oil groove

[′ȯil ‚grüv]

(design engineering)

One of the grooves in a bearing which distribute and collect lubricating oil.

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"The customer wanted to put an oil groove on the bearing cap but we didn't want to permanently modify the pattern," Loerwald said.

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We significantly reduced the gas leakage between the piston-cylinder bores with the oil groove piston.

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An inclined oil groove is made along the shaft's outer surface from the exit of the oil-feeding hole (Figure 2a[2]) to a cavity (Figure 2a[6]) located just beneath the thrust bearing.

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Oil groove bushings are used with shafting as bearings.

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And they have since each produced 19 million pistons, with a piston coming off the line every 12 seconds and accuracies of three microns maintained in the oil grooves.

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For these new pillars, Hasco developed the S14W self-lubricating guide bushings, which eliminate oil grooves, and the Z13 linear ball-bearing bushings.

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Typical applications include drilling piston ports in a hydraulic motor, drilling bleeder holes in door closers, milling keyways and oil grooves in bushings, and drilling air holes in vacuum molds.

Coolant-driven angle heads

A fiber optic light source illuminates the part; a wide-angle lens captures a "flattened" image of the inside of the part wall; it provides the processing software with a circular ring pattern showing the inside diameter, end features, and internal features (e.g., end slots, oil holes, internal oil grooves, and embossing).