Sliding member and bearing device using the same

    公开(公告)号:US10808759B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-20

    申请号:US16654954

    申请日:2019-10-16

    Abstract: A sliding member of the present embodiment includes a bearing alloy layer and a coating layer provided on a sliding surface side thereof. The coating layer has a resin binder with sulfide particles dispersed therein. A covering portion is provided over specific particles and is made of metal oxide comprising the same metal element as a metal element constituting the sulfide particles. When measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and an X-ray diffraction method, a ratio of a peak height of the metal oxide to a peak height of metal sulfide by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is from 0.10 to 0.50, and a ratio of the peak height of the metal oxide to the peak height of the metal sulfide by the X-ray diffraction method is 0.10 or less.

    VEHICLE
    232.
    发明申请
    VEHICLE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200283091A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-10

    申请号:US16765299

    申请日:2018-11-20

    Inventor: Masao HIRAMATSU

    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle that performs position control in accordance with a travel condition such as turning or a change in a road surface. In a vehicle according to the present invention that can be propelled by an activating force of a driver, at least one of a front wheel section and a rear wheel section is structured from a left/right pair of wheels, a condition of the vehicle is detected, the rotational force of each of the pair of wheels can be controlled independently of one another in response to the detection, and the pair of wheels are attached to the vehicle via a suspension mechanism.

    Half thrust bearing
    233.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10704590B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US16258882

    申请日:2019-01-28

    Abstract: Provided is a semi-annular shaped half thrust bearing. The half thrust bearing has a sliding surface and a back surface opposite to the sliding surface. The sliding surface includes a plurality of recesses. Each recess has a recess surface recessed from the sliding surface toward the back surface. The recess surface is convex toward the back surface in cross-sectional view in a center line direction of the half thrust bearing. The recess surface includes a plurality of grooves. The grooves are recessed from the recess surface toward the back surface. The grooves extend in the center line direction so that smooth surfaces and the grooves are alternately arranged on the recess surface in a horizontal direction of the half thrust bearing.

    BEARING DEVICE AND ROTATING MACHINE USING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20200032843A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16521667

    申请日:2019-07-25

    Inventor: Yuji KAWAAI

    Abstract: A bearing device includes a base plate, a plurality of sliding pads and support members. The sliding pad is movable relative to the base plate. The support members are located between the base plate and the sliding pad, and shift a position of a load supporting point in a circumferential direction of the base plate, the load supporting point serving as a point for supporting a load received from the sliding pad. When any virtual flat surface perpendicular to a rotating shaft member is considered as a reference surface, and when a distance from the reference surface through the load supporting point to an end of the sliding pad at the opposite side to the base plate is defined as a setting distance, a position of the load supporting point is shifted in a circumferential direction of the base plate with no change in the setting distance.

    Sliding member
    235.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10458471B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-29

    申请号:US15914002

    申请日:2018-03-07

    Abstract: Provided is a partially-annular sliding member including a sliding layer including fibrous particles having an average particle size of 5-25 μm dispersed in a synthetic resin at a volume ratio of 10-35% of the sliding layer. The particles having a major axis length≤20 μm are included at a volume ratio of ≥10% to total particles. A sliding surface side area is defined from the sliding surface and has a thickness of 25% of a sliding layer thickness T, where the fibrous particles having a major axis length of ≥20 μm have a dispersion index of 1.1-6. An interface side area is defined from the interface and has a thickness of 25% of T, where the dispersion index is 1.1-6. An intermediate area is defined between the both areas, where the dispersion index is 0.1 to less than 1.

    CONNECTING ROD BEARING FOR CRANKSHAFT OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

    公开(公告)号:US20190128318A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16142251

    申请日:2018-09-26

    CPC classification number: F16C9/04 F16C17/022 F16C33/046 F16C33/1065

    Abstract: A connecting rod bearing for a crankpin of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine includes a pair of half bearings forming a cylindrical shape. Each half bearing has a main cylindrical portion including a circumferentially central portion of the half bearing, and crush reliefs formed on both circumferential sides of the main cylindrical portion with a wall thickness being smaller than that of the main cylindrical portion. At least one half bearing has an axial groove which extends in an axial direction on a slide surface of the main cylindrical portion, and is apart from the circumferentially central portion by a circumferential angle of 10° or more toward a forward side in a rotation direction of the crankpin, and apart from the crush relief by a circumferential angle of 10° or more toward the circumferentially central portion.

    Half thrust bearing
    237.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10233967B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US15978345

    申请日:2018-05-14

    Inventor: Shinichi Sakurai

    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.

    HALF THRUST BEARING
    238.
    发明申请
    HALF THRUST BEARING 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180355907A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-13

    申请号:US15986962

    申请日:2018-05-23

    Inventor: Shinichi SAKURAI

    Abstract: A half thrust bearing includes a sliding surface for receiving an axial force of a crankshaft of an engine, and a rear surface on an opposite side thereto. The sliding surface includes a flat surface portion near a circumferentially central portion, and two inclined flat surface portions on both circumferential sides of the flat surface portion. The axial distance between the rear surface and the sliding surface is maximum at the flat surface portion. At any radial positions, the axial distance in each inclined flat surface portion is maximum on a circumferentially central portion side and is reduced toward a circumferential end portion of the half thrust bearing. Each inclined flat surface portion is arranged to form one constant thickness portion extending linearly from a radially inner end to a radially outer end at a circumferential angle of 45°.

    Bearing apparatus of crankshaft for internal combustion engine

    公开(公告)号:US10145409B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-04

    申请号:US15358593

    申请日:2016-11-22

    Abstract: There is provided a bearing apparatus of a crankshaft for an internal combustion engine. The bearing apparatus includes a crankshaft having a plurality of journal portions and a plurality of crank pin portions; a main bearing supporting the crankshaft; and a bearing housing holding the main bearing. The plurality of journal portions include a first journal portion having a lubricating oil passage and a second journal portion not having the lubricating oil passage. The first and second journal portions and are supported by the first and second main bearings and. The bearing housing includes an Al alloy upper housing and an Fe alloy lower housing. The groove depth of the oil groove of the upper half bearing of the second main bearing is one half or less than the groove depth of the oil groove of the upper half bearing of the first main bearing.

    Sliding member
    240.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10125277B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-13

    申请号:US15492194

    申请日:2017-04-20

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sliding member that has a coating layer serving as a sliding surface thereof so that even when foreign matter enters between the coating layer and a partner member, smoothness between them is maintained to prevent the occurrence of seizing. When the coating layer has an elastic recovery ratio of less than 60%, foreign matter that has entered between the coating layer and the sliding surface of a partner member is efficiently embedded in the coating layer. When the coating layer is formed of a resin composition, the resin composition contains a binder resin, a solid lubricant, and metal particles having a Young's modulus of 10 GPa or more but 100 GPa or less.

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