Impeller, rotary machine, method for manufacturing impeller, and method for manufacturing rotary machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10982548-B2
Application number	US-201716478664-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2017
Priority date	Feb 20, 2017
Publication date	Apr 20, 2021
Grant date	Apr 20, 2021

Abstract

An impeller includes a disk that has tubular first and second disk members, a blade that is integrally provided with the second disk member, and a cover that is integrally provided with the blade and covers the blade. The first disk member has a ring-shaped recessed portion therein. The second disk member has a ring-shaped engaging portion that is configured to engage with the first disk member by being inserted into the recessed portion. A first shrink-fitting portion is provided in a boundary portion between an outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion and an inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion that comes into contact with the outer circumferential surface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An impeller comprising:
a disk that has tubular first and second disk members;
a blade that is integrally provided with the second disk member; and
a cover that is integrally provided with the blade and defines a flow passage between the second disk member and the cover, wherein
the first disk member defines a part of the flow passage and has a ring-shaped recessed portion that has a central axis direction of the disk as a depth direction thereof,
the second disk member has a ring-shaped engaging portion that is configured to engage with the first disk member by being inserted into the recessed portion,
a first shrink-fitting portion is provided in a boundary portion between an outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion and an inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion, the inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion coming into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion,
the second disk member has a portion abutting against the first disk member in the central axis direction of the disk and a portion forming a gap between the first disk member and the second disk member in the central axis direction of the disk,
the inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion is inclined in a direction where an inner diameter of the recessed portion becomes narrower from a bottom surface of the recessed portion to a second disk member side of the second disk member, and
the outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion is inclined such that a thickness of the engaging portion becomes smaller farther away from a tip surface of the engaging portion, the tip surface being disposed on a first disk member side of the first disk member, in the central axis direction of the disk.

2. A method for manufacturing an impeller, comprising:
a step of forming a tubular first disk member having a ring-shaped recessed portion therein;
a step of forming a structure in which a second disk member having a ring-shaped engaging portion that is configured to engage with the first disk member by being inserted into the recessed portion, and configures a disk with the first disk member, a blade provided on the second disk member, and a cover that is provided on the blade, covers the blade, and defines a flow passage between the second disk member and the cover are integrated; and
a first shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting a boundary portion between an outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion and an inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion by inserting the engaging portion configuring the structure into the recessed portion and heating the first disk member from an outer circumferential surface side of the first disk member, wherein
in the step of forming the structure, a length of the engaging portion in a central axis direction of the disk is made larger than a depth of the recessed portion in the central axis direction of the disk such that a portion where the first disk member abuts against the second disk member is formed and a gap is formed between the first disk member and the second disk member,
in the step of forming the tubular first disk member, the inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion is inclined in a direction where an inner diameter of the recessed portion becomes narrower from a bottom surface of the recessed portion to a second disk member side of the second disk member, and
in the step of forming the structure, the outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion is inclined such that a thickness of the engaging portion becomes smaller farther away from a tip surface of the engaging portion, the tip surface being disposed on a first disk member side of the first disk member, in the central axis direction of the disk.

3. A method for manufacturing a rotary machine, comprising:
a step of preparing an impeller manufactured through a method for manufacturing an impeller, the method for manufacturing the impeller comprising:
a step of forming a tubular first disk member having a ring-shaped recessed portion therein;
a step of forming a structure in which a second disk member having a ring-shaped engaging portion that is configured to engage with the first disk member by being inserted into the recessed portion, a blade provided on the second disk member, and a cover that is provided on the blade, covers the blade, and defines a flow passage between the second disk member and the cover are integrated; and
a first shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting a boundary portion between an outer circumferential surface of the engaging portion and an inner circumferential surface of the recessed portion by inserting the engaging portion configuring the structure into the recessed portion and heating the first disk member from an outer circumferential surface side of the first disk member; and

a second shrink-fitting step of shrink-fitting a boundary portion between an inner circumferential surface of a portion of the first disk member, in which the recessed portion is not formed, and an outer circumferential surface of a rotating body by heating the first disk member from an outer circumferential surface side of the portion in which the recessed portion is not formed in a state where the rotating body is inserted in the impeller, wherein
in the step of forming the structure, a length of the engaging portion in a central axis direction of the disk is made larger than a depth of the recessed portion in the central axis direction of the disk such that a portion where the first disk member abuts against the second disk member is formed and a gap is formed between the first disk member and the second disk member.

4. The method for manufacturing a rotary machine according to claim 3 ,
wherein a heating temperature of the first disk member in the second shrink-fitting step is lower than a heating temperature of the first disk member in the first shrink-fitting step.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Yagi Nobuyori
• Morikawa Akihiko
• Tokuyama Shinichiro
• Takagi Hiroki
• Itagaki Kenji

Classifications

• F04D29/266 Primary

  mounting compressor rotors on shafts · CPC title

• F04D29/624

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F01D5/14 Primary

  Form or construction (selecting particular materials, measures against erosion or corrosion F01D5/28) · CPC title

• F05D2230/90

  Coating; Surface treatment · CPC title

• F05D2260/37

  by a press fit connection · CPC title