Nonmetal Patents (Class 384/297)
  • Patent number: 11428266
    Abstract: Provided is a slide bearing (bearing sleeve (8)), comprising an oxidized green compact in which particles (11) of metal powder are bonded to each other by an oxide film (12) formed on surfaces of the particles (11). The oxidized green compact has a bearing surface (A, B) configured to slide, through intermediation of a lubricating film, relative to a mating member (shaft member (2)) to be supported. The bearing surface (A, B) has a large number of opening portions (13a), and the large number of opening portions (13a) and inner pores (13b) are interrupted in communication therebetween by the oxide film (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Arai, Fuyuki Ito, Tetsuya Kurimura, Shinji Komatsubara, Katsuo Shibahara, Kazuyoshi Harada
  • Patent number: 11365687
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pivot pin (5) for an epicyclic gear train sliding bearing, the pivot pin having a portion (23) forming a central shank, extending around an axial passage (15), and axially opposed, axially open circumferential grooves (25a,25b) which radially separate two axially opposed lateral end portions (230a,230b) of the central shank from two cantilevered lateral portions (27a,27b). With respect to a plane (33) perpendicular to said axis of the axial passage (15) and passing through the axial middle of the axial passage, the axial distance between said plane (33) and the bottom end of one of the circumferential grooves (25a) is smaller than the axial distance between said plane and the bottom end of the axially opposed circumferential groove (25b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Julie Marie Renée Lemoine, Alexis Claude Michel Dombek
  • Patent number: 11255379
    Abstract: A spherical bearing which extends from and connects to a deformable component includes an outer member and an inner member. The inner member is pivotable relative to the outer member about an axis. The inner member has an opening formed therein that defines a plurality of coplanar contact surfaces shaped to accommodate and contact the component. The plurality of contact surfaces are movable to accommodate deformation of the component positioned within the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bryan Kenneth Baskin, James Orbon, Stephen V. Poulin
  • Patent number: 11187159
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pivot pin (5) for an epicyclic gear train sliding bearing, having axially opposed, laterally open circumferential grooves (25a) providing flexibility to the pivot pin, each groove having a radial width and at least one depth (P). At least one of the circumferential grooves (25a,25b) has a said width and/or depth (P) which varies circumferentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Julie Marie Renée Lemoine, Alexis Claude Michel Dombek, Balint Pap
  • Patent number: 11180654
    Abstract: A film is formed by use of a composition containing (A) a binder resin, (B) a hard particle, and (C) a solid lubricant selected from the group containing molybdenum disulfide and graphite, wherein the composition contains tungsten carbide as the hard particle, and wherein weight ratio of (B) the hard particles and (C) the solid lubricant, (B)/(C), is in the range of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DUPONT TORAY SPECIALTY MATERIALS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiko Sasaki, Tetsuji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11091187
    Abstract: One steering column assembly includes a jacket, a bearing, and a steering spindle rotatably supported by the bearing and at least partially extending inside the jacket. The spindle includes a hollow outer tube and a hollow inner tube. The outer tube has lengthening and attachment sections, and the attachment section has transition and connection portions. The lengthening section adjoins the attachment section at an end of the transition portion, and the transition portion is between the lengthening section and the connection portion. The lengthening section has first and second portions, with the second portion being between the first and transition portions, and the outer tube terminates at an end of the connection portion. The inner tube is press-fit into the outer tube, and an end of the inner tube is adjacent the transition portion end. The inner tube does not extend into either the attachment section or the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Justin Yoho, Thomas Geiselberger, Christian Pichonnat
  • Patent number: 11041562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pivot pin (5) for an epicyclic gear train sliding bearing, the pivot pin having axially opposed, laterally open circumferential grooves (25a), providing flexibility to the pivot pin and which radially separate two axially opposite lateral end portions of a central shank from two lateral cantilevered portions (27a,27b) of the pivot pin. At least one of the cantilevered lateral portions is hollowed out by at least one recess (65a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Julie Marie Renée Lemoine, Alexis Claude Michel Dombek, Balint Pap
