# US 4,396,197 A · Oil seal device for high-speed rotary machine

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- Number: US 4,396,197 A
- Document ID: US4396197A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/315,722
- Filed: 1981-10-28
- Granted: 1983-08-02
- Earliest claimed: 1981-01-16
- Assignees: Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Masami Shimizu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4396197A

## CPC

- F16C 33/10: Construction relative to lubrication {(lubrication in general F16N)}
- F01D 25/186: {for sliding contact bearing}
- F16C 33/1025: {with liquid, e.g. oil, as lubricant}
- F16C 33/74: of sliding-contact bearings
- F16J 15/54: Other sealings for rotating shafts
- F02B 1/04: with fuel-air mixture admission into cylinder
- F16C 17/02: for radial load only
- F16C 17/18: with floating brasses or brushing, rotatable at a reduced speed {(F16C17/03, F16C17/06 take precedence)}
- F16C 2360/24: Turbochargers
- F16C: SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
- F01D: NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (machines or engines for liquids F03; non-positive displacement pumps F04D)
- F16J: PISTONS {(specially adapted for dampers F16F9/32)}; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS
- F02B: INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL (gas-turbine plants F02C; hot-gas or combustion-product positive-displacement engine plants F02G)

## Abstract

One end of a casing in which a rotating shaft is supported by a floating metal bush is extended to surround the outer periphery of an oil thrower formed adjacent to an end of the shaft so that an oil-thrower space is defined by the shaft, the oil thrower, the casing and the floating metal bush, and an arcuate opening is formed through the wall of the casing so that the lubricating oil trapped in the oil-thrower space is discharged through this opening to an oil outlet.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An oil seal for a rotary machine in which there is a rotating shaft having an oil thrower ring and a casing surrounding and spaced from the shaft and the oil thrower ring and having an outlet opening therein, comprising:
(a) an annular floating metal bushing surrounding and engaging the shaft and axially spaced from the oil thrower ring,
(b) an annular bearing bushing between and engaging the casing and the floating bushing and having an annular part extending axially from the floating bushing toward and overlying the oil thrower ring, thereby forming an oil thrower space between the oil thrower ring, the floating bushing, the bearing bushing and the shaft for the reception of oil from the oil thrower ring,
(c) communicating oil inlet openings in the casing, the bearing bushing and the floating bushing through which oil is supplied to the shaft,
(d) the lower part of the bearing bushing which overlies the oil thrower space having an elongated arcuate opening therein through which oil from the oil thrower space is removed.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

An oil seal device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the angle subtended by said arcuate opening is between 90.degree. and 110.degree..