JP2014148977A - Turbo-molecular pump device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that it is difficult to adopt a fan device in light of a life of a fan even though it can be conceived to commonly use a cooling fan device.SOLUTION: A turbo molecular pump device has: a turbo molecular pump body; a power source device 14 for driving the turbo molecular pump device; and a water-cooling device 13 interposed between the turbo molecular pump body and the power source device. Components provided in a housing 140 of the power source device are classified into strong-cooling required components requiring strong-cooling, medium-cooling required components requiring medium-degree cooling, and cooling non-required components rarely requiring cooling. The strong-cooling required components are mounted on a first high conductive substrate contacting the water-cooling device, the medium-cooling required components are mounted on a second high conductive substrate contacting an inner face of the housing, and the cooling non-required components are arranged in a space between the first high conductive substrate and the second high conductive substrate.

Description

  The present invention relates to a turbo molecular pump device.

  The turbo molecular pump device is a device in which a rotor on which rotor blades are formed is driven to rotate by a motor, and gas molecules are exhausted by rotating the rotor blades at a high speed with respect to a fixed blade, and is connected to various vacuum processing devices. Used. As this main turbo molecular pump, there is one that cools the motor main body and the power supply unit by a water cooling mechanism (for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2006-274960 A

  The water cooling mechanism is suitable for locally cooling a limited part (a part having a shape that can be easily cooled), but is intended to cool a relatively wide area such as a power supply device of a turbo molecular pump. In this case, simply providing a water cooling mechanism is insufficient for cooling. Although it is conceivable to use a cooling fan device together, it is difficult to adopt the fan device considering the life of the fan.

  A power supply device for a turbomolecular pump device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a power supply device for driving a turbomolecular pump body having a rotor formed with rotor blades, a fixed blade, and a motor that rotationally drives the rotor. A regenerative brake resistor for converting the regenerative electric power of the motor into heat, and a water cooling device interposed between the turbo molecular pump main body and the power supply device, wherein the regenerative brake resistor is a heat transfer material. It is attached to the lower surface of the water-cooling device through a manufactured attachment member.

  In a preferred embodiment, the regenerative brake resistor is fixed to the mounting member by a fixing means.

  In a preferred embodiment, the mounting member is screwed to the water cooling device with a bolt.

  In a preferred embodiment, the regenerative brake resistor is attached to the lower surface of the water cooling device via the attachment member at a corner portion of the power supply device.

  In a preferred embodiment, the mounting member has a U-shaped cross section in which the regenerative brake resistance is arranged.

  A power supply apparatus for a turbo molecular pump device according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention is a power supply apparatus for driving a turbo molecular pump main body having a rotor formed with rotor blades, a fixed blade, and a motor for rotationally driving the rotor. A regenerative brake resistor for converting regenerative electric power of the motor into heat, and a water cooling device interposed between the turbo molecular pump main body and the power supply device, wherein the regenerative brake resistor comprises the water cooling Arranged to contact the device.

  A turbo molecular pump device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes the power supply device described above and the turbo molecular pump main body.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, each component which comprises a power supply device can be cooled efficiently, without providing a cooling fan apparatus.

The external view of a turbo-molecular pump apparatus. It is a figure explaining a water cooling jacket, (a) is a top view, (b) is a front view, (c) is a bottom view. It is a figure explaining a power supply device housing | casing, (a) is a top view, (b) is a front view. IV-IV sectional view taken on the line of FIG. VV sectional view taken on the line of FIG. VI-VI sectional view taken on the line of FIG. The figure explaining the fitting structure of a jacket main body and a power supply device housing | casing. The block diagram which shows the detail of the control apparatus 14. FIG. (A) is the longitudinal cross-sectional view which shows the housing | casing 140 inside, (b) is the bb sectional view taken on the line of an apparatus. The figure explaining the bracket which attaches a sheathed heater to a cooling device. The figure which shows the board | substrate with which each component is mounted, and a strong cooling component, a middle cooling component, and a cooling unnecessary component. The figure explaining the support method of the board | substrate with which a cooling unnecessary component is mounted.

  A turbomolecular pump device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The turbo molecular pump device exhausts gas molecules by rotating a rotor on which rotor blades are formed with a motor and rotating the rotor blades at high speed with respect to a fixed blade. Such a turbo molecular pump device is used by being connected to various vacuum processing apparatuses.

