Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Neuros Co., Ltd.

Kyeong Dong Kim

Woong Lin Hwang

Jinwoo Cho

An airfoil journal bearing journal bearing includes a bearing housing for rotatably supporting a rotation shaft and including a hollow through which the rotation shaft is inserted, and an airfoil between an inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing and an outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft. The airfoil includes a first foil region extending in a circumferential direction and enclosing the circumference of the rotation shaft between 180 to 360 degrees, and a pair of second foil regions connected to opposite edges of the first foil region in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, extending in the circumferential direction and enclosing the circumference of the rotation shaft between 180 to 360 degrees, and including a plurality of elastic bumps formed in the circumferential direction on the surface of the second foil regions.

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Sejong, South Korea

Kyeong Dong Kim