which halved members, made by dividing a cylinder in two in a direction parallel to the axial direction are disposed vertically, grooves are provided at an end of the axial direction of the lower halved member in the circumferential direction and the depth of the groove in the radial direction is changed corresponding to the circumstance direction and the gradient of the depth (d) of the groove in the radial direction is configured in asymmetry using the center (the bearing angle (?) is (?2)) in the circumferential direction as a symmetry axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata
  • Patent number: 9964140
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction can be reduced and the total amount of effluent oil can be reduced. In the slide bearing in which halved members, made by dividing a cylinder in two in a direction parallel to the axial direction are disposed vertically, grooves are provided at an end of the axial direction of the lower halved member in the circumferential direction and the height of a peripheral edge part configured at the outside of the groove in the axial direction is changed corresponding to the circumstance direction and the gradient of the height of the peripheral edge part is configured in asymmetry using the center (the bearing angle (?) is (?2)) in the circumferential direction as a symmetry axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata
  • Patent number: 9879726
    Abstract: In order to reduce friction of a crank shaft during operation by a large amount with low complexity through structuring sliding bearing surfaces (1) of the crank shaft through controlled introduction of microscopically small indentations (27) it is proposed for the center bearings and the crank bearings to only structure highly loaded portions of the bearing surface in circumferential direction and also in axial direction since this is already difficult to achieve in view of the operating gap towards the tool that only has a size of a few ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MAG IAS GmbH
    Inventors: Leo Schreiber, Wolfgang Hafner, Matthias Weber, Jürgen Reingen, Hans Kuhn, Emanuel Groβ, Maarten Brussee
  • Patent number: 9790812
    Abstract: A turbocharger is provided with an improved bearing which is formed as a floating ring bearing or a semi-floating ring bearing having a conical or hemispherical shape which supports both journal and thrust loads. The floating ring bearing may have conical floating ring bearings (70), (100), (180) that define inner and outer conical bearing surfaces (71), (108), (185) and (72), (109), (186) which cooperate on the inside with corresponding conical journals (75/76), (111/112), (187/188) that rotate with the shaft (53), and cooperate on the outside with a stationary bearing housing (52) to form inner and outer fluid films. Alternatively, the floating ring bearing may have a pair of hemispherical floating ring bearings (85), (140), (210) that have hemispherical inner and outer bearing surfaces (86), (144), (211) and (87), (145), (212) which form inner and outer fluid films. A semi-floating ring bearing may also be provided with these structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventor: Keun Ryu
  • Patent number: 9695872
    Abstract: A steering apparatus includes: a rack shaft which moves steered portions based on steering by a steering portion; a cover portion covering the rack shaft; and a bearing member arranged inside the cover portion and supporting the rack shaft so that the rack shaft is movable in an axial direction of the rack shaft, and the bearing member has a reservoir portion reserving a lubricant at a contact spot with respect to the rack shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Higashi
  • Patent number: 9677603
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger may include a bearing housing and a rotor. The rotor may have a shaft mounted in the bearing housing via two radial bearing bushes. Each radial bearing bush may have an inner surface facing the shaft. The inner surface may have a single chamfer, where the single chamfers of the two radial bearing bushes face one another, or two chamfers, where one of the two chamfers for each of the two radial bearing bushes facing one another are larger than the other of the two chamfers for each of the two radial bearing bushes facing away from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ruediger Kleinschmidt, Ulrich Siol, Alexander Baeuerle, Thomas Striedelmeyer, Joerg Eckert, Christoph Butscher
  • Patent number: 9677628
    Abstract: A brake assembly and a method of manufacture. The brake assembly may have a bracket assembly that may include a brake wing and a mounting flange disposed at opposite ends of a tube portion. The bracket assembly may rotatably support a camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Moss
  • Patent number: 9644618
    Abstract: A working machine has an oil groove communicating a pump chamber with a gear chamber, and a small amount of oil is delivered to the gear chamber when oil is discharged from the pump chamber. Thus, the oil adheres to the outer peripheral surface of a rotating pump shaft and is kept remaining between a pump case and the pump shaft. Therefore, the viscosity is increased and a pressure loss between the pump chamber and the gear chamber is increased. Accordingly, the airtightness can be maintained, and the stable and inexpensive oil pump mechanism requiring less man-hour can be realized without depending on the accuracy of a gap between the pump case and the pump shaft. Since oil is kept remaining on the outer peripheral surface of the pump shaft, it is possible to prevent the pump case from being worn out and to improve the durability of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Hirai
  • Patent number: 9618039
