Nissan Motor Company Limited

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Tokio Sakane

Yoshiteru Yasuda

Makoto Kano

Kenshi Ushijima

Shozaburo Konishi

Toshikazu Nanbu

Shinichi Shirahama

Masahiro Omata

Kazuhiko Takashima

Minoru Ota

Yoshitaka Uehara

Yousuke Koizuka

There is provided a low-friction sliding member having a sliding surface slidable relative to an opposing member via an oil, wherein the sliding surface has a plurality of texture groups, each of the texture groups consists of at least two adjacent fine recesses having portions aligned to each other in either a sliding direction or oil flow direction; a distance between the texture groups is larger than a distance between the adjacent recesses; and the texture groups is distributed uniformly over the sliding surface.

Low-friction slide member, production apparatus therefor and process for producing the same

A low-friction sliding mechanism of the present invention comprises first and second sliding members slidable relative to each other at sliding surfaces thereof and a lubricant being applied to the sliding surfaces of the first and second sliding members. The first and second members are made of a diamond-like carbon material and an iron-based material, respectively, and the lubricant comprises a base oil and at least one of an ashless fatty-ester friction modifier and an ashless aliphatic-amine friction modifier.

Low-friction sliding mechanism

A low friction sliding element for reciprocating engine parts, including a sliding contact surface that is in sliding contact with a counterpart during relative sliding motion of the sliding element and the counterpart. The sliding contact surface has microscopic recesses and plateaus interrupted by the recesses. The recesses have depths regularly varying in a sliding direction of the sliding element.

Low friction sliding element for a reciprocating engine

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Yokohama, Japan

Tokio Sakane