Bearing device and exhaust turbine turbocharger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10480576-B2
Application number	US-201616078243-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2016
Priority date	Mar 1, 2016
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

The present invention improves the drainability of lubricating oil. The present invention comprises: a rotating shaft (14); a journal bearing that is provided to the rotating shaft (14) and rotationally supports the rotating shaft (14); a bearing housing part that houses the journal bearing; and a drain oil space chamber (47) that acts as an oil drainage passage that communicates with the bearing housing part, is provided along the periphery of the rotating shaft (14), and is formed to open downward. Within a region that is in and above a horizontal plane H that passes through the center of the rotating shaft (14), the smallest cross-sectional area of the oil drainage passage in a radial-direction cross-section thereof is on the anterior side in the rotational direction of the rotating shaft (14) with respect to a vertical plane P that passes though the center (O) of the rotating shaft (14), and the largest cross-sectional area of the oil drainage passage in the radial-direction cross-section is on the posterior side in the rotational direction of the rotating shaft (14) with respect to the vertical plane that passes through the center (O) of the rotating shaft (14).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A bearing device comprising:
a rotating shaft;
a journal bearing which is provided on the rotating shaft and rotatably supports the rotating shaft;
a bearing accommodation portion in which the journal bearing is accommodated; and
an oil discharge passage which is provided along a periphery of the rotating shaft on an outer peripheral portion of a boss portion of a turbine disk fixed to the rotating shaft and has an opened lower portion,
wherein the journal bearing is rotatably supported by the bearing accommodation portion using a lubricating oil supplied to a portion between an outer peripheral surface of the journal bearing and an inner surface of the bearing accommodation portion and rotatably supports the rotating shaft by the lubricating oil supplied to a portion between an inner peripheral surface of the journal bearing and an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft, and a side surface portion of the journal bearing faces a facing portion of the boss portion with a gap in the bearing accommodation portion,
wherein the lubricating oil reaches the oil discharge passage to communicate with the bearing accommodation portion between the side surface portion of the journal bearing and the facing portion of the boss on the outer peripheral portion of the boss, and in a region above a horizontal plane passing through a center of the rotating shaft, the oil discharge passage has the minimum cross-sectional area in a radial cross section on an anterior side in a rotation direction of the rotating shaft based on a vertical plane passing through the center of the rotating shaft and has the maximum cross-sectional area in the radial cross section on a posterior side in the rotation direction of the rotating shaft based on the vertical plane passing through the center of the rotating shaft,
wherein the oil discharge passage is formed to be continuously enlarging from the minimum cross-sectional area to the maximum cross-sectional area with the vertical plane passing through the center of the rotating shaft as a boundary.

2. The bearing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the oil discharge passage, a cross-sectional area in the radial cross section is changed in an extension direction of the rotating shaft.

3. An exhaust turbine turbocharger comprising:
a turbine;
a compressor;
and
the bearing device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Engine & Turbocharger Ltd

Inventors

• Kojima Yuya
• Ishizaki Tatsuya
• Dammoto Yosuke
• Akiyama Yoji

Classifications

• F01M2011/021

  for lubricating auxiliaries, e.g. pumps or turbo chargers · CPC title

• F01M1/18

  Indicating or safety devices (concerning lubricant level F01M11/06, F01M11/12) · CPC title

• F01D25/186

  for sliding contact bearing · CPC title

• F01D25/164

  Flexible supports; Vibration damping means associated with the bearing · CPC title

• F16C33/1045 Primary

  Details of supply of the liquid to the bearing · CPC title