Daido Metal Company Ltd.

Daiso Metal Company, Ltd.

Satoshi Takayanagi

Takayuki Shibayama

Masahito Fujita

Hideo Tsuji

Shigeya Haneda

Hideo Ishikawa

Yukihiko Kagohara

Toshiaki Kawachi

Tatsuo Yamada

Mikihito Yasui

Hiroyuki Asakura

A slide member is provided with a base material and an overlay provided over the base material. The overlay includes a plurality of regions in a thickness direction including a region located in sliding-surface side that slides with the counter element and a region located in a base-material side. A material forming the overlay includes a plurality of crystal planes. Orientation index of at least one of the crystal planes differs in the region located in the sliding-surface side and the region located in the base-material side of the overlay.

Sliding member

In a slide member in which an overlay is provided on a slide receiving surface of a base member, the overlay is formed by attaching a mixed solid lubricant on the slide receiving surface of the base member. The mixed solid lubricant is made by mixing a large amount of hydrogen containing solid lubricant which contains a large amount of hydrogen, and a small amount of hydrogen containing solid lubricant which contains a smaller hydrogen amount than the large amount of hydrogen containing lubricant. Thereby, a lubricant absence region where the solid lubricant is absent in a thickness direction is formed on the slide receiving surface of the base member after sliding, and an oxidized portion where the base member is oxidized is formed in the lubricant absence region.

Slide member

A sliding member has a coating layer deposited on a base material through an intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer is formed of a lead-free metal, and the coating layer is formed of Bi or a lead-free Bi alloy; and wherein a grain in the intermediate layer becomes gradually large toward a coating layer side from a base material side, and a grain in the coating layer forms a columnar grain of which the major axis directs toward the surface of the coating layer from the intermediate layer side. Thus formed configuration improves a bonding strength between the base material and the coating layer owing to the intermediate layer, and has the grain of the coating layer formed into a desirable shape for bearing a load from an opposite material to improve fatigue resistance.

There is provided a multi-layer sliding material, comprising a back metal layer, a bearing alloy layer bonded onto the back metal layer, and a coating layer bonded onto the bearing alloy layer, said coating layer being made of an alloy consisting of 20 to 80 mass % Pb, at least one optional element not more than 10 mass % in total selected from the group consisting of In, Sb, Sn and Ag, and the balance Cu and incidental impurities. The material may further comprise a conforming layer made of an alloy containing not less than 80 mass % Pb.

Multilayer sliding material

A sliding bearing apparatus having a superior resistance to fretting comprising: a sliding bearing provided with a back metal layer having an inner face and a rear face, and a bearing alloy layer provided on an inner face of said back metal layer; and a housing having an inner face on which said sliding bearing is mounted, the rear face of said back metal layer and/or the inner face of said housing being provided with a coating made of a ceramic.

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Inuyama, Japan

Satoshi Takayanagi