IP Library Granted Patent US 11,767,916
Granted Patent B2
US 11,767,916 · App. 17/428,262 · Granted Sep 26, 2023

Sliding components

Inventors: Tadatsugu Imura (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo, JP); Iwa Ou (Tokyo, JP); Yuichiro Tokunaga (Tokyo, JP)
F16J15/3256F16J15/3424
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Patent No.
US 11,767,916
App. No.
17/428,262
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide sliding components capable of suppressing dynamic pressure generation mechanisms from being deformed and damaged due to wear of sliding surfaces. In a pair of sliding components which is disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotary machine, has a plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms formed in a sliding surface of the sliding component by recessed portions, and is formed in an annular shape to seal a sealed fluid by sliding the sliding surfaces of the sliding components. A surface region in the periphery of the recessed portions of the sliding component is formed to be separated from an opposite region of the sliding component.

Claims (24)

1. A pair of sliding components which is constituted by a first sliding component and a second sliding component and disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotary machine, comprising a plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms formed by recessed portions that are provided in a sliding surface of the first sliding component, the first sliding component and the second sliding component being formed in an annular shape to seal a sealed fluid by sliding a land portion of the sliding surface of the first sliding component and a land portion of a sliding surface of the second sliding component to each other,

wherein a surface region in a periphery of the recessed portions of the first sliding component is formed to be separated from an opposite surface region of the second sliding component opposed to the surface region of the first sliding component,

wherein the land portions of the first sliding component and the second sliding component each has an annular shape,

the recessed portion is a recessed groove of which one end is closed, and

the one end of the recessed groove extends to a region in which the land portions face each other,

wherein adjoining two of the recessed portions are connected to each other by a fine recess, and

wherein a boundary portion of the fine recess on a side of the land portion of the first sliding component is formed to be disposed on a waveform when viewed from an axial direction.

2. The pair of sliding components according to claim 1 ,

wherein a fine recess which has an annular shape and is recessed from the land portion of the second sliding component is formed in the opposite surface region of the second sliding component.

3. The pair of sliding components according to claim 2 ,

wherein a boundary portion of the fine recess on a side of the land portion of the second sliding component is formed in a waveform when viewed from an axial direction.

4. The pair of sliding components according to claim 1 ,

wherein at least one independent land portion which is surrounded by the fine recess is formed between the adjoining two of the recessed portions.

5. The pair of sliding components according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the recessed portions is an inclined groove.

6. The pair of sliding components according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the recessed portions communicates with a leakage side.

7. The pair of sliding components according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sliding surface of the first sliding component is provided with specific dynamic pressure generation mechanisms which are disposed on a sealed fluid side with respect to the dynamic pressure generation mechanisms and which are formed by recessed portions independent from the dynamic pressure generation mechanism, and

wherein a surface region in a periphery of the recessed portions of the specific dynamic pressure generation mechanisms in the first sliding component is formed to be separated from an opposite surface region of the second sliding component opposed to the surface region of the first sliding component.

8. The pair of sliding components according to claim 2 ,

wherein each of the recessed portions is an inclined groove.

9. The pair of sliding components according to claim 2 ,

wherein each of the recessed portions communicates with a leakage side.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2021
From: IMURA, TADATSUGU; SUZUKI, HIROSHI; OU, IWA; TOKUNAGA, YUICHIRO
To: EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057628/0449 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-024900 · Feb 14, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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