Patent ID: 8096709

Claim:
A sliding bearing comprising: a shaft hole for rotatably supporting a shaft that is inserted thereinto; an inner circumferential surface on which the shaft slides; and plural linearly oblique grooves extending in a single direction crossing a circumferential direction of the sliding bearing and formed on the inner circumferential surface at intervals, the grooves being adapted to be provided with a lubricant, wherein the oblique grooves have an oblique angle in a range of 10° to 40° with respect to a direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction and have a width B in a range of 0.5 to 5 mm in the circumferential direction, wherein the adjacent grooves have a land with a surface as a sliding surface therebetween, and the sliding surface has a width A in a range of 1 to 7 mm in the circumferential direction, and a ratio A/B of the width A of the sliding surface of the land to the width B of the groove is in a range of 0.5 to 5.0.