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EP2918849B1
EP2918849B1 EP13862737.7A EP13862737A EP2918849B1 EP 2918849 B1 EP2918849 B1 EP 2918849B1 EP 13862737 A EP13862737 A EP 13862737A EP 2918849 B1 EP2918849 B1 EP 2918849B1
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Isao Tomita
Koichi Sugimoto
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    • 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
    • F04D29/26—Rotors specially for elastic fluids
    • F04D29/28—Rotors specially for elastic fluids for centrifugal or helico-centrifugal pumps for radial-flow or helico-centrifugal pumps
    • F04D29/30—Vanes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D21/00—Pump involving supersonic speed of pumped fluids
    • 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
    • F04D29/26—Rotors specially for elastic fluids
    • F04D29/28—Rotors specially for elastic fluids for centrifugal or helico-centrifugal pumps for radial-flow or helico-centrifugal pumps
    • F04D29/284—Rotors specially for elastic fluids for centrifugal or helico-centrifugal pumps for radial-flow or helico-centrifugal pumps for compressors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05D—INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS
    • F05D2240/00—Components
    • F05D2240/20—Rotors
    • F05D2240/30—Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor
    • F05D2240/303—Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor related to the leading edge of a rotor blade

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  • the present disclosure relates to compressors such as centrifugal compressors and mixed flow compressors.
  • centrifugal compressors each of which compresses a gas that flows in from an axial direction and discharges the gas in a radial direction
  • mixed flow compressors each of which compresses a gas that flows in from an axial direction and discharges the gas in a direction that is diagonal with respect to the axial direction
  • a centrifugal compressor including a main blade that is curved in an arch form in a direction reverse to a rotation direction in an axial view of an impeller for enabling performance improvement of the compressor is disclosed by the present inventor.
  • Patent Document 1 JPA2004-44473
  • EP 1 788 255 discloses a compressor impeller having a wheel disc and blades with a leading edge and a trailing edge that are arranged in a circumferential direction.
  • a partial area of a surface of the blades is a dual curved partial area, whose generatrix is formed as curved lines, where the partial area is curved perpendicular to the generatrix.
  • a transfer of the dual curved partial area is continuous to a standard surface partial area.
  • the blades have a hub edge and an outer edge, where the partial areas abut at the outer edge and the hub edge, respectively.
  • the present inventor found out that the centrifugal compressor described in Patent Document 1 has a problem in which, as described later, a shock wave is developed during high-speed operation of an impeller caused by a leading edge shape of a main blade, and performance may be degraded in a high-speed rotation region.
  • the present invention was made in view of the above-described conventional problem, and aims at providing a compressor capable of improving performance in a high-speed rotation region by devising a leading edge shape of a main blade to suppress the development of a shock wave generated during high-speed operation
  • All embodiments of the present invention comprise a compressor that is configured to compress a gas that flows in from an axial direction and discharge the gas in a radial direction or in a direction that is diagonal with respect to the axial direction comprising:
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from the axial direction, at a position that is at least 50% of the blade length, is inclined to a rotation direction side with respect to the first radial direction outward in the first radial direction. Therefore, as described later, a shock wave generated during high-speed operation of the impeller may be suppressed and performance of the compressor in a high-speed rotation region may be improved.
  • a maximum inclination angle in a range of 40% to 80% of the blade length is in a range of 3 to 20 degrees with respect to the first radial direction.
  • a shock wave generated during high-speed operation of the impeller may be effectively suppressed and performance of the compressor in a high-speed rotation region may be improved.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from the axial direction, at an end part inside in the first radial direction, is inclined to a rotation direction side with respect to the first radial direction inward in the first radial direction.
  • a connection length between a main blade and a hub may be secured long, and stress concentration at a root part of the main blade may be relaxed.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from the axial direction, at an end part outside in the first radial direction, is inclined to a direction opposite to a rotation direction with respect to the first radial direction outward in the first radial direction.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from a meridional plane direction, at a position that is at least 50% of a blade height extending to a shroud side of the compressor housing, is inclined to an upstream side with respect to an axis orthogonal direction toward the shroud side.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades in a range of 40% to 80% of the blade height, is continuously inclined to an upstream side with respect to an axis orthogonal direction toward the shroud side.
