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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2022
Applicant:
Daido Metal Company Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Inventors:
Tomoyasu Shiroya, Inuyama, JP;
Shigeyoshi Mori, Inuyama, JP;
Assignee:
DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD., Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 11/06 (2006.01); F16C 17/03 (2006.01); F16C 33/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 11/0628 (2013.01); F16C 11/0685 (2013.01); F16C 17/03 (2013.01); F16C 33/043 (2013.01); F16C 2206/04 (2013.01); F16C 2223/60 (2013.01); F16C 2240/70 (2013.01);
Abstract
A ball socket structure is provided, which includes a ball portion and a socket portion, the ball portion and the socket portion being configured to slide against one another, in which the socket portion includes a sliding surface including a PVD coating layer, the sliding surface of the socket portion is a concave spherical surface, and a value (Ds/Rs) of a ratio between a depth Ds of the sliding surface and a radius of curvature Rs of the sliding surface is from 0.05 to 0.70.