Patent ID: 9581043
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: F01D,F04D,F05D,F16C

Claim:
1. A turbocharger comprising: a turbocharger main body; a turbine shaft rotatably housed in the turbocharger main body, and provided with a turbine wheel at an end of the turbine shaft, and a compressor wheel at an opposite end of the turbine shaft; a thrust collar fixed to the turbine shaft; a thrust bearing having an opposed surface which is fixed to the turbocharger main body while being set opposite the thrust collar in an axial direction of the turbine shaft; and a supply oil passage provided in the turbocharger main body, and configured to supply a lubricant to the opposed surface of the thrust bearing, wherein the thrust bearing includes: the intervening portions are formed of a first intervening portion located under the insertion hole in a direction of gravity and at least one second intervening portion as the rest of the intervening portions, and the intervening surface of the first intervening portion at least partially has a surface being opposite the thrust collar and further away from the thrust collar than the intervening surfaces of the second intervening portions.