摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tilting pad bearing device capable of floating a rotary shaft with a small supply oil pressure.SOLUTION: The tilting pad bearing device includes a plurality of bearing pads disposed around a rotary shaft and rotatably supporting the rotary shaft, a supporting member interposed between the plurality of bearing pads and a bearing housing supporting the bearing pads, and oscillatably supporting each of the bearing pads, and an oil supply mechanism constituted to supply lubricating oil to at least one of oil grooves formed in bearing surfaces of one or more bearing pads among the plurality of bearing pads. At least one oil groove is formed inside and outside a contact area of the bearing surface, the contact area coming in contact with an outer peripheral face of the rotary shaft in stop of the rotary shaft. |