    Abstract: A sleeve bearing comprising a tubular body having an inner surface annularly about a longitudinal axis and an outer surface radially outward from the inner surface. The sleeve bearing includes a first side surface between the inner surface and the outer surface, and a second side surface between the inner surface and the outer surface. The sleeve bearing includes a first inner edge between the first side surface and the inner surface, and a second inner edge between the second side surface and the inner surface. The sleeve bearing includes lubricant reservoirs in the inner surface elongated along an elongation axis. An angle between the elongation axis and the inner edge is between 0 and 90 degrees. The lubricant reservoirs are in an interrupted pattern annularly around the inner surface so a portion of the inner surface between the first inner edge and the second inner edge is uninterrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Chad M. Arnold
  • Patent number: 9470266
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing with which friction-reducing effects can be obtained and the total volume of effluent oil can be limited. A slide bearing in which halved members made by dividing a cylinder in two in a direction parallel to the axial are disposed vertically, wherein narrow grooves are provided at the ends of the slide bearing in the axial direction, the narrow grooves extending in the circumferential direction from the mating surface on the downstream side of the rotation direction to a specified bearing angle is an angle rotated in the range of ?0 degree to ?90 degrees from the mating surface on the downstream side in the rotation direction (bearing angle of 180 degrees) towards the upstream side in the rotation direction. In other words, the bearing angle is the range of 180 degrees to 270 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yuichiro Kajiki, Hiroki Takata, Akihiro Honda, Motoichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9441669
    Abstract: The ring or the component have workings to supply grease to the friction area at given time intervals, with the bore of the ring having workings able to act as a grease reserve. The ring's bore has facilities suitable for putting the grease supply workings in communication with all the workings suitable to act as a grease reserve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: H.E.F.
    Inventors: Patrick Villemagne, Georges Godard
  • Patent number: 9410594
    Abstract: A dampening mechanism includes a pair of coaxially aligned inner and outer components with ends disposed in telescoping relation with an interposed resilient elastomeric member comprising a monolithic polymeric structure comprising a hollow body within the end of the outer component, and receiving the end of the inner component with the body including an attachment portion secured to the outer component, and a support portion supporting the inner component. The body portion includes a plurality of equally spaced webs extending between the attachment portion and support portion. In one form, the body is generally cylindrical and disposed between the inner surface of the outer component and the outer surface of the inner component in telescoping relation and frictionally engaging the telescoping components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Shereyk, John S. Pontaoe
  • Patent number: 9404577
    Abstract: A piston pin for connecting a small connecting rod eye of a connecting rod with a piston of an internal combustion engine may include an inner bore with an eccentricity relative to an outer surface of the piston pin. The eccentricity may amount to a maximum of 0.5 mm. The outer surface may include spiral-shaped lubricating grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Hein
  • Patent number: 9400012
    Abstract: A turbocharger is provided with a rotor shaft and a semi-floating bearing arranged in a bearing chamber and rotatably supporting the rotor shaft. The semi-floating bearing has a pair of bearing portions located at two longitudinal ends. A region between the pair of bearing portions in an outer peripheral surface of the semi-floating bearing and an inner peripheral surface of the bearing chamber constitute an outside oil feed chamber to supply a lubricant oil to outer peripheral surfaces of the pair of bearing portions. A groove extending in a circumferential direction is formed in the outer peripheral surface of at least one of the bearing portions. An oil feed passage to supply the lubricant oil to the outside oil feed chamber and a discharge passage opposed to the groove and configured to discharge the lubricant oil in the groove downward are formed in the bearing housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromu Iwata, Tsuyoshi Uesugi
  • Patent number: 9284980
    Abstract: Bearing assemblies, bearing components and related methods are provided for heavy load applications. In one embodiment, a bearing assembly includes a first bearing apparatus having a base member and a first plurality of polycrystalline diamond compacts (PDCs) on a first surface of the base member, the first plurality of PDCs defining a first collective bearing surface. A second bearing apparatus is configured to engage and slide over the first collective bearing surface. the second bearing apparatus may include a second plurality of PDCs defining a second collective bearing surface. The collective bearing surfaces may be configured to be substantially planar or substantially arcuate. Such bearing assemblies may be implemented in, for example, bridges, roadways, buildings, railways and other structures and machines that may require heavy load bearing support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: US Synthetic Corporation
    Inventor: David Miess
  • Patent number: 9279453
