Oiles Corporation

Oiles Deutschland Gmbh

Tsuyoshi Nagashima

Kouichi Morishige

Takashi Horiguchi

Ryohei Kaneko

Katsunori Saito

Yoshikazu Sakairi

Robert Hamrodi

Kai Metzler

Mirai Shida

Kouhei Kurose

Wataru Nishioka

Kohei Kurose

A vehicle thrust bearing that can reduce the number of assembly parts used in assembling a suspension of a vehicle to a body and reduce the thickness of parts to simplify the assembling work includes an upper case that is attached to a body of a vehicle having a suspension, and a lower case that is arranged under the upper case so as to be rotatable with respect to the upper case, wherein the upper case includes in a top area thereof a mounting portion for being attached to the body of the vehicle.

Vehicle thrust bearing

A thrust bearing for a vehicle includes an upper case that abuts against a vehicle body-side attaching portion and a lower case on which the upper case is provided so that the lower case is rotatable with respect to the upper case about an axial center AX of a piston rod used in a shock absorber of a suspension of the vehicle, characterized in that the thrust bearing further includes a load sensor for measuring a load vertically acting on the suspension.

Thrust bearing for vehicle

A thrust sliding bearing reduces the number of components to thereby reduce the burden of assembly and components management and prevents unusual wear of a surface of an annular synthetic resin-made sliding bearing piece, which faces an annular metal plate. A thrust sliding bearing comprises an upper case which is integrally formed at least by an annular upper case base having an annular bottom surface and by an upper case cylindrical portion which is provided vertically from the annular bottom surface of the upper case base to be fitted in a lower case, wherein a synthetic resin-made sliding bearing piece is fixed to the inner side of the upper case cylindrical portion.

Thrust sliding bearing

Provided is a thrust sliding bearing which, while allowing a shaft member to smoothly rotate, can support for a long period of time a thrust load acting on the shaft member. A thrust sliding bearing comprises: an upper case () mounted to an upper support for mounting a strut-type suspension to a vehicle body; a lower case () mounted to an upper spring seat for supporting the upper end of the coil spring of the strut-type suspension, the lower case () being combined with the upper case () to form an annular space (); and an annular center plate () disposed in the annular space () and enables the relative rotation between the upper case () and the lower case (). The annular space () is filled with lubricating grease. The center plate () comprises: a bearing surface () in slidable contact with the surface () to be supported of the upper case (); and annular protrusions () provided at the inner peripheral edge and the outer peripheral edge of the bearing surface () so as to extend in the circumferential direction of the center plate ().

A thrust sliding bearing includes a synthetic resin-made bearing body having a hollow cylindrical portion, an annular collar portion, an annular protruding portion, a tubular projecting portion, an engaging projecting portion, and an annular projecting portion; an annular cover having a disk portion, a tubular portion, and an engaging projecting portion; an annular metal plate having an outer disk portion and an inner disk portion; and a thrust sliding bearing which is interposed between the bearing body and an annular lower surface of the outer disk portion of the annular metal plate and renders the annular metal plate rotatable with respect to the bearing body in a direction about an axis of the bearing body.

Thrust sliding bearing and combination mechanism of the thrust sliding bearing and a piston rod

The thrust slide bearing () has a synthetic resin bearing body () having a ring-shaped upper surface () that functions as a sliding surface, a ring-shaped metal plate () that is supported on the ring-shaped upper surface () to be freely rotatable relative to the bearing body (), and a ring-shaped cover () disposed so as to cover the ring-shaped upper surface () and the ring-shaped metal plate (). The ring-shaped metal plate () has an inner disc section () that is formed as a unit with an outer disc section () and is disposed in the through hole () of the ring-shaped cover (). The inner disc section () also functions as a reinforcing part (rib) of the outer disc section (). Thereby, the deformation of the thrust slide bearing ()is prevented even when a large force is applied via the piston rod.

Thrust slide bearing, and combination mechanism of a thrust slide bearing and a piston rod

A synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing includes a synthetic resin-made upper casing, a synthetic resin-made lower casing, and a synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing piece interposed between the upper casing and the lower casing.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Tsuyoshi Nagashima