IP Library Granted Patent US 9,255,604
Granted Patent B2
US 9,255,604 · App. 14/326,180 · Granted Feb 9, 2016

Hydro dynamic bearing device

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Patent No.
US 9,255,604
App. No.
14/326,180
Granted
Feb 9, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hydro dynamic bearing device comprising an upper half of a main bearing and a lower half of the main bearing, wherein the upper half of the main bearing is lined with a low-strength metal such as a Babbitt metal, wherein a circumferential groove is formed in the lower half of the main bearing, and wherein the low-strength metal of the upper half of the main bearing, which is formed at a region opposed to a downstream side of the circumferential groove formed in the lower half of the main bearing, is partially removed to cause a high-strength bearing base metal to be partially exposed.

Claims (18)

1. A hydro dynamic bearing device comprising:

an upper half of a main bearing; and

a lower half of the main bearing, wherein

the upper half of the main bearing and the lower half of the main bearing are respectively provided with a low-strength metal formed on an inner circumferential side of a bearing base metal thereof,

the lower half of the main bearing has an oil supply port opening in a mating surface of the lower half of the main bearing relative to the upper half of the main bearing on a downstream side, and a circumferential lubrication groove provided at a center of a bearing width direction and in a circumferential direction,

the low-strength metal of the upper half of the main bearing, which is located at a region opposed to a downstream side outlet of the circumferential lubrication groove of the lower half of the main bearing, is partially removed to cause the bearing base metal to be partially exposed and

the upper half of the main bearing is provided with a wide-width oil supply/drain groove formed so as to gently extend to the bearing surface of the upper half of the main bearing from a mating surface of the upper half of the main bearing relative to the lower half of the main bearing.

2. A hydro dynamic bearing device comprising:

an upper half of a main bearing; and

a lower half of the main bearing, wherein

the upper half of the main bearing and the lower half of the main bearing are respectively provided with a low-strength metal formed on an inner circumferential side of a bearing base metal thereof,

the lower half of the main bearing has an oil supply port opening in a mating surface of the lower half of the main bearing relative to the upper half of the main bearing on a downstream side, and a circumferential lubrication groove provided at a center of a bearing width direction and in a circumferential direction,

the low-strength metal of the upper half of the main bearing, which is located at a region opposed to a downstream side outlet of the circumferential lubrication groove of the lower half of the main bearing, is partially removed to cause the bearing base metal to be partially exposed and

a metal shield that has strength higher than the low-strength metal is formed at the part of the upper half of the main bearing at which the low-strength metal is partially removed.

3. A hydro dynamic bearing device comprising: an upper half of a main bearing; and a lower half of the main bearing,

wherein the upper half of the main bearing and the lower half of the main bearing are respectively provided with a low-strength metal formed on an inner circumferential side of a bearing base metal thereof,

the lower half of the main bearing has an oil supply port opening in a mating surface of the lower half of the main bearing relative to the upper half of the main bearing on a downstream side, and a circumferential lubrication groove provided at a center of a bearing width direction and in a circumferential direction, and

the upper half of the main bearing has a notch at a region opposed to a downstream side outlet of the circumferential lubrication groove of the lower half of the main bearing, the notch being configured to cause the bearing base metal to be partially exposed.

Assignments (5)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Nov 25, 2024
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI GENERATOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 069438/0941 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Sep 11, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 064854/0880 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 25, 2014
From: TANAKA, TAKAYASU; HATTORI, KENICHI; YAMAMOTO, YUKIHIRO; TOMITA, KENICHI; IWASHIGE, KENGO; TOHRISAWA, KENICHI; SHIGENAGA, YASUNORI; YAMASHITA, TOMOAKI; HEMMI, MAKOTO; NAKAMURA, TATEKI
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033394/0921 →