  • Patent number: 10883591
    Abstract: The wave generator of a strain wave gearing is provided with an ellipsoidally contoured wave generator plug and a wave generator bearing. The wave generator bearing is provided with an annular body fitted between inner and outer races in a sliding contact state. The annular body is composed of an endless coil spring and has a rigidity that is able to maintain a constant gap between the inner and outer races. The annular body also has a specified overall flexibility in the radial direction so that the annular body can be flexed into an ellipsoidal shape by the wave generator plug. Since sliding occurs between the annular body and the inner race when the wave generator plug rotates, it is possible to generate a wave motion in an externally toothed gear with a small rotational torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Masaru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10844905
    Abstract: A planetary transmission for a wind turbine includes a transmission housing, a central sun gear which has an outer toothing, a ring gear which has an inner toothing, a one-sided planetary carrier, and multiple planetary gears mounted on the planet carrier via a planetary gear bearing configured as a sliding bearing such that they can rotate about planetary gear rotational axes and that have outer toothings that engage with the inner toothing of the ring gear and the outer toothing of the sun gear, where every planetary gear bearing has two annular bearing bodies penetrated by a planetary gear shaft and rotationally fixed thereon and have conical sliding surfaces on the outer circumferential surfaces thereof such that tapered ends of the bearing bodies point towards one another, and where surfaces corresponding to the sliding surfaces of the planetary gear bearing are formed on inner circumferential surfaces of the planetary gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: FLENDER GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Meyer
  • Patent number: 10584738
    Abstract: A kinematic pair (10), e.g. a ball and socket joint, with at least a housing element (30) and an engagement element (20) where the engagement element (20) is arranged at least partly within the housing element (30) and configured to achieve a rotational and/or sliding movement relative the housing element (30). The housing element (30) is designed with at least one first carbon fiber composite material layer surrounding at least a part of the engagement element, a carbon fiber composite material wrapping arranged around at least a part of the first layer, and at least one second carbon fiber composite material layer arranged on the outside of the wrapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: COREBON AB
    Inventors: Tobias Björnhov, Rasmus Olsson
  • Patent number: 10532761
    Abstract: One steering column assembly includes a jacket, a bearing, and a steering spindle rotatably supported by the bearing and at least partially extending inside the jacket. The spindle includes a hollow outer tube and a hollow inner tube. The outer tube has lengthening and attachment sections, and the attachment section has transition and connection portions. The lengthening section adjoins the attachment section at an end of the transition portion, and the transition portion is between the lengthening section and the connection portion. The lengthening section has first and second portions, with the second portion being between the first and transition portions, and the outer tube terminates at an end of the connection portion. The inner tube is press-fit into the outer tube, and an end of the inner tube is adjacent the transition portion end. The inner tube does not extend into either the attachment section or the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Justin Yoho, Thomas Geiselberger, Christian Pichonnat
  • Patent number: 10364753
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a gearbox comprising a sun gear, an annulus gear, a plurality of planet gears and a carrier. The carrier comprises a primary structure and at least one reinforcing structure. The primary structure comprises a first material and the at least one reinforcing structure comprises a second material. The primary structure includes a first ring, a second ring spaced axially from the first ring and a plurality of circumferentially spaced axles extending axially between the first ring and the second ring. Each planet gear is rotatably mounted on a respective one of the axles by a bearing. The reinforcing structure is secured to the primary structure and the reinforcing structure comprises a particulate reinforced material or a fiber reinforced material. The reinforcing structure increases the stiffness of the carrier and reduces the weight of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Jason J Madge
