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Details

Inventors: Okano, Hiroshi; Yasuda, Yushiro;
Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota, JA)
Primary Examiner: Spar; Robert J.
Assistant Examiner: Beltran; Howard
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher

A dynamic pressure gas bearing device adapted to provide a floating support for a shaft rotating at a high speed and comprising a plurality of bearing pads each carried on a pivot and encircling the shaft. Each bearing pad comprises a relatively thin bearing shell having a part-cylindrical shape and a curved inner surface encircling the shaft and substantially complementary to the peripheral surface thereof, and a member made of an elastic material and associated with the bearing shell to substantially enclose the outer surface of the bearing shell and hold the bearing shell resiliently against the pivot.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
In combination with a gas bearing wherein a plurality of arcuately curved bearing pads are positioned one adjacent to another encircling a rotatable shaft in a circle of diameter greater than the diameter of said shaft to support said shaft in a floating fashion during rotation of said shaft, said bearing pads each being supported on a pivot adjustably secured to a bearing housing, the improvement wherein each of said bearing pads comprises: a relatively thin arcuately curved bearing shell having an inner surface facing the peripheral surface of said shaft in a manner substantially complementary to, but spaced from, said peripheral surface; and means for holding said bearing shell, said means being made of thin elastic material and extending over the outer surface of said bearing shell, said means being supported on said pivot and engaged with at least one pair of opposite edges of said bearing shell for resiliently supporting said bearing shell on said pivot.
2.
The invention as defined in claim 1 wherein said shell holder is substantially cross-shaped and has a pair of relatively wide arm portions extending in opposite directions from the central portion thereof and a pair of relatively narrow arm portions disposed at about right angles to said wide arm portions and extending in opposite directions from said central portion, each of said wide and narrow arm portions being formed at its free end with an inwardly bent portion engaging one edge of said bearing shell.
3.
The invention as defined in claim 2 wherein each of said narrow arm portions of said shell holder is formed with a fold contacting the outer surface of said bearing shell, while one of said wide arm portions is in contact with the outer surface of said bearing shell.
4.
The invention as defined in claim 2 wherein said bearing shell is formed with a cut on each of a pair of opposite edges thereof, and each of said inwardly bent portions of said wide arm portions is engaged with one of said cuts

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