Hitachi, Ltd.

Tokico, Ltd.

Hideki Izumi

Nobuo Tsumaki

Masahiro Yoshioka

Eiichi Hazaki

Yutaka Kakehi

Shinjiro Ueda

Hiroshi Inouye

Osami Matsushita

Toshiaki Makino

Hiroyuki Amemori

Kazuaki Ichihashi

Kousuke Noda

Toshifumi Koike

Takeshi Okawada

Shiro Nakadaira

Kazuo Ihara

Sosuke Kawashima

Ryokichi Kaji

Katsuyuki Tanaka

A sample chucking apparatus including a clip provided at a plurality of positions correspondingly to a sample and operating closedly to release and hold the sample, with the clip being acutated by a magnetic force. A spring force counters the direction in which the clip operates, thereby simplifying the structure and ensuring a reliability on fixing or carrying of the sample.

Sample chucking apparatus

A thrust bearing has a plurality of bearing pads each provided on its back side with a pivot, and a support on which the pads are disposed in the circumferential direction. An integral carrier is mounted on the support. The carrier has leg portions and a resilient portion and definies a squeeze film damper portion between the rear surface thereof and the opposing surface of the support. The pads are carried tiltably by the carrier through the pivots.

Thrust bearing

A vibration-controlling bearing for controlling vibration developing in a rotary shaft supported in a housing of a rotary machine including a bearing member of a cylindrical shape interposed between an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the housing and spaced apart therefrom by respective gaps. A dynamic pressure is generated between an inner peripheral surface of the bearing member and the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. Communicating ducts are formed in the bearing member for transmitting a portion of the dynamic pressure generated to a gap between the outer peripheral surface of the bearing member and the inner peripheral surface of the housing.

Vibration-controlling bearing

A turbomolecular pump including a casing stationary blades arranged in a plurality of stages in the casing axially thereof, rotating blades arranged between the stationary blades and located on an outer periphery of a rotor located in a central portion of the casing, and a bearing device journaling the rotor at its high vacuum and end a low vacuum end. A first permanent magnet of the fixed side having a high Curie point and a second permanent magnet of the rotor side located in juxtaposed relation to the first permanent magnet constitute a magnetic bearing of an attraction type for journaling the rotor at its high vacuum end. A pivot type hydrodynamic bearing or active magnetic bearings journal the rotor at its low vacuum end.

Turbomolecular pump

The invention is concerned with a sliding-type bearing suitable for use in high-speed rotary machines. The sliding-type bearing has a bearing surface provided with a lubricating oil groove at each of two portions thereof substantially 90.degree. spaced from the point to which the load exerted by the bearing is applied. A chamfer is formed in the portion of the bearing surface near one of the two lubricating oil grooves remoter from the point of the minimum bearing clearance which is determined by the direction of rotation of the shaft and the direction of application of the load by the rotary shaft. This chamfer permits the discharge of the heated lubricating oil to the outside of the bearing thereby to prevent the same from flowing into the point of the minimum bearing clearance.

Sliding-type bearing

A turbine meter comprising a casing of substantially hollow cylindrical shape installed within a conduit through which a fluid to be measured is flowing, an axle member supported within the casing and having an annular recess therearound; a longitudinal flow passage formed in the axle member, a plurality of discharge holes formed in the axle member to connect communicatively the annular recess and the flow passage, a supply pipe inserted into said conduit through the wall thereof and functioning to supply a pressurized fluid to said flow passage in the axle member, a vane wheel comprising a hub disposed around said annular recess with minute gaps therebetween and adapted to rotate in a substantially non-contacting state relative to the axle member and a plurality of vanes implantedly fixed at their root parts to the hub, said vane wheel being rotated by a portion of the fluid being measured which flows through the casing, and means for detecting the rotation of the vane wheel. The pressure of the pressurized fluid and the dimensions of said minute gaps are selected at values to cause forces acting on the vane wheel during rotation thereof and urging the vane wheel to undergo displacement in the thrust direction to be mutually cancelled, whereby the vane wheel rotates in a state of stable equilibrium.

Turbine meters

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Tsuchiura, Japan

Hideki Izumi