Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Atusgi Motor Parts Co., Ltd.

Saburo Abe

Yutaka Mabuchi

Tsuyoshi Higuchi

Akira Nishimura

Yoshiteru Yasuda

Terasu Yoshinari

Makoto Hayama

Yasuo Nakano

Mikio Manabe

Hiromichi Horie

Kazuaki Kawasaki

Yasuo Katagiri

Masanori Komaba

Yuji Takahashi

Masakazu Tambara

Katsuyuki Serizawa

Hikaru Maeyama

Hiroshi Ushiyama

A sliding mechanism includes first and second members slidable relative to each other and a grease composition interposed between the first and second members and containing a thickening agent and a base oil, wherein the grease composition contains lithium 12-hydroxystearate as the thickening agent and dioctyl sebacate and/or poly-&#x3b1;-olefin as the base oil; and wherein at least one of the first and second member has a sliding surface coated with a hard carbon film of diamond-like carbon.

Sliding mechanism and grease composition for sliding mechanisms

A friction material obtained by flame spraying a metal which can be a sacrificial anode for iron on the surface of a friction material substrate in an amount of 0.5 to 8.0 mg/cm.sup.2 shows excellent resistance to judder and excellent rust prevention.

Friction material with flame sprayed metal coating

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Atsugi, Japan

Saburo Abe