For Crankshaft Patents (Class 384/294)
  • Patent number: 11499111
    Abstract: To provide a technique capable of realizing an appropriate wear resistance in a resin coating layer. The sliding member of the present invention is a sliding member including a base layer and a resin coating layer formed on the base layer, wherein the resin coating layer is formed of a polyamide-imide resin as a binder, barium sulfate particles, molybdenum disulfide particles, and unavoidable impurities, wherein the resin coating layer is composed of a plurality of overcoated application layers, and wherein the plurality of application layers are different from each other in content of hard particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Yasunori Kabeya
  • Patent number: 11221042
    Abstract: This half thrust bearing having a half-ring shape has: a sliding surface for receiving force in the axial direction; a back surface opposed to the sliding surface; and a resin covering layer on the sliding surface. The half thrust bearing is characterized in that the thickness of the resin covering layer is greatest at the circumferential central part of the half thrust bearing, and becomes lesser toward both circumferential ends of the half thrust bearing. The present invention also pertains to a thrust bearing, a bearing device, and an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ogawa, Kazuki Sakai
  • Patent number: 11035408
    Abstract: A half thrust bearing for a crankshaft includes a back metal layer defining a first surface and a second surface, and a bearing alloy layer on the first surface to form a slide surface, and thrust relieves formed adjacent to both circumferential end surfaces and having a thrust relief surface consisting of the bearing alloy layer. Each circumferential end surface of the back metal layer includes an exposed end surface adjacent to the second surface, and a transition surface adjacent to the first surface. The bearing alloy layer further includes an extension portion covering the transition surface and having extension end surface adjacent to the exposed end surface, the extension end surface and the exposed end surface extending at least partly in the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Shiho Goto
  • Patent number: 10994583
    Abstract: A stabilizer bushing for adhesive use including: a tubular rubber elastic body whose inner circumferential surface being configured to be adhered to a stabilizer bar; a bracket mounted onto an outer circumferential surface of the rubber elastic body and configured to be attached to a vehicle body; and concave/convex mated parts provided on axially opposite portions between the rubber elastic body and the bracket, the concave/convex mated parts protruding radially outward, wherein a mated height dimension of the concave/convex mated part is varied in a circumferential direction, and is made small at a position of input of a main radial load in the rubber elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumura, Masaki Shirashige, Motoyuki Shibata
  • Patent number: 10962048
    Abstract: A half bearing includes circumferentially extending first and second grooves on the inner circumferential surface. The circumferential end of the first groove, on the rotational upstream side of the shaft, has an inclination angle ?1 of 135° formed by: a first imaginary line connecting the inner circumferential surface end of a mating surface and the origin of an outer circumferential surface; and a second imaginary line connecting the end of the first groove and the origin of the outer circumferential surface. The circumferential end of the second groove, on the rotational upstream side of the shaft, has an inclination angle ?2 of 135° formed by: a first imaginary line connecting the inner circumferential surface end of the mating surface and the origin of the inner circumferential surface; and a third imaginary line connecting the end of the second groove and the origin of the outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki Takata, Yuichiro Kajiki
  • Patent number: 10962054
    Abstract: A half bearing is provided with a first groove and a second groove on the inner circumferential surface side. The first and second grooves extend in the circumferential direction of the inner circumferential surface, and retain lubricating oil. The end of the first groove in the circumferential direction, on the downstream side in the rotational direction of the shaft (the end on the crush relief side), is located away from a crush relief so as not to reach the crush relief. Also, the end of the second groove in the circumferential direction, on the downstream side in the rotational direction of the shaft (the end on the crush relief 14 side), is located away from the crush relief so as not to reach the crush relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki Takata, Yuichiro Kajiki
  • Patent number: 10900521
    Abstract: A sliding member includes a bearing alloy layer, a solid lubricant layer, particles and a covering portion. The solid lubricant layer is provided on a sliding surface side of the bearing alloy layer and is deposited on the bearing alloy layer. The particles form the solid lubricant layer and are made of metal sulfide. The covering portion is provided over outermost surfaces of the particles on the sliding surface side and are made of metal oxide including the same metal element as a metal element constituting the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Yuma Haneda, Manabu Izumida, Erina Yasuda, Tomoyasu Shiroya
  • Patent number: 10876571