  FIG. 1 shows an appearance of a turbo molecular pump device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The turbo molecular pump device 10 includes a pump main body 11 that performs evacuation, a base 12, a cooling device 13, and a power supply device 14 that drives and controls the pump main body 11. The pump body 11 has a well-known structure and will not be described in detail. However, the pump body 11 mainly includes a rotor including a rotor provided with rotating blades and a rotating shaft, a fixed blade cooperating with the rotating blades, and a rotating body. And a motor for rotationally driving the motor. The rotating body is supported in a non-contact manner by an electromagnet constituting a 5-axis magnetic bearing. A rotating body magnetically levitated by a magnetic bearing is rotated at a high speed by a motor, and a rotating blade is rotated at a high speed with respect to a fixed blade, thereby a vacuum processing device (not shown) connected to the intake port 11Q. Gas molecules are sucked and exhausted from the exhaust port 12H to which the back port is connected.

  The cooling device 13 is interposed between the pump main body 11 and the power supply device 14, and mainly cools the heat generating member in the power supply device 14, particularly the electronic components of the motor drive circuit. As shown in FIG. 2, the cooling device 13 includes a jacket body 13a having a cooling water passage formed therein, a cooling water inlet 13b and a cooling water outlet 13c for circulating cooling water from a pump (not shown) in the cooling water passage. And have.

  The pump body 11 includes a casing 110, and the casing 110 is provided with connecting flanges 110UF and 110LF in the vertical direction in FIG. The base 12 includes a casing 120. The casing 120 is provided with connecting flanges 120UF and 120LF vertically in FIG. Casings 110 and 120 are called pump casings. The upper connecting flange 110UF of the pump body 11 is connected to an exhaust port of a vacuum processing apparatus (not shown) with a bolt 11B. The lower connecting flange 110LF of the pump main body 11 is connected to the upper connecting flange 120UF of the base 12 by a bolt 12B. The lower connecting flange 120LF of the base 12 is installed on the upper surface 13US of the cooling device 13, and the cooling device 13 is fastened to the lower surface of the base 12 with bolts 13B. The lower surface of the cooling device 13 abuts on the upper end surface of the housing (made of metal) 140 of the power supply device 14, and the housing 140 is fastened to the cooling device 13 with bolts 14B.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the jacket body 13a has a substantially octagonal flat plate shape, and a convex portion 13e having a substantially octagonal planar shape is formed on the bottom surface. Projections 13f are formed on the outer periphery of the jacket main body 13a at predetermined angles, and holes 13g for fastening the power supply device housing 140 are formed in the protrusions 13f. A screw hole 13h is screwed into the convex portion 13e concentrically with the pump rotation axis. As shown in FIG. 1, the jacket main body 13a is fastened to the casing 120 by bringing the jacket upper surface 13US into contact with the lower connection flange 120LF of the casing 120 of the exhaust portion 12 and screwing the bolt 13B into the screw hole 13h. The power supply device 14 is fastened to the jacket main body 13a by abutting the upper end surface of the power supply device housing 140 on the back surface 13LS of the jacket main body 13a and screwing the bolt 14B into the screw hole of the power supply device housing 140.

  The power supply housing 140 will be described with reference to FIG. The power supply housing 140 is formed in an octagonal cylinder with a bottom (see FIG. 4), and the open end 14a has an approximately octagonal annular shape around the entire periphery thereof as shown in FIGS. A recess 14b is provided. Projections 14c are formed on the outer periphery of the open end 14a at every predetermined angle, and screw holes 14d for fastening the power supply device case 140 and the jacket body 13a are screwed into the protrusions 14c. As shown in FIG. 7, the convex portion 13e of the jacket main body 13a is fitted into the annular concave portion 14b. That is, the octagonal periphery of the convex portion 13e of the cooling device 13 is fitted into the substantially octagonal annular concave portion 14b.

  The power supply device 14 will be described with reference to FIG. AC power is supplied to the power supply device 14 from the primary power supply 15 and input to the AC / DC converter 14a. The voltage of the input AC power is detected by the voltage sensor 14b. The AC / DC converter 14a converts AC power supplied from the primary power supply 15 into DC power. The DC power output from the AC / DC converter 14a is input to the three-phase inverter 14c that drives the motor 16 and the DC / DC converter 14d. The voltage of the DC power input to the DC / DC converter 14d is detected by the voltage sensor 14e. The output of the DC / DC converter 14d is input to an inverter control circuit 14f that controls the three-phase inverter 14c by PWM control and the like and a magnetic bearing control unit 14g that controls magnetic levitation by the magnetic bearing 17.

