Compressor wheel, centrifugal compressor, machining method for compressor wheel, and machining apparatus for compressor wheel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016010657-A1
Application number	US-201514865012-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 25, 2015
Priority date	Jul 4, 2013
Publication date	Jan 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A compressor wheel includes a hub fixed to one end of a shaft, and a plurality of blades arranged on an outer periphery of the hub. Each blade has a leading edge and a trailing edge, and includes a wing surface that is a curved surface drawn by a trajectory of movement of a linear bus line. The bus line has an intersection with the trailing edge on the trailing edge side, and inclines to a direction approaching an inside of a radial direction of the shaft, as going from one end side to the other end side in an axial direction of the shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A compressor wheel that rotates integrally with a shaft, and compresses and sends out a fluid sucked from a suction port formed in a centrifugal compressor body outward in a radial direction of the shaft, the compressor wheel comprising:
a hub fixed to one end of the shaft; and a plurality of blades arranged on an outer periphery of the hub, wherein each blade has a leading edge that is an end of an upstream side in a flow direction of the fluid, and a trailing edge that is an end of a downstream side in the flow direction of the fluid, and includes a wing surface that is a curved surface drawn by a trajectory of movement of a linear bus line, and wherein the bus line has an intersection with the trailing edge on the trailing edge side, and the bus line having the intersection with the trailing edge inclines in a direction approaching an inside in the radial direction of the shaft, as going from one end side toward other end side in an axial direction of the shaft.

2 . The compressor wheel according to claim 1 , wherein
an angle between the trailing edge located closer to the other end side in the axial direction of the shaft than the intersection and the bus line located closer to the other end side in the axial direction of the shaft than the intersection is not less than 20 degrees.

3 . A centrifugal compressor comprising:
a centrifugal compressor body; a shaft rotatably supported by the centrifugal compressor body; and a compressor wheel including a hub fixed to one end of the shaft, and a plurality of blades arranged on an outer periphery of the hub, the compressor wheel configured to rotate integrally with the shaft, and configured to compress and send out a fluid sucked from a suction port formed in the centrifugal compressor body outward in a radial direction of the shaft, wherein each blade has a leading edge that is an end of an upstream side in a flow direction of the fluid, and a trailing edge that is an end of a downstream side in the flow direction of the fluid, and includes a wing surface that is a curved surface drawn by a trajectory of movement of a linear bus line, and wherein the bus line has an intersection with the trailing edge on the trailing edge side, and the bus line having the intersection with the trailing edge inclines in a direction approaching an inside in the radial direction of the shaft, as going from one end side toward other end side in an axial direction of the shaft.

4 . A machining method for a compressor wheel that cuts out a wing surface having a leading edge that is an end of an upstream side in a flow direction of a fluid, and a trailing edge that is an end of a downstream side in the flow direction of the fluid, among a plurality of blades arranged on an outer periphery of a hub in the compressor wheel of a centrifugal compressor, wherein
a tool is arranged at an initial position where an axial direction of a rotational axis of the tool is parallel to a direction of the leading edge of the blade, and where a tip of the tool is directed to the hub side, and wherein an inclination angle is an acute angle when the inclination angle from the initial position in the axial direction of the tool is continuously increased toward a direction where the axial direction approaches the direction of the trailing edge, while cutting a workpiece of a gap portion of the plurality of blades by a side surface of the tool from the leading edge toward the trailing edge, and when the workpiece is cut to the trailing edge and the wing surface is cut out.

5 . A machining apparatus that cuts out from a workpiece a wing surface having a leading edge that is an end on an upstream side in a flow direction of a fluid, and a trailing edge that is an end on a downstream side in the flow direction of the fluid, among a plurality of blades arranged on an outer periphery of a hub in a compressor wheel of a centrifugal compressor, the machining apparatus comprising:
a rotating section configured to support a tool, and configured to rotate the tool around an axial center of the tool; a moving section configured to displace relative positions and attitudes of the tool and the workpiece; and a controller configured to:
control rotation of the tool by the rotating section, and displacement of the relative positions and attitudes of the tool and the workpiece by the moving section;
control the moving section so that the tool is arranged at an initial position where an axial direction of a rotational axis of the tool is parallel to a direction of the leading edge, and where a tip of the tool is directed to the hub side; and
control the rotating section and the moving section so that an inclination angle becomes an acute angle, when the inclination angle from the initial position in the axial direction of the tool is continuously increased toward a direction where the axial direction of the tool approaches the direction of the trailing edge, while rotating the tool and cutting the workpiece of a gap portion of the plurality of blades by a side surface of the tool from the leading edge toward the trailing edge, and when the workpiece is cut to the trailing edge and the wing surface is cut out.

Assignees

• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Kimura Taichi
• Fujiwara Takashi

Classifications

• F04D17/10

  for compressing or evacuating · CPC title

• F04D29/284 Primary

  for compressors · CPC title

• B23P15/02

  turbine or like blades from one piece · CPC title

• F04D29/053

  Shafts · CPC title

• F04D29/4206

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title