    Abstract: A connecting rod is provided, which includes a rod shaft and a rod cap. The rod shaft and the rod cap can be releasably fastened through connecting means to form a connected state, and when the rod shaft and the rod cap are in the connected state, they form a rod eye configured to enclose a bore for mounting the connecting rod on a crank shaft. The rod shaft and the rod cap have contact surfaces at which they touch each other in the connected state. The contact surfaces have an interlocking section-wise serration, and the contact surfaces have an un-serrated section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INNIO Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG
    Inventor: Frederic Bussieres
  • Patent number: 10753224
    Abstract: A bushing includes cylindrical body depending from preferably annular polygonal flange, bore extending through flange and body, and at least one overload indicator. Overload indicator may be frangible such as frangible tab at distal end of indicator tab depending from body or frangible coupons extending between forward and aft sections of polygonal flange. Frangible tab and coupons may include distinctive mark discernible or visible under visible or ultraviolet light. Bushing may be used in unison ring of high pressure compressor assembly to connect lever arms, coupled to variable vanes, to unison ring. Pins disposed in bore of bushing couple arm to unison ring. Forward and aft overhangs may depend from forward and aft sections of polygonal flange and overhang forward and aft annular sides of unison ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Rodolfo Mena Dominguez
  • Patent number: 10539175
    Abstract: A connecting rod includes a main body portion of which one end portion is provided with a piston pin and a cap that is fixed to another end portion of the main body portion with a pair of bolts. The cap is provided with a pair of bolt through-holes into which the pair of bolts is inserted respectively. The main body portion is provided with a pair of female screw holes positioned to be respectively coaxial with the pair of bolt through-holes. At least one of the female screw holes is formed as a blind hole. The cap is provided with a communication portion that extends in an outward direction approximately orthogonal to an axial direction of the bolt through-hole coaxial with the female screw hole formed as the blind hole and is open toward an outer wall surface of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Kamakura, Tetsuji Kozuru
  • Patent number: 10294987
    Abstract: A bearing device includes a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing has a bearing surface in a half-split ring shape, and a plurality of oil grooves formed to cross the bearing surface from an inner circumferential side to an outer circumferential side. Further, the thrust bearing includes a first thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing a side of a transmission, and a second thrust bearing that is disposed on a side surface facing an opposite side to the transmission. In the first thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by including a taper surface formed so that a wall thickness becomes thicker toward a rotation direction of the crankshaft. Further, in the second thrust bearing, a bearing surface between the plurality of oil grooves is configured by a plane in which a wall thickness is constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Koyama, Yuta Uematsu, Tsutomu Kubota
  • Patent number: 10253816
    Abstract: A bearing cover for a split bearing arrangement includes a stiffening element between threaded bores for receiving threaded bolts in order to connect the bearing cover to a bearing block. Provided between two clamping surfaces is a first radially inner bearing support surface having an at least approximately arcuate cross-section as viewed in the axial direction. Adjoining the bearing support surface and following the cross-sectional contour of the bearing support surface, a reinforcing web is provided on the stiffening element which has a varying height as viewed perpendicular to the bearing support surface, and the tallest height is disposed in the region of the half angular span of the bearing support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Dickinger, Markus Schauer, Martin Karlsberger
  • Patent number: 10233967
    Abstract: A half thrust bearing having a semi-annular shape includes a sliding surface for receiving an axial force of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, and a rear surface on an opposite side of the sliding surface, and defines a reference plane on the rear surface side that is perpendicular to an axial direction. The sliding surface includes a flat surface portion near a circumferentially central portion and in parallel with the reference plane, and inclined surface portions on both sides of the flat surface portion in a circumferential direction. At any radial positions of the half thrust bearing, an axial distance between the reference plane and the sliding surface is maximum at the flat surface portion, and is reduced in the inclined surface portions toward both circumferential end portions of the half thrust bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 10184513
    Abstract: A thrust sliding bearing may include a thrust receiving surface comprising radial oil grooves, and a resin portion, the resin portion comprising a plurality of resin sheets in an area defined by the oil grooves of the thrust receiving surface, the plurality of resin sheets being laminated. Circumferential widths of the plurality of resin sheets may increase upwardly from a bottom resin sheet. A circumferential width of the resin portion may decrease upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Takagi, Satoru Kanbara
