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US 6,669,370 B1Granted
Plain bearing
AssigneeKS Gleitlager GmbH
InventorsThomas Storch, Wolfgang Bickle
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AssigneeKS Gleitlager GmbH
InventorsThomas Storch, Wolfgang Bickle
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A hinge housing has a flange bearing bush pressed into a transverse bearing opening. A bearing pin is swively inserted in the flange bearing bush. The plain bearing is a ready-to-install unit in that the cylindrical bush part of the flange bearing bush inserted in the bearing opening is deformed radially outwards and radially inwards by axially upsetting the front face and rests on the inner wall of the bearing opening and against the circumferential surface of the bearing pin without play. The front face is recessed behind the surface of the hinge housing part. One side of the plain bearing has an axial bearing element that exteriorly rests radially against the surface area of the hinge housing part surrounding the bearing opening and radially interiorly against an axial step of the bearing pin. The bearing pin is secured in a position in the axial direction.
A plain bearing including a hinge housing having a through bearing opening and a flange bearing bushing pressed into the bearing opening, into which a bearing pin is inserted and received so as to be swivelled, characterized in that a cylindrical bushing of the flange bearing bushing is one of recessed below and flush with the upper surface area of the hinge housing surrounding the bearing opening and in that on the side of the plain bushing opposite a flange bearing bushing collar a washer-shaped axial bearing is provided which lies radially outward against a surface area of the hinge housing surrounding the bearing opening and radially inward against an axial step of the bearing pin, and in that the bearing pin is securely retained against the axial bearing to prevent loss.
A process for manufacturing a plain bearing including a hinge housing having a bearing opening and a flange bearing bushing pressed into the bearing opening into which a bearing pin is inserted and is received so as to be swivelled, with a predetermined torque required to tighten the bolt, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.