Patent ID: 7833609
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: C23C,F16C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A sliding member in which a coating layer having a sliding surface is adhered to the surface of a base material, wherein the coating layer does not contain a resin binder but has a solid lubricant plate crystal particle laminated therein, wherein the solid lubricant plate crystal particle has a lamellar crystal structure in which a (001) plane (where, 1 is an integer of one or more) is stacked in parallel, and wherein at least in the sliding surface, a predetermined region having a thickness of 10% or more of the thickness of the thinnest portion of the coating layer and the solid lubricant plate crystal particle adhered to the surface of the base material, the orientation index of the (001) plane of the solid lubricant plate crystal particle is 90% or more.