Bearings – Rotary bearing – Fluid bearing
Patent
1999-08-25
2000-12-12
Hannon, Thomas R.
Bearings
Rotary bearing
Fluid bearing
F16C 3206
Patent
active
06158892&
ABSTRACT:
A compliant foil fluid film bearing having individual fluid film foils formed as arcuate segments by an inner circumferential slot, an outer circumferential slot and a transverse therebetween. The transverse slot may be radial, slightly displaced from radial or tapered with one radial edge.
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Brockett Theodore S.
Stewart Matthew J.
Weissert Dennis H.
Capstone Turbine Corporation
Hannon Thomas R.
Miller Albert J.
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