  • Patent number: 10113586
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a thrust bearing. In one example, a system may include a thrust bearing located adjacent to a crankshaft and a connecting rod. The thrust bearing may comprise one or more angular surfaces configured to capture and direct lubricant to a crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Kai-Martin Mayer
  • Patent number: 9982709
    Abstract: The present invention provides a half thrust bearing in a semicircular ring shape for receiving an axial force of the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, including thrust reliefs formed adjacent to both circumferential end portions of a slide surface which receives the axial force, so that a wall thickness of the half thrust bearing becomes thinner toward the circumferential end portions, wherein at least the thrust relief on a rear side in a rotational direction of the crankshaft has a thrust relief length which becomes larger toward an outer end portion from an inner end portion in a radial direction of the half thrust bearing. The present invention also provides a bearing device including the above half thrust bearing, a crankshaft, a pair of half bearings supporting a journal portion of the crankshaft, and a bearing housing having a holding hole for holding the pair of half bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiho Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9863462
    Abstract: There is provided a half thrust bearing having a semicircular-ring shape for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, including a back metal layer and a bearing alloy layer having a slide surface on which thrust reliefs are formed adjacently to both circumferential end surfaces so that a wall thickness of the half thrust bearing becomes thinner from the slide surface toward the circumferential end surfaces. A thrust relief length L1 of each thrust relief extends over a circumferential angle ?1 from the circumferential end surface toward a circumferential central portion, and is constant between an inside end portion and an outside end portion in a radial direction of the half thrust bearing. A flat surface of each thrust relief includes a first region on the circumferential end surface side and a second region on the circumferential central portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho Tanaka, Motohiko Koushima
  • Patent number: 9279454
    Abstract: A slide bearing has a layered structure which is substantially uniform over the circumference thereof and comprises a base (10), a lead-free slide layer (12) having a thickness which is reduced in edge zones (16) as compared to a central zone between the edge zones (16), and a polymer coating (14) which is thicker in the edge zones (16) as compared to the central zone, so that the surface level of the coating (14) is substantially flat as seen in axial cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Rittmann, Steven Doyle, Mateusz Michalski
  • Patent number: 9083340
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprises a memory matrix including: a first memory cell array; a first multiplexer (MUX) coupled to an input of the first memory cell array; a second MUX coupled to an output of the first memory cell array; a second memory cell array; a third MUX coupled to an input of the second memory cell array; and a fourth MUX coupled to an output of the second memory cell array. The second MUX is coupled to the fourth MUX. The fourth MUX is configured to pass a selected one of: (1) an output from the third MUX, (2) an output from the second memory cell array, or (3) an output from the second MUX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Ephrem C. Wu, Hongbin Ji, Rafael C. Camarota
  • Patent number: 9062599
    Abstract: In a crankshaft support structure of an internal combustion engine, an oil pump can be miniaturized with miniaturizing the internal combustion engine by using a slide bearing. In the support structure for the crankshaft supported by right-left split crankcases 25 which are joined from both the sides in the axial direction of the crankshaft 41 so as to sandwich the crankshaft 41 therebetween, slide bearings 111 are applied to both crank bearings for supporting both the ends of the crankshaft 41, and a roller bearing 112 is applied to a bearing for a big end portion 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Harada
  • 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: 8992087
    Abstract: A crank drive includes a crankshaft journal having a concave-shaped surface, a bearing element in which the crankshaft journal is rotatably mounted, and a bearing shell disposed between the crankshaft journal and the bearing element and having a first convex-shaped surface matched with the concave-shaped surface of the crankshaft journal. The bearing shell has a second surface associated with the bearing element and is constructed such that the bearing shell has a non-constant cross section in the longitudinal direction of the crankshaft journal. The bearing element surface facing the bearing shell is adapted to the second surface of the bearing shell regarding the shape of the bearing element surface, and the second surface of the bearing shell is cylindrical or concave and has a smaller curvature than the concave-shaped surface of the crankshaft journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Metalurgica Campo Limpo Ltda.
