Oil Seals

What are Oil Seals?

Oil seals are critical components in various machinery, serving to seal around a rotating shaft and maintain an oil-based lubricant within an axle, engine, or other system. In simpler terms, an oil seal acts as a barrier with four essential functions:

• Retaining Lubricants or Liquids: Oil seals prevent the leakage of lubricants or liquids, ensuring that machinery operates smoothly and efficiently.
• Excluding Contaminants: Oil seals act as a barrier, preventing external contaminants like dust, dirt, and moisture from entering machinery, and protecting internal components from damage.
• Separating Fluids: Oil seals effectively separate different fluids, ensuring that they do not mix and compromise the performance of machinery.
• Confining Pressure: Oil seals maintain pressure within machinery, preventing the loss of hydraulic pressure or other pressurized fluids.

Oil seals from LYO Oil Seal are versatile and can be applied to a wide range of machinery that requires the sealing of hydraulic fluid, including pumps, automotive components, cylinder manufacturers, and more.

Styles of Oil Seal

Oil seals come in various styles to suit specific applications. The most common styles include:

• TC: Single-lip oil seals with a rubber-covered outer diameter (OD).
• SC: Double-lip oil seals with a rubber-covered OD.
• TA: Single-lip oil seals with a bare steel OD.
• SA: Single-lip oil seals with a highly polished bright steel OD.
• TB: Double-lip oil seals with a bare steel OD.
• SB: Double-lip oil seals with a highly polished bright steel OD.
• VC: Single-lip oil seals with a coated OD.

LYO Oil Seal offers a variety of OD width options to meet specific requirements, including ground OD, highly polished bright steel, coated OD, and painted OD with rubber to fill in small cracks in the OD housing.

Designs of Oil Seal

Oil seal designs vary to suit different applications and performance needs. The most common designs include:

• Single-lip Seals: These seals feature a single lip that contacts the shaft to create a seal. They are suitable for low-pressure applications.
• Double-lip Seals: These seals incorporate two lips that contact the shaft, providing enhanced sealing capabilities and better performance in higher-pressure applications.
• Triple-lip Seals: These seals feature three lips that contact the shaft, offering the highest level of sealing performance, and are typically used in demanding applications with extreme pressure conditions.

Choosing the Right Oil Seal Manufacturer

Oil seals play a critical role in the operation of machinery across a wide spectrum of industries. From the oil and gas sectors to aerospace, automotive, chemical, and power generation, seals are an integral part of supply systems, ensuring the smooth and efficient functioning of equipment. The demand for oil seal manufacturing remains consistently high due to their indispensable nature.

Therefore, selecting the right oil seal manufacturer is a crucial decision that can significantly impact your machinery's performance and longevity. Factors to consider when choosing an oil seal manufacturer include:

• Experience and Expertise: A reputable oil seal manufacturer should have a proven track record of experience and expertise in the industry.
• Quality Assurance: The manufacturer should adhere to strict quality assurance standards to ensure the consistent production of high-quality oil seals.
• Customer Service: Excellent customer service is essential for timely responses to inquiries, technical support, and prompt order fulfillment.
• Customization Capabilities: The ability to provide custom-molded oil seals to meet specific application requirements is a valuable asset.

LYO Oil Seal: Your Trusted Partner for Oil Seal Manufacturing

Lian Yu Oil Seal Enterprise Co., Ltd., established in 1978, is a leading manufacturer of high-quality oil seals, catering to diverse industries worldwide. With over four decades of experience and expertise, Lian Yu is committed to providing exceptional sealing solutions that meet the most stringent requirements.

Our comprehensive range of oil seals includes bus oil seals, oil bath seals, industrial oil seals, special seals, rubber seals, and vehicle oil seals. The company continuously invests in advanced technology and employs experienced engineers to stay at the forefront of oil seal design and manufacturing.

We are able to supply custom-molded designs for oil seals in any material and in virtually any shape or size. To get more details about the custom oil seal process and more services, please feel free to contact us. The representatives are happy to assist you.

LYO	SC	TC	VC1	SB	SA	TA
Gaco	A	FA	ABI	-	-	-
Pioneer Weston	R21	R23	R4	R6	R1	-
Goetze	827N	827S	822N	822S	824N	824S
Kaco	DG	DGS	DF	DFS	DFK	DFSK
NAK	SC	TC	VC1	SB	SA	TA
National	35	32	48	47	45	41
Garlock	92	94	71,91	76	68	-
NOK	SC	TC	VC1	SB	SA	TA
Paulstra	IE	IEL	EE	EEL	EEP	-
Simmerwerke	A	ASL	B	BSL	C	CSL
Simrit-Freudenberg	BA	BASL	B1	B1SL	B2	B2SL
Chicago Rawhide	-	-	CRW1	CRWA1	CRWH1	CRWHA1
Stefa	CB	CC	BB	BC	DB	DC
Style	SC	TC	VC1	SB	SA	TA