Speed reduction apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10221935-B2
Application number	US-201615087676-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2016
Priority date	Mar 31, 2015
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed is a speed reduction apparatus including: a casing that accommodates a speed reduction mechanism; an input shaft including a protruding portion protruding from the casing to the outside; a fan provided on the protruding portion of the input shaft; and a fan hood that covers the fan. The fan hood includes a cylindrical portion, and a trumpet-like portion that is connected to the cylindrical portion, and includes an inner surface inclined to be separated away from the input shaft toward a load side. A flow straightening fin is provided on an inner surface of the trumpet-like portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A speed reduction apparatus comprising:
a casing that accommodates a speed reduction mechanism;
an input shaft including a protruding portion protruding from the casing to the outside;
a fan provided on the protruding portion of the input shaft; and
a fan hood that covers the fan,
wherein the fan hood includes a cylindrical portion, and a trumpet-like portion that is connected to the cylindrical portion, and includes a plurality of inner surfaces inclined to be separated away from the input shaft toward a load side, and at least one of a plurality of flow straightening fins is provided on at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces of the trumpet-like portion,
wherein the speed reduction apparatus is used in a state where a lower surface of the casing is mounted on a floor or the like,
wherein the trumpet-like portion includes a plurality of diameter increasing portions having at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces inclined to be separated away from the input shaft toward the load side, and a pair of flat portions having at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces parallel to the input shaft,
wherein the trumpet-like portion includes a pair of the diameter increasing portions respectively provided on an upper surface side and a lower surface side of the casing,
wherein the trumpet-like portion pair of flat portions are provided to connect the diameter increasing portions on the upper surface side to the diameter increasing portion on the lower surface side, and
wherein the plurality of flow straightening fins are provided on an the at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces of each of the diameter increasing portion on the upper surface side, and the plurality of flow straightening fins are not provided on the at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces of the diameter increasing portion on the lower surface side.

2. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of flow straightening fins are not provided on an inner surface of the cylindrical portion.

3. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least a portion of all of the plurality of flow straightening fins provided on the plurality of inner surfaces of the trumpet-like portion overlap each other in a circumferential direction.

4. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of a plurality of second flow straightening fins is provided on an inner surface of the cylindrical portion connected to the pair of flat portions.

5. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 4 ,
wherein the at least one of the plurality of second flow straightening fins is disposed across both the cylindrical portion and the pair of flat portions.

6. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the plurality of flow straightening fins and the plurality of second flow straightening fins at least partially overlap in a circumferential direction.

7. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of flow straightening fins and the fan do not overlap each other when seen in a radial direction.

8. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cylindrical portion includes a first cylindrical portion connected to a non-load side of the trumpet-like portion, and a second cylindrical portion connected to a load side of the trumpet-like portion.

9. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the upper side diameter increasing portion includes a central diameter increasing portion, and right and left diameter increasing portions which are respectively positioned on the right and left sides of the central diameter increasing portion, and the at least one of the plurality of flow straightening fins is provided on the at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces of the central diameter increasing portion.

10. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein at least one of a plurality of second flow straightening fins is provided on each of the at least one of the plurality of inner surfaces of the pair of flat portions, and the plurality of flow straightening fins have an axial length greater than the plurality of second flow straightening fins.

11. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cylindrical portion includes a cutout through which a hanging tool is exposed.

12. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the fan hood includes a load side opening portion that is an opening formed on the load side, and a gap of 20 mm to 50 mm is formed between the load side opening portion and an external surface of the casing.

13. The speed reduction apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising an output shaft,
wherein a first intermediate shaft and a second intermediate shaft are provided between the input shaft and the output shaft.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Heavy Industries

Inventors

• Kimura Kazuhiro

Classifications

• F04D19/002

  Axial flow fans · CPC title

• F16H57/0416 Primary

  Air cooling or ventilation · CPC title

• F04D29/547

  having a special shape in order to influence fluid flow · CPC title