TURBOCOMPRESSOR Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: power engineering; gas turbines and gas-turbine engines, various power-generating machines. SUBSTANCE: turbocompressor has case, single-disk hollow rotor with blades, bearing assembly, and shaft. Rotor hollow accommodates bearing assembly with sleeve bearing. Inner surface of rotor functions as one of bearing sliding surfaces and shaft surface, as other one; shaft is fixed in position within case. EFFECT: improved economic efficiency of internal-combustion engines due to their supercharging; improved design of microturbine. 1 dwg