    Inventors: Alex de Souza Rodrigues, Luis Antonio Fonseca Galli, Tavares Walter Oliveira, Stefano Sergio Guerreiro
  • Patent number: 8974119
    Abstract: An asymmetric split bearing with a geometrically contoured work surface is provided that has an upper segment and lower segment and a plurality of spaced, recesses in the sidewall of the bearing segment, which are joined together by means of bearing surfaces or lands. The asymmetric split bearing allows for a greater range of applications, such as reciprocating engine crankshafts, which require split bearings for support. The number of bearing surfaces on each segment can be optimized for load conditions and to minimize friction. The bearing utilizes powdered metal manufacturing and is self-cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Genesee Northern Research LLC
    Inventor: Michael F. Pyszczek
  • Patent number: 8899837
    Abstract: A halved sliding bearing (1) has a recess (7) formed in a circumferential direction from an outer peripheral edge of a mating surface (5) of a semi-cylindrical bearing main body (3). To prevent formation of a burr to an inside of the recess (7) during formation of the mating surface (5), an entirety of at least one edge segment of a peripheral edge of the recess (7) opening on a circumferential end surface of a semi-cylindrical member (23) as an unprocessed body of the bearing main body (3), the at least one edge segment intersecting with an axial direction of the member (23), is chamfered. The mating surface is formed by cutting the circumferential end surface such that a cutting blade (31) firstly reaches the chamfered edge in the peripheral edge of the recess (7). Thus, the bearing main body is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Michitoshi Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8882356
    Abstract: A horizontal shaft type rotary machine capable of simply feeding oil into thrust bearing devices. Leak oil introduction is provided in the circumferential end parts of thrust bearing devices, for introducing leak oil of lubrication oil from horizontal type slide bearing devices onto slide surfaces of the thrust bearing devices. With this configuration, the thrust baring devices can be lubricated with the use of leak oil of lubrication oil from the horizontal type slide bearing devices, and as a result, it is possible to eliminate the necessity of an oil feed system exclusively used for the thrust bearing devices, thereby it is possible to simplify the pipe line arrangement of the oil feed system and the control of oil feed quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Tadaaki Kakimoto, Akitomi Semba, Keiji Fugane, Makoto Hemmi
  • Patent number: 8876391
    Abstract: A main bearing for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine comprises a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings. An oil groove extends on an inner circumferential surface of one semi-cylindrical bearing in a circumferential direction so that the center thereof in an axial direction aligns with that of an inlet opening of a lubricating oil path in a journal section of the crankshaft. The oil groove does not extend up to an axial direction groove formed at a joint portion of the semi-cylindrical bearings so that a separation inner circumferential surface extends between a circumferential direction end portion of the oil groove and the axial direction groove. The length of the separation inner circumferential surface is smaller than that of the inlet opening in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Ishigo, Yuichi Tomita, Motohira Yamada
  • Patent number: 8870462
    Abstract: A bearing bush is described wherein the bush bore at the axial ends of the bush is provided with relieved portions extending at least a part of the distance around a circumference of the bush, the relieved portions being in the form of grooves in the bore surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, MAHLE Engine Systems UK Limited
    Inventors: Olivier Beaurepaire, Omar Mian
  • Patent number: 8845199
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of an anti-friction bearing element (1) comprising a carrier metal which forms a back bearing side and a bearing metal, wherein the carrier metal is made from a bronze-based alloy. The bearing metal is also made from a bronze-based alloy, wherein the hardness of said bronze-based alloy is reduced at least in some areas by heat treatment, so that in the radial direction of the anti-friction bearing a hardness gradient is formed with increasing hardness in the direction of the back side (7) of the anti-friction bearing element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Miba Gleitlager GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas Haedicke, Falko Langbein
