Abstract: A method for manufacturing an impeller with a number of impeller blades and a cover disc covering the impeller blades. Plastic is injected into an injection mold using a cascade injection molding process to form the impeller. The injection mold has a number of shut-off nozzles to feed the plastic at various joint positions and different opening times. The number of shut-off nozzles is determined as a function of the number of impeller blades.

Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention operate to structurally interrelate two components using inserts made from metallic glass-based materials. In one embodiment, a method of structurally interrelating two components includes: forming an insert from a metallic glass-based composition; where the formed insert includes a metallic glass-based material; affixing the insert to a first component; and structurally interrelating the second component to the first component using the insert.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a rotating device which comprises two pairs of disks. Each pair has a first disk in a first plane and a second disk in a second plane rigidly joined to the first disk. The second plane is perpendicular to the first plane and the first disk in each pair are detachably attached to one another and the second disk in each pair are detachably attached to one another so that each pair connectedly rotates with respect to each other. Their respective circumferential edges are in contact with one another.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a product including an annular portion including a frictional surface and a first flange portion extending from the frictional surface, wherein the first flange portion comprises a first face, a second face, and a third face; and a hub portion and a second flange portion extending from the hub portion, wherein the second flange portion engages the first face, the second face, and the third face of the first flange portion.

Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement copper-based materials in applications where resistance to wear is desired. In one embodiment, a wear-resistant gear includes a gear defined by a rotatable body having teeth disposed on an outer surface of the rotatable body, where the gear body is formed at least in part from a material including copper and X, where X is one of zirconium, titanium, hafnium, rutherfordium, and mixtures thereof and where the atomic ratio of copper to X is approximately between 2:3 and 3:2.

Abstract: An elastomeric polymer composition is disclosed that is wear resistant at a broad range of temperatures. The composition contains a thermoplastic elastomer, such as a thermoplastic polyester elastomer, that forms a polymer matrix in products made from the polymer composition. The polymer composition may also contain a fluoropolymer and/or unmodified or functionalized ultra-high molecular weight polyolefin particles, such as ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene particles.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a rotating device which comprises two pairs of disks. Each pair has a first disk in a first plane and a second disk in a second plane rigidly joined to the first disk. The second plane is perpendicular to the first plane and the first disk in each pair are detachably attached to one another and the second disk in each pair are detachably attached to one another so that each pair connectedly rotates with respect to each other. Their respective circumferential edges are in contact with one another.

Abstract: An annular caulking-fastened component to be fastened to a counterpart component by caulking includes a notch formed in an inner peripheral edge portion at one end side in a center axis direction, the notch being to be fixed to the counterpart component by caulking; and at least one of an inner-peripheral stepped portion formed between an inner peripheral surface and the inner peripheral edge portion and outward from the inner peripheral surface in a radial direction and an end-face stepped portion formed between an end face at one end side in the center axis direction and the inner peripheral edge portion and from the end face toward the other end side in the center axis direction.

Abstract: A blank of a machine component comprising teeth, and a method of producing a corresponding machine component. The blank has a surface provided to constitute outside-face end regions of the teeth, and has indentations, which are preferably realized by a forming operation, boundaries of the indentations constituting edge regions of the surface. In the alteration of the blank for the purpose of realizing the machine component, the teeth can be realized in such a way that remaining regions of the indentations constitute chamfers of tooth flanks of the teeth. Burr strands, which would have to be removed in a further operation, can thereby be prevented.

Abstract: Composite gear blanks are manufactured by placing a rigid centerpiece in a mold, optionally inertizing the mold, filling the mold by adding a liquid reactive mixture around the centerpiece, applying static pressure to the mold and polymerizing the reactive mixture so as to form a plastic outer part surrounding the centerpiece. The composite gear blanks thus made have improved values of normal and shear adhesion strength both at room temperature and at elevated temperatures of up to 120° C. and are particularly suited for making worm gear parts of automotive electronic power steering systems.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a product including an annular portion including a frictional surface and a first flange portion extending from the frictional surface, wherein the first flange portion comprises a first face, a second face, and a third face; and a hub portion and a second flange portion extending from the hub portion, wherein the second flange portion engages the first face, the second face, and the third face of the first flange portion.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing plastic moldings while increasing the coefficient of viscosity of the raw material used to manufacture same and to a molding manufactured according to the process. To increase the loadability and the service life of moldings manufactured by injection molding, which are subject to dynamic loads during their use, the granular material used is tempered before the shaping processing in the injection molding process for a period of 10 hours to 30 hours at a temperature between 90 C and 150 C. Without resorting to higher-priced materials, highly loadable moldings can be manufactured by this process, which can be advantageously used by the manufacturer without a greater effort. A corresponding molding, such as a worm gear, manufactured according to the process from a granular material with an original solution viscosity between 180 mL/g and 190 mL/g, has a solution viscosity between 180 mL/g and 200 mL/g.

