Patent ID: 8821023
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: F16C

Abstract:
1. A lubricated sliding bearing having at least two pairs of dirt guiding grooves formed on the sliding surface, which extends at least in part more in the circumferential direction of a bearing shell than in the axial direction of a shaft mounted therein, extends up to an edge of the bearing and is open at the edge so that dirt particles that are transported by the dirt guiding grooves to the edge can be transported to the outside, wherein in addition, a centre groove that does not have any axial components and each pair of dirt guiding grooves arranged in opposite axial direction as V shaped grooves are provided in the circumferential direction, each pair of dirt guiding grooves extend outwardly from a respective joint starting point in an opposite axial direction in the area of the bearing that is the centre in the axial direction in the area of the bearing that is centre in the axial direction, the center groove being connected with the respective joint starting point of each pair of dirt guiding grooves.