Jewel Bearings
Microlap Technologies has over 50 years of experience
in manufacturing jewel bearings for defense and other applications.
Properties of Corundum
"Jewel Bearing" is defined as a piece of synthetic ruby
or sapphire of nearly any shape that has one or more polished surfaces to
provide supporting surfaces or low-friction contact areas for moving parts in an
instrument.
Applications for jewel bearings consist of:
- Navigational, flight and engine instruments
- Electrical instruments
- Time-measuring instruments
- Optical instruments
- Gyro components
- Meteorological instruments
- Hazard-detecting instruments
- Liquid-flow and liquid-level measuring
instruments
- Pressure, temperature and humidity-measuring
and controlling instruments
- Medical and laboratory equipment
- Alarm and signal systems
Typical types of jewel bearings are:
- Olive Hole, Double Cup
- Endstone
- Olive, Hole Ringstone
- Bar Hole
- Bar Hole, Bombé
- Olive Hole, Single Cup
- Olive Hole, Bombé
- Cup
- Vee
If you are looking for jewel bearings with custom
requirements, Microlap has the expertise to produce your parts to meet your
exact specifications. Contact us
now.
