A turbocharger is provided including a turbine, a compressor and a bearing housing. A shaft is rotatably disposed within the bearing housing and extends into the turbine and the compressor. A bearing arrangement is disposed between the shaft and the bearing. The bearing arrangement includes a roller bearing formed between an outer bearing race element disposed in the bearing bore, and an inner bearing race element disposed in the outer bearing race element. A bearing retainer connected between the bearing housing and the compressor. An end portion of the bearing inner race element includes an integral oil slinger comprising a radially outward extending portion that slopes away from the shaft.

A Wind turbine (100) with a rotor bearing (1) is proposed, wherein drainage chambers (7) on both sides of the rotor bearing (1) are connected to each other via a plurality of channels (5) traversing an outer ring (2) of the rotor bearing (1), which are distributed over the circumference of the outer ring (2) and that an axis (A) of the rotor bearing (1) is arranged at an angle in the range of 2° to 10° to the horizontal line (H) for promoting a flow of leakage oil through the channels (5).

An oil chamber wall arrangement is described as comprising: a chamber wall surrounding a rotor; a plurality of apertures defining through-holes for a flow of oil through the chamber wall, the apertures being defined by a pair of axially separated opposing walls and a pair of circumferentially opposing walls wherein the circumferentially opposing walls are separated by a midline which is radial to the rotational axis of the rotor and at least one of the pair of circumferentially opposing walls is not parallel to the radial midline.

A rotating electrical machine includes an outer housing; a drive shaft rotatably mounted within the outer housing; a bearing supporting the drive shaft relative to the outer housing, wherein the outer housing includes a support surface confronting the bearing and the bearing includes a bearing surface confronting the support surface, and further wherein a region defined between the support surface and the bearing surface has a lubrication layer; and a lubrication flow path configured to direct a lubricant to the bearing, wherein the lubrication flow path is in fluid communication with the region between the support surface and the bearing surface so as to replenish the lubrication layer. A method of lubricating a bearing for a rotating electrical machine is also disclosed. The rotating electrical machine may be a generator for a wind turbine.

A bearing structure of a turbocharger includes a rotor shaft, a ball bearing, and a housing. An inner ring of the ball bearing has the rotor shaft inserted therein. The oil film damper is formed between the inner ring and an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft. The inner ring rotates with rotation of the rotor shaft via the oil film damper. An oil discharge path for scattering oil discharged from the oil film damper radially outside, is provided at least either on one end surface of the inner ring in an axial direction or on an opposing surface opposed to the inner ring, of a collar. The oil discharge path is formed of a groove that is arranged in a manner to be gradually apart from the oil film damper in the axial direction as going radially outside.

A lubricating assembly that is configured as part of a lubricating system that flings, or slings, fluid lubricants about the interior of rotating machinery. In one embodiment, the lubricating assembly includes a bearing clamp member with a clamp body having an outer peripheral edge that has an annular profile that partially circumscribes a longitudinal axis. The annular profile can have first annular section with a first clamp surface and a second clamp surface disposed in opposing relation about a centerline and spaced apart from one another to form a first annular gap. At the bottom of the clamp body, the bearing clamp member is configured with a peripheral wall that bounds a reservoir region. This configuration allows the fluid lubricants to gravity feed through the first annular gap into the reservoir region to retain a volume of the captured lubricant to lubricate moving parts of the lubricating system.

A bearing structure of a turbocharger includes a rotor shaft, two angular ball bearings, a retainer, a housing, and an oil film damper. Each of the angular ball bearings includes an inner ring and an outer ring that are supported in relatively rotatable manner. The rotor shaft is inserted into the inner ring. The retainer holds the outer ring. The housing houses therein the rotor shaft, the angular ball bearings, and the retainer to constitute a bearing housing. The oil film damper is formed of oil in a film state and is interposed between the inner ring and an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft. The inner ring is configured to rotate with rotation of the rotor shaft via the oil film damper.

Oil slinger systems include a seal runner comprising an annular radial member having a radius (R) and an outer axially extending member having an axial length (L), wherein a proximal surface of the outer axially extending member comprising a plurality of helical grooves. Methods of radial convective cooling include pumping a cooling liquid through the oil slinger system and convectively cooling the oil slinger.

A vacuum pump comprises: a bearing device; and an exhaust function including a rotary body supported by the bearing device and configured to exhaust gas. The bearing device includes a bearing having an outer ring, an inner ring, and a rolling body, a lubricant storage configured to store lubricant, a lubricant supply structure configured to supply, to the bearing, the lubricant stored in the lubricant storage, a holding member configured to hold the bearing, and a porous body disposed outside the outer ring of the bearing and filled with the lubricant supplied from the lubricant supply structure to the bearing.

A turbine generator comprises an elongate member, a support structure, a turbine wheel and an electrical generator. The support structure comprises a shaft and supports the elongate member for rotation about a rotation axis. The turbine wheel attached to the elongate member. The electrical generator comprises a rotor and a stator, the rotor being attached to the elongate member and the stator being arranged around the elongate member. The elongate member is provided with a bore and the shaft extends through an end of the elongate member into the bore so as to support it for rotation about the rotation axis.