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US 7,470,065 B2Granted
Plain bearing element and method of producing a wrapped plain bearing bushing
AssigneeFederal-Mogul Deva GmbH
InventorsAugust Stadlmayr, Achim Schmidt
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Abstract
A method for producing a wrapped bushing, includes cutting a metal blank to size: introducing holes into the blank, each hole being provided with at least one inwardly projecting protrusion: inserting plugs of plastics material exhibiting sliding characteristics into the holes; and shaping the blank to form the bushing. The resultant bushing has a substrate of at least one metal in which the holes are provided and filled with the plastics material. Each hole comprises at least one inwardly projecting protrusion.
Claims13
A plain bearing element comprising:
- a substrate of at least one metal having a plurality of holes;
- at least one radially inwardly projecting protrusion extending axially along the length of the hole;
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- a plug inserted in each of the holes, the plug being of plastics material and exhibiting sliding characteristics and being compressed by the at least one radially inwardly projecting protrusion.
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A plain bearing element comprising:
- a substrate of at least one metal having a plurality of holes extending axially between first and seconds ends;
- at least one radially inwardly projecting protrusion extending axially between the first and second ends of the hole;
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- a rod of plastics material being inserted in each of the holes and exhibiting sliding characteristics, and wherein said at least one radially inwardly projecting protrusion compresses said rod to secure said rod in said hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.