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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7810999 | Metal bearing A metal bearing having a long operating life that is not affected by the operating temperature. The metal bearing includes a bearing surface capable of slidably contacting with a shaft member, including pores in a surface and interior thereof, and being composed of ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7367774 | System for protecting a main shaft of an engine having a fusible bearing A turbomachine comprising at least a first rotary assembly with a first shaft, a stator, and bearings secured to the stator and suitable for supporting the shaft, one of the bearings being capable of giving way when an unbalance occurs in the rotary assembly, at lea... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360986 | System for blocking a main shaft of an engine having a fusible bearing A turbomachine including at least a first rotary assembly with a first shaft, a stator, and bearings secured to the stator and suitable for supporting the first shaft, one of the bearings being capable of giving way when an unbalance occurs in the first rotary assem... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354212 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a chassis, a motor, a drive transmission gear that receives rotational force from the motor, a feed roller rotatably supported by the chassis, an intermediate gear that has a circular bearing, receives rotational force from the dr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7322749 | Low-friction sliding mechanism 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... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7306059 | Thrust bearing assembly A thrust bearing assembly in which each thrust pad is individually mounted on a deflection element. An embodiment of the invention comprises a rotating bearing runner having a wear resistant face and a stationary bearing carrier defining a plurality of cavities disp... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7241088 | Threading tap for cutting threads in blind holes and methods of its manufacture A threading tap for cutting threads in blind holes includes an elongated body with a central axis, the body having at a rear end a connector portion, and having at a front end a threading portion. The threading portion is provided with at least one helical thread-cu... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7226051 | Sheet feeder In a sheet feeder of the present invention, a groove-shaped concave provided on an inner surface of a bearing extends therethrough in a direction where a rotational shaft of a feed roller extends. A surface of the rotational shaft of the feed roller is supported on ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7176596 | Pivot joint structure for motor rotor The invention relates to a pivot joint structure of the motor rotor including a spindle and a snap ring. The spindle is centrally disposed in the rotor and the end thereof near the urging part has a scoop channel with smaller outer diameter. The urging part has at l... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7165891 | Guide roller assembly for a continuous casting plant A guide roller assembly includes a guide roller and a bearing that supports the roller body of the guide roller and is formed as a ring-shaped, segmented slide bearing. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156920 | Coating device The coating device (10) for coating a metal band or strip (12, 12′) in a melted metal mass (14 ) comprises a shaft (16, 18) rotatably supported in the melted metal mass (14) by a slide bearing (261, 26 | 01/02/2007 |
| 7093618 | Lounge valve mounting housing and assembly The present invention provides a lounge valve mounting housing and assembly. The housing and assembly are useful for directing air through ducts, and particularly the assembly is useful for directing air, or other fluid, through Y-shaped junctions. The housing compr... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7077573 | Contact bearing A bearing adapted to support and allow controlled relative movement with an opposed bearing surface. The bearing is constructed to have a long life by incorporating a surface that addresses many causes of friction and wear. The bearing includes a plurality of suppor... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7043858 | Backhoe pivot joint A backhoe coupling for joining members of a backhoe attachment is provided, the coupling having a pivot pin assembly that includes a pivot pin and a retaining plate. The pin has a groove for receiving the retaining plate. The retaining plate has an edge that is size... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7023119 | Device comprising a plain bearing A motor, suitable for driving a fan, features a plain bearing (36) that contains ferromagnetic material and serves for radial support of a rotor shaft (34) made of ferromagnetic material. The shaft (34) is arranged rotatably and axially displace... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6969198 | Low-friction sliding mechanism 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... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6948433 | Conveyor components A non-metallic conveyor component is provided. The conveyor component includes an inner race and an outer race. The inner race includes an outer bearing surface. The outer race includes and inner bearing surface. One of the outer and inner bearing surfaces includes ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6942387 | Pivot bearing insert and bearing constructed with the same The invention relates to a pivot bearing insert for a bearing body (1) consisting of two bearing parts (2, 3) which can pivot about a pivot axis (5) and between which the pivot bearing insert (6) is located. The invention is characterized... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6939115 | Wet-type rotor pump A wet-type rotor pump which is particularly suitable for feeding coolant in motorcar engines comprises a pump wheel. By the pump wheel, a feed medium is fed through an intake channel into a discharge channel. Via a common shaft, a motor armature of an electric motor... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6819017 | Method and apparatus for fan redundancy A device is presented having a multiplicity of motors connected to a shaft. A multiplicity of motor control devices are connected to the motors. A multiplicity of bearings are connected to the motors and the shaft. The multiplicity of motors, the multiplicity of mot... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6802646 | Low-friction moving interfaces in micromachines and nanomachines A low-friction device having a moving interface comprising first and second members. Each of the members has a maximum dimension of about 100 μm or less between any two points. At least the first member is formed of diamond and the first and second members are in s... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6726366 | Spindle bearing Spindle bearing for essentially parallel spindles, in particular of air flaps in a vehicle heating, ventilating and/or air conditioning unit, having respective bearing bushes, the bearing bushes at least partially overlapping in the axial direction. ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6718617 | Method for adjusting an axial play of a rotor shaft of a motor In order to simplify the adjustment of an axial play of a rotor shaft (2.4) between the rotor shaft (2.4) and a stator (1) of a motor with the purpose of reducing the component expenditure and the assembly expenditure of the motor, a first clamp... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6688001 | Method and apparatus of working plain bearing There is provided a method of working a plain bearing and a working apparatus of the plain bearing, which make it easy to perform working by forming a plurality of inclined surfaces of different angles in portions on both sides of the inner peripheral sur... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6669370 | Plain bearing A hinge housing has a flange bearing bush pressed into a transverse bearing opening. A bearing pin is swively inserted in the flange bearing bush. The plain bearing is a ready-to-install unit in that the cylindrical bush part of the flange bearing bush in... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6663289 | Bearing with multi-layered spacers A bearing with one or more layers of lubricated spacers for dynamically brace-supporting first and second slide surfaces independently movable relative to each other. The spacers are positioned between the first and second slide surfaces, and each spacer ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6280089 | Rotational shaft for a non-ball type bearing A shaft structure for rotational support by a non-ball type bearing includes a spherical rotation-supporting section and a non-spherical section. The spherical rotation-supporting section provides a support for the shaft when the shaft rotates in an axial... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6190050 | System and method for preparing wear-resistant bearing surfaces A wear-resistant bearing system utilizes a grid pattern of wear-resistant material. In instances where two bearing surfaces slide with respect to one another, such as with a thrust bearing, wear-resistant material strips are inlaid in the surrounding supp... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6086257 | Sliding bearing and manufacturing method thereof A sliding bearing having an improved load-carrying capacity and fatigue strength, by sintering a molded body of iron-based metal mixture powder and concurrently bonding the same to steel-backed metal layer, in which a lubricating oil having the optimal lu... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6082902 | Bearing for driven shafts of wiper device A wiper device has a tubular plate, a tubular element provided in the tubular plate for supporting a driven shaft, a bearing bushing in which the tubular element is introduced, the bearing bushing and the tubular element being fixed with one another in a ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6065876 | Equipment for use in molten metal plating bath An equipment for use in a molten metal plating bath, comprising a bearing disposed in the molten metal plating bath for supporting a roller with an end, the bearing containing 70-95 wt. % of Si3 N4, 2-10 wt. % of Al2 O | 05/23/2000 |
| 5984526 | Bearing apparatus A rotor 16 rotatably installed on a casing 10 is in contact with a container hole 11 of the casing 10, and the rotor 16 is equipped with a rotating shaft 17 which rotates around a rotation center O2 at a position deviated from a reference axis ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5772336 | Sliding bearing and a method for mounting same A method for mounting a sliding bearing comprises the steps of holding a position different in an axial direction from that of a shaft sliding portion of the bearing by a bearing holding member, inserting a sizing bar having almost the same outer diameter... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5758976 | Running wheel A running wheel is slidably supported on a stationary axle between the axle and the bearing bore with a large bearing play and a small Hertzian stress. The axle has a circumferential section which is defined by its sector with a sector angle of less than ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5462363 | Scroller roller band device A rotary roller band device having a central roller disposed within a cluster of orbiting rollers and rows of flexible bands holding the rollers together in a self-supporting structure. The bands are intertwined between the rollers such that as the roller... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5456536 | Inexpensive, light-weight bearing A bearing having an inner section that is easily snapped into an outer section to form the bearing. The inner section includes a cylindrical ring portion and an exterior-extending, locking ring portion. The outer section includes a cylindrical ring portio... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5306090 | Sliding roller bearing having rolling members A plurality of retaining grooves for rolling members are arranged in the inner cylinder. The retaining grooves have semicircular bottom halves and top halves having sector-shaped sections diverging radially outwardly. The rolling members are accommodated ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5290069 | Journal bearing with bearing-shaft clearance zone The invention is an improvement in a mechanical drive train having a bushing-type plain journal bearing, a housing radially supporting the bearing to a reference plane, and a shaft extending through the bearing beyond the reference plane. That portion of ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5248361 | Method of manufacturing laminated flexible bearings, in particular for engine nozzle joints To make a laminated flexible bearing constituted by rigid reinforcing layers made of composite material alternating with layers of rubber or elastomer, each reinforcing layer is formed by winding a resin preimpregnated thread directly on the underlying la... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5244285 | Hydrostatically mounted squeeze film damper Squeeze film damper with a viscous damping agent between two concentric cylindrical surfaces (5) on the internal (3) and external (6) parts, respectively, of the damper. The clearance between these two surfaces (5) is supplied with a viscous damping agent... | 09/14/1993 |