  • Patent number: 9903410
    Abstract: The current invention discloses a thrust lever ball head assembly comprising a thrust lever ball hinge and a thrust lever ball head. The thrust lever ball head comprises a main body of the thrust lever ball head and flange structures on both sides of the main body of the thrust lever ball head, wherein the flange structures and the main body of the thrust lever ball head are an integral part, and the flange structures on both sides of the main body of the thrust lever ball head work together with the thrust lever ball hinge to limit the thrust lever ball hinge inside the thrust lever ball head. The thrust lever ball head assembly of the present invention has a simple structure, high assembling efficiency, low manufacture costs, light weight, free of maintenance and completely fulfills the requirements of light weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ZHUZHOU TIMES NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bo Zou, Duankang Xie, Yong Xia, Yabin Zhao, Jianlin Liu, Chengjun Luo, Chunjie Guo, Haitao Cheng
  • Patent number: 9475379
    Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly includes a cylindrical annular structure, a rubber material layer provided on a periphery of the annular structure and that faces a circumferential direction of the annular structure, and a plurality of curved metal spring members provided between the annular structure and an electric motor disposed on the inner side of the annular structure that transfers rotation of a rotor of the electric motor to the annular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Imamiya, Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 9371498
    Abstract: A lubricant system is disclosed that is formed by contacting a fibrous network with oil and/or lubricating fluid having an affinity for the fibrous network. The fibrous network comprises oleophilic fibers having a diameter between 50 nm and 10 microns and a length that is at least times the diameter. In addition, the oleophilic fibers have an affinity for the oil and/or lubricating fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Jeroen Bongaerts, Alexander de Vries, Piet Lugt, Dick Meijer, Dries Muller, Rihard Pasaribu, Alejandro Sanz, Richard Schaake
  • Patent number: 9361932
    Abstract: A fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) includes a groove configuration that includes a pressure-generating groove pattern, and additionally includes a circumferential groove adjacent to the pressure-generating groove pattern and a pumping groove pattern adjacent to the circumferential groove. The circumferential groove may be deeper than the associated pumping and pressure-generating groove patterns and may extend for 360 degrees, and the pumping groove may be positioned at or near the entry to the bearing journal area to help maintain fluid flow direction and minimum pressure. Such an FDB groove configuration is likely to provide improved damping characteristics while maintaining relative stiffness, thereby improving vibration response characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Chiaoping Ku
  • Patent number: 9297080
    Abstract: A coating of blue-black or black zirconium of uniform and controlled thickness on a zirconium or zirconium alloy material is accomplished through the treatment of an amorphous zirconium or zirconium alloy substrate, which may have an altered surface roughness. The treatment of amorphous zirconium or zirconium alloy substrates includes oxidation of the substrates. A zirconium coating of uniform and controlled thickness is especially useful in various applications because the uniformly thick zirconium surface of controlled depth provide a barrier against implant corrosion caused by ionization of the metal substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon Hunter, Shilesh Jani, Vivek Pawar
  • Patent number: 9115761
    Abstract: A ball bearing assembly can include an outer race that includes an inner surface; an inner race that comprises an outer surface that includes an imperfection and a shoulder disposed at a shoulder angle where the imperfection is disposed at an angle in a range from about 50% of the shoulder angle to about 100% of the shoulder angle; and balls disposed between the inner surface of the outer race and the outer surface of the inner race. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Mavrosakis, Voytek Kanigowski
  • Patent number: 8967870
