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Article: German Inventors Develop Turbomachine with Rotor Shaft
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 14, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Alfred Sopper of Kerpen, Germany, and Martin Leonhard of Bruhl, Germany, have developed a turbomachine with a rotor shaft that is mounted in a bearing arrangement containing a hydrodynamic axial bearing and a rotor disposed on the rotor shaft.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrostatic axial bearing is additionally provided in the immediate vicinity of the hydrodynamic axial bearing, the hydrostatic axial bearing absorbing the axial force acting on the rotor shaft at rest, completely or at least for the most part, relieving stress on the hydrodynamic axial bearing during start-up processes of the rotor shaft, and being shut off during ...