Provided is a mechanical seal that eliminates the need to provide an additional bearing, enables size reduction and cost reduction, and can provide stable performance as a bearing. A stationary-side seal ring 20 is disposed on the high-pressure fluid side of a rotating-side seal ring 21, and fixed to a housing 1 and has sliding surfaces 20a, 20c, and 20d supporting a rotating shaft 2 in both a radial direction and a thrust direction. The rotating-side seal ring 21 is axially movably fitted by an urging means 25 fitted on the rotating shaft 2. The rotating shaft 2 has an outer peripheral surface 2a a contacting and sliding on the radial sliding surface 20a of the stationary-side seal ring 20 to be supported radially. Thrust rings 10a and 10b are provided between the stationary-side seal ring 20 and the rotating shaft 2, for supporting the rotating shaft 2 in thrust directions.

A compressor includes a housing, a shaft that is rotated relative to the housing to compress a working fluid, and a foil bearing that supports the shaft. The foil bearing includes a top foil. The foil bearing is a foil gas bearing that is backed up by a ball bearing, or a mesh foil bearing with an actuator to compress a wire mesh dampener. A heat transfer circuit includes a compressor and a working fluid. The compressor includes a shaft that is rotated to compress the working fluid, and a foil bearing for supporting the shaft as it rotates.

The present invention relates to a high pressure nozzle (1), comprising a longitudinal housing (11, 12), with an internal channel (15) therein, a nozzle head support shaft (20), which is rotatably arranged partially in the internal channel (15), a rotary nozzle head (30), which is attached to the nozzle head support shaft (20) and arranged outside the housing (11, 12), and an axial bearing seat (40), which is located within the housing (11, 12) and which comprises an axial bearing surface (41) that faces an end surface (22) of he nozzle head support shaft (20). The axial bearing surface (41) and the support shaft end surface (22), during use, cooperate to form an axial bearing for the nozzle head support shaft (20) and the axial bearing seat (40) comprises an axial bore (42) in the axial bearing surface that is aligned concentrically with an axis of rotation of the nozzle.

A bearing device includes a rotary part which is configured to be rotatable about a rotational axis and has a rotary surface intersecting the rotational axis, and a stationary part which has a stationary surface facing the rotary surface. One of the rotary surface or the stationary surface includes a bearing surface part for forming a bearing oil film. The rotary surface includes a first inner circumferential region, and a first outer circumferential region facing the stationary surface on a radially outer side of the bearing surface part and having higher oleophobicity than the first inner circumferential region.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a slide component that can exhibit sealing performance and lubricity regardless of rotating direction. A pair of slide components 4, 7 that slide relative to each other have sliding faces S that slide relative to each other, and a sealed fluid-side periphery 16 and a leakage-side periphery 15. The sliding face S of at least one slide component 4 of the pair of slide components 4, 7 includes: a fluid introduction groove 13 in communication with the sealed fluid-side periphery 16; a first pressure generation mechanism 12 of which one end is in communication with the fluid introduction groove 13 and the other end is surrounded by a land portion R1; and a second pressure generation mechanism 11 of which one end is in communication with the leakage-side periphery 15 and the other end is surrounded by an annular land portion R2. The fluid introduction groove 13 and the other end 12e of the first pressure generation mechanism 12 include overlapping portions Lp overlapping circumferentially.

A method for manufacturing a thrust washer is provided in which a phenolic resin layer is bonded directly to a bearing surface of the base material using two presses at an elevated temperature and pressure.

A maintenance-free bearing system having self-lubricating features, seals, grooves and slots for use in a cushion hitch assembly for a hitch pull scraper vehicle. An interconnected bearing linkage system having two or more horizontal two-axis combined journal and thrust bearings with self-lubricating liners therein, two or more vertical single-axis sleeve bearings with self-lubricating liners therein and one or more vertical thrust bearing with self-lubricating liners therein, that cooperate with one another to accommodate vertical and horizontal angular movement relative to one another. The vertical thrust bearings incorporate an outer seal assembly and/or an inner seal assembly with a tapered configuration that improves retention of the seal assembly during rotation.

Provided is a sliding component capable of reliably generating a negative pressure in a shallow groove regardless of a relative rotation speed of the other sliding component. In an annular sliding component disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotating machine and sliding relative to the other sliding component, a sliding surface of the sliding component is provided with a shallow groove extending in a circumferential direction and generating a negative pressure and a deep groove collecting a sealing target fluid in the shallow groove and deeper than the shallow groove. The shallow groove has a terminating end portion in which a cross-sectional are of a flow path thereof becomes narrow toward the deep groove.

In an annular sliding component disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotating machine and sliding relative to an opposed sliding component, a sliding surface is provided with a plurality of first dynamic pressure generation grooves disposed on a leakage side, having terminating ends, and generating a positive pressure and a plurality of second dynamic pressure generation grooves disposed on a sealing target fluid side, having terminating ends, and generating a positive pressure and a depth of the second dynamic pressure generation groove is shallower than a depth of the first dynamic pressure generation groove.

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.