Aerostatic bearing

US4735862A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Heinzl · Munich, DE
• Manfred Lehmann · Cologne, DE
• Hans Zehentbauer · Germering, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 1987
• Grant date: Apr 5, 1988
• Expiry date: May 5, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/249981
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A gas bearing is formed of a bearing member of sintered material. Sintered grains of a layer forming a desired bearing surface are deformed into the shape of a honeycomb in non-cutting fashion and are subsequently finely worked in cutting fashion, so that super-fine pores formed at corners of the honeycomb arise and which form nozzles.