Cutter head for microwave presplitting type hard-rock tunnel boring machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10428654-B2
Application number	US-201715764668-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2017
Priority date	May 26, 2017
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A cutter head has a front surface formed with several transmitting ports, a protection plate mounted at an external-end hole of each port, several microwave generating mechanisms distributed in two manners: first, the generating mechanisms are uniformly arranged in the cutter head; second, the microwave generating mechanisms in the same number as hobbing cutters. Each generating mechanism includes a microwave source, a magnetron, a rectangular waveguide, a circulator and a microwave focus radiator, wherein the microwave source is connected with the magnetron, the magnetron is connected with one end of the waveguide, the other end of the waveguide is connected with a first port of the circulator, a second port of the circulator is connected with the microwave focus radiator, and a water load is connected to a third port of the circulator. The focus radiator includes a standard waveguide section, an impedance matching section and a compressed radiation section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cutter head for a microwave presplitting type hard-rock tunnel boring machine, wherein the cutter head defines an outer circumference near an outer periphery thereof and an inner circumference near an axis thereof, a diameter of the outer circumference is greater than that of the inner circumference, a plurality of microwave transmitting ports are formed in a front surface of the cutter head, a wave-transparent protection plate is mounted at external-end holes of the microwave transmitting ports, internal-end holes of the microwave transmitting ports communicate with the cutter head, a plurality of microwave generating mechanisms are arranged in the cutter head, and the microwave generating mechanisms are the same in number as the microwave transmitting ports and are in one-to-one correspondence; the microwave generating mechanisms are distributed in the cutter head in one of two distribution manners, wherein a first distribution manner is as follows: the microwave generating mechanisms are uniformly arranged in the cutter head; a second distribution manner is as follows: the microwave generating mechanisms are the same in number as hobbing cutters on the cutter head and are arranged in one-to-one correspondence, one microwave generating mechanism and the microwave transmitting port corresponding to the microwave generating mechanism are arranged beside each hobbing cutter; and when the microwave generating mechanisms are distributed in the cutter head in the first distribution manner, all the microwave generating mechanisms have the same microwave radiation power, and the number of the microwave generating mechanisms on the outer circumference and the inner circumference of the cutter head is calculated according to the following formula:

Q
R

L
R

=

Q
r

L
r

N
R

⁢
PT

θ
⁢

⁢
R

=

N
r

⁢
PT

θ
⁢

⁢
r

N
R

N
r

=

R
r

wherein Q R is a total microwave energy radiated by the microwave generating mechanisms on the outer circumference when the cutter head rotates by an angle of θ, Q r is a total microwave energy radiated by the microwave generating mechanisms on the inner circumference when the cutter head rotates by the angle of θ, L R is an arc length that the microwave generating mechanisms rotate on the outer circumference when the cutter head rotates by the angle of θ, L r is an arc length that the microwave generating mechanisms rotate on the inner circumference when the cutter head rotates by the angle of θ, P is a microwave radiation power of each of the microwave generating mechanisms, T is a microwave radiation time of each of the microwave generating mechanisms, R is a radius of the outer circumference of the cutter head, r is a radius of the inner circumference of the cutter head, N R is the number of the microwave generating mechanisms on the outer circumference of the cutter head, Nr is the number of the microwave generating mechanisms on the inner circumference of the cutter head, and θ is a rotation angle of the cutter head.

2. The cutter head for the microwave presplitting type hard-rock tunnel boring machine according to claim 1 , wherein when the microwave generating mechanisms are distributed in the cutter head in the second distribution manner, all the microwave generating mechanisms have different microwave radiation power, total microwave energy radiated by the microwave generating mechanisms on the outer circumference of the cutter head is the same as that radiated by the microwave generating mechanisms on the inner circumference of the cutter head, and the microwave radiation power of the microwave generating mechanisms on the outer circumference and the inner circumference of the cutter head is calculated according to the following formula:

P
R

⁢
T

θ
R

=

P
r

⁢
T

θ
r

P
R

P
r

=

R
r

wherein P R is a total microwave radiation power of the microwave generating mechanisms on the outer circumference of the cutter head, P r is a total microwave radiation power of the microwave generating mechanisms on the inner circumference of the cutter head, T is a microwave radiation time of each of the microwave generating mechanisms, R is a radius of the outer circumference of the cutter head, r is a radius of the inner circumference of the cutter head, and θ is a rotation angle of the cutter head.

3. The cutter head for the microwave presplitting type hard-rock tunnel boring machine according to claim 1 , wherein each microwave generating mechanism comprises a microwave source, a magnetron, a rectangular waveguide, a circulator and a microwave focus radiator, wherein the microwave source is connected with the magnetron, the magnetron is connected with one end of the rectangular waveguide, the other end of the rectangular waveguide is connected with a first port of the circulator, a second port of the circulator is connected with the microwave focus radiator, and a water load is connected to a third port of the circulator.

4. The cutter head for the microwave presplitting type hard-rock tunnel boring machine according to claim 3 , wherein the microwave focus radiator comprises a standard waveguide section, an impedance matching section and a compressed radiation section, wherein the standard waveguide section is used for receiving microwaves emitted by the m

Assignees

• Univ Northeastern

Inventors

• Feng Xia Ting
• Lu gao ming
• Li yuan hui
• Zhang xi wei

Classifications

• E21D9/1073

  applying thermal energy, e.g. by projecting flames or hot gases, by laser beams (flame drilling E21B7/14) · CPC title

• E21B7/15

  of electrically generated heat · CPC title

• E21D9/1006 Primary

  with rotary cutting tools (for cutting simultaneously the whole cross-section E21D9/11; drill bits E21B10/00) · CPC title

• E21C37/16

  by fire-setting or by similar methods based on a heat effect (drilling by use of heat E21B7/14) · CPC title