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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2018
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Oda, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
A journal bearing including a plurality of bearing pads having pad surfaces which configured to slidably come into contact with an outer circumferential surface of a rotating shaft and disposed at intervals, a key member provided a part of a pad rear surface which faces radially outward in the bearing pad, having a curved surface which is curved around an axis parallel to the central axis, configured to extend to have the same cross-sectional shape, and formed of a material having a hardness higher than that of a material forming the pad rear surface of the bearing pad, and a housing having a support surface in contact with a part of the curved surface of the key member in the circumferential direction and configured to support the key member and the bearing pad to be swingable from an outer side in a radial direction.