  • a maximum inclination angle in the range of 40% to 80% of the blade height is in a range of 10 to 30 degrees with respect to an axis orthogonal direction.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from a meridional plane direction, at an end part of a hub side, is inclined to an upstream side with respect to an axis orthogonal direction toward the hub side.
  • a connection length between a main blade and a hub may be secured long, and stress concentration at a root part of the main blade may be relaxed.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from a meridional plane direction, at an end part on the shroud side, is inclined to a lower stream side with respect to an axis orthogonal direction toward the shroud side.
  • a leading edge of each of the main blades when the impeller is viewed from the axial direction, at a position that is at least 50% of the blade length, is inclined to a rotation direction side with respect to the first radial direction outward in the first radial direction. Therefore, a compressor capable of suppressing development of a shock wave generated during high-speed operation and improving performance in a high-speed rotation region may be provided.
  • Fig. 1 is a view illustrating a compressor associated with one embodiment.
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating an impeller of a compressor associated with one embodiment.
  • a compressor 1 is configured as a centrifugal compressor 1 that compresses a gas that flows in an axial direction of the compressor and discharge the gas in a radial direction.
  • the centrifugal compressor 1 includes: a rotary shaft 2; an impeller 3 provided at a one end part of the rotary shaft 2; and a compressor housing 6 that rotatably accommodates the impeller 3.
  • the rotary shaft is rotatably supported by an unillustrated bearing and is rotatably configured about a center line CL as a center.
  • the impeller 3 includes: a conical hub fixed at one end part of the rotary shaft 2; and a plurality of main blades 5 provided by being protruded from a surface of the hub 4.
  • the impeller 3, as illustrated in Fig. 2 may include splitter blades 7 that are formed between the neighboring main blades 5, 5 and are shorter than the main blades 5 in the axial direction. Between the main blades 5 and the splitter blades 7 (when there are no splitter blades 7, between the neighboring main blades 5, 5), flow path 11 through which a gas flows are formed.
  • the compressor housing 6, as illustrated in Fig. 1 includes: an inlet flow path 12 that introduces a gas in the axial direction; a diffuser flow path 14 through which a compressed gas is discharged by the impeller 3; and a scroll flow path 16 through which the compressed gas is guided to an outside of the housing.
  • the impeller 3 is so formed that a blade tip 5a of each of the main blades 5 follows an inner circumferential shape of a shroud part 18, and is rotatably accommodated in the compressor housing 6. By the impeller 3 being rotated in high speed, a gas flowing in from leading edges 5b flows through the flow path 11 and is accelerated, and flows out from trailing edges 5c to the diffuser flow path 14.
  • Fig. 3 is a partially enlarged view illustrating an impeller of a compressor associated with one embodiment, (a) is a meridional plane view viewed from a meridional plane direction, and (b) is a plan view viewed from an axial direction.
  • a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5, as illustrated in Fig. 3 (a) is extended in a direction orthogonal to a center line CL in a meridional plane view.
  • a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5, in a plan view is inclined to a rotation direction R side with respect to a first radial direction r outward in the first radial direction in a neighborhood of a center part of the leading edge 5b.
  • a planar shape, when a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5 is viewed from the axial direction, is described in detail with reference to Fig. 4 .
  • Fig. 4 is an explanatory drawing illustrating a planar shape of a leading edge of a main blade.
  • a planar shape of the leading edge 5b when a blade length of the leading edge 5b extending to an outside in the first radial direction is denoted as L, is such that a most backward point P1 is formed at a position of 0.2 L outward in the first radial direction.
  • a most forward point P2 is formed at a position of 0.8 L outward in the first radial direction.
  • the leading edge 5b In a range of 20 to 80% (0.2 to 0.8 L) of the blade length L, the leading edge 5b is inclined at a maximum inclination angle ⁇ 1 to the rotation direction R side with respect to the first radial direction r outward in the first radial direction.
