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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2019
Mitsubishi Power, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Takuzo Shigihara, Tokyo, JP;
Shuichi Isayama, Tokyo, JP;
Chihiro Yoshimine, Tokyo, JP;
Shimpei Yokoyama, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichiro Waki, Yokohama, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bearing device includes: a rotary shaft being rotatable around an axis; a bearing pad that supports an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft; a nozzle that is disposed on an upstream side of the bearing pad in a rotational direction of the rotation shaft and has a supply hole; a pair of side plates that face the outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft on an upstream side of the nozzle in the rotational direction and are disposed on both sides of the nozzle in the axial direction, the pair of side plates having a discharge hole; and a guide surface that faces the upstream side in the rotation direction and extends in the axial direction over an entire length of the bearing pad in the axial direction, wherein the guide surface is circumferentially positioned between the supply hole and the discharge hole.