CN205858586U - A kind of vibration generating device and be provided with the wind-driven generator of this device - Google Patents

A kind of vibration generating device and be provided with the wind-driven generator of this device Download PDF

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CN205858586U
CN205858586U CN201620745234.3U CN201620745234U CN205858586U CN 205858586 U CN205858586 U CN 205858586U CN 201620745234 U CN201620745234 U CN 201620745234U CN 205858586 U CN205858586 U CN 205858586U
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张羽
鲁志平
刘峰
张磊
冯克瑞
马泳吏
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This utility model relates to a kind of vibration generating device, including, being fixedly mounted on vibration source upper shell, inertance element, described inertance element is movably disposed in housing, bent axle, described bent axle is installed in rotation on housing, and is connected with inertance element by connecting rod, TRT, described TRT is connected with one end of bent axle, and is driven it to generate electricity by bent axle.This utility model further relates to a kind of wind-driven generator being provided with above-mentioned vibration generating device, on the one hand utilizes the vibration of blower fan to make vibration generating device work, and produces electric energy;On the other hand the energy-absorbing function of vibration generating device is utilized, for wind-driven generator damping, it is achieved reduce the purpose of fan vibration.

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A kind of vibration generating device and be provided with the wind-driven generator of this device
Technical field
This utility model relates to TRT, a kind of vibration generating device and be provided with the wind-power electricity generation of this device Machine.
Background technology
Existing wind-driven generator is often with violent vibration in power generation process, and this vibration not only can be to wind-force The element of generator causes damage, and periodically effect of vibration easily causes loosening of each connection member so that Must be equipped with maintainer and make regular check on the connection of each parts, to avoid major accident.Due to can not keeping away of fan vibration The property exempted from, therefore can only take periodically to reinforce the method that each parts connect, and to lower the vibration impact on blower fan, but vibration itself is also Being a kind of energy, existing vibrating power-generation equipment is due to the difference of its application scenario, and its structure also differs widely, and vibrating power-generation sets Standby while utilizing vibrating power-generation, also correspond to vibration source is served the effect of damping, but special due to blower fan structure Property, existing vibrating power-generation equipment is difficult to directly combine with blower fan.
Given this this utility model is proposed.
Utility model content
The purpose of this utility model is to overcome the deficiencies in the prior art, it is provided that one can be arranged on blower fan, utilizes The vibration generating device of fan vibration generating.
Another object of the present utility model is to provide a kind of wind-force utilizing vibration generating device to reduce fan vibration to send out Motor.
In order to realize above-mentioned utility model purpose, this utility model adopts the following technical scheme that
A kind of vibration generating device, including,
Housing, described housing is fixedly mounted on vibration source;
Inertance element, described inertance element is movably disposed in housing;
Bent axle, described bent axle is installed in rotation on housing, and is connected with inertance element by connecting rod;
TRT, described TRT is connected with one end of bent axle, and is driven it to generate electricity by bent axle.
Further, described inertance element is slidably connected with housing, is additionally provided with buffering dress between housing and inertance element Putting, described buffer unit is arranged on the moving direction of inertance element, and is elongated with the movement of inertance element or compresses;Described One end of connecting rod is hinged with inertance element, and the other end is connected with crank rotation, and the reciprocating of inertance element is turned by connecting rod It is changed to the rotation of bent axle.
Further, bottom or the top of described inertance element are slidably connected with housing by guide rail, and described guide rail level sets Putting, its two ends are fixedly connected with the casing;Described buffer unit is arranged with guide rail parallel.
Further, the quantity at least two of described inertance element, and along the differing heights that is axially disposed within of bent axle, inertia Element is evenly distributed on the both sides of bent axle, and promotes bent axle one-directional rotation under the effect of inertia force.
Further, the quantity stating inertance element is four, and is correspondingly distributed in the side, front, rear, left and right four of bent axle, institute The two ends stating bent axle are connected with housing by bearing, and one end extends to, and housing is outer to be connected with TRT.
Further, described inertance element is filling concrete in solid metal block or metal shell, described inertance element Side is provided with inner recess, and described connecting rod stretches in inner recess, and hinged with inertance element by bearing pin.
Further, described buffer unit is spring, and its two ends are fixing with inertance element and housing respectively to be connected, described spring The moving direction of telescopic direction and inertance element be arranged in parallel.
Further, described TRT includes that gear-box and electromotor, described gear-box are step-up gear, its power shaft Being connected with bent axle, output shaft is connected with the rotating shaft of electromotor.
Further, described housing is the square casing with holding cavity structure, and described inertance element is arranged on the cavity volume of housing In, the bottom of housing is provided with supporting construction, and is connected with vibration source by bolt, and described bent axle is contrary with what TRT connected One end is also fixedly connected with at least one flywheel, and described flywheel is positioned at outside housing, is used for making bent axle single direction rotation.
