Patent ID: 11933276
Assignee: RHEINISCH-WESTFäLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (RWTH) AACHEN
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  Y | IPC F

Claim 14:
15. A slide bearing for use between a stator through which extends a rotor formed with a pair of frustoconical bearing faces centered on a rotation axis of the rotor, the slide bearing comprising:
two annular arrays of elastically deformable mounting brackets fixed to the stator around the rotor and having legs angularly adjacent one another in a frustoconical array and having faces confronting the respective bearing faces of the rotor, and
respective slide-bearing pads fixed to the legs of the rotor and bearing elastically on the respective bearing faces, whereby tilting of the rotation axis in the stator elastically deforms some of the legs with the bearing pads remaining in surface contact with the respective bearing faces.