A linear guide mechanism includes a housing having an inside housing surface that defines a bore extending through the housing coaxial with a longitudinal axis. A shaft is disposed at least partially in the bore and is reciprocatably and linearly moveable in the bore along the longitudinal axis. The shaft has an exterior shaft surface. A self-lubricating liner is disposed in the bore between the inside housing surface and the exterior shaft surface. The self-lubricating liner has an inside liner surface that is in sliding engagement with the exterior shaft surface of the shaft. The self-lubricating liner has an exterior liner surface.

A shackle for fastening an aircraft engine including a ball joint with a pin including a ring including a first bore and a sleeve assembled in the first bore and having a second bore configured to receive the pin and the diameter of which progressively increases to have a flared inner surface at each of its ends, the fastening shackle being arranged such that a spherical outer surface of the ring bears an anti-friction coating produced on a region extending beyond the contact region with the body of the shackle, this first region being bordered by rims forming a projection around the coating, and/or the second bore bears an anti-friction coating on a region extending beyond its contact region with the pin, this region being bordered by rims forming a projection around this anti-friction coating, at the ends of the flared inner surface.

A sliding member includes a bearing alloy layer and an overlay. The overlay includes a diffusion prevention layer on the bearing alloy layer, and a corrosion prevention layer on the diffusion prevention layer. A surface of the corrosion prevention layer is a sliding surface. The corrosion prevention layer constitutes 50% to 90% of an entire volume of the overlay. The corrosion prevention layer and the diffusion prevention layer each include a corrosion inhibitor and the balance of Bi and inevitable impurities. The corrosion inhibitor is defined as one or more elements that have a higher oxygen affinity than Bi and that form an alloy, a solid solution or an intermetallic compound with Bi. An average concentration of the corrosion inhibitor included in the diffusion prevention layer is lower than an average concentration of the corrosion inhibitor included in the corrosion prevention layer.

An electromagnetic actuating device. The device includes an electromagnetic coil including a central recess extending in an axial direction, a cylindrical pole tube inserted into the central recess and provided with a magnetic separation point, an armature situated displaceably in the pole tube, the armature being movable by an actuation of the electromagnetic coil, the armature being mounted in the pole tube in a sleeve-shaped bearing foil inserted into the pole tube, the bearing foil including an inner side facing toward the armature and used as a sliding surface and an outer side facing toward the cylindrical pole tube. It is provided that the bearing foil is coated at least on the inner side using a first layer made of perfluoroalkoxy polymer. A manufacturing method for such an electromagnetic actuating device is also described.

Disclosed herein is a sliding member having an alloy overlay layer that comes into sliding contact with a counterpart member thereof and has improved fatigue resistance. The sliding member comprises a base material layer and an alloy overlay layer formed on the base material layer, in which the alloy overlay layer has a soft metal phase made of tin and precipitated in a metallic matrix phase made of aluminum, and when an average aspect ratio of the soft metal phase is defined as A, and its standard deviation is defined as Aσ, A+Aσ is 3.0 or less. In this case, the soft metal phase has a shape close to a sphere without elongating in a certain direction.

A sliding member according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a sliding member body containing a metal as a main component; and an outer layer laminated directly on a surface of the sliding member body and containing a crosslinked fluorine resin as a main component, and an arithmetic average roughness Ra1 of a surface having a waveform obtained by extracting a frequency component of a region having waviness having a frequency of not lower than 0.1 μm and not higher than 100.0 μm on a surface of the outer layer through fast Fourier transform processing, and performing inverse Fourier transform processing on data of a frequency component of a region having waviness having a frequency of not lower than 0.1 μm and not higher than 10.0 μm out of the extracted frequency component, is not greater than 0.035 μm.

A Plain bearing having an outer ring and an inner ring, the outer ring and the inner ring providing respectively an inner surface and an outer surface intended to cooperate with each other for the relative movement of the outer and inner rings, the inner surface of the outer ring and the outer surface of the inner ring each including a coating including at least one layer. The hardness of the coating on the inner surface of the outer ring is less than the hardness of the outer ring, and the hardness of the coating on the outer surface of the inner ring is greater than the hardness of the inner ring.

A sliding member includes an overlay layer made of a resin on a side of a sliding surface of a bearing alloy layer. When a valley void volume Vvv (μm.sup.3/μm.sup.2) in the sliding surface of the overlay layer is defined as Vv1, Vv1 is in a range of 0.015≤Vv1≤0.200.

A bearing assembly of a rotor of a wind turbine, for mounting a shaft of the rotor in a fixed housing, wherein the shaft of the rotor is coupled to rotor blades of the rotor via a hub, includes: a plurality of first housing-side axial slide bearing segments engaging on the housing; a plurality of second housing-side axial slide bearing segments; a plurality of first housing-side radial slide bearing segments; and a plurality of second housing-side radial slide bearing segments. An axial distance between the first and second axial sliding surfaces of the rotor defines a bearing length l. The radial sliding surfaces of the rotor on which the first and second radial slide bearing segments are supported, define a bearing diameter d of the bearing assembly, and V≤1 applies to a ratio V=l/d between the bearing length l and the bearing diameter d.

A sliding member includes a resin overlay layer on a sliding surface side coming into sliding contact with a mating member. The resin overlay layer has a surface roughness parameter Rk satisfying 0.4≤Rk≤1.2, and a surface area ratio S=S2/S1 calculated when an area of an arbitrary measurement field of view is designated by S1 and a surface area of the measurement field of view is designated by S2 satisfies 2.5≤S≤4.5.