The invention discloses a bearing ring. The bearing ring, with a body, has an electrically insulating coating made up of a ceramic layer with pores and a plastic for filling the pores and coating the ceramic layer. According to the invention, the pores have a proportion between 10 and 50% in the ceramic layer. The invention furthermore defines an electrically insulating coating, made up of a ceramic layer with pores and a plastic for filling the pores and coating the ceramic layer. The invention further still discloses a method for applying an electrically insulating coating to a body of a bearing ring.

A coating composition for a lubricating coating film includes: (A) a phenolic resin (B) an epoxy resin having an epoxy equivalent weight of 600 to 4000; and (C) at least one type of solid lubricant. The epoxy equivalent weight is generally defined by the number average molecular weight per the number of epoxy groups in a single molecule. The coating composition has a weight ratio of component (A) to the total weight of component (A) and component (B) of at least 50 weight %. A lubricating coating film, formed from the coating composition, has a high level of flexibility on surfaces of various base materials.

A rolling bearing 1 includes an inner ring 2 and an outer ring 3 that are raceway rings, and a plurality of balls 4 interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring. The outer ring 3 is fitted to a housing 10. The rolling bearing 1 includes a surface coating film 8 on an outer ring outer diametrical surface 3a that is a fitting surface with the housing 10. The surface coating film 8 contains: a binder containing two or more kinds of thermosetting resins having different average molecular weights; and a solid lubricant. The solid lubricant contains molybdenum disulfide, polytetrafluoroethylene resin, and graphite.

A method for connecting a tang between a first arm and a second arm of a connecting rod includes inserting a cylindrical portion of a contact ring into a bore of the first arm until a bearing surface of the first flange contacts a first side of the first arm, deforming the second end of the cylindrical portion of the contact ring to form a second flange and to cause a bearing surface of the second flange to contact the second side of the first arm, inserting the tang axially between the first arm and the second arm, and inserting a mounting shaft through the bore of the first arm and a bore of the tang and a bore of the second arm so that a gap exists between the first arm and the tang.

A fixing assembly includes a clevis having two arms, a tang extending between the arms, and a clevis pin extending through the arms and the tang to connect the tang to the clevis. A first contact assembly has a first cylinder having a bore and a first flange and a second cylinder having a bore and a second flange. The first cylinder extends into the bore of the first arm from a first side of the first arm, and the second cylinder extends into a portion of the bore of first cylinder located inside the bore of the first arm from a second side of the first arm. The first or second flange axially faces or contacts a first lateral face of the tang, and a first axial space exists between the first arm and the first lateral face of the tang.