Bearings – Rotary bearing – Plain bearing
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-26
2005-07-26
Joyce, William C. (Department: 3682)
Bearings
Rotary bearing
Plain bearing
C384S123000, C384S288000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06921210
ABSTRACT:
An engine bearing for an internal combustion engine has a pair of separately constructed bearing halves comprising a pair of arcuate shells having a pair of laterally spaced flanges extending generally radially outwardly from each shell. Each pair of laterally spaced flanges comprises a pair of thrust faces facing generally away from one another with one of the thrust faces comprising an undulating contoured surface and the other thrust face having a generally planar non-contoured surface. The engine bearing is assembled having the contoured surface of one engine bearing half abutting the non-contoured surface of the other engine bearing half so that the engine bearing has generally opposite sides comprising both contoured and non-contoured surfaces.
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Thompson Ronald J.
Welch Sean Michael
Federal-Mogul World Wide Inc.
Howard & Howard
Joyce William C.
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