A thrust bearing wear pad includes a rigid support plate adapted to be mounted on a collar and under a thrust flange in a hydro power turbine system. Multiple lignum vitae wood blocks are fixed to the top of the support plate and act as a wear surface on the wear pad.

A thrust bearing wear pad includes a rigid support plate adapted to be mounted on a collar and under a thrust flange in a hydro power turbine system. Multiple lignum vitae wood blocks are fixed to the top of the support plate and act as a wear surface on the wear pad.

An improved thrust bearing for a turbocharger includes a first bearing surface, a second bearing surface, an internal passageway, a primary pad, and a plurality of secondary pads. The internal passageway fluidly connects the first and second bearing surfaces. The primary pad may be defined on the first bearing surface. The primary pad further defines a first aperture in fluid communication with the internal passageway and an oil feed defined in a turbocharger housing. The plurality of secondary pads may also be defined on the first bearing surface. Each secondary pad in the plurality of secondary pads may include a secondary surface area which is smaller than the primary surface area of the primary pad.

A ball-socket type tilting pad journal bearing configured to reduce friction between a tilting pad and a pivot includes a housing body, a plurality of tilting pads disposed inside the housing body, and a plurality of pivots fixed on an inner surface of the housing body. An oil collection unit for collecting oil is provided in at least one of an outer circumferential surface of each of the pivots and a socket of each of the tilting pads.

The present invention relates to a bearing device (61) provided with: a plurality of bearing pads (72) arranged between the outer peripheral surface of a turbine rotor (30) and the inner peripheral surface of a bearing housing (71) so as to be separated from each other in the circumferential direction of the rotor (30), the bearing housing (71) externally surrounding the rotor (30), the bearing pads (72) being supported on the inner peripheral surface of the bearing housing (71) and rotatably supporting the rotor (30); and a thermometer (75) provided to at least one of the plurality of bearing pads (72). The thermometer-equipped bearing pad (73) provided with the thermometer (75) has: a pad body (90) disposed facing the outer peripheral surface of the rotor (30); and a pair of pad shoulders (91) having different shapes and protruding from the pad body (90) to both sides of the bearing housing (71) in the direction of the center axis (O1) thereof. The bearing housing (71) has a pair of housing shoulders (78) having a shape corresponding to that of the pair of pad shoulders (91).

A journal bearing includes an oil supply nozzle, having an oil distribution part which extends in an axial direction of the rotation shaft and supplies lubricating oil, and a pad, provided at the rear side of the oil supply nozzle, in a rotational direction of the rotation shaft and supporting the rotation shaft rotatably. The inner periphery face of the pad, which opposes the outer periphery face of the rotation shaft, has an opening side face, in which the radial direction spacing between the inner periphery face and the outer periphery face of the rotation shaft becomes smaller, from the front end face of the pad, located at the front side in the rotational direction of the rotation shaft, toward the rear side in the rotational direction, and between the oil distribution part and the pad, the journal bearing has a bubble discharge path which discharges air bubbles.

A turbocharger includes a turbine wheel, a compressor wheel, a shaft coupled to the turbine wheel and the compressor wheel, and a thrust bearing. The thrust bearing includes a loaded side and an unloaded side. The loaded side bears a majority of axial loading caused by force imbalances between the turbine wheel and the compressor wheel during engine startup. The thrust bearing restricts oil flow to the unloaded side as compared to the loaded side during engine startup.

The present disclosure is directed to a bearing assembly for a gas turbine engine. The bearing assembly includes a bearing housing and a bearing pad for supporting a rotary component of the gas turbine engine. The bearing pad includes at least one gas inlet and a plurality of gas outlets configured on an inner surface thereof. The gas inlet is in fluid communication with the plurality of gas outlets via a gas distribution labyrinth. Further, the gas distribution labyrinth includes a plurality of passageways configured to evenly distribute pressurized gas entering the gas inlet to an interface between the inner surface of the bearing pad and an outer diameter of the rotary component.

The present invention relates to a bearing element suitable for supporting a grinding disk in a roller mill, comprising a plate-like or disk-shaped base element, an annular disk and a spacer element, wherein the annular disk is disposed substantially parallel to the base element and at a distance from the base element, and is connected at its bottom using an annular spacer element with the base element, and the annular disk has means on its upper side for receiving the axial bearing segments, whereby the spacer element is designed as an annular strip extending in the axial direction and has a plurality of spaced-apart arches in the circumferential direction, whose openings point towards the base element.

A bearing pad that supports a rotating shaft rotating about an axis includes: a pad body having a hollow portion formed therein, a lubricating oil supply path for supplying a lubricating oil to the hollow portion, and a lubricating oil discharge path for discharging the lubricating oil to an outside from the hollow portion; and a support structure that is packed into the hollow portion and radially connects inner wall surfaces forming the hollow portion while including a space. The hollow portion is formed in a region shifted to a forward side in a rotation direction of the rotating shaft in the pad body.