Hydro dynamic bearing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10323688-B2
Application number	US-201514982301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2015
Priority date	Jul 9, 2013
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for suppressing erosion of a hydro dynamic bearing device, the method comprising:
cutting out the hydro dynamic bearing device; and
exposing a bearing base metal material to a lubricant during operation, wherein
the bearing device comprises an upper half of a main bearing and a lower half of the main bearing, the upper half of the main bearing and the lower half of the main bearing being respectively provided with a metal, which is softer than a material of a shaft to be supported by the hydro dynamic bearing device, formed on an inner circumferential side surface of a bearing base metal thereof, and the lower half of the main bearing having a substantially semi-circumferential lubrication groove, in which a lubricant oil flows, provided at a center of a bearing width direction and in a circumferential direction, and
the cutting out step cuts out a port of the metal of the upper half of the main bearing at a region of a upstream side of the upper of the main bearing opposed to a downstream side outlet of the substantially semi-circumferential lubrication groove of the lower half of the main bearing so that the bearing base metal is partially exposed at the region.

2. A method for suppressing erosion of a hydro dynamic bearing, the method comprising:
removing a part of the metal of the hydro dynamic bearing device; and
forming a metal shield, wherein
the hydro dynamic bearing device comprises an upper half of a main bearing and a lower half of the main bearing, the upper half of the main bearing and the lower half of the main bearing being respectively provided with a metal, which is softer than a material of a shaft to be supported by the hydro dynamic bearing device, formed on an inner circumferential side surface of a bearing base metal thereof, and the lower half of the main bearing having a substantially semi-circumferential lubrication groove, in which a lubricant oil flows, provided at a center of a bearing width direction and in a circumferential direction,
the step of removing, removes the part of the metal from the upper half of the main bearing at a region of an upstream side of the upper half of the main bearing opposed to a downstream side outlet of the substantially semi-circumferential lubrication groove of the lower half of the main bearing, and
the step of forming, forms the metal shield so as to have a strength higher than the metal at the region of the upper half of the main bearing at which the metal is partially removed.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Sys

Inventors

• Tanaka Takayasu
• Hattori Kenichi
• Yamamoto Yukihiro
• Tomita Kenichi
• Iwashige Kengo
• Tohrisawa Kenichi
• Shigenaga Yasunori
• Yamashita Tomoaki
• Hemmi Makoto
• Nakamura Tateki

Classifications

• F16C33/046

  divided or split, e.g. half-bearings or rolled sleeves · CPC title

• F16C33/14

  Special methods of manufacture; Running-in · CPC title

• F16C33/121

  Use of special materials · CPC title

• F16C33/107

  Grooves for generating pressure · CPC title

• F16C33/1065

  Grooves on a bearing surface for distributing or collecting the liquid · CPC title