Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
  • F16C32/00—Bearings not otherwise provided for
  • F16C32/06—Bearings not otherwise provided for with moving member supported by a fluid cushion formed, at least to a large extent, otherwise than by movement of the shaft, e.g. hydrostatic air-cushion bearings
  • F16C32/0629—Bearings not otherwise provided for with moving member supported by a fluid cushion formed, at least to a large extent, otherwise than by movement of the shaft, e.g. hydrostatic air-cushion bearings supported by a liquid cushion, e.g. oil cushion
  • F16C32/0633—Bearings not otherwise provided for with moving member supported by a fluid cushion formed, at least to a large extent, otherwise than by movement of the shaft, e.g. hydrostatic air-cushion bearings supported by a liquid cushion, e.g. oil cushion the liquid being retained in a gap
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
  • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
  • F04D29/00—Details, component parts, or accessories
  • F04D29/05—Shafts or bearings, or assemblies thereof, specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
  • F04D29/056—Bearings
  • F04D29/057—Bearings hydrostatic; hydrodynamic
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
  • F16C17/00—Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement
  • F16C17/02—Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement for radial load only
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
  • F16C17/00—Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement
  • F16C17/12—Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement characterised by features not related to the direction of the load
  • F16C17/18—Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement characterised by features not related to the direction of the load with floating brasses or brushing, rotatable at a reduced speed
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
  • F16C2360/00—Engines or pumps
  • F16C2360/23—Gas turbine engines
  • F16C2360/24—Turbochargers

Definitions

• the invention relates to a bearing arrangement for a shaft of a turbine wheel or a turbine wheel and a compressor wheel according to the closer defined in the preamble of claim 1.
• Turbochargers are well known as well as prior art turbocompound systems. Both are used in combination with vehicle powertrains, typically internal combustion engines, and serve to provide thermal energy and pressure energy contained in the exhaust gases of the engine
• the energy recovered via the turbine wheel as an impeller from the hot exhaust gases is also converted into mechanical rotational energy on a shaft carrying the turbine wheel.
• this energy then becomes the mechanical drive of components and the recovery of mechanical energy
• Turbocompound systems are commonly used to support the shaft used hydrodynamic plain bearings, which have circular cylindrical bushings according to the general state of the art. These are typically designed as floating bushings, so that the bearing bush has two bearing gaps, once between a statically fixed housing and the bearing bush on the one hand and between the shaft and the bearing bush on the other.
• the floating arrangement of the bushings allows in operation, the rotation of the same between the shaft and the housing. This is mainly caused by the fact that due to the small radial gap dimensions of the
• Bearing gaps cause the viscous resistance or deceleration forces to an angular momentum on the floating bushing, so that it is set in rotation.
• Such bearings are typically supplied with oil by lubricating oil bores in the region of the bearing bush in such a way that both bearing gaps have a corresponding oil film.
• Lubricating film which minimizes the friction and wear, in particular between the shaft and the bearing bush, while corresponding rotational speeds of the bearing bush itself are necessary and desirable. At such high speeds of the floating bushing, however, there is a risk that
• Bearing columns normally provides a desired damping of the rotating shaft, it comes under such operating conditions to a reduced
• Bearings in the form of hydrodynamic sliding bearings are also known from the further general state of the art, for example in the form of DE 1 575 563, in which the bearing bush or the shaft mounted in the bearing bush have mutually different cross-sectional profiles in a cross section perpendicular to the axis of rotation. These non-round or at least not circular executed cross-sectional profiles allow and improve the formation of a hydrodynamic lubricant film. In floating bushings, however, such a configuration is only partially possible because this typically favors the entrainment of the bearing bush to a high speed at a correspondingly high shaft speed rather than counteract this.
• the object of the present invention now lies in a bearing assembly for a shaft of a turbine wheel or a
• Characteristic part of claim 1 achieved in that a ratio of related to a rotational axis of the shaft radii of the first bearing gap and the second bearing gap changes over the maximum extent of the bearing bush at least once.
• the two bearing gaps can thus run, for example, at an angle to each other, so that the floating bearing bush in the
• the position gaps are arranged eccentrically to each other.
• the bearing gaps can be formed here again in the manner of lateral surfaces of circular cylinders.
• the center axes of the respective circular cylinder are not congruent to each other, but parallel to each other or even can run at an angle to each other.
• Such an eccentric arrangement of the bearing gaps to one another can thus solve the above-mentioned problem.
• This constant gap width of the bearing gap in the axial direction regardless of the The course of the bearing gap itself represents a particularly simple and efficient construction, which can be correspondingly easily realized, in particular in the production. Thanks to the constant gap width of the bearing gap, it also allows efficient and uniform storage over the entire available storage area.
