TPR Co., Ltd.

A thrust washer is provided with a ring-shaped portion that surrounds an insertion hole, the thrust washer is provided with a sliding surface and an oil groove configured to allow lubricating oil to flow in, the oil groove is provided with an opening portion configured to allow the lubricating oil to flow in from the insertion hole side in an inner peripheral end side, an outer periphery end side of the ring-shaped portion of at least one of the oil groove is provided with an oil stop wall which is configured to suppress flow of the lubricating oil toward an outer periphery side of the ring-shaped portion, and a sliding area ratio of each of the sliding surfaces to a projection plane in plan view of the ring-shaped portion is provided within a range of from 60% to 85%

Oil grooves ( 40 ) formed in at least one of surfaces of a ring-shaped member ( 30 ) each have a longitudinal direction that forms an angle falling within a range of from 40 degrees to 75 degrees with respect to a radial direction of the ring-shaped member, and are arranged at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the ring-shaped member ( 30 ). The oil grooves ( 40 ) include communicating oil grooves ( 40 A) and non-communicating oil grooves ( 40 B) formed to extend to the vicinity of an outer peripheral end ( 34 ), and are arranged with periodic regularity in the circumferential direction of the ring-shaped member ( 30 ). In addition, a communicating oil groove area ratio expressed by Expression: “S1/(S1+S2)” falls within a range of from 0.15 to 0.85, where S1 represents a sum of plane areas of the communicating oil grooves ( 40 A), S2 represents a sum of the non-communicating oil grooves ( 40 B).

A novel method for producing a porous carbon material which makes it possible to easily produce a porous carbon material having a desired shape. The method includes immersing a carbon-containing material having a desired shape and composed of a compound, alloy or non-equilibrium alloy containing carbon in a metal bath, the metal bath having a solidification point that is lower than a melting point of the carbon-containing material, the metal bath being controlled to a lower temperature than a minimum value of a liquidus temperature within a compositional fluctuation range extending from the carbon-containing material to carbon by decreasing the other non-carbon main components, to thereby selectively elute the other non-carbon main components into the metal bath while maintaining an external shape of the carbon-containing material to give a porous carbon material having microvoids.

In a surface of a wire, a first side surface forming an outer circumferential surface in a piston ring includes a tapered surface and a protruding surface, the protruding surface is divided into a first part and a second part by a first virtual surface extending from the tapered surface, and the first part includes a top and is formed in a protruding shape.

In this piston ring combination, a second outer peripheral surface, which is the outer peripheral surface of a second ring, has a second protruding surface curved into a convex shape, and a pair of third outer peripheral surfaces, which are the outer peripheral surfaces of a pair of segments, each have a third outer peripheral area in which a third protruding surface is formed, the third protruding surfaces being curved into convex shapes. In at least one of the pair of third outer peripheral surfaces, the peripheral edge on a crank-chamber side is positioned farther outward in the diametrical direction than the peripheral edge on a combustion-chamber side, and a peak of the third protruding surface is positioned nearer to the crank chamber than the center of the third outer peripheral surface.

Applicability to a composite material with high purity and high strength, and a material requiring high conductivity or high thermal conductivity is enhanced. The present invention relates to a multi-walled carbon nanotube having two or more tubes of a graphene sheet where carbon atoms are arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb form, coaxially, wherein a diameter of an outermost wall based on observation of an image by a transmission electron microscope is 3 nm or more and 15 nm or less, and a length based on observation of an image of a scanning electron microscope is 1.0 mm or more, an aggregate of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and a method for preparing the multi-walled carbon nanotube.

A thrust washer is provided with a ring-shaped portion that surrounds an insertion hole, the thrust washer is provided with a sliding surface and an oil groove configured to allow lubricating oil to flow in, the oil groove is provided with an opening portion configured to allow the lubricating oil to flow in from the insertion hole side in an inner peripheral end side, an outer periphery end side of the ring-shaped portion of at least one of the oil groove is provided with an oil stop wall which is configured to suppress flow of the lubricating oil toward an outer periphery side of the ring-shaped portion, and a sliding area ratio of each of the sliding surfaces to a projection plane in plan view of the ring-shaped portion is provided within a range of from 60% to 85%

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a piston ring covered with a DLC coating that has excellent wear resistance and shows a low attacking property on a cylinder bore sliding surface. The problem is solved by a piston ring which is used in the presence of an engine lubricating oil and includes a DLC coating on an outer peripheral sliding surface. The DLC coating has an sp 2 component ratio of 0.5 to 0.85 as determined from a TEM-EELS spectrum obtained by a combination of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), as well as a coating hardness of 12 GPa to 26 GPa and a Young's modulus of 250 GPa or less as measured by a nanoindentation method.

A cylinder liner of the present invention is a cylinder liner mounted on a cylinder block and formed of flaky graphite cast iron, at least a nitrided layer is provided on an inner periphery of the cylinder liner, and a cross hatching section is formed on the inner periphery, a roughness curve of the inner periphery has a plateau honing shape, a ten-point average roughness Rz of the inner periphery pursuant to JIS B0601:1982 is 4.0 μm or less, and an average value of an area ratio of pits generated in the inner periphery is 8% or less.

An aspect of the present invention provides a binder which makes it possible to obtain an electrode excellent in heat resistance. The binder contains: a re-emulsifiable resin powder coated with inorganic particles; and a metal-crosslinking thickening agent forming a hydrophobic gel by being crosslinked, in an aqueous system, via metal ions derived from an electrode active material.