The present application provides a journal bearing assembly for use with a rotor shaft of a turbine engine. The journal bearing assembly may include an outer shell, an internal oil feed port on a first side of the outer shell, an external oil feed port on a second side of the outer shell, and a connecting bore in communication with the internal oil feed port and the external oil feed port.

Provided is a bearing structure including: a shaft; a first opposed surface, which is formed on the shaft or a member mounted to the shaft; a first bearing portion, which is opposed to the first opposed surface from one end side of the shaft; a second opposed surface, which is formed on the shaft or the member mounted to the shaft, and is positioned on the one end side of the shaft with respect to the first opposed surface and the first bearing portion; and a second bearing portion, which is opposed to the second opposed surface from the one end side of the shaft.

A gas turbine engine comprises bearing(s). A structure supporting the bearing defines a bearing cavity surrounding the at least one bearing, an ambient chamber and an intermediate chamber having a portion between the bearing cavity and the ambient chamber, with at least one wall forming a passage from the bearing cavity to the ambient chamber and through the portion of the intermediate chamber. A tube is received in the passage and having a first end open to the bearing cavity and a second end open to the ambient chamber, the second end adapted to be connected to a conduit for fluid communication between the bearing cavity and the through the tube, wherein a portion of or near the first end of the tube is sealingly joined to the at least one wall, and the second end of the tube contacts the at least one wall and is free to move relative to the at least one wall.

An object is to provide a floating bush bearing device including a circumferential groove over the entire circumference of an outer peripheral surface of a floating bush while ensuring that a pressing force is applied by lubricant oil to the floating bush to reduce oscillation, as well as a turbocharger provided with the bearing device. A floating bush bearing device includes: a rotary shaft disposed rotatably inside a bearing hole of a casing; a floating bush surrounding the rotary shaft; an oil-feed hole of lubricant oil having an opening on an inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole; a plurality of communication holes formed on the floating bush, each extending between an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the floating bush, and disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction of the floating bush; and a circumferential groove formed on the outer peripheral surface of the floating bush or the inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole and extending over an entire circumference of the outer peripheral surface of the floating bush or the inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole, the circumferential groove passing through openings of the plurality of communication holes or facing the openings of the plurality of communication holes. The circumferential groove has a cross-sectional area which varies in accordance with a circumferential position.

An electrical submersible pump assembly includes a motor having a stator with a bore extending along a longitudinal axis. A shaft with axially spaced apart rotor sections extends longitudinally through the bore. At least one lubricant pump is mounted to the shaft within the bore for circulating motor lubricant within the bore. A bearing carrier has an inner diameter in sliding engagement with an outer diameter of the lubricant pump. An anti-rotation member on an outer diameter of the carrier is in engagement with the bore of the stator to prevent rotation of the carrier.

A lubricating oil passage portion that constitutes a cooling portion is exposed to the outside from a casing. Lubricating oil having absorbed heat of a thrust bearing portion and a journal bearing portion is cooled in the cooling portion, when the lubricating oil moves from an upper oil chamber to a lower oil chamber while circulating by use of gravity. Thus, the circulating lubricating oil prompts cooling of the heated thrust bearing portion and journal bearing portion. Additionally, the lubricating oil passage portion of the cooling portion is provided integrally with the casing, on the radially outer side of the casing.

A thrust bearing includes two physically separate one-piece segments. At least one segment has a wedge-shaped surface serving as a sliding surface. An alternative thrust bearing includes precisely one segment of a one-piece design. The segment is interrupted along its course around an axis of rotation of the thrust bearing. The segment has a wedge-shaped surface serving as a sliding surface.

A floating-bush bearing device (1) for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft (2), includes: a floating bush (3) having a cylindrical shape and including a bearing hole (33) into which the rotational shaft (2) is to be inserted; and a bearing housing (4) which rotatably houses the floating bush (3). At least one of an inner peripheral surface (31) of the floating bush (3), an outer peripheral surface (32) of the floating bush (3), or an inner peripheral surface (41) of the bearing housing (4) includes, in a cross section in an axial direction thereof, a plurality of land portions (311, 321, 411) having a true arc shape which is a part of a true circular shape, and a plurality of recess portions (312, 322, 412) being disposed at a position recessed from the land portions, the recess portions being configured such that a distance between the recess portions and a virtual true circular line (31a, 32a, 41a) passing through the land portions increases in a direction opposite from a rotational direction of the rotational shaft (2) from end portions (311b, 321b, 411b) of the land portions opposite from the rotational direction of the rotational shaft.

A bearing device for an exhaust gas turbocharger, comprising a first radial bearing and a second radial bearing, the radial bearings radially support a shaft with an axis of rotation of the exhaust gas turbocharger, and wherein a first outflow gap and a second outflow gap, respectively, are formed between the first radial bearing and a radially extending first supporting wall of the turbocharger, which faces a turbine wheel of the exhaust gas turbocharger for axially supporting the first radial bearing, and the second radial bearing and a radially extending second supporting wall of the turbocharger, which faces a compressor wheel of the exhaust gas turbocharger for axially supporting the second radial bearing. The first outflow gap and/or the second outflow gap is configured inclined or curved relative to the axis of rotation for the axial and simultaneously radial support and/or for the backup of the radial support.

A journal bearing includes: a carrier ring having a cylindrical shape: at least two bearing pads disposed on a radially inner side of the carrier ring and configured to support a rotor shaft; at least one oil-supply unit disposed on the radially inner side of the carrier ring, for supplying lubricant oil to a gap between the bearing pad and the rotor shaft; a pair of side plates disposed on both end portions of the carrier ring with respect to an axial direction, along an outer periphery of the rotor shaft; and at least one opening configured to bring a bearing interior space surrounded by the at least two bearing pads and the pair of side plates into communication with atmosphere, and discharge the lubricant oil to outside via the bearing interior space.