Patent ID: 8328426

Claim:
A lubricating arrangement for a bearing, comprising: a fixed shaft member fixedly affixed to a base member; a rotatable member having a central opening and rotatably supported by the fixed shaft member at the central opening, a radial bearing interface being defined between an outer circumferential surface of the fixed shaft member and an internal circumferential surface of the central opening; an oil nozzle provided on a member which is fixed relative to the fixed shaft member, and provided with a first orifice which is configured to feed lubricating oil to the radial bearing interface between the rotatable member and fixed shaft member; a first thrust member fixed relative to the fixed shaft member and abutting a first axial end surface of the rotatable member; and a first lubricating oil passage formed at least partly by the first thrust member and extending radially from an open outer end opening out to a peripheral part of the first thrust member to an open inner end communicating with the radial bearing interface, wherein the first orifice of the oil nozzle is directed to the open outer end of the first lubricating oil passage.