New Material Seals Better On HVOF Coatings

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wearer comfort and testing the seal in situ to provide

confidence to the wearer especially where the use is
concerned with sleeping disorders.
Those for use by emergency services included features of comfort, testing and also provision of additional flow through the mask as cooling air supply.
Others
Of particular interest in the few patents that did
not fall within the categories covered was a patent
from a lubricant additive supplier for seal conditioning agents, 023317. This patent specifically
provides for the provision of lubricating oil additives that are intended to preserve the integrity of
elastomer seals in the system.
Conclusion
We have again seen the number of patents for
seals and sealing systems increasing during 2006.
The wide range of applications even within an
individual category of seals demonstrates the
very wide application areas for seals. This latest
annual review has covered applications as diverse
as gas turbines and bottle caps, but each presents particular challenges which are typically a
combination of both technical and commercial
obstacles.
High volume areas of the market continue to
progress the integration of seals into a ready to
assemble component. This is evident in applications from the bottle caps mentioned above to a
wide range of valve types and many automotive

components.
With the increasing number of patents it may
be necessary to limit the amount of detail on
individual inventions and reduce the number
of illustrations, but this will not be more than
necessary to maintaining reasonably up to date
information. Abstracting something useful from
patents can be quite difficult on occasions, even
when the content is potentially interesting. I
therefore welcome any feedback on the level of
coverage you would like to see in this section of
the newsletter.
Present indications are that it is a popular section, and so we will endeavour to maintain the
current format as closely as possible.
New material seals better

on HVOF coatings
A new sealing material has been shown to provide improved seal performance when
used in cylinders using tungsten carbide coated rods. A wide range of seal designs
have been tested in typical aerospace system fluids, hardware configurations and
system conditions. This article provides further information on the performance of
the seal material from Trelleborg Sealing Solutions discussed in the January issue of
Sealing Technology.
Introduction
Seals for aircraft primary flight controls and utility
actuation systems must operate in a wide temperature range and at high system pressures. Flight
controls are subject to short stroke movement and
high frequency with side loads. Conversely utility
actuation systems, such as landing gear support
actuators travel relatively long distances rapidly, so
these seals must be effective in long stroke, rapid
displacement situations.
For the optimized friction and high-pressure

performance required by demanding applications,
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has developed Turcon
M30 polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) based material. As the aerospace industry is perhaps the most
safety critical of all, to prove the compounds
capabilities, a number of long-term research programmes were undertaken. These were carried out
on several proprietary seal geometries manufactured by the company, which are commonly used
in flight control and actuation systems.
Figure 1. Comparison of seal wear on chrome and tungsten carbide

coated surfaces for a variety of seal materials.
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The tests involved intensive cycling at

high pressure, high temperature, and different stroke parameters while sealing aggressive engine fluids and hydraulic lubricants.
Analysis concentrated on the affect of abrasion on the dynamic mating hardware, wear
characteristics and leakage control, all key to
overall service life.
Different dynamic rod coatings were an area
of focus. This was important because of the
aerospace industrys move from chrome-plated
surfaces. For health and environmental reasons
these are being replaced with tungsten carbide based coatings, often applied by the high
velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) system. These are
harder and less malleable, without the inherent lubrication of chrome, they can in some
cases lower seal life significantly.
Figure 2. Leakage comparison for a range of seal materials on chrome

and tungsten carbide coated rods.
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Test details
Stroke rate:
Seal products tested:
Pressure:
All seals were manufactured from Turcon M30

except the Backup Ring:
Glyd Ring with HiMod 550 Backup Ring.

Plus Seal II.
Wedgpak.
VL Seal primary with secondary VL Seal.
VL Seal primary with secondary Plus Seal II.
1 Hz to 10 Hz.
0 to 200 bar cyclic (0 to 3000 psi).

200 bar (3000 psi) constant.
345 bar (5000 psi) constant.
Rod coatings:
Chrome plated BMS 10-67 Type XVII Class 4.