Further, being provided with described vibration generating device in the cabin of described wind-driven generator, described vibrating power-generation fills The housing put is fixing with bottom cabin to be connected.
After using technical scheme described in the utility model, bring following beneficial effect:
Vibration generating device of the present utility model utilizes principle of inertia, by the inertia of inertance element self, sends out in vibration Drive bent axle to rotate time raw and then drive TRT generating, by being combined with wind-driven generator, further increasing wind-force and send out The generated energy of motor, and vibration generating device is while utilizing fan vibration generating, also plays absorption vibrational energy, reduces The effect of fan vibration.
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Fig. 1: the overall structure schematic diagram of vibration generating device in this utility model;
Fig. 2: the structural representation after vibration generating device removes partial shell in this utility model embodiment one;
Fig. 3: the bent axle in vibration generating device and the attachment structure figure of inertance element in this utility model embodiment one;
Fig. 4: for the top view of Fig. 3;
Fig. 5: the bent axle in vibration generating device and the attachment structure figure of inertance element in this utility model embodiment two;
Fig. 6: for the top view of Fig. 5;
Fig. 7: the bent axle in vibration generating device and the attachment structure figure of inertance element in this utility model embodiment three;
Fig. 8: for the top view of Fig. 7;
Fig. 9: the vibration generating device of the present utility model installation site schematic diagram in blower fan;
Wherein: 1, vibration generating device 2, wind-driven generator 3, housing 4, bent axle 5, inertance element 6, TRT 7, connecting rod 8, bearing 11, guide rail 12, buffer unit 13, supporting construction 14, flywheel 61, electromotor 62, gear train.
Detailed description of the invention
Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings detailed description of the invention of the present utility model is described in further detail.
Embodiment one
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, a kind of vibration generating device, including, the housing 3 of a casing shape, it is movably disposed at Inertance element 5 in housing 3, connects the buffer unit 12 of inertance element 5 and housing 3, and two ends are rotationally connected relative to housing 3, And passing through the bent axle 4 that connecting rod 7 is connected, and TRT 6 with inertance element 5, described TRT 6 connects with one end of bent axle 4 Connect, and driven it to generate electricity by bent axle 4.
Described housing 3 is fixedly mounted on vibration source, and with vibration source synchronous vibration, and described inertance element 5 can shell relatively Body 3 does free reciprocating motion in a horizontal direction, and when housing 3 vibrates with vibration source, inertance element 5 is due to by effect of inertia Having the movement tendency keeping static, the inertance element 5 that the housing 3 of vibration is static with holding will occur relative motion, and produce The active force promoting bent axle 4 to rotate, generates electricity drive TRT 6 when bent axle 4 rotates.
Specifically, described inertance element 5 is slidably connected with housing 3, and described buffer unit 12 is arranged on inertance element 5 and shell Between body 3, and it is arranged on the moving direction of inertance element 5, allows it to be elongated with the movement of inertance element 5 or press Contracting, one end of described connecting rod 7 is hinged with inertance element 5, and the other end is rotationally connected with bent axle 4, the reciprocating of inertance element 5 The rotation of bent axle 4 is converted to by connecting rod 7.Preferably, described connecting rod 7 is provided with connecting rod bearing shell, described company with the junction of bent axle 4 Bar bearing shell is made up of high-abrasive material, can be prevented effectively from connecting rod 7 and bent axle 4 damages because of friction.
Preferably, bottom or the top of described inertance element 5 is slidably connected with housing 3, in the present embodiment by guide rail 11 Guide rail 11 be straight cylinder bar, and run through inertance element 5, make inertance element 5 can slide along straight cylinder bar level, described guide rail 11 Preferably a pair of, and be horizontally disposed with, the two ends of guide rail 11 are fixing with housing 3 to be connected;Described guide rail 11 is for carrying for inertance element 5 For supporting, and limit inertance element 5 only horizontal reciprocating movement on back and forth direction, the inertance element 5 in this utility model Other forms can also be used with the connected mode of guide rail 11, as preferably, hinder for reducing the friction of inertance element 5 and housing 3 Power, described guide rail 11 is chosen as spherical guide, and is arranged on the bottom of inertance element 5, and the coefficient of friction of spherical guide is relatively low, can Improve the generating efficiency of vibration generating device.Described buffer unit 12 be arranged in parallel with guide rail 11, for providing for inertance element 5 Buffering, it is to avoid when Oscillation Amplitude is excessive, bent axle 4 was caused large impact.
Shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, the quantity of described inertance element 5 is four, and before being correspondingly distributed in bent axle 4, Afterwards, left and right four sides, the two ends of described bent axle 4 are connected with housing 3 by bearing 8, and one end extends to, and housing 3 is outer to be filled with generating Put 6 connections;Wherein, the inertance element 5 of front and rear sides is mainly used in absorbing the horizontal vibration in front and rear direction, arranged on left and right sides Inertance element 5 be mainly used in absorbing the horizontal vibration on left and right direction, when vibration source has on four direction all around During periodic vibration, inertance element 5 can be made to promote under the effect of inertia force by adjusting the position of four inertance elements 5 Bent axle 4 one-directional rotation, to reach preferably to absorb the effect of vibration, and improves generating efficiency
Specifically, inertance element 5 can be made to act on bent axle 4 by the connection angle of regulation inertance element 5 with bent axle 4 The direction of tangential force be all clockwise or counterclockwise, in the present embodiment, described inertance element 5 is bottom-up to be depended on Secondary angular distribution around bent axle 4 axle center 90-degree rotation, and by left, front, right, after location order arrange.
Described inertance element 5 is filling concrete in solid metal block or metal shell, to make it have bigger quality, The side of described inertance element 5 is provided with inner recess, and described connecting rod 7 stretches in inner recess, and is cut with scissors with inertance element 5 by bearing pin Connecing, when inertance element 5 moves back and forth, connecting rod 7 can rotate around bearing pin.
Preferably, described connecting rod 7 and inertance element 5 and bent axle 4 are for removably connecting, when the direction of vibration of vibration source occurs During change, detachable portion connecting rod 7, make inertance element 5 be disconnected with bent axle 4, the quality of described inertance element 5 is shaken according to main Dynamic direction is arranged, it is preferable that the quality of the inertance element 5 being positioned on principal oscillation direction is more than the inertia unit on other direction The quality of part 5.
Preferably, described buffer unit 6 is spring, and its two ends are fixed be connected with inertance element 5 and housing 3 respectively, described The telescopic direction of spring be arranged in parallel with the moving direction of inertance element 5, to realize its pooling feature to greatest extent.
Described TRT 6 includes gear-box 62 and electromotor 61, and described gear-box 52 is step-up gear, its power shaft Being connected with bent axle 4, output shaft is connected with the rotating shaft of electromotor 62, slowly running by driving after gear-box 62 speedup of bent axle 4 Electromotor 61 high-speed rotation is to realize generating.
Preferably, described housing 3 is the square casing with holding cavity structure, and is made of metal, and described inertance element 5 sets Putting in the cavity volume of housing 3, described bent axle 4 vertically runs through described cavity volume, is provided with supporting construction 13 in the bottom of housing 3, is propping up Support structure 13 is provided with bolt hole, and can be connected with vibration source by bolt, and described bent axle 4 is contrary with what TRT 6 connected One end is also fixedly connected with a flywheel 14, and described flywheel 14 is positioned at outside housing 3, is used for making bent axle 4 single direction rotation.
Preferably, described flywheel 14 is multiple, and quality varies in size, by installing the flywheel 14 of various combination, it is achieved Step adjusts, and is used for controlling rotary balance and vibration balancing, it addition, described flywheel 14 can also be at distal aperture by being screwed into spiral shell Bolt finely tunes its quality.
Preferably, described TRT 6 is positioned at the top of housing 3, and described flywheel 14 is positioned at bottom housing 3, described housing 3 Bottom is by leaving certain gap between supporting construction 13 and vibration source, described flywheel 14 is positioned at this gap, flywheel 14 Thickness is less than the width in gap.
Embodiment two
As shown in Fig. 5 and I Fig. 6, the quantity of the inertance element 5 in the present embodiment is two, and axially setting along bent axle 4 Putting at differing heights, two inertance elements 5 lay respectively at the both sides of bent axle 4, and both phase contrasts are pi/2 radian, when wherein one When inertance element 5 is positioned at motion dead angle, another inertance element 5 has just walked around dead point, and promotes bent axle 4 under the effect of inertia force One-directional rotation, by arranging the problem that two inertance elements 5 can effectively overcome single inertance element 5 to there is movement dead, this Example structure is simple, is mainly used on the vibration source that direction of vibration is single.
Embodiment three
As shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8, for enabling vibration generating device of the present utility model to absorb the vibrational energy of multiple directions, The quantity of the inertance element 5 in the present embodiment is four, and is correspondingly distributed in the side, front, rear, left and right four of bent axle 4, described song The two ends of axle 4 are connected with housing 3 by bearing 8, and one end extends to, and housing 3 is outer is connected 6 with TRT;At the present embodiment In, described inertance element 5 is bottom-up angular distribution around bent axle 4 axle center 90-degree rotation successively, and by left and right, rear, front orientation Order is arranged, i.e. the present embodiment adds again a pair inertance element 5 on the basis of embodiment two, by different from embodiment one Arrangement, reduction staring torque can be arrived, reach preferably to generate electricity effect.
Other annexations in the present embodiment are identical with embodiment one, or in like manner can deduce, are not described in detail at this.
