Patent ID: 9151186
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: F01L,F01M

Abstract:
1. In combination: a tube shaft extending along an axis, whereby an oil-laden gas stream flows in one axial direction inside the tube shaft, the tube shaft being formed with a radially throughgoing inner oil-discharge port and, axially downstream therefrom, with a radially throughgoing inner gas-discharge port; a bearing supporting the tube shaft for rotation about the axis and formed with axially spaced and radially throughgoing outer oil-discharge and gas-discharge ports radially respectively alignable with the inner oil-discharge and gas-discharge ports; and an oil separator inside the tube shaft axially between the inner oil-discharge and the gas-discharge ports and oriented to deflect oil particles from the stream radially outward such that the oil flows radially outward through the inner and outer oil-discharge ports and the gas stream can flow downstream past the separator and radially outward through the inner and outer gas-discharge ports.