Turbo machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10066634-B2
Application number	US-201514877772-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2015
Priority date	Dec 19, 2014
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

A turbo machine includes a rotation shaft that comprises a first taper portion and a first cylinder portion, the first taper portion decreasing in diameter toward one end of the rotation shaft, the first cylinder portion being constant in diameter in an axial direction of the rotation shaft; a first impeller that is fixed to the rotation shaft and that is used for compressing or expanding working fluid; a first bearing that rotatably supports the first taper portion and the first cylinder portion; and a second bearing that is positioned on an opposite side of the first impeller from the first bearing in the axial direction of the rotation shaft and that supports the rotation shaft both in the axial direction and a radial direction of the rotation shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A turbo machine comprising:
a rotation shaft that comprises a first taper portion and a first cylinder portion, the first taper portion decreasing in diameter toward one end of the rotation shaft, the first cylinder portion being constant in diameter in an axial direction of the rotation shaft;
a first impeller that is fixed to the rotation shaft and that is used for compressing or expanding working fluid;
a first bearing that rotatably supports the first taper portion and the first cylinder portion; and
a second bearing that is positioned on an opposite side of the first impeller from the first bearing in the axial direction of the rotation shaft and that supports the rotation shaft both in the axial direction and a radial direction of the rotation shaft,
wherein the rotation shaft further comprises:
a second taper portion that is located on the opposite side of the first impeller from the first bearing in the axial direction of the rotation shaft and that decreases in diameter toward the other end of the rotation shaft, and
a second cylinder portion that is constant in diameter,
a second bearing rotatably supports the second taper portion and the second cylinder portion on the opposite side of the first impeller from the first bearing, and the turbo machine satisfies a formula (B):
C 1+ C 2> C 3+ C 4  (B),

wherein, C1 is an average clearance between the first taper portion and the first bearing in a direction perpendicular to an outer surface of the first taper portion, C2 is an average clearance between the second taper portion and the second bearing in a direction perpendicular to an outer surface of the second taper portion, C3 is an average clearance between the first cylinder portion and the first bearing in a direction perpendicular to an outer surface of the first cylinder portion, and C4 is an average clearance between the second cylinder portion and the second bearing in a direction perpendicular to an outer surface of the second cylinder portion.

2. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a motor that is disposed on the rotation shaft between the first bearing and the second bearing and that is used for rotating the rotation shaft; and
a second impeller that is fixed to the rotation shaft, wherein
with regard to the axial direction of the rotation shaft, the first bearing, the first impeller, the motor, the second impeller, and the second bearing are arranged in this order.

3. The turbo machine according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a first casing that has an inner surface which is disposed around a low-pressure surface of the first impeller, and
a second casing that has an inner surface which is disposed around a low-pressure surface of the second impeller, wherein
the turbo machine satisfies formulas (C) and (D):
C 5> C 1+ C 2  (C)

C 6> C 1+ C 3  (D)

wherein, C5 is a minimum clearance between the inner surface of the first casing and the first impeller in the axial direction, C6 is a minimum clearance between the inner surface of the second casing and the second impeller in the axial direction.

4. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the rotation shaft further comprises:
a first main lubricant supply hole that extends from an inlet located at the one end of the rotation shaft in the axial direction of the rotation shaft; and
a first backward sub lubricant supply hole that diverges from the first main lubricant supply hole and that extends to a first backward outlet in the radial direction of the rotation shaft, the first backward outlet being open to a space that is located between the first cylinder portion and the first bearing.

5. The turbo machine according to claim 4 , wherein
the first backward sub lubricant supply hole has a diameter which is smaller than that of the first main lubricant supply hole.

6. The turbo machine according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a first lubricant case that is connected to the first bearing and that has a space for storing lubricant which is supplied to the first bearing.

7. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the rotation shaft further comprises:
a first main lubricant supply hole that extends from an inlet located at the one end of the rotation shaft in the axial direction of the rotation shaft; and
a first forward sub lubricant supply hole that diverges from the first main lubricant supply hole and that extends to a first forward outlet in the radial direction of the rotation shaft, the first forward outlet being open to a space that is located between the first taper portion and the first bearing.

8. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the rotation shaft further comprises:
a first main lubricant supply hole that extends from an inlet located at the one end of the rotation shaft in the axial direction of the rotation shaft;
a first backward sub lubricant supply hole that diverges from the first main lubricant supply hole and that extends to a first backward outlet in the radial direction of the rotation shaft, the first backward outlet being open to a space that is located between the first cylinder portion and the first bearing; and
a first forward sub lubricant supply hole that diverges from the first main lubricant supply hole and that extends to a first forward outlet in the radial direction of the rotation shaft, the first forward outlet being open to a space that is located between the first taper portion and the first bearing.

9. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the working fluid is used as lubricant that is supplied to the first bearing or the second bearing.

10. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the size of the first bearing is the same as that of the second bearing, and the material of the first bearing is the same as that of the second bearing.

11. The turbo machine according to claim 1 , wherein the working fluid has a negative saturated vapor pressure at a temperature in a range of 20° C.±15° C., inclusive.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ogata Takeshi
• Shoyama Tadayoshi
• Hiwata Akira
• Taguchi Hidetoshi
• Kouda Kazuyuki
• Hasegawa Hiroshi

Classifications

• F04D29/4206

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/051

  Axial thrust balancing · CPC title

• F04D29/063 Primary

  specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/056 Primary

  Bearings · CPC title

• F04D29/061

  especially adapted for liquid pumps · CPC title