Inventions:

Laser altered bearing surfaces

Cost effective way of changing surface properties on a bearing surface. (07-05-2025)



Base Material Synergy

Idea to strengthen a bearing surface by using underlying structure. (25-02-2025)


Babbitt with Mesh

Embedded mesh wiring into babbitt part to enhance properties. (19-02-2025)


Dynamic Structured Bearing Surface

Use of deformation to introduce a dynamic structure onto bearing surface. (09-01-2025)


Targeted surface etching

Use of etching process to target surface of parts to alter characteristics. (19-06-2024)


PEEK Hybrid parts

Inter-fuse / blend PEEK and metal to benefit from the properties of both. (20-03-2024)


Roll fit

Method of fitting bearing alloy to a large shaft. (2024) PATENT PENDING


Bushing stability and adherence using gripcoat

Addition to gripcoat patent AT17656U1. (12-02-2024)


Laser weld fix for thick steel material

Idea relates to how to weld thick steel with minimal voids. (06-02-2024)


Idea to enable welding of high tin Aluminium alloys

The core of the invention is to reduce the tin levels in the area of the weld joint but not the rest of the part. (22-08-2023)


Mesh Lock

Mesh structure/material as an intermediatory layer for the attachment of bearing/secondary materials. (12-05-2023)


Gleitlager mit GRIPCOAT

Idea to improve the bearing fit. (15-10-2022) PATENT ISSUED AT17656U1


Rotor Main Bearing design ideas

Two new ideas for a complex shape bearing mounting. (08-06-2022)


Miba alloy stranded weld wire

New idea for producing wire for weld process with Miba alloys. (14-03-2022)


TIP - Tin Injection Process

New idea for belt casted material, Al + Sn pockets. (07-07-2021)


Compound Caster 3.0

Direct casting sandwich material without the weak interface. (20-04-2021)


Bayonetlock

New idea for fixing of large thrust washers. (28-08-2020)


Flexcooler 2.0

Inflatable metal heatsink. (19-02-2020)


Intelligentes Mehrfachgleitlager

Lager-im-Lager Aufbau. (19-02-2020)


CastLock

Direct casting of alloy to part with added pressure locking mechanism. (18-02-2020)


Reverse bushing Bi-thread locking system

Production of a shaft/pin mounted bi-thread locking reverse bushing system. (06-03-2019)


Bindungsprüfung mittels Ultraschall-Kavitation

Prüfverfahren für Schichtverbunde mittels Ultraschall-Kavitation. (13-02-2019)


Layer embedment

Method to easily enable different material types onto the same bearing surface, to combine their advantages. (12-07-2018)


Zoned compression hardening

Method to enable differing hardness zones on bearing. (11-07-2018)


Hard particle embedment rolling

The embedment of hard particles into copper bearing material to aid in performance of the final bearing. (02-05-2018)


Kosteneffiziente SNZnCu-Legierung

Kosteneffiziente SnZnCu-Legierung (Weißmetall). (26-4-2018) PATENT ISSUED WO 2018/071931 A1


Dip Equilibrium build-up

Casting method using cooling to form a build-up of required alloy. (13-02-2018)


Sputter target dip casting

Production of Miba 3B/3C sputter targets via a dip cast method. (26-01-2018) TRADE SECRET


Zoned bearings

3D printed zoned areas on the bearing layer for localized needs (Wear, Start- Stop, Seizure, Dirt Resistance). See the 3 ideas below for more details.


3D-printed dirt pickup pockets

3D-printed zoned areas on the bearing layer for localized needs (Dirt Resistance). (21-12-2017)


3D-printed zones on high load areas

3D-printed zoned areas on the bearing layer for localized needs (High load and Stop-Start conditioning). (21-12-2017)


3D-printed zones for side/edge conditioning

3D-printed zoned areas on the bearing layer for localized needs (Side/Edge conditioning). (21-12-2017)