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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1999
Brian L. Bank, Hartland, MI (US);
James R. Toth, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc., Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
A multilayer engine bearing (,) includes a steel backing (,) having a liner (,) of bearing metal of either copper-lead or aluminum alloys formed on the backing (,). A multilayer overplate (,) is formed on the base lining member (,) and includes at least a first layer (,) electrodeposited from a bath at a first current density to a desired thickness, and at least one additional layer (,) electrodeposited from the same bath but at a different current density and to a desired thickness to yield a composite lamellar overplate structure having layers with differing deposit characteristics, such as hard and soft layers, generated from the same bath at different current densities.