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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2005
Kjell Klintenstedt, Saltsjö-Boo, SE;
Kjell Klintenstedt, Saltsjö-Boo, SE;
Alfa Laval Corporate AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
A bearing device in which an inner ring is sealed from an outer ring by seals and together with the outer ring forms a closed bearing unit with a built-in circulation circuit for a lubricating oil mist. Rolling elements and rolling tracks disposed in the circulation circuit and lubricated by the oil mist. Means are adapted to forming an oil mist of lubricating oil from a reservoir, and means are adapted to causing the oil mist to flow in the circulation circuit. The invention also relates to an application of the bearing device for rotatably supporting a rotor in a centrifugal separator and to a method for supporting a centrifugal separator rotor for rotation about an axis of rotation.