    Abstract: A radial bearing may include a bearing body, which includes a receiving space for a shaft to be arranged therein. The bearing body may have an inner wall facing the receiving space, in which transverse grooves running in an axial direction and separated from one another in a circumferential direction by separating portions are formed. The radial bearing may include a supply channel penetrating the bearing body provided in at least one separating portion. The at least one separating portion may have at least one oil pocket spaced from the associated supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Laubender, Thanh-Hung Nguyen-Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9222511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sliding bearing including a lubricating oil storing unit storing lubricating oil on the surface thereof and the sliding bearing of the present invention is provided so that the volume of the lubricating oil storing unit occupies 5 to 30 volume % of the entire volume of the sliding bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: DOOSAN INFRACORE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chung Rae Lee, Ki Hwan Hong, Sang Beom Kim, Keun Chul Song
  • Patent number: 9206839
    Abstract: A bushing for promoting fluid transfer between a first body and a second body. The bushing includes a cylindrical sleeve including an inner surface and an outer surface. A groove is formed in the inner surface and defined by a first wall and a second wall. A plurality of openings is defined in the groove, such that the plurality of openings is radially spaced from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Allison Transmission, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Keith Dunlap
  • Patent number: 9091208
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbocharger that includes a bearing housing with a cylindrical portion with a bore configured for receipt of a bearing, an extension that extends radially outwardly from the cylindrical portion to a base, the base configured with one or more features for securing the bearing housing to another component, a compressor fitting, a turbine fitting, and lubricant flow paths; and a fluid jacket that includes a cylindrical wall configured for placement over at least a portion of the cylindrical portion of the bearing housing where the cylindrical wall includes a recess configured to accommodate at least a portion of the extension of the bearing housing, a fluid inlet, and a fluid outlet. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Dominique Petitjean, Guillaume Dupont, Anthony Ruquart, Philippe Arnold
  • Patent number: 9046124
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement comprising a bearing shell, and a bearing shell receiving element, wherein the bearing shell is cylindrical or part-cylindrical and has a circumferential oil supply slot, and the bearing shell receiving element has an oil supply channel located in correspondence with the oil supply slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, MAHLE Composants Moteur France SAS, MAHLE Engine Systems
    Inventors: Olivier Beaurepaire, Omar Mian, Guy Towlson
  • Publication number: 20150137486
    Abstract: A spherical plain bearing is configured for use within an articulated joint in an articulating vehicle. The spherical plain bearing includes an outer member defining an exterior surface and an interior surface which defines an interior engagement surface, and an inner member is encircled at least partially by the outer member. The inner member has an interior surface defining a bore therethrough, and an exterior surface defining an exterior engagement surface. A radial gap extends between the interior engagement surface and the exterior engagement surface. A lubricant is disposed in the radial gap and a diamond chromium composite matrix hard coating is disposed on the interior engagement surface and the exterior engagement surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: ROLLER BEARING COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Smith, James Voisine
  • Publication number: 20150130313
    Abstract: A system for suspending a rotating body consisting of a combination of magnetic and engineered materials. The suspension system allows for some axial motion to account for varying system loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Peter S. Aronstam
  • Publication number: 20150131933
    Abstract: A thrust sliding bearing includes a synthetic resin-made bearing body having a hollow cylindrical portion, an annular collar portion, an annular protruding portion, a tubular projecting portion, an engaging projecting portion, and an annular projecting portion; an annular cover having a disk portion, a tubular portion, and an engaging projecting portion; an annular metal plate having an outer disk portion and an inner disk portion; and a thrust sliding bearing which is interposed between the bearing body and an annular lower surface of the outer disk portion of the annular metal plate and renders the annular metal plate rotatable with respect to the bearing body in a direction about an axis of the bearing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Takashi HORIGUCHI, Kouichi MORISHIGE
  • Patent number: 9004767
    Abstract: A half bearing for supporting a crank shaft of an internal combustion engine is provided. The half bearing having a main semi-cylindrical part, two crush reliefs, and two transition regions. Each crush relief has a depth from a imaginary plane at a circumferential end surface of the half bearing greater than a depth from the imaginary plane at a connecting position between each crush relief and the transition region. A plurality of circumferential grooves extend in a circumferential direction in the main semi-cylindrical part along their entire length in the circumferential direction, and the plurality of circumferential grooves extend also in the transition region continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Ishigo, Motohiko Koushima
  • Patent number: 8984980
    Abstract: A gear motor assembly includes a casing having a through hole, a motor fixed to the casing, an output shaft, a gear fixed to the output shaft and driven by the motor, and a substantially tubular bearing fixed in the through hole of the casing. The gear has a shaft portion that is sleeved in the bearing. A slot is formed in the inner surface of the bearing and/or the outer surface of the shaft portion and is filled with lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventors: Wing Cheung Lam, Qiang Xu, Marlou Tampus Malabo