This paper studies the static characteristics of the hydrostatic conical and cylindrical bearings, which use capillary and single-action membrane restrictors to compensate the working pressures of recesses. The flow resistance network method is applied to analyze the influences of the design parameters including the number of recesses, membrane restriction, membrane compliance, length-diameter ratio, half of cone-angle, circumferential land width ratio, and axial land width ratio to the load capacity and static stiffness of bearing.