  • Fig. 5 is an explanatory drawing for explaining an effect when a leading edge of a main blade is made to be inclined to a rotation direction side with respect to the first radial direction outward in the first radial direction, (a) illustrates a case where the leading edge is parallel to the first radial direction (reference example), and (b) illustrates a case where the leading edge is inclined with respect to the first radial direction (embodiment example).
  • An arrow V in the figure represents a gas flow direction, and a length of the arrow V means a magnitude of flow velocity.
  • a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5 is inclined to the rotation direction R side with respect to the first radial direction outward in the first radial direction in a range of at least 40% to 80% of the blade length L.
  • the maximum inclination angle ⁇ 1 in a range of 40% to 80% of the blade length L is in a range of 3 to 20 degrees with respect to the first radial direction, the shock wave generated during high-speed operation of the impeller 3 may be effectively suppressed.
  • a connection length between the main blades 5 and the hub 4 may be secured long.
  • overhung may be relaxed and stress concentration at a root part of the main blades 5 may be relaxed.
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective view illustrating an impeller of a compressor associated with one embodiment.
  • Fig. 7 is a partially enlarged view illustrating an impeller of a compressor associated with one embodiment, (a) is a meridional plane view viewed from a meridional plane direction, and (b) is a plan view viewed from an axial direction.
  • Fig. 8 is an explanatory drawing illustrating a meridional shape of a leading edge of a main blade.
  • the impeller 3 associated with the present embodiment is basically similar to the above-described embodiment, and the same reference numerals are assigned to the same configuration and detailed descriptions may be omitted.
  • a planar shape of a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5 has a shape similar to the above-described embodiment and, as illustrated in Fig. 7 (a) , the leading edge 5b in a meridional plane view at a neighborhood of the center part is inclined to an upstream side with respect to an axial orthogonal direction p toward the shroud side.
  • a most backward point P1 is formed at a position of 0.2 H toward the shroud side.
  • the most forward point P2 is formed at a position of 0.8 H toward the shroud side.
  • a range of the blade height H of 20 to 80% (0.2 to 0.8 H) is inclined at a maximum inclination angle ⁇ 2 to the upstream side with respect to the axial orthogonal direction p toward the shroud side.
  • Fig. 9 is an explanatory drawing for explaining an effect when a leading edge of a main blade is made to be inclined to an upstream side with respect to the axial orthogonal direction toward the shroud side, and is corresponding to Fig. 5 of the above-described embodiment.
  • Fig. 9 (a) illustrates a case where the leading edge is parallel to the axial orthogonal direction, and (b) illustrates a case where the leading edge is inclined with respect to the axial orthogonal direction.
  • a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5 is inclined to the upstream side with respect to the axial orthogonal direction toward the shroud side in a range of at least 40% to 80% of the blade height H.
  • the maximum inclination angle ⁇ 2 in a range of 40% to 80% of the blade height H is in a range of 10 to 30 degrees with respect to the first radial direction, the shock wave generated during high-speed operation of the impeller 3 may be effectively suppressed.
  • a leading edge 5b of each of the main blades 5, when the impeller 3 is viewed from the meridional plane direction, at an end part of the hub side (for instance, as illustrated in Fig. 8 , in a range of 0.0 to 0.2 H), is inclined to the upstream side with respect to the axial orthogonal direction to the hub side.
  • a connection length between the main blades 5 and the hub 4 may be secured long.
  • overhung may be relaxed and stress concentration at a root part of the main blades 5 may be relaxed.
  • the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and it goes without saying that various improvements and deformations may be performed within a range not deviating from the gist of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.
  • the compressor 1 may be configured as a mixed flow compressor that compresses a gas flowing in the axial direction and discharges the gas in a direction that is diagonal with respect to the axial direction.
  • a compressor of at least one embodiment of the present invention is suitably used as a compressor of a turbocharger used for an engine of an automobile or a ship, for instance.

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