Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluid bearing device
- Patent Title (中): 流体轴承装置
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Application No.: US11525020Application Date: 2006-09-22
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Publication No.: US07901138B2Publication Date: 2011-03-08
- Inventor: Mitsuo Kodama , Taketo Nonaka
- Applicant: Mitsuo Kodama , Taketo Nonaka
- Applicant Address: JP Fujieda-shi
- Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Fujieda-shi
- Agency: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
- Priority: JP2005-279486 20050927; JP2006-195321 20060718
- Main IPC: F16C32/06
- IPC: F16C32/06

Abstract:
A fluid bearing device (50B, 50AB) is composed of a shaft (1, 51); a sleeve (9, 59) into which the shaft (1, 51) is inserted; and lubrication fluid (20) intervening in a gap between the shaft (1, 51) and the sleeve (9, 59), the fluid bearing device (50B, 50AB) supporting the shaft (1, 51) so as to be relatively rotatable freely with respect to the sleeve (9, 59), wherein an end portion of the sleeve (9, 59) is provided with a taper ring (4, 54) in annular shape, wherein at least either one of an inner circumferential surface (4a, 54a) of the taper ring (4, 54) and an outer circumferential surface (1a, 91b) of the shaft (1, 51) facing towards the inner circumferential surface (4a, 54a) of the taper ring (4, 54) is formed into a tapered surface (4a, 54a), which inclines in a direction as a gap between the inner circumferential surface (4a, 54a) of the taper ring (4, 54) and the outer circumferential surface (1a, 91b) of the shaft (1, 51) widens in accordance with leaving from the sleeve (9, 59) and forms a taper seal section (50TS, 50ATS) that prevents the lubrication fluid (20) from leaking out, and wherein the taper ring (4, 54) is formed by a material having coefficient of thermal expansion larger than that of the sleeve (9, 59) and the shaft (1, 51).
Public/Granted literature
- US20070071375A1 Fluid bearing device Public/Granted day:2007-03-29
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