  The magnetic bearing control unit 14g includes a control unit 141g that performs bearing control, and an excitation amplifier 142g that supplies an excitation current to the magnetic bearing 17 based on a control signal calculated by the control unit 141g.

The inverter control circuit 14f receives the rotational speed of the rotor 20 detected by the rotational speed sensor 19, and the inverter control circuit 14f controls the three-phase inverter 14c based on the rotor rotational speed. Reference numeral 14h denotes a regenerative brake resistor (seeds heater) for consumption of regenerative surplus power, and regenerative power at the time of rotor deceleration is consumed by the regenerative brake resistor 14h. By controlling on / off of the transistor 14j by the transistor control circuit 14i, on / off of the current flowing through the regenerative brake resistor 14h is controlled. 14k is a diode for preventing power backflow during regeneration.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a specific arrangement of elements and substrates of the power supply device 14. 9A is a longitudinal sectional view of the jacket main body 13a and the power supply device 14, and FIG. 9B is a sectional view taken along the line bb of FIG. 9A. The motor drive circuit unit is a large power unit that supplies electric power to the motor, and includes a regenerative brake resistor 14h that is a heat generating element during regeneration, and is therefore disposed immediately below the cooling device 13.

  As described in FIG. 8, the power supply device 14 mainly includes a motor drive circuit unit and a magnetic bearing control unit. As shown in FIG. 9A, various components are divided into a plurality of substrates 81 to 83. It is arranged. In the present embodiment, these components are classified into the strong cooling component 50, the middle cooling component 60, and the cooling unnecessary component 70 according to the heat generation amount and resistance to high temperatures, and these components are arranged on different substrates 81 to 83, respectively. Yes.

  The strong cooling component 50 is a component that requires strong cooling. For example, as shown in FIG. 11, the power element 51, the resistor 52, the power coil / transformer 53, and the large electrolytic capacitor 54 that generate heat of approximately 5 W or more. Etc. The central cooling component 60 is a component that is required to be cooled but does not require strong cooling, such as a strong cooling component. The power element 61 that generates less than 5 W of heat and the electronic circuit component 62 that consumes a certain amount of power are used. including. The cooling unnecessary component 70 includes a transistor 71 with little power consumption that is hardly required to be cooled, a resistor / capacitor 72, an IC 73, and the like.

  The substrate 81 on which the strong cooling component 50 is mounted is a high heat transfer substrate, and an insulating film is applied on the mounting surface, and the component 50 and the wiring pattern are disposed thereon. The highly heat-conductive substrate 81 is fixed inside the ring-shaped regenerative brake resistor 14 h so that the back surface (surface opposite to the mounting surface) is almost in contact with the bottom surface of the jacket body 13 </ b> A of the cooling device 13. Therefore, the cooling device 13 can strongly cool the strong cooling component 50 via the highly heat conductive substrate 81. In addition, for the component 50 that requires particularly strong cooling, a thermal conductive compound 50A is interposed between the component 50 and the mounting surface of the substrate 81 to further increase the cooling efficiency.

  The substrate 82 on which the cooling component 60 is mounted is a highly heat-conductive substrate, and an insulating film is applied to the mounting surface, and the component 60 and the wiring pattern are disposed thereon. The substrate 82 is fixed so that the back surface (the surface opposite to the mounting surface) is in almost full contact with the bottom surface of the power supply housing 140. Therefore, the heat generated from the main cooling component 60 is efficiently released to the outside air through the high heat transfer substrate 82 and the power supply housing 140. Although the absolute cooling efficiency is inferior to that of the above-described strong cooling component 50, sufficient cooling can be achieved as the middle cooling component 60.

  The board 83 on which the cooling unnecessary component 70 is mounted is made of, for example, glass epoxy or phenol. The substrate 83 is disposed in a space between the two high heat transfer substrates 81 and 82 and separated from the two high heat transfer substrates 81 and 82. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, the substrate 83 can be supported on the high heat transfer substrate 81 by a support member 91 such as a stud bolt. The substrate 83 may be supported by the water-cooling jacket body 13A instead of the high heat transfer substrate 81. The substrate 83 is not a highly heat-conductive substrate, and the heat radiation of the cooling unnecessary component 70 can hardly be expected in terms of position, but there is no problem because it is a cooling unnecessary component. If there is a temperature gradient with surrounding members, the cooling-unnecessary component 70 is transferred and cooled by radiation or local convection.