    Abstract: A high-precision slide bearing includes a substrate of sintered metal and a synthetic resin layer. The bearing can be used for rotary shafts in compressors of room air-conditioners or in transmissions of motor vehicles and construction machines to support relatively large radial and axial loads. The resin layer is integrally superposed on the radially inner surface of the sintered metal substrate of the slide bearing, which is a cylindrical member. The resin layer is made of a resin composition of an aromatic polyetherketone resin containing a fibrous filler. The fibrous filler is made up of fibers dispersed in the resin layer and oriented such that their length directions intersect the rotational direction of the bearing at angles of 45 to 90 degrees. The resin layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 0.7 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Ishii, Katsushi Takeo, Ken Yasuda
  • Patent number: 8944690
    Abstract: A method of forming a corrosion resistant bushing includes bonding a sliding layer to a first surface of a load bearing substrate to form a laminate sheet and cutting a blank from the laminate sheet. The laminate sheet includes an exposed surface corresponding to a second surface of the load bearing substrate. The blank includes cut edges having a load bearing substrate portion. The method further includes forming a semi-finished bushing from the blank, and applying a corrosion resistant coating to the exposed surface and the load bearing substrate portion of the cut edges to form the corrosion resistant bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Pampus GmbH
    Inventor: Parag Natu
  • Publication number: 20150003761
    Abstract: Provided is a low height lightweight thrust slide bearing: which is capable of preventing the deformation of the ring-shaped metal plate and of reducing the generation of noise that occurs with the relative rotation of a piston rod even when a large force is applied on the metal plate via the piston rod; which is capable of preventing the intrusion of foreign matters such as dust from outside onto the sliding surfaces; and for which the number of constituent parts has been reduced. The thrust slide bearing (1) is provided with a synthetic resin bearing body (2) having a ring-shaped upper surface (5) that functions as a sliding surface, a ring-shaped metal plate (4) that is supported on the ring-shaped upper surface (5) to be freely rotatable relative to the bearing body (2) in the circumferential direction (R) around the shaft center (O), and a ring-shaped cover (3) disposed so as to cover the ring-shaped upper surface (5) and the ring-shaped metal plate (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nagashima, Takashi Horiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140348451
    Abstract: A synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing includes a synthetic resin-made upper casing, a synthetic resin-made lower casing, and a synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing piece interposed between the upper casing and the lower casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshikazu SAKAIRI, Ryohei KANEKO, Kouichi MORISHIGE, Tsuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Mirai SHIDA
  • Patent number: 8840308
    Abstract: A bushing can include a load bearing substrate having a first major surface, an adhesive film overlying the first major surface, and a friction reducing layer overlying the adhesive film. A method can include extruding an adhesive film, laminating a friction reducing layer to a load bearing substrate with the adhesive film therebetween to form a composite, and shaping the composite to form a bushing. The adhesive film can include a first adhesive layer, such as and a fluoropolymer layer. The adhesive layer can include a modified ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, and the fluoropolymer layer can include an ethylene tetrafluoroethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Paul W. Ortiz, Julia DiCorleto Gibson
  • Publication number: 20140255191
    Abstract: A bearing assembly comprises a bearing, a shim disposed within the bearing, and a component disposed within the shim. The shim comprises a first material, the component comprises a second material, and the first material has an elastic modulus value that is lower than an elastic modulus value of the second material. An apparatus comprises an elastomeric bearing, a fiberglass shim, and a steel spindle that is connected to the elastomeric bearing through the shim. A method for reducing strain in an adhesive layer that connects a bearing to a component comprises selecting a shim material having an elastic modulus value that is less than an elastic modulus value of the component and providing instructions to connect the component to the shim by placing the adhesive layer between an outer surface of the component and an inner surface of the shim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
    Inventor: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
  • Publication number: 20140254332
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing comprising a sintered ceramic body traversed by a hole. According to the invention, the body includes a top surface and a bottom surface each of which includes a functional element communicating with said hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Comadur S.A.