HVOF (86% Wc-10% Co-4% CR) BAC
5851.
Seal housing specification:
Cycles:
Housings to SAE, AS4716 or Mil-G-5514 for an

AS568 A size 214 O-Ring.
Contact media:
Summary of conclusions
of testing
Red oil MIL-PRF-87257, aerospace mineral

hydraulic oil.
Phosphate Ester, Skydrol 500B-4.
Temperature:
80C (180F) to 105C (225F).
Stroke:
1.25 mm (0.05 inches) to 75 mm (3 inches).
Up to 5 000 000.
Turcon M30 demonstrated superior wear

resistance in lubricated and non-lubricated
conditions within different pressure to
velocity ratios.
Wear rate for the material is extremely low
at 0.55 1010 under high pressure and
velocity in a lubricated environment.
Contact:
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, Pegasus House, 1
Cranbrook Way, Solihull Business Park, Solihull, West
Midlands B90 4GT, UK. Tel: +44 121 744 1221, Email:
[email protected], Web: www.busakshamban.com
Turcon is a registered trademark of Trelleborg Sealing

Solutions.
Cylinder head gasket
Patents
Seal structure of container opening
Applicant: Sunlot Bottle Stopper
Co Ltd, Taiwan
This bottle stopper can be used for
sealing of bottles in mass production. It works on the principle of
axial compression of an elastomer
sleeve to create radial expansion.
When the stopper is seated on a
Radial height change was minimal against

both chrome plated and HVOF surfaces, it
being even less against the tungsten carbide
than the chrome (Figure 1).
Turcon M30 has enhanced friction versus
wear characteristics compared to standard
PTFE based materials, both lubricated and
non-lubricated.
Leakage control was excellent in all cases and
again performance was better against the
HVOF surfaces than the chrome (Figure 2).
Turcon M30 surpassed a target leakage rate
of one drop per 1000 cycles recording only
one drop in 30 000.
The tandem VL Seal arrangement proved
to have the best leakage control with zero
leakage.
bottle top, axial compression of the

top causes radial expansion of the
elastomer. The top is then crimped
or otherwise retained in position to
maintain the radial expansion.
Patent number: WO 2006/131046
Inventor: Y.-T. Huang
Publication date: 14 December 2006
Applicant: Reinz-DichtungsGmbH, Germany

This patent describes a design of
cylinder head gasket that is intended to overcome problems associated with recent trends to manufacture engines with very close
cylinder bore spacing. This creates
a problem for the gasket manufacturer as there is insufficient room
to include the bead and stopper
for the individual cylinder bores.
In the proposed design the beads
surrounding the adjacent cylinder
bores are so brought together in
the web area and one undulating
or meander-like profiling is
formed in the web area between
the bead limbs belonging to the
two cylinder bores, which profiling
forms a stopper. To do so, the bead
and the stopper may be arranged
in the same layer or they may be
arranged in directly adjoining layers with the bead in one layer and
the stopper in the adjoining layer.
A number of options for the bead
and stopper are described.
Patent number: WO 2006/131309
Inventor: K. Hhe
Publication date:
14 December 2006
Example of the
cylinder head
gasket described in
WO 2006/131309,
designed for engines
with very close
cylinder bore
spacing that has
a wavy profile
bead and stopper
between the bores.
A bottle stopper that works by axial expansion of the elastomer
to create the sealing force, from WO 2006/131046.
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wearer comfort and testing the seal in situ to provide

wide range of valve types and many automotive

New material seals better

For the optimized friction and high-pressure

Figure 1. Comparison of seal wear on chrome and tungsten carbide

The tests involved intensive cycling at

Figure 2. Leakage comparison for a range of seal materials on chrome

Sealing Technology April 2007

Seal products tested:

All seals were manufactured from Turcon M30

Glyd Ring with HiMod 550 Backup Ring.

0 to 200 bar cyclic (0 to 3000 psi).

Chrome plated BMS 10-67 Type XVII Class 4.

Seal housing specification:

Housings to SAE, AS4716 or Mil-G-5514 for an

Red oil MIL-PRF-87257, aerospace mineral

80C (180F) to 105C (225F).

1.25 mm (0.05 inches) to 75 mm (3 inches).

Turcon M30 demonstrated superior wear

Turcon is a registered trademark of Trelleborg Sealing

Cylinder head gasket

Radial height change was minimal against

bottle top, axial compression of the

Applicant: Reinz-DichtungsGmbH, Germany

Sealing Technology April 2007

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