Vertical bearing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10323690-B2
Application number	US-201615753327-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2016
Priority date	Aug 19, 2015
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

A lubricating oil passage portion that constitutes a cooling portion is exposed to the outside from a casing. Lubricating oil having absorbed heat of a thrust bearing portion and a journal bearing portion is cooled in the cooling portion, when the lubricating oil moves from an upper oil chamber to a lower oil chamber while circulating by use of gravity. Thus, the circulating lubricating oil prompts cooling of the heated thrust bearing portion and journal bearing portion. Additionally, the lubricating oil passage portion of the cooling portion is provided integrally with the casing, on the radially outer side of the casing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vertical bearing device comprising:
a cylindrical thrust collar that rotates together with a rotating shaft member extending in the direction of gravitational force;
a base plate that faces the lower end of the thrust collar;
a thrust bearing part that is provided in a part where the thrust collar and the base plate face each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft member, and supports the rotating shaft member in the axial direction;
a casing that surrounds the outer peripheral side of the rotating shaft member, is formed into a container shape integrally forming, with the base plate, an oil chamber for storing lubricating oil, and partitions the oil chamber into an upper oil chamber provided on the upper side and a lower oil chamber provided on the lower side in the direction of gravitational force;
a journal bearing part that is provided in a part where the casing and the thrust collar face each other in a radial direction of the rotating shaft member, and supports the rotating shaft member in the radial direction;
a cooling part that has a lubricating oil passage part provided integrally with the casing on the radially outer side of the casing, and exposed from the casing to allow passage of the lubricating oil moving from the upper oil chamber to the lower oil chamber, and cools the lubricating oil moving from the upper oil chamber to the lower oil chamber through the lubricating oil passage part by air on the outer peripheral side of the casing; and
a shielding plate that is provided between the cooling part and the casing, and blocks transmission of heat from the cooling part to the casing.

2. The vertical bearing device according to claim 1 , further comprising an air blowing part that rotates integrally with the rotating shaft member, and forms a flow of air toward the cooling part.

3. The vertical bearing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the casing partitions the oil chamber not only into the upper oil chamber and the lower oil chamber, but also into a circulation oil chamber that allows passage of the lubricating oil circulating from the lower oil chamber to the upper oil chamber by rotation of the thrust collar rotating together with the rotating shaft member; and
the thrust bearing part and the journal bearing part are provided in the circulation oil chamber.

4. The vertical bearing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the casing has a casing main body that constitutes an outer wall;
the casing main body has a plane part that is flat in the circumferential direction; and
the cooling part is provided in the plane part.

5. The vertical bearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling part is tilted relative to the axial direction of the rotating shaft member.

6. The vertical bearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling part has a straightening vane that aligns an air flow entering the cooling part.

7. The vertical bearing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cooling part has a plurality of radiating parts that allows lubricating oil flowing through the lubricating oil passage part to lose heat; and
the lubricating oil passage part consecutively passes through the plurality of radiating parts.

8. A rotary machine comprising:
the vertical bearing device according to claim 1 ; and
a rotor that has at least one end in the axial direction of the rotating shaft member supported by the vertical bearing device.

9. A vertical bearing device comprising:
a cylindrical thrust collar that rotates together with a rotating shaft member extending in the direction of gravitational force;
a base plate that faces the lower end of the thrust collar;
a thrust bearing part that is provided in a part where the thrust collar and the base plate face each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft member, and supports the rotating shaft member in the axial direction;
a casing that surrounds the outer peripheral side of the rotating shaft member, is formed into a container shape integrally forming, with the base plate, an oil chamber for storing lubricating oil, and partitions the oil chamber into an upper oil chamber provided on the upper side and a lower oil chamber provided on the lower side in the direction of gravitational force;
a journal bearing part that is provided in a part where the casing and the thrust collar face each other in a radial direction of the rotating shaft member, and supports the rotating shaft member in the radial direction; and
a cooling part that has a straightening vane that aligns an air flow entering the cooling part and a lubricating oil passage part provided integrally with the casing on the radially outer side of the casing, and exposed from the casing to allow passage of the lubricating oil moving from the upper oil chamber to the lower oil chamber, and cools the lubricating oil moving from the upper oil chamber to the lower oil chamber through the lubricating oil passage part by air on the outer peripheral side of the casing.

10. A vertical bearing device comprising:
a cylindrical thrust collar that rotates together with a rotating shaft member extending in the direction of gravitational force;
a base plate that faces the lower end of the thrust collar;
a thrust bearing part that is provided in a part where the thrust collar and the base plate face each other in an axial direction of the rotating shaft member, and supports the rotating shaft member in the axial direction;
a casing that surrounds the outer peripheral side of the rotating shaft member, is formed into a container shape integrally forming, with the base plate, an oil chamber for storing lubricating oil, and partitions the oil chamber into an upper oil chamber provided on the upper side and a lower oil chamber provided on the lower side in the direction of gravitational force;
a journal bearing part that is provided in a part where the casing and the thrust collar face each other in a radial direction of the rotating shaft member, and supports the rotating shaft member in the radial direction; and
a cooling part that has a lubricating oil passage part provided integrally with the casing on the radially outer side of the casing, and exposed from the casing to allow passage of the lubricating oil moving from the upper oil chamber to the lower oil chamber, and cools the lubricating oil moving from the upper oil chamber to the lower oil chamber through the lubricating oil passage part by air on the outer peripheral side of the casing;
the cooling part having a plurality of radiating parts that allows lubricating oil flowing through the lubricating oil passage part to lose heat, and the lubricating oil passage part consecutively passing through the plurality of radiating parts.

Assignees

• Daido Metal Co

Inventors

• Na Kwangik
• Mori Shigeyoshi

Classifications

• F04D29/056

  Bearings · CPC title

• F16N7/02

  with gravity feed or drip lubrication · CPC title

• F04D13/00

  Pumping installations or systems (controlling F04D15/00) · CPC title

• F16C37/00 Primary

  Cooling of bearings · CPC title

• F16N7/40

  in a closed circulation system · CPC title