  • Publication number: 20140233874
    Abstract: A half thrust bearing having a semicircular ring shape for receiving an axial force of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine is provided. The half thrust bearing includes thrust reliefs formed adjacently to end surfaces on both sides in a circumferential direction on a slide surface side which receives the axial force so that wall thicknesses become thinner toward the end surfaces. The thrust relief on a rear side in a rotational direction of the crankshaft or both thrust reliefs are formed so that a length of the thrust relief in an inner end portion in a radial direction of the half thrust bearing is longer than a length of the thrust relief in an outer end portion in the radial direction of the half thrust bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho TANAKA, Yoshihiro OZAWA, Shinya MAITANI, Takeharu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140193106
    Abstract: An asymmetric split bearing with a geometrically contoured work surface is provided that has an upper segment and lower segment and a plurality of spaced, recesses in the sidewall of the bearing segment, which are joined together by means of bearing surfaces or lands. The asymmetric split bearing allows for a greater range of applications, such as reciprocating engine crankshafts, which require split bearings for support. The number of bearing surfaces on each segment can be optimized for load conditions and to minimize friction. The bearing utilizes powdered metal manufacturing and is self-cleaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: Michael F. Pyszczek
  • Patent number: 8714823
    Abstract: A sliding bearing 5 is composed of a pair of halved bearings 11, 12 and is provided with crush reliefs 11E, 12E in positions adjoining abutment surfaces 11B, 12B of these halved bearings. Chamfered portions 11D, 12D are formed in inward edge portions of the above-described abutment surfaces 11B, 12B, and a dust pocket 15 is formed on the middle side of the chamfered portions 11D, 12D. The relative angle ? formed by the above-described crush reliefs 11E, 12E with sliding surfaces 13 in positions adjoining the crush reliefs 11E, 12E is set at 0.69° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukiyasu Taguchi, Masaru Kondo, Takashi Tomikawa, Katsuhiro Ashihara, Masao Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8714825
    Abstract: A plain bearing for supporting a crank shaft of an internal combustion engine is provided. The plain bearing is constituted by a pair of semicylindrical members. A crush relief is formed in an inner circumferential surface of the semicylindrical member, and a main cylindrical surface is formed in a region aside from the crush relief. The crush relief includes an outwardly convex curved surface and an inwardly convex curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiko Koushima, Osamu Ishigo
  • Patent number: 8708566
    Abstract: A half bearing for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, which includes crush relieves at both circumferential end portions of an inner circumferential surface of the half bearing, is provided. The half bearing further includes an axial groove at least at a position adjacent to a crush relief on a rear side of a relative rotation direction of the crankshaft, and adjacent to the inner circumferential surface of the half bearing. The axial groove extends along an entire width of the inner circumferential surface of the half bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuto Otsuki, Mikio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140050429
    Abstract: A crank drive includes a crankshaft journal having a concave-shaped surface, a bearing element in which the crankshaft journal is rotatably mounted, and a bearing shell disposed between the crankshaft journal and the bearing element and having a first convex-shaped surface matched with the concave-shaped surface of the crankshaft journal. The bearing shell has a second surface associated with the bearing element and is constructed such that the bearing shell has a non-constant cross section in the longitudinal direction of the crankshaft journal. The bearing element surface facing the bearing shell is adapted to the second surface of the bearing shell regarding the shape of the bearing element surface, and the second surface of the bearing shell is cylindrical or concave and has a smaller curvature than the concave-shaped surface of the crankshaft journal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP METALURGICA CAMPO LIMP LTDA.
