Impeller, rotary machine including the same, and method for manufacturing impeller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9903385-B2
Application number	US-201113812617-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2011
Priority date	Aug 29, 2011
Publication date	Feb 27, 2018
Grant date	Feb 27, 2018

Abstract

An impeller including: blades disposed in a circumferential direction of the impeller; a disk located close to a second end side of an axis of the impeller with respect to the blades, to which the blades are attached, and configured to be attached to a rotating shaft; and a shroud located close to a first end side of an axis of the impeller with respect to the blades, and to which the blades are attached. Flow passages are formed by the blades, the disk and the shroud. The blades, the shroud and a first portion of the disk close to the second end side of the axis of the impeller are integrated so as to form a first member. A second portion of the disk close to the first end side of the axis of the impeller forms a second member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An impeller including a rotating shaft extending along an axis and having a first end and a second end, a plurality of blades disposed in a circumferential direction of the impeller, in which each of the plurality of blades extends outwardly from an inner peripheral side of the impeller in a radial direction of the impeller and is configured to rotate around the rotating shaft, a shroud located closer to the first end than the plurality of blades, and to which the plurality of blades is attached, a disc configured to be attached to the rotating shaft, and flow passages which are formed by the plurality of blades, the disc and the shroud, the impeller comprising:
a first member which is integrally formed by the plurality of blades, the shroud and a first portion of the disc, and
a second member which is a second portion of the disc,

wherein:
the first portion is attached to the plurality of blades and at least a part of the first portion is closer to the second end than the second portion,
the second portion has a cylindrical member centered on the axis along which the rotating shaft extends, and at least a part of the second portion is closer to the first end than the first portion, and
the second portion is provided with a convex portion including a second flat surface facing toward the second end,
the first portion is provided with a concave portion corresponding to the convex portion, the concave portion being located on a first flat surface facing toward the first end,
a diameter of the second member is smaller than an internal diameter of the shroud of the first member, and
the second flat surface is fixed to the first flat surface.

2. The impeller according to claim 1 ,
wherein a shroud surface opposite to the first flat surface is formed into a flat surface.

3. The impeller according to claim 2 ,
wherein the plurality of blades is provided within a range of the first flat surface of the disc, the second flat surface of the disc, or the flat surface of the shroud as viewed from an axial direction.

4. The impeller according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the second member that faces toward the first end is formed in a curved shape so as to extend to a radial outer peripheral side from a first end of the second member toward a second end of the second member.

5. The impeller according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first member has a fixed portion that is fixed to the rotating shaft.

6. The impeller according to claim 1 ,
wherein a surface of each of the plurality of blades that forms the flow passages is formed so as to be orthogonal to a surface of the disc that faces the shroud.

7. A rotary machine comprising the impeller according to claim 1 .

8. A method for manufacturing an impeller including a rotating shaft extending along an axis and having a first end and a second end, a plurality of blades disposed in a circumferential direction of the impeller, in which each of the plurality of blades extends outwardly from an inner peripheral side of the impeller in a radial direction of the impeller and is configured to rotate around the rotating shaft, a shroud located closer to the first end than the plurality of blades, and to which the plurality of blades is attached, and a disc configured to be attached to the rotating shaft, and flow passages which are formed by the plurality of blades, the disc, and the shroud, the disc including a first portion which is attached to the plurality of blades, at least a part of the first portion being closer to the second end than the second portion, and a second portion which has a cylindrical member centered on the axis along which the rotating shaft extends, at least a part of the second portion being closer to the first end than the first portion, the method comprising:
performing cutting on a base material for forming a second end side of the impeller to form the flow passages, and forming a first member, the first member being integrally formed by the plurality of blades, the shroud, and the first portion, and extending outwardly from the inner peripheral side of the impeller in the radial direction of the impeller, the first portion being provided with a concave portion, and the concave portion being located on a first flat surface facing toward the first end; and
forming a second member which is the second portion, the second portion being provided with a convex portion corresponding to the concave portion, the convex portion including a second flat surface facing toward the second end,
wherein a diameter of the second member is smaller than an internal diameter of the shroud of the first member, and
wherein the second flat surface is fixed to the first flat surface.

9. The method for manufacturing an impeller according to claim 8 , wherein, in the forming of the second member, a surface of the second member that faces toward the first end is formed with a curved portion that extends to a radial outer peripheral side from a first end of the second member toward a second end of the second member.

10. A rotary machine comprising the impeller according to claim 2 .

11. A rotary machine comprising the impeller according to claim 3 .

12. A rotary machine comprising the impeller according to claim 4 .

13. A rotary machine comprising the impeller according to claim 5 .

14. A rotary machine comprising the impeller according to claim 6 .

Assignees

• Kawanishi Daisuke
• Nakaniwa Akihiro
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Kawanishi Daisuke
• Nakaniwa Akihiro

Classifications

• F04D29/601

  specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• Y10T29/49332

  Propeller making · CPC title

• F04D29/28 Primary

  for centrifugal or helico-centrifugal pumps {for radial-flow or helico-centrifugal pumps} · CPC title

• F04D29/2277 Primary

  for increasing NPSH or dealing with liquids near boiling-point · CPC title

• F04D29/023

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title