Jtekt Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Masataka Nosaka

Takahisa Kato

Masahiro Suzuki

Mamoru Tohyama

Atsushi Murase

Kyoko Nakai

A method including substituting an atmosphere in a space, in which a sliding surface formed of a metal or a ceramic material, and a slid surface are disposed, with a gas atmosphere containing a hydroxyl group-containing compound and at least one of hydrogen and nitrogen, and relatively sliding the sliding surface against the slid surface by a Hertzian contact stress of 1.0 GPa or more in the space under the gas atmosphere containing the hydroxyl group-containing compound at least one of hydrogen and nitrogen. As a result, it is possible to form, on the sliding surface, a low-friction coating that stably exhibits a significantly low friction coefficient, for example, of 10order (less than 0.001).

Low-friction coating production method and sliding method

A low-friction coating includes: an aliphatic hydrocarbon group showing a peak in a region of 2,900 cmto 3000 cmin an infrared absorption spectrum; a carbonyl group showing a peak in a region of 1,650 cmto 1,800 cmin an infrared absorption spectrum; an aromatic component (CH) showing a peak at mass 91.1 in a positive ion spectrum obtained by TOF-SIMS; and a condensed ring based component (CH) showing a peak at mass 115.2 in the positive ion spectrum obtained by TOF-SIMS.

Amorphous hydrocarbon based film, and sliding member and sliding system with said film

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Masataka Nosaka