    Inventors: Alex De Souza Rodrigues, Luis Antonio Fonseca Galli, Walter Tavares Oliveira, Sergio Srefamp Ruerreiro
  • Publication number: 20140041618
    Abstract: An inline engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder block with four cylinders and only three main bearing saddles. The engine also includes a crankshaft with only three main bearing journals. The engine may exhibit less friction than other similar engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Rick L. Williams
  • Patent number: 8646980
    Abstract: A bearing shell segment for internal combustion engines, composed of a body defining an inner surface that receives a coating and makes contact with a layer of lubricant oil film and an opposite outer surface, associable to a bearing, an inner surface having at least a first area substantially free from the compression load coming from the movement of the piston by the explosion of air-fuel mixture, and a second area which receives compression load coming from the movement of the piston by the explosion of air-fuel mixture. The first area has at least a surface portion to capture foreign particles present in the layer of lubricant oil film, the surface portion having cavities positioned so as to enable at least one foreign particle to be captured and withheld while moving towards the flow of lubricant oil, before reaching the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, MAHLE Metal Leve S/A
    Inventor: Denys Flores
  • Patent number: 8613555
    Abstract: An assembly includes a composite metal-polymer bushing having an outer metal layer with an inner surface, metal particles sintered to the inner surface, a polymer material between the metal particles, a finished interior surface collectively defined by the polymer material and exposed portions of the metal particles, a plurality of interstices formed between the metal particles and the polymer material, and a plurality of ridges defined by the polymer material that protrude above the metal particles. The ridges occupy at least about 8% of the area of a cylindrical reference surface nominally coinciding with the finished interior surface. The assembly also includes a crankshaft having a journal at least partially received within the bushing and supported by the finished interior surface. The journal is polished to a surface finish of about 0.1 microns or less to reduce a wear rate of the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael G. Benco, William E. Lapp, Derrick J. Lepak, Arther L. Butterworth, David Janda, Dennis R. Dorman
  • Patent number: 8608385
    Abstract: A main bearing (20) for supporting a rotating crankshaft (56) includes an upper shell (22) and a lower shell (24). An upper inner surface (32) of the upper shell (22) has an oil supply groove (26) extending circumferentially therealong, an oil stem groove (28) extending obliquely from the oil supply groove (26), and a pair of oil distribution grooves (30) extending from the oil stem groove (28) along and parallel to the oil supply groove (26) to present an F-shape along the upper inner surface (32) of the main bearing (20). The oil grooves (26, 28, 30) provide for improved lubrication of the main bearing (20) at startup and when the engine is idle or stopped, especially in electric and hybrid vehicles. The main bearing (20) also has exceptional strength and load bearing capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Matthew Ovares, Robert Karl Sturk
  • Patent number: 8596871
    Abstract: There is provided a slide bearing for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, having a pair of half bearings combined with each other to form the slide bearing, and a crush relief formed in each end portion region in a circumferential direction of an inner peripheral surface of each half bearing by reducing a bearing wall thickness over an entire width in an axial direction of the half bearing, wherein a relief depth RD which is a reduction amount of the bearing wall thickness of the crush relief is maximum at each end portion in the circumferential direction of the half bearing, and gradually decreases toward a center in the circumferential direction, and the relief depth RD is maximum in a center in an axial direction of the half bearing, and gradually decreases toward both end portions in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahito Nakagawa, Tomohiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 8579509
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sliding bearing for an internal combustion engine for supporting a crankshaft including a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings combined with each other into a cylindrical body. Each of inner circumferential surfaces of the respective semi-cylindrical bearings includes first and second curved surfaces following two kinds of arcs with different curvatures. The first curved surface is in a region including a circumferential central portion of the inner circumferential surface. The second curved surfaces are in remaining two regions of the inner circumferential surface. The circumferential oil groove and the axial groove communicate with each other. The circumferential grooves of the second curved surfaces and the axial groove communicate with each other. The groove bottoms of the circumferential grooves of the second curved surfaces are displaced to a side of the bearing inner circumferential surface from a groove bottom of the axial groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Ishigo, Atsushi Okado
  • Patent number: 8556514
    Abstract: A sliding support structure includes: a support member (12; 106) and a shaft member (10; 120) that relatively rotates with respect to the support member (12; 106) wherein lubricating oil is supplied to between a sliding surface of the shaft member and a sliding surface of the support member, the support member (12; 106) has a sliding surface portion (x) that corresponds to a load concentrating portion between the shaft member (10; 120) and the support member (12; 106), and sliding surface regions (Ya, Yb) that are higher in oil repellency than the sliding surface portion are respectively provided on upstream and downstream sides of the sliding surface portion in a flow direction of the lubricating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoichi Murakami, Shoji Miyazaki, Yoshiki Ariizumi, Ryuji Koike, Naoto Koyamaishi, Shuzou Sanda, Shigeru Hotta, Katsuhiro Ashihara, Yasuhiro Hikita
