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US 7,604,410 B2Granted
Fluid lubricated bearing device
AssigneeNtn Corporation
InventorsTetsuya Kurimura, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawase
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Abstract
An inner space of a housing sealed with a seal member as well as internal pores of a bearing member (pores in a porous structure) are filled with a lubricating oil without the presence of air, so that the oil surface of the lubricating oil is within a seal space. Under a reduced pressure of 100 Torr, no lubricating oil leaks outside of the housing even at any attitude of the fluid lubricated bearing device such as normal, inverted, or horizontal attitude.
Claims5
A fluid lubricated bearing device comprising:
- a housing with an opening portion provided on one end and a bottom portion provided on the other end;
- an axial member and a bearing member accommodated in the housing;
- a radial bearing portion, provided between an inner peripheral surface of the bearing member and an outer peripheral surface of the axial member, for allowing an oil film of a lubricating oil produced in a radial bearing gap to provide radial non-contact support to the axial member;
- a thrust bearing portion, provided on the bottom portion of the housing, for supporting an end face of the axial member on the same side as the other end of the housing in a direction of thrust;
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- a seal member arranged in the opening portion of the housing, wherein an axial gap is provided between the seal member and the bearing member, wherein an inner space of the housing, including the axial gap, is filled with the lubricating oil so that an oil surface of the lubricating oil is always within a seal space formed between an inner peripheral surface of the seal member and the outer peripheral surface of the axial member,
- a projected portion is provided on the axial member, in contact with the seal member and disposed within the axial gap, to prevent an axial movement of the axial member relative to the housing towards the one end thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.