Method of producing a sheet or plate-shaped structure as the bearing material for slide bearings
AssigneeKernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
InventorsWolfgang Ehrfeld, Peter Hagmann, Werner Schelb
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Abstract
A method of producing a plate-shaped bearing member for sliding bearings, the structure being composed of a patterned body of supporting bearing material and a lubricant, utilizing a galvanoplastic fabrication step, the method including: producing a mold provided with a pattern of recesses, the step of producing including performing an X-ray deep-etch lithography procedure; filling the recesses to form the body of bearing material; removing the mold from the body of bearing material so that spaces are left in the bearing material; and filling the thus produced spaces with the lubricant.
Claims7
Method of producing a plate-shaped bearing member for slide bearings, the structure being composed of a patterned body of supporting bearing material and a lubricant, utilizing a galvanoplastic fabrication step, said method comprising:
- (a) producing a mold provided with a pattern of recesses, said step of producing including performing an X-ray deep-etch lithography procedure;
- (b) filling the recesses to form the body of bearing material;
- (c) removing the mold from the body of bearing material so that spaces are left in the bearing material;
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- (d) filling the thus produced spaces with the lubricant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.