Linear bearing for parallel tracking arm
AssigneeStrathearn Audio Limited
InventorsKeith Douglas Ridler, Alexander Bennett Gosling, Gordon Malcolm Edge
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Abstract
A linear bearing arrangement has a slider which slides in a channel in a slide and a layer of magnetic lubricant material which adheres to a magnetized region or regions of the slide, slider or both.
Claims6
A linear bearing arrangement including a slide having a first bearing surface, a slider having a second bearing surface, a thin film of magnetic fluid lubricant material between the said surfaces, the thin film of magnetic fluid lubricant material adhering to one of the said bearing surfaces under the influence of a magnetic field and means to provide a magnetic field extending from one of the said bearing surfaces to the magnetic fluid lubricating material to maintain the said material on said one surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.