On-off valve device and rotary machine

• US 10,472,983 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2015
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Higashimori, Hirotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Kwon, John
• Application Number:
  US15/506,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20170254214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,723 Days
• Field of Search: 415148, 415150, 415151, 415158, 415159, 415160, 415162, 415163, 415204, 415205, 415207, 4152081, 4152082
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/105 by passing part of the fluid
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/14 varying effective cross-sectional area of nozzles or guide conduits
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/145 by means of valves, e.g. for steam turbines valves in general F16K
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/146 by throttling the volute inlet of radial machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/148 by means of rotatable members, e.g. butterfly valves
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/18 varying effective number of nozzles or guide conduits , e.g. sequentially operable valves for steam turbines
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 25/24 Casings modified for heating or cooling F01D25/14; Casing parts, e.g. diaphragms, casing fastenings casings for rotary machines or engines in general F16M ; special arrangements in stators dealing with breaking-off of part of rotor F01D21/045
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/04 for radial-flow machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/12 Blades specially adapted for radial flow machines or engines F01D5/04; blade roots F01D5/30; rotors with blades adjustable in operation F01D7/00; stator blades F01D9/02
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/145 Means for influencing boundary layers or secondary circulations for compressors F04D29/68
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 9/026 Scrolls for radial machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/025 Multiple scrolls or multiple gas passages guiding the gas to the pump drive
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 37/22 by varying cross-section of exhaust passages or air passages , e.g. by throttling turbine inlets or outlets or by varying effective number of guide conduits F02B37/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/40 in turbochargers
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/60 Shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/15 spiral
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A turbocharger is provided with a valve body which is disposed in a suction flow path (Cb) leading from an inflow port of a housing covering a turbine rotor blade to a scroll flow path (Ca) and composed of a single piece or multiple divided pieces to supply a fluid (G) to the turbine rotor blade with the inner surface thereof formed using a first wall surface and a second wall surface facing the first wall surface as part thereof, extends from the upstream side to the downstream side of the flow of the fluid (G), is rotatably provided in the housing in a direction toward and away from the first wall surface and the second wall surface, forms an upstream-side narrowed flow path (F1) with the first wall surface therebetween at an end on the upstream side, and forms a downstream-side narrowed flow path (F2) with the second wall surface therebetween at an end on the downstream side. The valve body has a first surface at the end on the upstream side, which faces the first wall surface, gradually approaches the first wall surface from the upstream side to the downstream side and thereafter gradually goes away therefrom, and a second surface which faces the second wall surface.

Claims

1. A rotary machine, comprising:

a rotary shaft which rotates about an axis;

a turbine rotor blade which rotates along with the rotary shaft;

a housing which covers the rotary shaft and the turbine rotor blade; and

an on-off valve device disposed in the housing,

wherein a scroll flow path is spirally formed continuing to an inflow port of the housing and has a flow path area gradually decreased toward a downstream side of a fluid flow,

a suction flow path is formed to lead from the inflow port to the scroll flow path and the suction flow path is formed between a first wall surface of the housing and a second wall surface of the housing that faces the first wall surface,

the on-off valve device includes a valve body which is configured of a single piece or multiple divided pieces and is disposed in the suction flow path,

the valve body extends from the upstream side toward the downstream side of the fluid flow, and the valve body is rotatably configured in the housing in a direction toward and away from the first wall surface and the second wall surface,

the valve body is configured to have a first surface which faces the first wall surface and gradually goes away from the first wall surface after gradually approaching the first wall surface from the upstream side toward the downstream side of the fluid flow, and a second surface which faces the second wall surface, and

an upstream-side narrowed flow path is formed between the first wall surface and the valve body at an end on the upstream side, and a downstream-side narrowed flow path is formed between the second wall surface and the valve body at an end on the downstream side,

wherein the rotary machine further includes multiple guide portions which are disposed in the scroll flow path to go away from each other in a circumferential direction of the rotary shaft, disposed on the outside in a radial direction of the rotary shaft from the turbine rotor blade, and includes curved guide surfaces facing inwardly in the radial direction, and

each of the guide surfaces in the guide portions positioned on the upstream side in the fluid flow is provided so as to guide the fluid toward the next guide surface in the guide portion positioned on the downstream side.

2. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein each guide portion is formed to have a longitudinal axis along the circumferential direction,

and

wherein among the guide portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, the guide surface at a trailing edge which becomes the end on the downstream side in the guide portion on the upstream side is disposed such that an extension line of a tangential line in a cross section orthogonal to the rotary shaft in the guide surface passes through the guide surface in the guide portion on the downstream side.

3. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein after a thickness dimension of each guide portion gradually increases in the radial direction from a leading edge which becomes the end on the upstream side to a trailing edge which becomes the end on the downstream side, the thickness dimension decreases, and each guide portion is formed in a blade shape when viewed in an extension direction of the rotary shaft of the turbine rotor blade.

4. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein the scroll flow path is formed in a shape in which a flow path area of the scroll flow path decreases in a flow direction of the fluid,

wherein each guide portion is formed in a plate shape extending in the circumferential direction, and

wherein among the guide portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, the leading edge which becomes the end on the upstream side in the guide portion positioned on the downstream side is positioned on the inside in the radial direction of the leading edge in the guide portion positioned on the upstream side.

5. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein the scroll flow path is formed in a shape in which the flow path area of the scroll flow path decreases in the flow direction of the fluid,

wherein each guide portion is formed in a plate shape extending in the circumferential direction, and

wherein among the guide portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, the trailing edge which becomes the end on the downstream side in the guide portion positioned on the downstream side is positioned on the inside in the radial direction of the trailing edge in the guide portion positioned on the upstream side.

6. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein the scroll flow path is formed in a shape in which the flow path area of the scroll flow path decreases in the flow direction of the fluid,

wherein each guide portion is formed in a plate shape extending in the circumferential direction, and

wherein among the guide portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, a dimension in a longitudinal direction along the circumferential direction of the guide portion positioned on the downstream side decreases.

7. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein the housing is formed to be divided in the extension direction of the rotary shaft of the turbine rotor blade, and

wherein the guide portion is integrally formed with the divided one of the housing.

8. The rotary machine according to claim 1,

wherein in the housing, the second wall surface is formed of a division wall surface which divides the scroll flow path into two paths in the direction intersecting the flow direction of the fluid.