Daido Metal Company Ltd.

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Buffalo Inc.

Akira Ono

Takayuki Shibayama

Koichi Yamamoto

Masayuki Niwa

Satoshi Imai

Mitsuru Sugita

Nobutaka Hiramatsu

Hideyumi Matsumura

Shoji Nawa

Hiroshi Naitoh

Masaaki Sakamoto

Yoshitaka Ito

Seiji Mori

Yoshikazu Mizuno

Arihiro Kimura

Hiroichi Matsuhisa

Yasunobu Imahata

Susumu Mamiya

Tadashi Tanaka

Takuya Tanaka

Akira Kojima

Seigo Hanji

Katsumi Sawano

Yukitoshi Ogawa

Hiroshi Yoshimi

Akio Yumoto

Yukou Sugawara

Koji Baba

Mitsuyoshi Ohara

The antenna unitincludes a first antennapositioned so as to face in the direction of gravity when the unit is oriented transversely, and a second antennapositioned so as to face in the direction of gravity when the unit is oriented longitudinally. Based on the output of a sensorthat detects whether the antenna unitis oriented transversely or oriented longitudinally, a switch controllerperforms switching of an RF switchso that the first antenna is used for reception or transmission of vertically polarized waves when the antenna unitis oriented transversely, and the second antenna is used for reception or transmission of vertically polarized waves when the antenna unitis oriented longitudinally.

Antenna unit

A half bearing constituting a cylindrical plain bearing for supporting a shaft for rotation when two of the half bearings are combined together. The half bearing has two circumferential ends each of which has a plurality of circumferential grooves without formation of any crush relief surface. The grooves extend substantially over an overall circumferential dimension of the half bearing and include portions located at both circumferential ends of the half bearing respectively. Each portion has a larger axially sectional area than the grooves formed in a portion of the half bearing mainly subjected to load during rotation of the shaft.

Half bearing with grooves preventing leakage of lubricating oil

A power ratchet wrench including a yoke that is in sliding contact with opposing faces of a distal end bifurcated portion of the wrench housing, guide bushings fitted and fixed in the distal end bifurcated portion and inserted in the hole of the yoke to support the yoke, a spindle inserted in the yoke, and a protruding member that prevents the spindle from being pulled out. The spindle that turns a workpiece is supported by the guide bushings. The motion converter of the wrench includes a swing lever rotatable in a back-and-forth fashion in the wrench housing; and the engagement portion at one end of the swing lever engages a ball on an eccentric shaft of a speed-reduction assembly, and a cylindrical portion at another end of the swing lever is slidably engaged with a U-shaped groove of the yoke.

Power ratchet wrench

A shaft bearing member includes an inner circumferential face serving as a sliding surface, an oil groove formed in the inner circumferential face so as to circumferentially extend, and a recess formed in the inner circumferential face so as to extend from at least one of both widthwise sides of the oil groove toward axial end side of the inner circumferential face with respect to the shaft so that the recess is rendered shallower and shallower.

Shaft bearing member

A shaft bearing member for supporting a shaft so that the shaft is rotatable has an inner circumferential face serving as a sliding surface. The shaft bearing member includes an oil groove formed in the inner circumferential face so as to circumferentially extend, and a plurality of narrow grooves formed on the inner circumferential face so as to extend at a predetermined angle relative to a rotation direction of the shaft from at least one of both widthwise sides of the oil groove toward an axial end side of the inner circumferential face with respect to the shaft. The narrow grooves guide a lubrication oil from the oil groove toward the axial end side with rotation of the shaft. The narrow grooves are shallower and narrower than the oil groove.

It is an object of the invention to improve wear resistance and an anti-seizure property of a portion , on which a radial load operates owing to tension of a cogged belt or a V-belt, of a plain bearing for an engine. A main shaft portion of a crankshaft is in uneven contact with an upper half bearing owning to tension of the cogged belt and/or the V-belt. A branch groove is formed in a portion forwarder than an oil groove formed on the bearing surface of a upper half bearing of a plain bearing, the branch groove branching off from the oil groove. When an engine stops, lubricant is stored within the branch grooves, and when the engine restarts, the lubricant within the branch grooves is immediately supplied to the uneven contact portion of the main shaft portion though the rotation thereof.

Main bearing for engine

A plain bearing which is mounted in an end of a connecting rod consists of a pair of hemi-circular bearing halves of which axial ends are provided with flanges being integrally fixed by welding. The flanges improve the rigidity of the bearing halves. The big end of the connecting rod can have improved rigidity by mounting the bearing halves therein.