  As described above, each component of the power supply device 14 is classified into the strong cooling component 50, the intermediate cooling component 60, and the cooling unnecessary component 70, and the strong cooling component 50 is cooled by heat transfer to the water cooling device 13. The cooling component 60 is arranged in a space, and the cooling component 60 is arranged in the second space cooled by the heat transfer to the inner surface of the housing 140, and the cooling unnecessary component 70 is radiated to local members or locally in the housing 140. It was made to arrange in the 3rd space cooled by the heat transfer by the convection. Therefore, components that require cooling can be efficiently cooled according to the required level, and there is no need to provide a cooling fan device.

  In particular, in the power supply device 14 of the above embodiment, the strong cooling component 50 and the middle cooling component 60 are mounted on a highly heat conductive substrate, and the substrate is brought into contact with the inner surface of the water cooling device 13 or the casing 140 by heat transfer. I made it cool. Therefore, it is only necessary to arrange the substrate on which components are mounted in advance in contact with the bottom surfaces of the water cooling device 13 and the housing 140, and the assemblability is improved.

  FIG. 10B shows the appearance of the regenerative brake resistor 14h, and FIG. 10A is a perspective view of the mounting bracket. The regenerative brake resistor 14h is a sheathed heater, for example, and is formed in a C-shaped annular body corresponding to the outer shape of the bottom surface of the jacket body 13a. One terminal of the regenerative brake resistor 14h is connected to the positive line of the AC / AC converter 14a by the cable CA1, and the other terminal is connected to the collector terminal of the transistor 14i by the cable CA2.

  As shown in FIG. 10A, a mounting hole is formed in the upper end flange 21UF of the mounting bracket 21, and a bolt (not shown) is inserted into this hole and screwed into the spiral hole of the jacket body 13a. The outer diameter of the mounting bracket 21 to which the bracket 21 is fixed is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the power supply housing 140 and the outer diameter of the jacket body 13a, and is in contact with the jacket body 13a as shown in FIG. Attached to the corner of the inner peripheral surface connection of the open end of the power supply housing 140. The sheathed heater 14h is disposed around the bottom of the U-shaped cross section of the bracket 21 and is fixed by a fixing means (not shown). As described above, the sheathed heater 14 h is arranged by being routed along the inner peripheral surface of the end portion where the housing 140 is in contact with the cooling device 13. In other words, the sheathed heater 14 h is manufactured and arranged in advance in a shape corresponding to the inner peripheral surface of the housing 140. The space where the sheathed heater 14h is disposed is a space where a substrate or an element such as a motor drive control unit or a magnetic bearing control unit cannot originally be disposed. Therefore, the space efficiency of various element arrangements in the power supply housing 140 can be improved, which contributes to the miniaturization of the power supply device 14.

  Since the regenerative brake resistor 14h is attached to the cooling device 13 via the bracket 21 made of a heat transfer material, the heat generated during the regenerative braking is transferred to the cooling device 13, and an excessive temperature rise is suppressed. .

  Instead of the mounting bracket 21, the sheathed heater 14h may be fixed to the bottom surface of the jacket body 13a with a plurality of metal fittings fixed at predetermined intervals along the shape of the sheathed heater 14h. In this case, heat conductivity can be improved by pressing the sheathed heater 14h against the bottom surface of the jacket body 13a. Further, the shape of the regenerative brake resistor does not necessarily have to be an annular shape as shown in FIG. 10, and may be a shape that can radiate heat to the jacket body 13a.