  • Patent number: 8556515
    Abstract: A split-type sliding bearing for a crankshaft in an internal combustion engine incorporated in a split-type bearing housing. The sliding bearing consists of a pair of semi-cylindrical bearing bodies combined with each other to form a cylindrical body. The bearing housing has a cylindrical bearing retaining bore and consists of a pair of housing halves. One of the housing halves has a relatively lower stiffness, and the other has a relatively higher stiffness. One of the bearing bodies is held by the housing half having a relatively lower stiffness. The other bearing body is held by the housing half having a relatively higher stiffness. The bearing bodies have an equal outer diameter to each other, and both of the circumferential end parts of one bearing body have a larger thickness than those of the other bearing body prior to incorporation into the housing halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Aisuke Kuwabara, Osamu Ishigo, Yasushi Saito
  • Patent number: 8550719
    Abstract: There is disclosed a split bearing comprising a semi-cylindrical bearing member having a concave bearing surface extending throughout the length thereof to a parting face at each opposed circumferential end of the bearing member. The bearing surface has formed thereon a sprayed bearing overlay extending over the whole bearing surface except for crush relief regions adjacent to the parting faces. The bearing member has a substantially constant outer diameter and inner diameter except at the crush relief regions, where the inner diameter is larger than at other regions of the bearing surface. There is also disclosed a method of making such a bearing. Less overlay material is required than in conventional split bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: MAHLE International GmbH, MAHLE Composants Moteur France SAS, MAHLE Engine Systems UK Limited
    Inventors: Ian Laing, Stephane Barral, Cedric Fortune, Raphaelle Francois, Virginie Neyret, Lionel Menu
  • Publication number: 20130223776
    Abstract: A plain bearing for supporting a crank shaft of an internal combustion engine is provided. The plain bearing is constituted by a pair of semicylindrical members. A crush relief is formed in an inner circumferential surface of the semicylindrical member, and a main cylindrical surface is formed in a region aside from the crush relief. The crush relief includes an outwardly convex curved surface and an inwardly convex curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
  • Patent number: 8511901
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus converts a frame number of stream data of a moving image signal recorded at a high speed frame rate and generates stream data of a low speed frame rate. The image recording apparatus records in a recording medium, already recorded stream data of a low speed frame rate and the generated stream data of a low speed frame rate so that both stream data can be continuously reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 8500334
    Abstract: A slide bearing has at least one bearing shell for accommodating a component to be supported. The at least one bearing shell has a device for monitoring a bearing gap between the bearing shell and the component to be supported. The bearing shell is provided with a slide surface that has an elevation along each of its curved edge regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Issler, Theo Mossmann
  • Patent number: 8500335
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Michitoshi Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8449200
    Abstract: A resin composition for a sliding member is difficult to peel and whose component is difficult to elute when the resin composition is formed as a film on a surface of a mechanical part, even though the resin composition is used in environment where the sliding member contacts lubricating oil containing a sulfur-based additive or in atmosphere containing a sulfur-based compound. A resin composition for a sliding member to be used for a mechanical part having a surface thereof formed of said sliding member. The resin composition contains polyamide-imide resin having an elongation percentage of 60% to 120%, fullerene, and at least one disulfide selected from among molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide. 0.1 to 10 vol % of the fullerene and 0.5 to 20 vol % of the disulfide are contained in an entirety of the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Egami, Yoji Sato, Taemi Okuda
  • Patent number: 8430570
    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, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: László Csizmadia
  • Patent number: 8419285
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sliding bearing consisting of a pair of semi-cylindrical bearings for supporting a crankshaft or a crank pin in an internal combustion engine. The sliding bearing is incorporated in a split-type bearing housing. One of the semi-cylindrical bearings being incorporated in at least one of the pair of housing halves, which one housing half has a relatively higher stiffness, is provided with a number of circumferential grooves on an inner surface of the semi-cylindrical bearing so as to extend circumferentially along the inner surface of the semi-cylindrical bearing. The circumferential grooves existing at least one circumferential end region of the inner surface of the semi-cylindrical bearing have a depth of not less than 10 ?m, the circumferential end region including a circumferential bearing end face orientating a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the shaft or pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Daido Metal Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Ishigo, Atsushi Okado