Plain bearing for connecting rods

In a sliding bearing in which a bearing metal layer is covered with a coating layer, the coating layer comprises a thermosetting resin as a base resin and soft metal particles dispersed in the base resin in an amount of 0.1 to 10% by volume based on the volume of the coating layer. The soft metal is harder than the base resin and has a higher thermal conductivity than the base resin, so that the wear resistance and anti-seizure property of the sliding bearing are improved. In particular, when the soft metal particles are of copper, silver, tin, zinc or the like, the soft metal particles react with the sulfur contained in a lubricating oil to form a thin metal sulfide film excellent in lubricity on the surface of the particles, whereby the coefficient of friction is made smaller.

Sliding bearing

Disclosed is a sliding bearing in which a heat emission property of the sliding bearing is improved without affecting the original function of an overlay layer. An overlay layer is formed on a higher load-side bearing half, and extends circumferentially from a central portion thereof toward each of opposite ends thereof. Any overlay layer is not formed on a lower load-side bearing half, so that a bearing alloy remains exposed to the surface of this bearing half.

A roller supporting device which comprises a pair of supporting arms, a supporting shaft attached between the pair of supporting arms in a non-rotatable manner, and a roller having an inner hole in the central part thereof, the roller being disposed between the pair of supporting arms and being supported in a rotatable manner by the supporting shaft inserted through the inner hole, the roller being arranged to rotate along with the relative movement with a mating member by making the roller contact with the mating member, wherein a cut out portion, which extends in the axial direction on the outer circumferential surface of the supporting shaft, is formed at an appropriate portion except the portion on which the inner circumferential surface of the inner hole of the roller is pressed due to the load applied to the roller from the mating member, thereby defining an oil passage which extends in the axial direction between the supporting shaft and the inner circumferential surface of the inner hole of the roller.

Roller supporting device

A bearing structure with a low coefficient of friction and a distinguished wear resistance is obtained by coating a shaft with a resin composition comprising PAI and 5 to 50% by weight of PTFE, based on total resin composition and/or coating a bearing with a resin composition comprising PEEK and not more than 50% by weight of PTFE, based on total resin composition. By adding potassium titanate whiskers or a lead compound to the bearing resin composition, more improved coefficient of friction and wear resistance are obtained.

Bearing structure

There is disclosed a half thrust bearing of a substantially semi-circular shape. A thrust relieve 22, slanting toward a confronting end of the half thrust bearing progressively away from a bearing surface of a half thrust bearing, is formed at each of circumferentially-spaced opposite end portions of the bearing surface by pressing (cold forging), so that those portions of the bearing surface, disposed adjacent respectively to the thrust relieves 22, are higher in strength than the other portions of the bearing surface. With this construction, even if a thrust collar of a crankshaft abuts against localized portions of the bearing surface disposed adjacent to the thrust relieves 22, a bearing alloy will not subjected to premature fatigue and separation.

Half thrust bearing

A main-load side bearing metal piece on which a heavy load is imposed is coated on an inner surface thereof with a thin overlay having a uniform thickness. Meanwhile, a non-load side bearing metal piece is coated on an inner surface thereof with an overlay having a uniform thickness greater than that of the overlay formed on the inner surface of the main-load side bearing metal piece. With this construction, the bearing metal piece shows excellent load carrying capacity and fatigue resistance because the overlay formed on the inner surface thereof is thin, while the non-load side bearing metal piece shows excellent foreign matter embeddability and conformability because the overlay formed on the inner surface thereof is thick. Moreover, since there are formed the overlays each having a uniform thickness in respective inner surfaces of each of the bearing metal pieces, and therefore it is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost.

Plain bearing

There are provided a plain bearing which is excellent in oil retaining property and wear-resistant property. The plain bearing has a number of fine grooves which are parallely formed with one another and extending in the circumferential direction on the inner surface of the bearing, the fine grooves comprising deep grooves and shallow grooves. When this bearing is used as a plain bearing, a large amount of lubricating oil can be retained in the deep grooves and the shallow grooves so that a plain bearing which is excellent in anti-seizure property and wear-resistant property can be obtained. Further, even if the shallow grooves will have been worn out by wear and tear during use of extended period of time, the anti-seizure property and the wear-resistant property can be stably maintained by the lubricating oil retained in the deep grooves.

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Nagoya, Japan

Akira Ono