Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd.

Japan Servo Co.,ltd.

Tomoaki Inoue

Masaaki Nakano

Makoto Hemmi

Kenji Mori

Takashi Yoshida

Hideaki Amano

Kenta Suzuki

Kenji Tomida

Tsuguaki Koga

Takashi Kono

Kenichi Murata

Kazuhiko Kawaike

Susumu Nakano

Kazuo Ikeuchi

Hideo Mori

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Hiroshi Nishida

Sanshiro Obara

Katsuya Yamashita

Noriyuki Hayashi

Hajime Toriya

Yuji Yamamoto

Satoshi Dodo

Koji Kawai

Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi

Manabu Yagi

Kinpei Okano

Yuji Nishimura

Rimpei Kawashita

Osamu Beppu

Nariaki Seike

Hiroyuki Shiraiwa

Tadaharu Kishibe

Motoki Sato

Seishi Watahiki

Takashi Kohno

Takao Yoneyama

Akio Takatsuka

Sachio Hatori

Shinji Sonoda

Masanori Katayama

Itsurou Sawada

Yoshiaki Chiba

Kohji Aizawa

Katsumi Oyabu

Ichiya Satoh

Takeru Sato

Motoyuki Ishikawa

Katsuhiro Murakami

This vibration measurement device is configured to measure the balancing vibration of the cartridge, a kind of rotating machines, who has a rotor and a cartridge body to support the rotor rotatably for variable operating speed, and is provided with a rigidly fixed support structure, acceleration sensors which detect the vibration of the cartridge, and a flat spring which elastically supports the cartridge with respect to the support structure and has a variable spring constant of elastic support.

Vibration measurement device and method for high-speed rotating machines

A tilting pad bearing is provided that can reduce an amount of oil leaking from the side edges of a sliding surface of a pad, thereby reducing an amount of oil to be fed onto the sliding surface of the pad. The tilting pad bearing includes journal pads arranged in a circumferential direction of a rotating shaft, and a bearing housing for carrying the journal pads in a tiltable manner via associated pivots. Lubricating oil is fed to a sliding surface of the journal pad via an oil-feeding hole formed in the journal pad. The sliding surface of the journal pad has a portion formed so that the portion has an axial width that gradually increases, as the axial width approaches the circumferential downstream side of the rotating shaft, from an oil-feed start position.

Tilting pad bearing

In a journal bearing device having an upper bearing liner, a lower bearing liner, an upper base metal and a lower base metal, the lower bearing liner is divided into a sliding portion having a sliding surface and a clearance portion provided with a space between the lower bearing liner and a rotor, and is provided with an oil path formed on a back side of the sliding portion and extending from a border portion between the sliding portion and the clearance portion toward an upstream side in the rotational direction of the rotor, and an oil supply hole extending from an upstream end portion of the oil path to the sliding surface, and the lower base metal has an oil supply path and extending from an outer circumferential side of the lower base metal to the oil path at the border portion.

Journal bearing device

A bearing device of a gas turbine power generation equipment provides damping vibration of a shaft and lubricates and cools the bearing main body. The bearing devices have sleeves provided on the outer circumference sides of the bearing main bodies and bearing housings holding the respective sleeves via O-rings while each forming an annular clearance passage between each of the outer circumferences of the sleeves and a corresponding one of the bearing housings. The bearing housing has a feed-water hole communicating with the clearance passage and adapted to feed water thereto. The sleeve has a lead water hole communicating with the clearance passage and is adapted to lead water to the bearing main body, and a discharge hole which communicates with the clearance passage and is adapted to discharge water therefrom.

Bearing device of gas turbine power generation equipment and gas turbine power generation equipment

An increase in the temperature of a sliding bearing can be suppressed, and it is possible to reduce the temperature of the bearing and prevent burning and damage. The bearing is divided in two and composed of a liner and a base metal. The liner is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the bearing, and the base metal is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the bearing. A lower liner of the bearing liner, which is located on a load-receiving side, has a cooling groove formed in an outer circumferential surface thereof and extending along a circumferential direction thereof. A lubricant is cooled in the cooling groove and supplied to reduce the temperature of a shaft-sliding surface of the bearing. The lubricant is supplied to the bearing, increases in temperature due to the cooling and has low viscosity.

Provided is a gas turbine power plant in which a rotor of a generator is journalled by water lubrication bearings into which a part of cooling water for cooling the generator is fed. Since the lubrication water has a viscosity lower than that of lubrication oil, it is possible to provide a gas turbine power plant with less energy loss resulting in lower power consumption for accessories, and in high power generation efficiency.

