CN103277310A - Energy-efficient spiral slice type vacuum pump unit - Google Patents
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The invention discloses spiral slice type vacuum pump unit, and provides an energy-efficient spiral slice type vacuum pump unit with simple structure, low manufacture cost low and environmental protection and energy saving characteristics, and single motor simultaneously drives many pump bodies for operation. The invention solves the technology problems of individual configuration of motor on each vacuum pump in the spiral slice type vacuum pump unit existed in the prior art, and severe power waste of light load operated motor, and high usage cost and manufacture cost, etc. The invention comprises a main pump and an auxiliary pump, and the main pump comprises a main pump motor component and a main pump body connected with the main pump motor component coaxially, and the auxiliary pump comprises an auxiliary pump body; an intermediate shaft is connected on an auxiliary pump rotor shaft corresponding to the auxiliary pump body in coaxial connected, and the intermediate shaft extends to the auxiliary pump body outer, and intermediate shaft corresponding to the auxiliary pump body outer is provided with a driven wheel, and a main motor output shaft corresponding to the main pump motor component is provided with a main driving wheel, and the main driving wheel is corresponding to the driven wheel and can drive the driven wheel to rotate.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of rotary-vane vaccum pump unit, relate in particular to and a kind ofly drive the operation of many pump housings, low cost of manufacture, the energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit of environmental protection and energy saving simultaneously by the separate unit motor.
Background technique
Existing rotary-vane vaccum pump generally all is that a pump housing is joined a motor, rotated by the eccentric rotor in the driven by motor pump housing, and constantly efflux except gas to the pump housing by the blade on the pump rotor and to reach the purpose that vacuumizes, generally, in order to satisfy the vacuum pump low-temperature startup performance, its motor generally need have bigger power margin, but because the motor load of vacuum pump can change with the vacuum pressure in the container, namely in the rotary-vane vaccum pump later stage is in stable operation or is in during high vacuum state, its motor is in the light running state substantially, efficiency of motor and power factor are very low, therefore having most power of motor is wasted because not playing a role, especially under many situations that vacuum pump moves in groups, waste more serious, people take up to study the relevant energy-saving scheme of vacuum pump for this reason, existing energy-saving scheme generally is that the motor at the separate unit vacuum pump improves to realize, namely the input voltage that changes to reduce motor according to the degree of vacuum of measuring in real time reaches purpose of energy saving, but this mode need increase measurement, relevant devices such as control, complex structure, not only operate loaded down with trivial detailsly, and involve great expense.
Summary of the invention
The present invention has mainly provided a kind of simple in structure, low cost of manufacture, drive many pump housing operations simultaneously by the separate unit motor, the energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit of environmental protection and energy saving, every the vacuum pump that has solved in the rotary-vane vaccum pump unit that exists in the prior art all needs configuration motor separately, motor light running power dissipation is serious, the technical problem that user cost and manufacture cost are high.
Above-mentioned technical problem of the present invention is mainly solved by following technical proposals: a kind of energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit, comprise main pump and auxiliary pump, main pump comprises that the main pump motor assembly reaches and the coaxial main pump body that links to each other of main pump motor assembly, auxiliary pump comprises the auxiliary pump body, auxiliary pump rotor shaft corresponding on described auxiliary pump body is coaxially connected with jack shaft, it is external that jack shaft extends to auxiliary pump, and the jack shaft in the external correspondence of auxiliary pump is provided with follower, main motor output shaft in main pump motor assembly correspondence is provided with main drive wheel, and main drive wheel is corresponding with follower and can drive the follower rotation.Rotary-vane vaccum pump is made up of motor and two parts of the pump housing, coaxial connection of pump rotor axle on motor output shaft and the pump housing wherein, drive the pump rotor rotation in the pump housing during motor operation, and get rid of gas in the pump chamber by the blade on the pump rotor and realize the purpose that vacuumizes, main pump adopts said structure in the rotary-vane vaccum pump unit, auxiliary pump only arranges pump housing part, and by the motor output shaft at main pump main drive wheel is set, the jack shaft that extends outside the pump housing at the pump rotor axle of auxiliary pump arranges follower, can drive the purpose that follower rotates to realize the auxiliary pump operation by main drive wheel, when the power of motor on the main pump can satisfy auxiliary pump startup operation simultaneously, main pump namely drives auxiliary pump synchronous operation, otherwise can postpone to control the startup operation of auxiliary pump by the regular hour, thereby the problem of power of motor deficiency in the time of can avoiding the major-minor pump to start simultaneously, according to usage requirement, main pump can successively drive two or many auxiliary pump operations, improved efficiency of motor, energy efficient, reduced user cost, realized purpose of energy saving, simultaneously because auxiliary pump need not to dispose motor, therefore also saved manufacture cost, the simple transformation forms on existing vacuum pump basis, development cost is low, simple in structure, be beneficial to the transformation of existing equipment.