  In the turbo molecular pump device 10 of one embodiment, the jacket main body 13a and the power supply housing 140 are fitted with each other by a substantially octagonal convex portion 13e and a substantially octagonal annular concave portion 14b to form a torque reaction force structure. When the pump casing 110 rotates and stops relative to the vacuum processing device due to an impact torque caused when the rotor of the pump body 11 comes into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the pump casing due to disturbance, the cooling device 13 and the power supply device 14 Inertia force due to its own weight acts, and torque due to the inertial force acts on the fastening part (first fastening part) between the exhaust casing 120 and the cooling device 13. In addition, torque due to inertial force also acts on the fastening portion (second fastening portion) between the cooling device 13 and the power supply device housing 140. Inertia torque due to the weight of the power supply device 14 is transmitted from the substantially octagonal annular recess 14b to the octagonal projection 13e of the jacket body 13a. Since the jacket main body 13a is fastened to the exhaust casing 120 by the bolt 13B, the shearing force due to the inertial torque acts on the bolt 13B. As a result, the large shearing force due to the inertial force does not act on the bolt 14 </ b> B that fastens the jacket body 13 a and the power supply housing 140. Therefore, the diameter of the bolt 14B can be reduced because it is not necessary to consider the inertial force torque.

The turbo molecular pump device of the above-described embodiment can be implemented by being modified as follows.
(1) The strong cooling component 50 is mounted on a highly heat-conductive substrate 81, and the substrate 81 is mounted in contact with the cooling device 13. However, the strong cooling component 50 may be mounted on the cooling device 13 in an insulated state. When the component itself is not insulated, it is mounted on the cooling device 13 through an insulating sheet having good heat conductivity.

  (2) The inside cooling component 60 is mounted on the highly heat-conductive substrate 82, and the substrate 82 is attached in contact with the inner surface of the housing 140. However, the strong cooling component 60 may be mounted on the inner surface of the housing 14 in an insulated state. When the component itself is not insulated, it is mounted on the inner surface of the housing 14 via an insulating sheet having good heat conductivity.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment as long as the characteristics of the present invention are not impaired.

  Therefore, the present invention includes the power supply device 14 for driving the turbo molecular pump main body, and the water cooling device 13 interposed between the turbo molecular pump main body 11 and the power supply device 14, and the housing 140 of the power supply device 14. The components provided inside are classified into the strong cooling component 50 that requires strong cooling, the medium cooling component 60 that is supplied with moderate cooling, and the cooling unnecessary component 70 that hardly requires cooling. The strong cooling component 50 is arranged in the first space cooled by the heat transfer to the water cooling device 13, and the middle cooling component 60 is placed in the second space cooled by the heat transfer to the inner surface of the housing 140. Arranged and the cooling-free component 70 can be applied to various forms of turbo molecular pumps disposed in the third space cooled by radiation or local convection in the housing 140.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Turbo molecular pump apparatus 11 Pump main body 12 Base 13 Cooling apparatus 14 Power supply apparatus 14h Regenerative brake resistance 21 Mounting bracket

Claims (8)

A power supply device for driving a turbo-molecular pump body having a rotor formed with rotor blades, a fixed blade, and a motor for rotationally driving the rotor,
A regenerative brake resistor that converts regenerative power of the motor into heat;
A water cooling device interposed between the turbo molecular pump main body and the power supply device,
The power supply device for a turbo molecular pump device, wherein the regenerative brake resistor is attached to a lower surface of the water cooling device via an attachment member made of a heat transfer material.   The power supply device for a turbo-molecular pump device according to claim 1, wherein the regenerative brake resistance is fixed to the mounting member by a fixing means.   The power supply device for a turbomolecular pump device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the mounting member is screwed into the water cooling device with a bolt.   The power supply device of the turbo-molecular pump device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the regenerative brake resistor is attached to a lower surface of the water cooling device via the attachment member at a corner portion of the power supply device.   The power supply device of the turbo-molecular pump device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the attachment member has a U-shaped cross section in which the regenerative brake resistance is arranged. A power supply device for driving a turbo-molecular pump body having a rotor formed with rotor blades, a fixed blade, and a motor for rotationally driving the rotor,
A regenerative brake resistor that converts regenerative power of the motor into heat;
A water cooling device interposed between the turbo molecular pump main body and the power supply device,
The power supply device for a turbo molecular pump device, wherein the regenerative brake resistance is attached to the lower surface of the water cooling device via a member made of a heat transfer material. A power supply device for driving a turbo-molecular pump body having a rotor formed with rotor blades, a fixed blade, and a motor for rotationally driving the rotor,
A regenerative brake resistor that converts regenerative power of the motor into heat;
A water cooling device interposed between the turbo molecular pump main body and the power supply device,
A power supply device for a turbo molecular pump device, wherein the regenerative brake resistor is disposed so as to contact the water cooling device.   A turbo-molecular pump device comprising the power supply device according to claim 1 and the turbo-molecular pump main body.

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