Abstract: A composite body, such as a gear wheel or torsional vibration damper, including a radially inner hub body provided with outer profiles, a surrounding outer body provided with inner profiles, and an intermediate layer of synthetic resin material which connects the outer profiles of the hub body with the inner profiles of the outer body; the hub body being with an inner contour adapted to mount the composite body on a shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sintered gear (1) with teeth (2), between which a tooth base (5) is respectively formed. The tooth base (5) has a surface which is subjected to a thermo-mechanical finishing process and a surface roughness with an arithmetical mean roughness value Ra, measured in accordance with DIN EN ISO 4287, selected from a range with a lower limit of 0.2 ?m and an upper limit of 2.0 ?m.

Abstract: A composite material is formed of several assembled discs of matrix material, wherein each disc preferably has at least one groove therein, and at least one fiber (14) is inserted in each groove. A composite of matrix material and fibers (14) is present in an inner section (16), whereas exclusively the matrix material is present in an outer section (17). The inner section with the fibers (14) reaches to different radial extents toward the outer section (17), to achieve a strength-optimizing intermeshing of the inner section (16) with the outer section (17).

Abstract: The gear wheel of the present invention comprises a core, and teeth, in which said core comprises a first material, said teeth comprising the first material of the core together with a second material molded thereon as a skin, wherein the thickness of said skin at root of the teeth is more than the thickness of said skin at pitch line of the teeth.

Abstract: A drive frame 34 as a cylindrical molded article has a drive frame main body 34a, three first cam grooves 34c, three second cam grooves 34d, three high-density regions H, and three cam pins 43. The cam pins 43 are disposed in the circumferential direction between first center lines X1 which are positioned in the center in the circumferential direction between adjacent high-density regions H, and the high-density regions H.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive component which comprises at least one toothed section from a sintered material whereby the toothed section is subjected to an asymmetric surface compression that is adapted to the stress the automotive component is exposed to.

Abstract: A synchronizer ring 1 has an annular ring body 2; a friction material 4 joined integrally to a cylindrical inner peripheral surface 3 of the ring body 2; a conical surface 5 formed on an inner surface of the friction material 4; and a plurality of annular grooves 6 formed in the conical surface 5 of the friction material 4.

Abstract: In a magneto-optical disc contained in a cartridge, a first dielectric layer, signal recording layer, second dielectric layer, and light reflecting layer are sequentially stacked on a substrate having formed grooves, and a first protective layer, print layer using at least one color and second protective layer are sequentially stacked on the light reflecting layer. Thickness of the second protective layer is not smaller than that of the print layer, and thickness of the first protective layer is not smaller than 2 &mgr;m. Thus the recording medium having the print layer on at least one surface maintains a sufficient resistance to corrosion and a good slidableness.

Abstract: A lid assembly for a semiconductor processing apparatus having at least two chambers comprises a lid plate having a first side and a second side and a plasma generation source mounted to the first side of the lid plate. Additionally, at least two gas boxes are coupled to the first side of the lid of the lid plate, and a divider is coupled between the plasma generation source and the at least two gas boxes.

Abstract: A high strength gear is provided which comprises a base metal of an iron-base alloy, the base metal being carburized or carbonitrided and having a tooth surface, and a coating containing Fe nitride and/or Fe carbonitride, formed on the tooth surface. A method of forming a high strength gear is also provided.

Abstract: An electric power steering device transmits rotation of an electric actuator for generating auxiliary steering power to a wheel via a worm and a worm wheel. The worm wheel is molded from pelletized synthetic resin material. A number average molecular weight of the pelletized synthetic resin material is greater than or equal to 30,000 and less than or equal to 60,000.