Alloy, in particular for a bearing coating
AssigneeMiba Gleitlager GmbH
InventorsHubert Lang, Thomas Rumpf
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Abstract
An alloy, in particular for an anti-friction coating, includes elements which form a matrix and at least a soft phase and/or a hard phase, which soft phase elements and/or hard phase elements form a solid solution or a bond with the matrix element. The soft phase and/or hard phase is dispersed in the matrix and the solid solution or bond is formed only in the region of the phase boundary of the matrix with the soft phase and/or with the hard phase.
Claims6
A bearing element comprising a supporting layer and an anti-friction coating disposed on top of the supporting layer, wherein the anti-friction coating is made from an alloy consisting of alloy elements, the alloy consisting of first, second and third substances, wherein the first substance is a matrix element, the second substance is a soft phase element, and the third substance is a hard phase element, wherein the matrix element is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, chromium, copper, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, tin, titanium, tungsten and zinc and the soft phase element is selected from an element group consisting of silver, aluminum, gold, bismuth, graphite, calcium, copper, indium, magnesium, lead, palladium, platinum, scandium, tin, yttrium, zinc and lanthanoids, wherein the soft phase element is different from the matrix element, said first, second and third substances forming a combination wherein the soft phase element and the hard phase element are dispersed in the matrix element and are present in their original composition in the matrix.
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