• the structure then has a conical bearing gap.
• Rotation axis acting vector components as well as to reduce vibration.
• the thrust bearings are relieved by appropriate forces or it can even be dispensed with in certain cases even on a thrust bearing.
• the approach according to the invention can be realized very simply and inexpensively, since it does not already occur
• Flow conditions of the lubricating oil in the respective bearing gap can be determined by surface structuring or through the use of
• the bearing bush has a statistical and / or dynamic unbalance with respect to its geometric center axis. As a result, the pressure build-up in the bearing gap is favored.
• a predetermined Speed difference of the bearing bush against the shaft can be adjusted, which serves for example to avoid unwanted acoustic effects.
• an advantageous rotational speed of the bearing bush can be adjusted from 20% to 50% relative to the rotational speed of the shaft, which has proven to be particularly efficient.
• Figure 1 is a sectional view of an exemplary turbocharger for
• FIG. 2 shows a bearing arrangement with a bearing bush having an inclined bearing gap
• Figure 3 shows a bearing assembly with a two mutually inclined
• Figure 4 shows a bearing assembly with two bearing gaps, in opposite
• Figure 5 is a two cylindrical portions having different diameters bearing bushing
• FIG. 7 shows a bearing bush whose outer and inner bearing gaps each have a cylindrical region and a conical region;
• FIG. 8 shows a bearing arrangement with two bearing bushes according to FIG. 3;
• Figure 10 is a two concentric bearing gaps same bearing length with axial
• Figure 11 is an axially displaceable against the force of a spring element
• Figure 12 is a bearing bush with a variable in the axial direction
• the exhaust gas turbocharger 1 comprises a turbine wheel 2, a shaft 3 and a compressor wheel 4.
• Exhaust gas for example hot exhaust gas from the region of an internal combustion engine, not shown, flows into the area of the turbine wheel 2 via a volute 5 spirally around the outer circumference of the turbine wheel 2 does this because of it
• variable turbine guide grille with guide vanes 7 can be seen between the volute casing 5 and the blades 6 of the turbine wheel 2. This is known from the general state of the art and is common in turbochargers 1. It's on here However, the present invention has no influence, so its functionality is not discussed in more detail.
• the exhaust gas turbocharger 1 could also be realized without the guide vanes 7. Rotationally fixed to the turbine wheel 2, the shaft 3 is connected, which in turn is non-rotatably connected to the compressor 4. The compressor 4 sucks fresh air from the environment and compresses it in the area of a
• the turbocharger 1 also has a static
• housing 9 which comes to rest between the turbine wheel 2 and the compressor 4.
• the shaft 3 is mounted on bearing bushes 10.
• the bushings 10 are shown in principle via the housing 9 lines supplied lubricating oil, so that forms a hydrodynamic sliding bearing.
• the bushings 10, on soft will be discussed in more detail later, are designed as a floating bushings 10. This means that they form a first bearing gap 11 between the housing 9 and the bearing bush 10, and a second bearing gap 12 between the bearing bush 10 and the shaft 3. This is in the enlarged schematic representation of one of the bearing bushes 10 in the illustration of Figure 2 better to recognize.
• FIG. 2 The basic representation of Figure 2 shows the shaft 3 and the static housing 9 and a rotatably mounted on the shaft or integrally formed with the shaft 3 ring 13.
• This ring or bearing ring 13 is shown in Figure 2 and the following figures each comparable and should in particular be formed integrally with the shaft.
• the bearing gaps 11, 12 can be supplied in a known manner with lubricating oil.
• one or more holes in the bearing bush 10 himself be present. To simplify this and the following illustration is dispensed with a representation of such holes.
• the bearing gaps 1 1, 12 and the floating bushing 10 are now configured so that the first bearing gap 1 1 has a first radius ri, based on a rotation axis 14 of the shaft 3.
• the second bearing gap 12 has a deviating radius r 2 .
• the two radii ri and x 2 are shown by way of example only in an axial position.
• the first bearing gap 1 is formed in the manner of a conical surface, that is inclined to the axis of rotation 14 of the shaft 3.
• the maximum width of the bearing bush 10 which is marked in the illustration of Figure 2 with x, changes the radius of the first bearing gap 11.
• the second bearing gap 12 should be formed in this embodiment as a lateral surface of a circular cylinder, so that the radius r 2 of the second bearing gap 12 does not change over the maximum width x of the bearing bush 10.
