Lubricating pocket
OwnerErich Roemerinventor
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Abstract
A sliding bearing has a pocket recessed into the bearing surface and an edge of the pocket over which oil is supplied to the bearing surface is in the form of a wavy sinuous or sharper sawtooth-like line, with the discharge points being indentations extending in the direction of motion of the component supported for sliding on the bearing surface.
Claims5
A sliding bearing comprising a slide bearing surface over which a component is adapted to slide and wherein a lubricating oil reservoir and distribution pocket is recessed into the slide bearing surface, characterized by a transition area between said pocket and said bearing surface with at least one extension of said pocket protruding into said bearing surface within said transition area to form a boundary edge of said pocket with respect to said bearing surface extending in a wavy line along said surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.