Bearing Arrangement for Guiding a Motor Shaft of a Vertical Turbine Pump
AssigneeWilo SE
InventorsDaniel Albers, Maksim Kirpo, Shashank Pawar
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Abstract
A bearing arrangement for guiding a motor shaft for supporting axial and/or radial forces of a vertical turbine pump. The bearing arrangement includes a bearing comprising an inner ring which can be non-rotatably connected to the motor shaft and an outer ring, an oil sump filled with an oil, within which the bearing is arranged at least partially immersed in the oil, and an inner oil deflector which is non-rotatably connected to the inner ring and deflects oil conveyed between the inner ring and the outer ring back into the oil sump as a result of rotation of the bearing.
Claims15
A bearing arrangement for guiding a motor shaft and/or for supporting axial and/or radial forces of a vertical turbine pump, the bearing arrangement comprising:
- a bearing comprising an inner ring which can be non-rotatably connected to the motor shaft, and an outer ring;
- an oil sump filled with an oil, within which the bearing is arranged at least partially immersed in the oil;
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- an inner oil deflector which is non-rotatably connected to the inner ring and deflects oil conveyed between the inner ring and the outer ring as a result of a rotation of the bearing back into the oil sump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.