Hitachi, Ltd.

Eiichi Okuyama

Kazuhiko Kawaike

Masaaki Nakano

Kenzo Kajiwara

Nobuo Hasegawa

A bearing device for a horizontal shaft type rotating machine includes an oil tank formed at the lower portion of the bearing box for storing lubricant oil for the bearing, the oil tank being divided by a bearing support plate between an oil feeding chamber and an oil collecting chamber; an oil feeding apparatus which pumps up the lubricant oil in the oil feeding chamber and feeds the lubricant oil onto the bearing; and a pair of diffusion flow passages; each of the pair of diffusion flow passages being formed along the inner wall of the oil tank and connects the oil collecting chamber with the oil feeding chamber; each of the diffusion flow passages permitting diffusion and movement of the lubricant oil from the oil collecting chamber to the oil feeding chamber. Each of the diffusion flow passages including a baffle chamber and a narrow gap flow passage downstream of the baffle chamber and having a smaller cross section flow passage area than the baffle chamber and the upper portion of the baffle chamber being open to the air, whereby air bubbles contained in the collected high temperature lubricant oil are removed at an early stage of their return travel from the oil collecting chamber to the oil feeding chamber.

Bearing device for horizontal shaft type rotating machine

A hermetic dynamic machine has a main part supporting a rotor shaft and having a main part cooler, an external fan provided on one end of the rotor shaft, an end cover which covers the end of the main part adjacent to the external fan and having a cooling air inlet formed therein, a bearing provided on the portion of the rotor shaft adjacent to the external fan. The dynamic machine further has a cooling air system which is constituted by a first cooling air passage for guiding the flow of the cooling air from the air inlet to the external fan, a second cooling air passage through which air for cooling the bearing flows and a third cooling air passage through which cooling air from the external fan is introduced into the main part cooler. A first connecting pipe provides a communication between the first and second cooling air passages, while a second connecting pipe provides communication between the second and third cooling air passages. Part of air induced by the external fan through the cooling air inlet is introduced into the second cooling air passage through the first connecting pipe for cooling the bearing. The air after cooling the bearing merges through the second connecting pipe into the cooling air in the third cooling air passage so as to take part in cooling of the main part of the machine.

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Hitachi, Japan

Eiichi Okuyama