As preferably, described main drive wheel is the coaxial drive pulley that is fixed on the main motor output shaft, and follower is the coaxial driven pulley that is fixed on the jack shaft, and drive pulley drives driven pulley by belt and rotates.Realize the connection of major-minor pump by belt transmission such as synchronous band or many Figure bands; because belt has better elastic; therefore can relax shock and vibration at work; steady noise free moves; belt skidded at wheel when load was excessive; thereby can prevent other damage parts; play the safety protection effect; simultaneously because belt is centre part; it can come designated length within the specific limits as required, requires bigger operating conditions to adapt to centre distance, and is simple in structure easy to manufacture; easy to installation and maintenance, cost is low.
Be horizontally set with base plate between the bottom as more preferably described main pump and auxiliary pump, main pump is fixedly connected on an end of base plate, auxiliary pump and main pump secured in parallel also can laterally be slided perpendicular to the main pump direction at the other end of base plate, base plate between main pump and auxiliary pump is provided with riser, be connected with hold-down bolt at riser, the vertical apical grafting in the end of hold-down bolt is on the auxiliary pump sidewall.Major and minor pump is installed in parallel on the base plate, main pump is fixed on base plate, auxiliary pump is slidingly connected on the base plate by chute, make auxiliary pump relatively main pump move forward and backward, and the riser that between major and minor pump, be arranged in parallel, but at the riser hold-down bolt of some roof pressures on the auxiliary pump sidewall that spin, can regulate the position of the relative main pump of auxiliary pump by hold-down bolt, be the tensioning of belt, simple in structure, easy to adjust.
Main drive wheel and follower can be sprocket wheels, between sprocket wheel by chain transmission, as preferably, described main drive wheel is for being connected the driving gear on the main motor output shaft with axle key, follower is for being connected the driven gear on the jack shaft with axle key, driving gear is meshed by intermediate gear with driven gear.Can realize by the engagement of driving and driven gear and intermediate gear being in transmission connection between the major and minor pump, and driving and driven gear is rotated in the same way, simple in structure.
As preferably, described follower is rotatably connected on the jack shaft, be provided with in the end of jack shaft can with the magnetic clutch of follower coupling.By magnetic clutch is set, can after finishing, the main pump startup connect magnetic clutch, make follower and jack shaft synchronous, utilize the power headroom of main pump motor to drive the auxiliary pump startup, thereby in the startup operation of hour realization time-delay control auxiliary pump of main pump motor power, simple in structure, easy to use.
Magnetic clutch can be controlled separately, and as more preferably, described magnetic clutch and main pump motor inter-module are provided with control circuit, are provided with delay circuit in control circuit.By delay circuit is set in control circuit, can start the automatic magnetic clutch of connecting in back smoothly at main pump and start auxiliary pump, the automaticity height, easy to use.
As preferably, between described main pump motor assembly and main pump body, be provided with the main pump motor coupling, one end coaxial package of main pump motor coupling is fixed on the main motor output shaft, main pump rotor shaft corresponding on main pump body is provided with the main pump coupling, the main pump coupling links to each other with the other end of main pump motor coupling is coaxial by elastic coupling flexible coupling, and main drive wheel is coaxial to be fixed on the main pump motor coupling.The simple transformation forms on the basis of existing vacuum pump, and be simple in structure, installs easy to adjust.
As more preferably, the main pump motor coupling between described main drive wheel and main pump body is provided with the pump fan blade, and the pump fan blade is towards main pump body.Fan blade and main pump body are adjacent, are beneficial to the temperature rise that reduces main pump body.
As preferably, be provided with protective housing at the auxiliary pump end of body of described follower correspondence, jack shaft and follower are located in the protective housing; Be provided with the motor front shroud between described main pump motor assembly and main pump body, main drive wheel is located in the motor front shroud.Protective housing and motor front shroud all play effect dustproof, safe and attractive in appearance.