    Inventors: Bruno BESUTTI, Marie-Claire Barata, Christian Russi
  • Publication number: 20140233875
    Abstract: In this sliding bearing, which is provided with a resin coating layer at the surface of a bearing alloy layer layered at a back metal layer, a PAI that degrades with difficulty at high temperatures is used as the main component as the resin binder of the resin coating layer, adjustment particles are included in the resin binder, and as a result, the compressive strength of the resin coating layer is increased, and indentations of the resin coating layer resulting from a shaft are prevented. Meanwhile, a plate solid lubricant is included in the resin binder, and thus sliding characteristics are improved. Also, delamination due to cracks is prevented by the effect of adjusting the orientation of the solid lubricant and the damming effect of the adjustment particles, and thus superior anti-seizure property is provided even in an engine that frequently repeats starting and stopping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayakawa, Naohisa Kawakami, Shigeru Inami, Colin McAleese
  • Publication number: 20140226927
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding bearing that has a simple, easy-to-manufacture structure, does not require an insulating sleeve or the like, is not affected by the material or surface roughness of a roller against which the bearing slides, exhibits low friction torque and low wear, tolerates moment loads, and is easy to replace; as well as an image forming apparatus using the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Takuya Ishii, Ikuma Fujitsuka, Kei Hattori, Kazuo Hirose, Satoru Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 8771836
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a resin composition whose flowability is secured when the resin composition is injection-molded into injection-molded articles such as a resin-made crown-shaped cage and a resin-made seal both for a rolling bearing and a resin-made sliding bearing and which is capable of enhancing the mechanical strengths and toughnesses of these injection-molded articles to such an extent that these injection-molded articles can be used as bearing members. The resin composition is formed into a molded article and used as a bearing member. The resin composition is composed of polyamide resin or polyester resin to which polycarbodiimide is added. The polyamide resin is at least one resin selected from among polyamide 66 resin and polyamide 11 resin. The polyester resin is polytrimethylene terephthalate resin. 0.5 to 6 wt % of the polycarbodiimide is contained in an entirety of the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihide Himeno, Masaki Egami, Eiichirou Shimazu
  • Patent number: 8746981
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a bearing or tolerance ring having multiple functional layers including an annular metallic band and an elastomeric layer. The tolerance ring also includes a low friction layer that is bonded to the other layers. The elastomeric layer of the present invention provides soft performance to reduce noise and vibration without diminishing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Pampus, GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Hartmann
  • Patent number: 8689390
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wiper device provided with a metal frame member (16), which includes a cylindrical receiving portion (26), and a pivot holder (18), which is fixed to the metal frame member (16) and holds a pivot shaft (12). The pivot holder (18) includes holder cylindrical portions (34, 104), which rotationally support the pivot shaft (12), vehicle body attachment legs (38, 108), which extend radially outward from the holder cylindrical parts (34, 104) and are attached to a vehicle body, and fitting portions (40B, 110B), which are securely fitted to the receiving part (26) by inserting the fitting portions (40B, 110B) in the receiving portion (26) and swaging the receiving portion (26). The pivot holder (18) is formed as an integrated component by a metal part and a plastic part (32), which is lighter than the metal part and is integrated with the metal part. At least an outer circumferential portion of the engaged parts (40B, 110B) is formed by the metal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihisa Motono, Shingo Ohno, Shunsaku Ohta, Yoshiyuki Kuomo
  • Publication number: 20140086777
    Abstract: A synthetic resin bearing and a scroll compressor using the same are provided. In the synthetic resin bearing as a journal bearing fixed to an orbiting scroll or a main frame and relatively rotated with respect to a rotational shaft in a scroll compressor, the journal bearing is made of a PEEK material, and a thickness t of the journal bearing is smaller than a thickness t1 with which a temperature in a contact surface thereof with the rotational shaft during an operation of the scroll compressor corresponds to a glass transition temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Jinsung Park, Eunsoo Yang, Chuljig Bae, Byeongchul Lee
  • Patent number: 8641286
    Abstract: A composite bearing member 10 includes: a bearing sliding material 20 whose surface contacts a rotating portion; a bearing base material 30 made of a material different from a material constituting the bearing sliding material 20; and a joining layer 40 joining the bearing sliding material 20 and the bearing base material 30. Further, the bearing sliding material 20 has a sliding layer 50 sliding the rotating portion on a surface. Furthermore, the bearing sliding material 20 has, between the sliding layer 50 and the joining layer 40, a composition graded layer 60 which dispersedly contains the same metal material as a metal material constituting the joining layer 40 and in which a content of the metal material is increased toward the joining layer 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Than Trong Long, Yuuji Hisazato, Satoshi Namba, Kazuma Mukai
