Dynamic pressure type fluid bearing device

Details Dynamic pressure type fluid bearing device Dynamic pressure type fluid bearing device

1989-08-14

1990-06-19

Hannon, Thomas R.

Bearings

Rotary bearing

Fluid bearing

350 67, 384107, 384111, 384113, F16C 3206

Patent

active

049348361

ABSTRACT:
A housing has a vertically extending cylindrical bore, with a radical bearing surface formed on the inner peripheral surface, and a thrust bearing surface formed on the inner bottom surface of the cylindrical bore. A shaft member which is supported rotatably in the cylindrical bore of the housing has a radial receiving surface and a thrust receiving surface respectively formed on the outer peripheral surface and the bottom surface. A dynamic pressure generating groove of a spiral shape is formed in at least one of the radial bearing surface and ther radial receiving surface. When the shaft member is rotated, a gas in the housing is sucked by the pumping action of the dynamic pressure generating groove and flows into a pressure chamber between the thrust bearing surface and the thrust receiving surface through a radial space between the radial bearing surface and the radial receiving surface. The pressure in the pressure chamber maintains the shaft member in a floating position by a predetermined amount. The shaft member has a passage bore formed along a center axis line. The passage bore includes a restricted aperture of a smaller diameter which opens at the thrust receiving surface of the shaft member to thereby allow the gas in the pressure chamber to be exhausted into the housing through the passage bore.

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