Plain bearing with a lead-free overlay

摘要

Disclosed is a plain bearing comprising a back metal layer, a bearing alloy layer and an overlay which coats the bearing alloy layer. The overlay is made of a lead-free tin-base alloy which comprises from more than 2 wt% to 10 wt% Ag. The lead-free tin-base alloy may further comprise 0.1 wt% to 25 wt% of one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Cu, Sb, Zn and Ni.