  • Publication number: 20130341458
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a bearing is situated between a pitch link and a swashplate or a hub. The bearing comprises an outer housing having a first opening therethrough, an elastomeric bearing adjacent the housing inside the first opening and having a second opening therethrough, and an inner housing adjacent the elastomeric bearing inside the second opening and having a third opening therethrough. The inner housing comprising a first inner surface and a second inner surface defining the third opening. A first member is adjacent the first inner surface inside the third opening having a fourth opening therethrough. A second member is adjacent the second inner surface inside the third opening having a fifth opening therethrough coaxial with the fourth opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
    Inventors: Drew Sutton, Frank B. Stamps
  • Patent number: 8613554
    Abstract: A self-aligning bearing assembly utilizing PDC buttons for forming opposing circumferential arrays of bearing surfaces, is particularly suitable for use in a fluid environment, such as being immersed in flowing water when supporting the rotor of a hydroelectric turbine. One bearing surface is supported for rotation with the rotor. The opposing bearing surface is supported by a spherical joint in a stationary housing. When the rotor is subjected to hydraulic loading, the opposing bearing surface can be tilted to self-align with the rotor axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: MSI Machineering Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Lynn P. Tessier, John P. Doyle
  • Publication number: 20130336606
    Abstract: An elastomeric bushing and a bearing which is equipped with the bushing in question. The bushing can, even after installation in the bearing, be pretensioned or calibrated, by displacement of elastomeric material in the interior of the bushing, where the displacement is carried out by different pressing means and tensioning means in the bushing and/or in the surrounding bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: FM Energie GMBH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Franz Mitsch
  • Patent number: 8545102
    Abstract: A cylindrical sliding bearing 1 can rotatably support a rotational shaft by a sliding surface 4 (inner circumferential surface). A crowning 5 having a sloped surface is formed at both ends of the sliding surface 4 in the axial direction. The crowning 5 includes a first crowning 3A formed of a sloped surface of a lining layer 3 and a second crowning 2A formed of a sloped surface of a back metal 2 positioned on the lower side of the first crowning. Unlike a conventional sliding bearing, the back metal 2 where the crowning 5 is positioned is provided as a sloped surface (2A). As compared with conventional bearings, the crowning 5 can be prevented from being unevenly brought into contact with the rotational shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoshi Hayashi, Masahiro Kawahara, Ken-ichirou Futamura, Toshiaki Inaguma, Makoto Shibata
  • Patent number: 8454326
    Abstract: A generator includes an aluminum housing having an end plate secured to a housing portion. The housing portion and the end plate respectively include first and second bores. The end plate includes a wall with a boss providing a bore. The wall provides a lubrication passage in fluid communication with the bore. An idler gear includes a shaft having opposing first and second ends respectively supported in the first and second bores. A generator is arranged within the housing and is rotationally coupled to the idler gear. First and second impregnated carbon journal bearings respectively include a first inner and outer bearing diameter and a second inner and outer bearing diameter. The first and second outer bearing diameters are in press fit relationship with the first and second bores respectively. The inner diameters are fixed relative to their respective outer diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew P. Grosskopf, Eric A. Brust
  • Publication number: 20120288368
    Abstract: A slide bearing device and a compressor are capable of stably achieving a low friction condition from the early stage of the start of friction. The slide bearing device includes a bearing, a shaft supported by the bearing while being subjected to sliding, and a gas supply section for supplying a dry gas to a bearing slide section where the bearing and the shaft slide against each other. A slide surface of the bearing is formed of a resin composite material, which is a mixture of a carbon material and a resin. The shaft is made of a metal and includes a groove formed on a slide surface of the shaft, the groove extending in a direction different from the sliding direction. Plural grooves may be provided and the grooves may extend in arbitrary directions. The shaft may include a collection of plural recesses on the slide surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonaga Oyamada, Masahiko Ono
  • Patent number: 8277124
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a bearing apparatus comprises a first bearing assembly including a plurality of circumferentially-spaced first bearing elements each of which includes a first bearing surface. The bearing apparatus further includes a second bearing assembly including a plurality of circumferentially-spaced second bearing elements each of which includes a second bearing surface oriented to engage the first bearing surfaces of the first bearing assembly during operation. At least one of the second bearing elements may be circumferentially spaced from an adjacent one of the second bearing elements by a lateral spacing greater than a lateral dimension of the at least one of the second bearing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: US Synthetic Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy N. Sexton, Craig H. Cooley
