Inlet guide vane and compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11041401-B2
Application number	US-201716475883-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 6, 2017
Priority date	Feb 6, 2017
Publication date	Jun 22, 2021
Grant date	Jun 22, 2021

Abstract

An inlet guide vane includes: a movable vane that has a vane main body and a shaft portion disposed in an end portion of the vane main body; a frame that has an insertion hole into which the shaft portion is to be inserted; a plurality of bearing portions that are arranged inside the insertion hole at an interval in a direction of a central axis of the shaft portion and that support the shaft portion to be rotatable around the central axis with respect to the frame; and a seal portion that is located inside the insertion hole between the plurality of bearing portions in the direction of the central axis and that seals an area between the insertion hole and the shaft portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An inlet guide vane comprising:
a movable vane that has a vane main body and a shaft portion disposed in an end portion of the vane main body;
a frame that has an insertion hole into which the shaft portion is to be inserted;
a plurality of bearing portions that are arranged inside the insertion hole at an interval in a direction of a central axis of the shaft portion, and that support the shaft portion so as to be rotatable around the central axis with respect to the frame; and
a seal portion that is located inside the insertion hole between the plurality of bearing portions in the direction of the central axis, and that is configured to seal between the insertion hole and the shaft portion,
wherein the seal portion includes a first seal member and a second seal member which are located at an interval in the direction of the central axis, and
wherein the first seal member and the second seal member have seal structures which are different from each other.

2. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 , wherein the first seal member is located at a position closer to the vane main body than the second seal member, and has sealing performance higher than that of the second seal member.

3. The inlet guide vane according to claim 2 , wherein at least any one of a hole side recess portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and recessed outward in a radial direction and a shaft side recess portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion and recessed inward in the radial direction is formed between the first seal member and the second seal member.

4. The inlet guide vane according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a sensor that is disposed between the first seal member and the second seal member, and that is configured to detect a fluid entering a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion.

5. The inlet guide vane according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a sensor that is disposed between the first seal member and the second seal member, and that is configured to detect a fluid entering a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion.

6. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 , wherein at least any one of a hole side recess portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and recessed outward in a radial direction and a shaft side recess portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion and recessed inward in the radial direction is formed between the first seal member and the second seal member.

7. The inlet guide vane according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a sensor that is disposed between the first seal member and the second seal member, and that is configured to detect a fluid entering a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion.

8. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a sensor that is disposed between the first seal member and the second seal member, and that is configured to detect a fluid entering a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion.

9. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a sealing fluid supply unit that is disposed between the first seal member and the second seal member, and that is configured to supply a sealing fluid from the outside to a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion.

10. The inlet guide vane according to claim 1 , wherein the seal portion includes
an elastic ring portion which is disposed outward in a radial direction of the shaft portion, which has an annular shape continuous in a circumferential direction, and which has a groove open toward a side where the vane main body is located with respect to the frame, and
a biasing member which is disposed in the groove, and which is configured to cause an inner peripheral surface of the elastic ring portion to be biased inward in the radial direction toward the shaft portion.

11. A compressor comprising:
the inlet guide vane according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Oda Takashi

Classifications

• F04D25/163 Primary

  driven by a common gearing arrangement · CPC title

• F05D2220/32

  in gas turbines · CPC title

• F05D2250/51

  Inlet · CPC title

• F04D29/083

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/56

  adjustable · CPC title