Skf Industrial Trading & Development Company, B.v.

George Tin Wan

Dick Meijer

Bo Olov Jacobson

Antonio Gabelli

Herman D Lankamp

Gerardus De Vries

Bob C Klijnveld

The use of bismuth-compounds in an extreme pressure grease lubricant composition for rolling bearing applications can extend the useful service life of rolling bearings. The bismuth can be used as an additive, preferably an EP additive, or as a soap or non-soap thickener. The invention further relates to a method for preparing an extreme pressure lubricant composition in which a bismuth containing soap or thickener is mixed with an oil and optionally one or more EP- or other additives.

Use of bismuth compounds in extreme pressure grease lubricant

A greased lubricated rolling element bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of rolling elements disposed between said rings, and a cage for holding the rolling elements at a predetermined mutual spacing, has a lubricating grease composition present on the surfaces of said rings, said rolling elements and said cage. The cage is coated on at least the parts of its surface that are in sliding contact with said rolling elements, said inner ring or said outer ring, with a solid lubricant containing coating for lowering the running temperature of at least the cage. The solid lubricant containing coating preferably comprises a disulfide and/or diselenide of a Group V or VI transition metal, more preferably MoS.sub.2 and/or WS.sub.2 in combination with an organic resin such as PTFE.

Grease lubricated rolling element bearing comprising a cage coated with

An electrically conducting polymer thickened grease composition containing

Conducting polymer-thickened grease compositions

A rolling element bearing comprises at least two bearing rings (1, 2; 14, 15; 21, 22, 23) enclosing a bearing space (40), which bearing space (40) contains rolling elements (3, 13, 41), a cage (50, 16, 36) and lubrication structures having a porous matrix (8, 11; 17, 18; 36) containing oil and accommodated between bearing rings, cage and/or rolling elements. In order to obtain a better lubrication for an improved useful service life, the porous matrix (8, 11; 17, 18; 36) is connected to a rotatable bearing element such as a cage (50, 16, 36), a seal (4, 5) or a ring (22, 23, 24) in such a way that it does not physically contact another bearing element and that no frictional forces are generated with respect to such other bearing element, whereby upon rotation of the bearing element carrying the matrix the oil is driven through the matrix under the influence of centrifugal forces and any contaminants contained in the oil are filtered out.

Rolling element bearing comprising an oil containing matrix

A rolling element bearing, comprising bearing rings with rolling elements between the bearing rings, and a filter seal extending between the rings for closing a space between the rings. Said filter seal is oil permeable and water repellant. Hydrophilic chemicals are grafted on the side of the filter material facing the rolling elements. The side of the filter material opposite the rolling elements is coated with a water repellant substance having a high contact angle. The filter material is a metal mesh or a microporous polymeric material.

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