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I worked at a company in the ’80s that had a product that used a 2 cylinder Briggs and Straton engine that drove a roots style blower. It worked great and had done so for years. One of our customers wanted a smaller version, so we built one with a smaller one cylinder motor and a smaller blower. It didn’t work so well. With half the power strokes on the engine and a smaller blower, a resonance occurred that would destroy every coupling that was used between the units. Some threw shrapnel violently across the lab, the ones with rubber lasted a bit longer, but eventually, the rubber got so hot that it failed. Sometimes it shot rubber balls out of the coupling shortly before total failure. The resonance was obvious, but the ME working on it and the GM of the company just kept trying new couplers. I suggested machining a flywheel to go on the blower side of the coupling to try and change the frequency that the resonance became serious at. I had two strikes against me. I was a student, and I was majoring in EE, so the ME blew me off. I still think it would have been worth a try, it would be easy and wouldn’t have left us worse off if it didn’t work. I left the company a year later, and the prototype was sitting in the corner of the lab collecting dust.

After measuring all eight rod bearing clearances and using shell halves to set the clearances, it’s very common to have a clearance spread between the rods of perhaps 0.0004- to 0.0005-inch. Let’s say our loosest rod bearing measured 0.0028-inch while the tightest rod came in at 0.0023-inch … creating a spread of 0.0005-inch. We’ve found that switching the tightest and loosest bearings can sometimes bring the spread closer together. For our engine, we measured a spread of just 0.0003-inch.

Table 11: World Bearing (Plain Shaft) Imports by LeadingImporting Countries (2010): Import Value in US$ Thousand forUS, Germany, China, Mexico, Canada, France, Italy, Belgium,Japan, Hungary, South Korea, UK and Brazil (includescorresponding Graph/Chart) II-17

Can you share your story of Grit and Success? First can you tell us a story about the hard times that you faced when you first started your journey?

All the wrongly labelled seafoods bearing the MSC logo were white fish, including cods and hakes, which can be easily mistaken for one another. Names on packaging such as snapper or skate, which cover up to 60 different species, also don’t help.

Tears were wept, emotions fluttered, and passion was at a premium at Phenomenal Voice’s talent show aptly titled “Love Jones.”  

Premature bearing wear, the primary cause of turbine-component failures, is a problem that has long plagued the wind-energy industry.

“Auto manufacturers now require bearings and other engine components that provide better friction characteristics, and so this is where the advantages of the caged needle roller bearing comes into play.”

Thank you for having me! My journey began when I came to the United States in order to attend college 18 years ago. I knew instantly that I’d like to live here but didn’t have a clear direction of my career goals yet. It wasn’t until after I worked at American non-profits that helped others achieve their goals and worked with the family business to realize what I wanted to do in life. I thought to myself, Japan has so much to offer the world…I need to make it my mission to spread Japanese culture with products that can help people achieve their goals. That’s when I began working at AUTEC and knew sushi robot would be the way.

Drawn cup roller clutches are high precision machine elements consisting of thin-walled, drawn outer rings (drawn cups) with a series of ramps on the inside diameter, plastic cages, springs and needle rollers. They can be used in a wide range of applications as backstops or overrunning clutches. Drawn cup roller clutches have extremely compact radial dimensions and carry out indexing from the locking direction in the freewheel direction. Roller clutches with bearing supports can also support radial forces.