As preferably, the bearing power of described auxiliary pump is smaller or equal to the bearing power of main pump.The bearing power of auxiliary pump can guarantee that smaller or equal to the bearing power of main pump auxiliary pump starts and operation smoothly.
Therefore, energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit of the present invention has following advantage: drag main pump and two or many auxiliary pump operations by main pump motor, and adopt magnetic clutch tachnical delay auxiliary pump starting time, to take full advantage of the main pump motor power headroom, make main pump motor power obtain reasonable use and distribution, energy efficient reaches more than 30%, environmental protection and energy saving; Simply transforming basically of existing vacuum pump, manufacture cost, development cost and user cost reduce synchronously, are applicable to the penetration and promotion application.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit of the present invention;
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Below by embodiment, and by reference to the accompanying drawings, technological scheme of the present invention is described in further detail.
Embodiment 1:
As shown in figures 1 and 3, a kind of energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit of the present invention, a main pump 2 and an auxiliary pump 3 of comprising parallel placement, the bearing power of auxiliary pump 3 equals the bearing power of main pump 2, main pump 2 and auxiliary pump 3 are installed on the square base plate of a block length 9 simultaneously, main pump 2 is fixed on the front side end of base plate 9, auxiliary pump 3 is positioned at the rear side end of base plate 9, have a long strip sliding groove on base plate 9 surfaces corresponding with auxiliary pump 3, the length direction of chute is vertical with the axial direction of main pump 2, the bottom of auxiliary pump 3 is inlaid in the chute and can slides along the length direction of chute, riser 10 of secured in parallel on the base plate 9 between main pump 2 and the auxiliary pump 3, spin the vertical apical grafting in end of 11, two hold-down bolts 11 of two hold-down bolts on auxiliary pump 3 sidewalls at riser 10.Main pump 2 wherein is made up of main pump motor assembly 21 and 22 two parts of main pump body, main pump motor coupling 7 of coaxial installation between main pump motor assembly 21 and main pump body 22, the left end coaxial package of main pump motor coupling 7 is fixed on the main motor output shaft 23, coaxial on main pump rotor shaft 24 corresponding on the main pump body 22 a main pump coupling 25 has been installed, main pump coupling 25 links to each other with the other end of main pump motor coupling 7 is coaxial by elastic coupling flexible coupling 8, coaxially on main pump motor coupling 7 fix a drive pulley 4, coaxial on the corresponding main pump motor coupling 7 between drive pulley 4 and main pump body 22 a pump fan blade 12 has been installed, and pump fan blade 12 is towards main pump body 22 sides, fix a motor front shroud 26 in that the output shaft of main pump motor assembly 21 is also coaxial, drive pulley 4 covers are contained in the motor front shroud 26.Auxiliary pump 3 comprises auxiliary pump body 31, on auxiliary pump rotor shaft 32, connect a jack shaft 33 with axle key, the outboard end of jack shaft 33 extends to outside the auxiliary pump body 31, and coaxial on the corresponding jack shaft 33 outside auxiliary pump body 31 driven pulley 5 has been installed, driven pulley 5 is rotatably connected on the jack shaft 33 by bearing, in jack shaft 33 ends of driven pulley 5 outside correspondences coaxial fix one can with the magnetic clutch 6 of driven pulley 5 coupling, as shown in Figure 2, the coil of magnetic clutch 6 is inlaid in the medial extremity of driven pulley 5, the sucker of magnetic clutch 6 is by coaxial jack shaft 33 outer ends that are slidingly connected at of spline, auxiliary pump body 31 ends in driven pulley 5 correspondences are equipped with a protective housing 34, jack shaft 33 and driven pulley 5 are located in the protective housing 34, belt 1 of parallel ring set outside drive pulley 4 and driven pulley 5, belt 1 is the band of carving of 6 grooves more, making drive pulley 4 drive driven pulley 5 by belt 1 rotates, magnetic clutch 6 is electrically connected with main pump motor assembly 21 by control circuit, have in control circuit and can control the delay circuit that magnetic clutch 6 postpones adhesive, be set at 5 seconds the retard time in the delay circuit.