Gas turbine power plant

The present invention relates to a bearing used in a transmission. The radial bearing for supporting a rotating shaft of the transmission has a substantial elliptical-cylinder-shaped inner circumferential surface. At least two lubricating resin members are provided on the inner circumferential surface so that the members are extending in the axial direction and symmetric with respect to the central axis of the bearing. The rigidity of the bearing is increased as increasing the rotation speed of the shaft.

Radial bearing and transmission using the same

A recording disk apparatus comprises a clearance between a shaft and a thrust bearing portion tapered in a circumferential direction, a lubricant communication groove of a bearing covered by the shaft so that a lubricant on a radial bearing portion communicates with the lubricant on the thrust bearing portion through the lubricant communication groove, a lubricant circulating path which extends axially from the thrust bearing portion to the radial bearing portion to prevent the lubricant flowing out of the thrust bearing portion from returning directly to the thrust bearing portion without passing the radial bearing portion, and/or a clearance between a slide bearing and a magnetic fluid seal device substantially filled with a magnetic fluid lubricant.

Recording disk apparatus and rotational supporting structure therefor,

A bearing device where a sliding bearing rotatably supporting a shaft is molded with an inexpensive sintered material, three asymmetrical circular arc-shaped radial bearings are formed in the inner peripheral surface of the shaft, taper land-shaped thrust bearings are formed in the opposite end surfaces of the radial bearing surface, T-shaped bubble removing means which is constituted by axial and radial flow passages formed in the shaft opposed to the radial bearing is provided, and magnetic fluid is used as a lubricant. A magnetic disk unit using the bearing device is also disclosed.

Bearing device and spindle motor provided with the bearing device

Recording disk apparatus and rotational supporting structure therefor

A rotor magnet is attached to the inner peripheral portion of a hub to attach a magnetic disk or the like and a stator is provided in the outer peripheral portion of a bearing housing so as to face the rotor magnet, thereby forming a rotating mechanism. A magnetic pre-load mechanism is provided and a spindle is pressed to one side of a radial bearing, thereby stabilizing the rotation.

Spindle unit having pre-load mechanism

A bearing apparatus for a rotary machine having a horizontal rotating shaft comprises a bearing for supporting the horizontal rotating shaft, a bearing box for supporting the bearing therein, a lubricating oil tank disposed in a lower portion of the bearing box for storing lubricating oil, a lubricating supply device for picking up the lubricating oil in the lubricating oil tank and supplying the lubricating oil to the bearing, and oil guide device disposed beneath the bearing and allowing the lubricating oil discharged from the bearing to flow along a side wall of the bearing box to be stored in the lubricating oil tank.

Bearing apparatus for a rotary machine having a horizontal rotating shaft

A gas governor apparatus comprises an inner casing removably mounted on an outer casing. Further, a driving mechanism for driving a valve body to control pressure and flow rate of fluid between the valve body and a valve seat formed in the inner casing comprises a drive motor and a drive shaft. The drive shaft has a dual drive sleeve construction where an outer drive sleeve and the valve body are constituted as a rotating drive mechanism and an inner drive sleeve and the outer drive sleeve are constituted as an axial shifting drive mechanism. The outer and inner drive sleeves are axially shiftable by means of an elastic member. The valve body and the inner casing are maintained sealingly by dual expansible members. A flow passage is defined by the dual expansible members and the inner casing. An intermediate pressure chamber is switched to communicate with one of a primary pressure circuit communicating to primary pressure and a secondary pressure circuit communicating to secondary pressure by means of a three-way switching valve to permit introduction of the fluid into the intermediate pressure chamber.

Gas governor apparatus and gas piping system

A method and apparatus for detecting metal wipe damages of plane bearings with the metal wipe generating an ultrasonic signal as an acoustic emission signal when it occurs. The ultrasonic signal has a periodic appearance therefore, the metal wipe damages, can be detected by monitoring the periodic nature of the ultrasonic signal. The ultrasonic signal is received by a transducer fixed to the plane bearing with the periodic nature of the received ultrasonic signal being computed by a processing unit so as to provide a output signal of the occurrence of a metal wipe when the received ultrasonic signal is periodic.

Method and apparatus for detecting metal wipe damages of plane bearing

A method of and a system for monitoring the conditions of a journal bearing having a bearing surface for supporting a rotatable shaft through an oil film. Detectors detect the speed of rotation of the shaft and the pressure of the oil film. The load on the journal bearing is calculated based on the rotational speed of the shaft and the pressure of the oil film.

Method of and system for monitoring bearing conditions

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Mito, Japan

Tomoaki Inoue