Only an outer spacer (33) is cooled by an outer spacer cooling structure, thereby causing a temperature difference between an inner spacer (32) and the outer spacer (33). According to this temperature difference, an inner ring (37) of a bearing (31) is displaced relatively to an outer ring (38) in a direction in which a preload inside the bearing (31) decreases.

The invention relates to a shaft bearing for mounting a spinning rotor of a rotor spinning machine, with a double-row rolling bearing, which comprises two rolling-body rows that roll on their inner side without an inner ring, on two inner bearing races arranged at a distance from one another on a rotor shaft, and on their outer side on outer bearing races of two separate outer rings. According to the invention, the outer rings are mounted resiliently in a shaft bearing housing so as to provide a shaft bearing for mounting a spinning rotor of a rotor spinning machine with high reliability, even at rotational speeds of more than 110,000 revolutions per minute, which shaft bearing also allows trouble-free operation of a rotor spinning machine equipped with the shaft bearing.

Provided is an air foil thrust bearing including a bump foil plate in which a plurality of bump foils are formed and an arrest ring protrudes in a thickness direction; and a top foil plate in which a plurality of top foils are formed, a through-hole penetrating through both sides of a second plate is formed in a position corresponding to the arrest ring, the top foil plate being stacked on the bump foil plate, wherein the arrest ring is inserted into and penetrates through the through-hole, the arrest ring is bent toward the top foil plate so that the second plate is caught in the arrest ring, and a time for a thrust runner to rise from the top foil at an early stage of starting a rotor as the arrest ring is spaced apart from the second plate.

A method for machining ribs or grooves on a workpiece such as a shaft or an air or gas axial bearing intended to be rotated about a longitudinal axis of a centrifugal compressor. All of the ribs or grooves are obtained at once by the machining tool on a workpiece portion driven such that it rotates, by moving the workpiece or the tool holder in a longitudinal machining direction, the machining tool moving back and forth with a machining position in contact with the workpiece and a position wherein it is not in contact with the workpiece from the start to the end of the workpiece portion. The back-and-forth movements of the machining tool are synchronised with the sinusoidal program set up in the machining unit, as well as with the desired, programmed arrangement of the ribs or grooves to be produced on the workpiece portion.

A bearing assembly comprises an outer ring and an inner ring radially inward of the outer ring and cooperating therewith to form a roller volume. The inner ring has opposed faces including slots extending axially and circumferentially spaced. The slots extends axially to openings into the opposed axial faces and communicate with partial circumferential slots in the inner circumferential surface and in fluid communication with the roller volume through passages in the inner ring. A first plurality of the axial slots has a radial depth increasing from a first of the axial faces to the respective partial circumferential slot. A second plurality of the axial slots has a radial depth increasing from the second of the axial faces to the respective partial circumferential slot. Bearing elements are in the roller volume rollingly disposed against the outer ring and the inner ring.

A bearing assembly comprises ring assemblies cooperating to form a roller volume. A single circumferential slot is in an inner circumferential surface of the inner ring assembly and in fluid communication with the roller volume through central passages in the inner ring assembly. The proximal inner ring includes proximal axial slots extending axially along a proximal portion of the inner circumferential surface, a first plurality of the proximal axial slots being in fluid communication with the roller volume, a second plurality of the proximal axial slots not in fluid communication with the roller volume. The distal inner ring includes distal axial slots extending axially along a distal portion of the inner circumferential surface from the circumferential slot to respective distal passages in fluid communication with the roller volume, wherein a circumferential spacing between adjacent proximal axial slots is equivalent to a circumferential spacing between adjacent distal axial slots.

A sliding surface of a second sliding component is provided with a plurality of second positive pressure generation grooves communicating with a leakage side space, extending in a relative rotation direction of the second sliding component, and having closed terminating end portions, a sliding surface of a first sliding component is provided with a plurality of first positive pressure generation grooves communicating with the leakage side space, extending in a relative rotation direction of the second sliding component, and having closed terminating end portions, and the sliding surface and the sliding surface slide on each other at least in such a manner that the first positive pressure generation grooves and the second positive pressure generation grooves overlap and intersect with each other.

A power consumption control device includes: a voltage detection circuit configured to detect whether an input power supply of a magnetic levitation system to be controlled is turned off; and a comparison unit configured to detect an operating parameter of a motor of the magnetic levitation system during an operation of the motor as a generator, and compare the operating parameter with a set parameter to obtain a comparison result; a motor controller of the magnetic levitation system controls the motor of the magnetic levitation system to operate as the generator in a case that the input power supply is turned off, a bearing controller of the magnetic levitation system adjusts a magnitude of a bearing bias current of the magnetic levitation system according to the comparison result, to control a power consumption of a magnetic levitation bearing of the magnetic levitation system within a set range.

A motor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a rotary shaft; a rotor mounted on the rotary shaft; a stator surrounding an outer periphery of the rotor; an impeller mounted on the rotary shaft to be spaced apart from the rotor; a bearing housing positioned between the impeller and the rotor and formed with a through-hole through which the rotary shaft passes; and a gas bearing disposed in the bearing housing, wherein a thickness of the gas bearing is equal to or greater than 50% of a gap between an inner surface of the bearing housing and an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft and is equal to or less than 0.3 mm.

A fluid bearing for use in turbomachinery including at least one bearing pad configured to be arranged about a rotating member of the turbomachinery. Each bearing pad includes an internal cooling opening defined in the bearing pad and an internal channel network defined in the bearing pad with at least one channel node in fluid communication with the internal cooling opening and at least two passageways in fluid communication with and extending from the channel node through the bearing pad. At least one of the passageways extends to an exterior surface of the bearing pad to define at least one cooling discharge opening.