The method of work of the vibration generating device in this utility model is:
First this device is arranged on vibration source, and is connected fixing to housing 3 and vibration source, when vibration occurs, shell Body 3, with vibration source synchronous vibration, is positioned at the inertance element 5 of housing 3 owing to being acted on by inertia, keeps transfixion, enters And there is relative motion with housing 3, when the relative housing 3 of inertance element 5 moves, inertance element 5 will be promoted by connecting rod 7 Bent axle 4 rotates, and wherein a relative bent axle 4 of inertance element 5 moves closer to, then the relative bent axle 4 of inertance element 5 of opposite side is gradually Away from, two inertance elements 5 promote bent axle 4 to rotate jointly, when bent axle 4 rotates, electromotor 61 will be driven to revolve by gear-box 62 Turn, and produce electric energy.
As it is shown in figure 9, the wind-driven generator of a kind of vibration generating device being provided with in above-described embodiment, described wind-force is sent out Certain space is left for installing described vibration generating device 1, the shell of described vibration generating device 1 in the cabin of motor 2 Body 3 is fixing with bottom cabin to be connected, and the preferably supporting construction 13 bottom housing 3 is bolted to connection at engine room foundation On, when fan operation, will vibrate in cabin, there is synchronous vibration in the housing 3 being attached thereto, makes vibration generating device 1 Starting working, and be connected to the grid by the electric energy of generation, the vibration of blower fan is converted to electric energy by vibration generating device 1, also absorbs Vibration in cabin, therefore also plays the effect into fan shock-absorbing, reduces what fan vibration was caused to a certain extent Ill effect.
It addition, the electromotor of vibration generating device is typically directly connected with current transformer, electromotor can be controlled by current transformer The torque of loading, thus control generator speed, and then control the frequency of vibration of inertance element, play the work of damping adjusting With, it is possible to avoid blower fan resonant frequency, and weaken fan vibration to greatest extent, i.e. realize vibration generating device with maximum work output Rate works.By can calculate the relation of torque and rotating speed with complete blower associative simulation, thus carried out effectively by current transformer Closed loop control.
The above is embodiment of the present utility model, it is noted that for the ordinary skill in the art, Without departing under this utility model principle premise, it is also possible to making various deformation and improvement, this also should be considered as this utility model Protection domain.

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1. a vibration generating device, it is characterised in that: include,
Housing, described housing is fixedly mounted on vibration source;
Inertance element, described inertance element is movably disposed in housing;
Bent axle, described bent axle is installed in rotation on housing, and is connected with inertance element by connecting rod;
TRT, described TRT is connected with one end of bent axle, and is driven it to generate electricity by bent axle.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described inertance element slides even with housing Connecing, be additionally provided with buffer unit between housing and inertance element, described buffer unit is arranged on the moving direction of inertance element On, and be elongated with the movement of inertance element or compress;One end of described connecting rod is hinged with inertance element, and the other end turns with bent axle It is dynamically connected.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 2, it is characterised in that: the bottom of described inertance element or top Being slidably connected with housing by guide rail, described guide rail is horizontally disposed with, and its two ends are fixedly connected with the casing;Described buffer unit with lead Rail be arranged in parallel.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 3, it is characterised in that: the quantity of described inertance element is at least Two, and along the differing heights that is axially disposed within of bent axle, inertance element is evenly distributed on the both sides of bent axle.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 4, it is characterised in that: the quantity of described inertance element is four Individual, and correspondingly it is distributed in the side, front, rear, left and right four of bent axle, the two ends of described bent axle are connected with housing by bearing, and one End extends to be connected with TRT outside housing.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 4, it is characterised in that: described inertance element is solid metal block Or in metal shell, loading concrete, the side of described inertance element is provided with inner recess, and described connecting rod stretches in inner recess, and Hinged with inertance element by bearing pin.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 2, it is characterised in that: described buffer unit is spring, and they are two years old End is fixing with inertance element and housing respectively to be connected, and the telescopic direction of described spring is parallel with the moving direction of inertance element to be set Put.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described TRT include gear-box and Electromotor, described gear-box is step-up gear, and its power shaft is connected with bent axle, and output shaft is connected with the rotating shaft of electromotor.
A kind of vibration generating device the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described housing is to have holding cavity structure Square casing, described inertance element is arranged in the cavity volume of housing, and the bottom of housing is provided with supporting construction, and passes through bolt and shake Dynamic source connects, and the opposite end that described bent axle is connected with TRT is also fixedly connected with at least one flywheel, and described flywheel is positioned at Outside housing.
10. installing the wind-driven generator just like the vibration generating device described in any one of claim 1-9, its feature exists In: described vibration generating device, the housing of described vibration generating device and machine are installed in the cabin of described wind-driven generator Bilge portion is fixing to be connected.
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