properties and processability compared with Turbocharger annular seal Fluid bearin seal and support

typical gaskets that are used in layer-built fuel gland structure for 3 isk drive
cells. The gasket is made of liquid rubber. Liquid Assignee: Honeywell InternationaI Inc, USA
perfluoro rubber and liquid silicone rubber is Lubricating oil leakage in a turbocharger hrignee: International Business Machines
preferably used for its construction. The gasket is reduced through the use of a gland seal having Carp, USA
can be made using an injection moulding multiple channels in the gland face. These are A bearing structure for a spindle motor for a
process. formed by ribs extending radially in a spiral (or computer magnetic storage system, or disk
Patent number: US 6337120 herringbone pattern) for enhanced maximum drive, is disclosed. The structure provides a
Inventors: Y. Sasaki, K. Senda, 0. Nagai, pumping effect and minimized failures caused fluid bearing seal and support structure that
S. Wakamatsu, 0. Ando, T Fujimoto by hoop stress. simultaneously addresses the problems of oil
Publication date: 8 January 2002 Patent number: US 6338614 leakage, maintaining the bearing integrity
Inventor: G.D. LaRue under shock, reducing oil evaporation and
Spin welded fluid connector Publication date: 15 January 2002 minimizing distortion of the active bearing
Applicant: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc, surface.
USA Mechanical seal Rotary spindle motors that use fluid
A joint between a fluid connector body and Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg, USA bearings to support the rotary member,
a metal tube is detailed. It carries a plastic The subject of this patent is a mechanical seal, rather than traditional ball bearings,
outer layer that is formed by spin welding. A including a slide ring and a counter-ring that typically include a shaft that has at least one
portion of the connector body which is are axially preloaded against each other along axial thrust plate and a hub (which may be a
configured to receive the tube defines an sealing surfaces through the application of rotary hub), a sleeve portion that generally
end surface that engages the outer plastic spring tension. These surfaces contact each encloses the shaft, and thrust plate - thus
surface of the mating tube to create a other in a manner that permits the sealing forming a journal bearing that contains
circumferentially continuous seal between surfaces to rotate relative to each other. The the bearing fluid. The fluid will form
the fluid passageway in the connector body slide ring and a housing, which is arranged in a capillary seals at one or more ends of
and the outside environment. A radially fixed (but rotatable) manner, relative to the the shaft that are exposed to ambient air
inward extending flange in the connector slide ring, are each allocated to one end face of pressure.
body extends into the interior passage at a a bellows which is extending in the axial The problem with such a construction
position spaced from an end opening in the direction. One of the end faces of the is that under certain conditions the capillary
connector body that receives the metal tube. bellows is allocated (with force-locking and/ seal may break down and fluid may leak
The flange acts as an insertion limiter for the or form-locking) to the slide ring, and the from the bearing. Disruption of the seal
metal tube. other end face of bellows is allocated (again may be caused by shock or vibration. Under
Patent number: WO 02102978 with force-locking and/or form-locking) to certain conditions the rotating portion of
Inventor: D. Stieler, CT. Maxwell housing. the bearing may be displaced along the axis
Publication date: 10 January 2002 Patent number: US 6338489 of the shaft. Leakage may also occur when
Inventor: K. Nakano there are inaccuracies in the fabrication of
Reducing leakage in mechanical Publication dzte: 15 January 2002 the patterned grooves used by the thrust
seals plate’s upper and lower surfaces to maintain
Applicant: Northeast Equipment Inc (Delta Synthetic gasket material a desired net pressure gradient. To overcome
Mechanical Seals), USA Assignee: US Synthetic Corp, USA certain limitations, this invention aims to
To reduce leakage in a mechanical seal, a A synthetic gasket material and the method improve the bearing structure for a spindle
blocking agent may be introduced; the seal for producing such material is described. This motor.
ring may be attached to a gasket; the seal ring material has been specifically developed for Figure 1 illustrates an exploded view of a
may be integrally formed with the gasket; use in high-pressure, high-temperature magnetic storage system (100). It includes a
and/or the seal may be provided with an presses. It is made from a compacted, housing (112) and cover (114) which, after
access window to allow adjustment of the seal granulated and dried mixture of talc, garnet assembly, is mounted within a frame (116).
ring, seal ring joint, gasket, and/or seal ring- and sodium silicate. This composition Mounted within the housing is
gasket mating surface without removing the provides an alternative to the use of natural a spindle shaft (122), and attached to
seal from the shaft. The blocking agent may pyrophyllite as the material for gasket this are a number of magnetic storage
be introduced into a fluid, contacting a components, thereby reducing the cost of the disks (124). The disks rotate on the shaft
mechanical split seal, or is present in the seal materials. This composition can be pressed to which is powered by a motor (not shown).
in tablet form and released by contact of the a net or near net geometry which generate less Data are written on or read from the disks by
tablet with the fluid. The blocking agent waste. Furthermore, it provides more heads or magnetic transducers (not shown)
migrates through the seal and lodges inside, or consistency for the gasket components. It also which are supported by sliders (126).
plugs, leakage paths such as the mating points offers improved thermal insulation properties, Figure 2 illustrates the configuration of
of the split surfaces of the seal face segments, which leads to lower power consumption used a fluid bearing seal (200) for a spindle motor.
and the joints of the seal rings and gaskets, in the high-pressure, high-temperature Hydrodynamic pressure is generated at
reducing further fluid leakage. presses. the axial bearing (2 10) and the axial bearing plate
Patent number: WO 02102972 Patent number: US 6338754 (214) when the bearing surfaces
Inventor: CC. Bjornson Znventors: R.S. Cannon, K.G. Graham (216 & 2 18) are rotating with respect to each
Publication date: 10 January 2002 Publication date: 15 January 2002 other.

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