Patent ID: 8227045

Claim:
A coated bearing manufacturing method of applying a coating liquid to an inner surface of a cylindrical-shaped or semicylindrical-shaped bearing base material to form a coating layer, the method comprising: adhering the coating liquid to a roll surface of a transfer roll, which roll surface is formed with a multiplicity of recesses, and using a doctor blade to remove a surplus coating liquid from the roll surface; thereafter rotating the transfer roll and a coating roll, while bringing the rolls into contact with each other, to transfer the coating liquid on the transfer roll to the coating roll; moving the coating roll relative to the transfer roll in a direction of rotation of the coating roll in a region in contact with the transfer roll while moving the transfer roll relative to the coating roll in a radial direction, which passes through a contact region of the transfer roll and the coating roll, whereby the transfer roll and the coating roll are separated from each other to terminate transfer of the coating liquid to the coating roll from the transfer roll; and thereafter bringing the coating roll into contact with the inner surface of the bearing base material and moving the coating roll along the inner surface of the bearing base material while causing the coating roll to rotate on its own axis in the state of contact, whereby the coating liquid transferred to the coating roll is applied to the inner surface of the bearing base material to form the coating layer.