Sliding machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10030207-B2
Application number	US-201514795388-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 9, 2015
Priority date	Jul 11, 2014
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

A sliding machine includes: a pair of sliding members having sliding surfaces that oppose each other and are able to move relative to each other; and a lubricating oil which is able to be interposed between the opposed sliding surfaces, in which at least one of the sliding surfaces is covered with a chromium (Cr)-containing amorphous carbon film (chromium-coating DLC), and the lubricating oil contains an oil-soluble molybdenum compound having a chemical structure formed from a trinuclear material of molybdenum (Mo). Specifically, the chromium-coating DLC contains, when the entirety of the film is assumed to be 100 at. %, 1% to 49% of Cr, 0% to 30% of hydrogen (H), carbon (C) as a remainder, and impurities. The lubricating oil contains 5 ppm to 800 ppm of the oil-soluble molybdenum compound in terms of Mo mass ratio with respect to the entirety of the lubricating oil.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sliding machine comprising:
a pair of sliding members having sliding surfaces that oppose each other and are able to move relative to each other; and
a lubricating oil interposed between the opposed sliding surfaces,
wherein at least one of the sliding surfaces is formed of a covered surface covered with an amorphous carbon film containing 3 at. % to 20 at. % of chromium (Cr) relative to the total concentration of 100 at. % of the components of the amorphous carbon film and 5 at. % to 28 at. % of H, and
wherein the lubricating oil contains an oil-soluble molybdenum compound having a chemical structure formed from a trinuclear material of molybdenum (Mo),
the lubricating oil contains 10 ppm to 500 ppm of the oil-soluble molybdenum compound in terms of Mo mass ratio with respect to an entirety of the lubricating oil, and
the amorphous carbon film has a hardness of 15 GPa to 35 GPa.

2. The sliding machine according to claim 1 , wherein the amorphous carbon film further contains carbon (C) and impurities as a remainder relative to the total concentration of 100 at. % of the components of the amorphous carbon film.

3. The sliding machine according to claim 1 , wherein the trinuclear material is formed from at least one of Mo 3 S 7 and Mo 3 S 8 .

4. The sliding machine according to claim 1 , wherein, when an outermost surface of the covered surface is analyzed by using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) with Bi + as primary ions, a count ratio (A/B) which is a ratio of a count (A) of peaks that belong to 98 Mo 3 S 7 − appearing near a mass number of 517.4 measured regarding a negative ion spectrum to a count (B) of peaks that belong to 40 Ca + appearing near a mass number of 40.0 measured regarding a positive ion spectrum is 0.006 or higher.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd
• Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho Kk

Inventors

• Mori Hiroyuki
• Tohyama Mamoru
• Okuyama Masaru
• Hayashi Keiji
• Ikeda Naoya

Classifications

• C10N2030/43

  Sulfur free or low sulfur content compositions · CPC title

• C10N2030/42

  Phosphor free or low phosphor content compositions · CPC title

• C10N2010/12

  Groups 6 or 16 · CPC title

• C10N2030/40

  Low content or no content compositions · CPC title

• C10N2080/00

  Special pretreatment of the material to be lubricated, e.g. phosphatising or chromatising of a metal · CPC title