• Embodiment of the bearing bush 10 in the illustration of Figure 2 is thus characterized in that the ratio r ⁇ lr 2 of the radii of the two
• Bearing gap 1 1, 12 to each other over the maximum extent x of the bearing bush 10 in the axial direction is not constant.
• the ratio changes from the one side of the bearing bush 10 in the axial direction to the other side of the bearing bush 10 in the axial direction continuously.
• the gap width of the bearing gaps 1 1, 12 is preferably constant in the axial direction.
• the bearing bush 10 is very similar to the embodiment shown in Figure 2 executed. It points opposite to the representation in Figure 2 only the difference that not only the first bearing gap 11, but also the second bearing gap 12 with respect to the rotation axis 14 is designed to be inclined. Since the two bearing gaps are also designed to be inclined with respect to one another, it is also the case here that the ratio of the radii r 1 over the axial extent x of the bearing bush 10 changes continuously.
• the inclinations of the bearing gaps 11, 12 are designed so that they each with the rotation axis 14 an angle ⁇ , ß on the same side of the bearing bush 10th
• Figure 4 shows a further structure of a bearing bush, in which also both bearing gaps 11, 12 are designed inclined. Unlike the embodiment of the bearing bush 10 selected in FIG. 3, however, the extension of the first bearing gap 11 here intersects with the rotation axis 14 on the other side of the bearing bush 10 as the extension of the second
• the bearing gaps are thus designed inclined in opposite directions. This allows a compensation of the axial direction of the
• Rotation axis 14 acting force components since a part of the components in each case in one and another part of the components in each case acts in the other direction. Again, it is true that the ratio ri / r 2 over the width x of the bearing bush 0 is not constant.
• the first bearing gap 11 has three
• Outer surface stepped bearing bushing 10 is created. This can also absorb axial forces in addition to radial forces, since in the region of the sudden cross-sectional enlargement forces also in the direction of the axis of rotation 14th
• FIG. 6 a similar configured bearing bush 10 can be seen again.
• a similar combination, which connects the embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 5, can be seen in the illustration of FIG. FIG. 8 takes up the already discussed in the context of FIG
• FIG. 9 shows a further possible embodiment of the bearing bush 10.
• the bushing 10 in this embodiment has the two
• Bearing column, 12 essentially concentric on. Both bearing gaps are formed in the manner of lateral surfaces of circular cylinders. However, the two bearing gaps extend over different distances in the axial
• Bearing bush 10 are both bearing gaps 11, 12 in the axial direction of the same length, but they are arranged offset with their starting points or end points in the axial direction to each other. This also results in jumps in the ratio of the radii r- ⁇ , r 2 to each other, so that also the effect according to the invention can be achieved with a comparatively simple structure.
• Vibrations lead to a displacement of the bearing bush 10 against the spring forces, which reset them with increasing deflection of the bearing bush 10 with increasing force again, so that the systemsregelnd ensures stable storage.
• Bearing gaps 11, 12, an alternative embodiment in Figure 12 is shown. This has the bearing bushing 10 between the bearing bush 10 and the housing 7, the first bearing gap 11 in the way that this gap width or its gap width changes over the axial width x of the bearing bush 10 accordingly.
• the first bearing gap 11 on the right-hand side has a first gap width indicated by bi, while on the right-hand side Having opposite axial side of the bearing bushing 0 and the bearing gap 11 has a larger b2 designated gap width. This also leads to an inhomogeneous pressure build-up in the bearing gap, which helps to prevent unwanted vibrations.
• the bearing bush 10 is designed so that, in the illustration of Figure 11 greatly exaggerated, the central axes of the outer circular cylindrical surface which forms the first bearing gap 11 between the bearing bush 10 and the housing 7, and the inner annular surface, which between the shaft 3 or the ring 13 and the bearing bush 10, the second bearing gap 11 is formed, are arranged eccentrically to each other.
• the central axes are not aligned with the axis of rotation 14 of the shaft 3, but at least one of the axes deviates from the axis of rotation 14 and is arranged parallel to this in the illustration of FIG.
• All embodiments contribute to reducing subharmonic excitations or self-excited vibrations. They can thus minimize or prevent acoustic interference and can in particular ensure that the shaft 3 in the bearings does not become unstable, which could lead to a corresponding rocking of the system of shaft and turbine wheel 2 and possibly the compressor 4. In the worst case could this can lead to a breakdown of the rotor from shaft 3, turbine 2 and compressor 4. All variants also relieve the thrust bearing, so that this, if it should continue to be / must be structurally simple design.
• the embodiments are simple and efficient to implement. You can, for example, conventional

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