  • Publication number: 20120243814
    Abstract: A synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing 1 includes a synthetic resin-made upper casing 100, a synthetic resin-made lower casing 200, and a synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing piece 300 interposed between the upper casing 100 and the lower casing 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sakairi, Ryohei Kaneko, Kouichi Morishige, Tsuyoshi Nagashima, Mirai Shida
  • Patent number: 8231276
    Abstract: A sliding material sliding material includes: a sliding plane member; a base member made of a material different from that of the sliding plane member; an intermediate member provided between the sliding plane member and the base member and formed with a plurality of spaces; and a joining member for bonding the intermediate member to the base member, in which a portion of the space formed to the intermediate member is impregnated with a portion of the sliding plane member so that the sliding plane member is bonded to the intermediate member, and a residual portion of the space of the intermediate member is impregnated with a portion of the joining member so that the base member is bonded to the intermediate member with the joining member therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Long Than Trong, Satoshi Namba, Nobuyuki Yasu, Kazuma Mukai
  • Patent number: 8226297
    Abstract: An outer race for a rocker bearing includes an internal sliding layer and an external support layer, wherein the sliding layer and the bearing layer are formed from a wound composite fiber material. The outer race is identified by exactly one parting line. A rocker bearing with such an outer race and a method for its production is also provided, in which a sliding layer and a support layer of synthetic resin impregnated fibers are wound in succession onto a winding mandrel, and outer races are formed after setting on the winding body thus produced. The sliding layer and the support layer are wound onto a cylindrical winding mandrel, and the outer race is provided with exactly one parting line opening it, and sliding layer material on its inside is removed to such an extent that a partially spherical contour is obtained for receiving a complementary inner race.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Deva GmbH
    Inventors: Kamran Laal Riahi, August Stadlmayr
  • Patent number: 8206035
    Abstract: The invention provides a low-friction sliding mechanism, a low-friction agent composition, a friction reduction method, a manual transmission and a final reduction gear unit that can exert very excellent low friction characteristics to sliding surfaces present under various applications, and, in particular, that have more excellent low friction characteristics than that of a combination of an existing steel material and an organic Mo compound. The low-friction sliding mechanism has an oxygen-containing organic compound or an aliphatic amine compound interposed between sliding surfaces that a DLC coated sliding member and a sliding member form. The low-friction agent composition contains an oxygen-containing organic compound or an aliphatic amine compound. The friction reduction method includes supplying the low-friction agent composition between sliding surfaces that a DLC coated sliding member and a sliding member form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Jean Michel Martin, Shigeki Takeshima, Shozaburo Konishi, Makoto Kano, Yutaka Mabuchi, Takao Ishikawa, Takafumi Ueno, Kiyotaka Nakamura, Takahiro Hamada
  • Patent number: 8186883
    Abstract: A cover-bearing arrangement for mounting a shaft which extends into a housing in the region of a housing opening and for closing off the housing in the region of the housing opening. The arrangement comprises a sleeve section which surrounds the shaft and which can be inserted into the housing opening, and a flange section which can be fastened to the housing. A bearing for rotatably mounting the shaft is arranged in the sleeve section. The sleeve section and the flange section are produced as a single-piece component from plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & CIE KG
    Inventors: Frank Nollenberger, Sabrina Kugele
  • Publication number: 20120106882
    Abstract: A method includes casting a friction reducing layer on a carrier, and casting an adhesive layer overlying the friction reducing layer to form a multilayer cast film. The method further includes laminating the multilayer cast film to the load bearing substrate with the load bearing substrate to form a composite and shaping the composite. The load bearing substrate is closer to the adhesive layer than to the friction reducing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexis Ponnouradjou, Christopher M. Comeaux, Karen M. Conley, Frank J. Csillag, Sarah L. Clark
  • Patent number: 8167597
    Abstract: A bearing material composition that lines a support includes a combination of a thermoplastic conforming material and abrasive particles which provide a combined effect for remedying the effects due to edge loading that may be caused by misalignment between the bearing and a shaft to which a portion is rotatably mounted. The conforming material may be PTFE such that it does not have a memory and is subject to cold flow and creep. As a result, misalignment problems and edge loading are remedied by the combination of abrasive removal of metal material from the drive shaft at the location of edge loading and creep of the conforming material at the location of edge loading which may provide an overall greater bearing interface surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Bitzer Scroll Inc.