During use, connect main pump 2 power supplys, main pump motor assembly 21 drives main pump body 22 and rotates synchronously, and drive drive pulley 4 rotates synchronously, drive pulley 4 drives driven pulley 5 along jack shaft 33 idle running of auxiliary pump 3 by belt 1, after main pump 2 starts 5 seconds, and the sucker on the magnetic clutch 6 and the automatic adhesive in driven pulley 5 exterior edge faces, driven pulley 5 drives jack shaft 33 and rotates, and namely starts auxiliary pump 3.
Embodiment 2:
Be connected with a driving gear with axle key on main motor output shaft 23, be connected with a driven gear with axle key on jack shaft 33, driving gear is meshed by intermediate gear with driven gear.Remaining part is identical with embodiment 1.
Embodiment 3:
Be connected with a drive sprocket with axle key on main motor output shaft 23, be connected with a driven sprocket with axle key on jack shaft 33, drive sprocket keeps being in transmission connection by chain and driven sprocket.Remaining part is identical with embodiment 1.
Specific embodiment described herein only is that design of the present invention is illustrated.Those skilled in the art can make various modifications or replenish or adopt similar mode to substitute described specific embodiment, but can't depart from spirit of the present invention or surmount the defined scope of appended claims.
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1. energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit, comprise main pump (2) and auxiliary pump (3), main pump (2) comprises that main pump motor assembly (21) reaches and the coaxial main pump body that links to each other of main pump motor assembly (21) (22), auxiliary pump (3) comprises auxiliary pump body (31), it is characterized in that: go up corresponding auxiliary pump rotor shaft (32) at described auxiliary pump body (31) and be coaxially connected with jack shaft (33), jack shaft (33) extends to outside the auxiliary pump body (31), and jack shaft (33) corresponding outside auxiliary pump body (31) is provided with follower, the main motor output shaft (23) corresponding at main pump motor assembly (21) is provided with main drive wheel, and main drive wheel is corresponding with follower and can drive the follower rotation.
2. energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described main drive wheel is the coaxial drive pulley (4) that is fixed on the main motor output shaft (23), follower is the coaxial driven pulley (5) that is fixed on the jack shaft (33), and drive pulley (4) drives driven pulley (5) by belt (1) and rotates.
3. energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit according to claim 2, it is characterized in that: be horizontally set with base plate (9) between the bottom of described main pump (2) and auxiliary pump (3), main pump (2) is fixedly connected on an end of base plate (9), auxiliary pump (3) also can laterally slide perpendicular to main pump (2) direction with the other end of main pump (2) secured in parallel at base plate (9), base plate (9) between main pump (2) and auxiliary pump (3) is provided with riser (10), be connected with hold-down bolt (11) at riser (10), the vertical apical grafting in end of hold-down bolt (11) is on auxiliary pump (3) sidewall.
4. energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described main drive wheel is for being connected the driving gear on the main motor output shaft (23) with axle key, follower is for being connected the driven gear on the jack shaft (33) with axle key, driving gear is meshed by intermediate gear with driven gear.
5. according to any described energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit in the claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that: described follower is rotatably connected on the jack shaft (33), be provided with in the end of jack shaft (33) can with the magnetic clutch (6) of follower coupling.
6. energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit according to claim 5 is characterized in that: be provided with control circuit between described magnetic clutch (6) and main pump motor assembly (21), be provided with delay circuit in control circuit.
7. according to any described energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit in the claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that: between described main pump motor assembly (21) and main pump body (22), be provided with main pump motor coupling (7), one end coaxial package of main pump motor coupling (7) is fixed on the main motor output shaft (23), go up corresponding main pump rotor shaft (24) at main pump body (22) and be provided with main pump coupling (25), main pump coupling (25) is by the other end coaxial link to each other of elastic coupling flexible coupling (8) with main pump motor coupling (7), and main drive wheel is coaxial to be fixed on the main pump motor coupling (7).
8. energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit according to claim 7, it is characterized in that: the main pump motor coupling (7) between described main drive wheel and main pump body (22) is provided with pump fan blade (12), and pump fan blade (12) is towards main pump body (22).
9. according to any described energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit in the claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that: auxiliary pump body (31) end in described follower correspondence is provided with protective housing (34), and jack shaft (33) and follower are located in the protective housing (34); Be provided with motor front shroud (26) between described main pump motor assembly (21) and main pump body (22), main drive wheel is located in the motor front shroud (26).
10. according to any described energy-saving rotary-vane vaccum pump unit in the claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that: the bearing power of described auxiliary pump (3) is smaller or equal to the bearing power of main pump (2).
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