    Inventor: James W. Bush
  • Patent number: 8152377
    Abstract: A low-friction sliding mechanism includes first and second sliding members having respective sliding surfaces slidable relative to each other and a lubricant applied to the sliding surfaces of the first and second sliding members. At least the sliding surface of the first sliding member is made of a diamond-like carbon material, and at least the sliding surface of the second sliding member is made of either an aluminum-based alloy material, a magnesium-based alloy material or a diamond-like carbon material. The lubricant contains a base oil and at least one of an ashless fatty-ester friction modifier and an ashless aliphatic-amine friction modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Shozaburo Konishi, Makoto Kano, Yoshiteru Yasuda, Yutaka Mabuchi, Takahiro Hamada, Shigeki Takeshima, Kenji Tsushima
  • Patent number: 8066435
    Abstract: A thrust sliding bearing (1) includes an upper casing (3) which is made of polyacetal resin and has an annular lower surface (2); a lower casing (5) which is made of a reinforced synthetic resin including, in addition to polyacetal resin, reinforcing fibers such as glass fibers contained in this polyacetal resin, is superposed on the upper casing (3) so as to be rotatable about an axis O of the upper casing (3) in an R direction, and has an annular upper surface (4) opposed to the annular lower surface (2) of the upper casing (3); an annular thrust sliding bearing piece (6) which is made of polyacetal resin and is interposed between the annular lower surface (2) and the annular upper surface (4); and a tubular radial sliding bearing piece (7) made of polyacetal resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Oiles Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Miyata, Ryohei Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8033733
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing element (1) with a metallic support body (2), a bearing metal layer (3) arranged over the top and a polymer layer (4) arranged on the top of the latter, whereby the polymer layer (4) consists of a polyimide resin, molybdenum sulphide (MoS2) and graphite. The proportion of the polyimide resin in the polymer layer (4) is selected from a range with a lower limit of 60% and an upper limit of 80%, the proportion of MoS2 is selected from a range with a lower limit of 15% and an upper limit of 25% and the proportion of graphite is selected from a range with a lower limit of 5% and an upper limit of 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Miba Gleitlager GmbH
    Inventor: Hubert Lang
  • Publication number: 20100290726
    Abstract: In order to provide a plain bearing, in which the efficiency in particular in the case of dry-running is increased and which in particular in these conditions also tolerates higher than previously usual running speeds over long periods of operation, it is proposed that the plain bearing has a bearing body, in which a bearing bush is configured, the surface of which is produced at least in some areas from a plastic material, wherein the plastic material comprises a fully fluorinated thermoplastic polymer material, optionally compounded with a proportion of one or more further high-performance thermoplastics selected from polyether ketones, polyphenylene sulphide (PPS), polyphenylene sulphone (PPSO2), polyamide (PA), polyimide (PI), polyamide-imide (PAI) and/or polyether imide (PEI), as well as copolymers and derivatives of these polymers and copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Schlipf, Claudia Stern, Dennis Wagner