Ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by long shaft

• US 10,598,182 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2015
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taiyuan University Of Technology (Province of Shanxi)
• Original Assignee: Taiyuan University Of Technology (Province of Shanxi)
• Inventors: Kou, Ziming, Wu, Juan, Gao, Guijun, Da, Shanrong, Zhang, Jing, Kou, Yanfei, Li, Ting, Li, Sheng, Wei, Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Bomberg, Kenneth
• Assistant Examiner(s): Abdellaoui, Hakeem M
• Application Number:
  US15/506,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20180080451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,587 Days
• Field of Search: 74665 G, 74321, 744245
• CPC Class Codes: E21F 1/00 Ventilation of mines or tunnels; Distribution of ventilating currents ventilating rooms or spaces in general F24F
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 19/007 multistage fans
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 19/024 with contrarotating parts
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/02 Units comprising pumps and their driving means
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/08 the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/053 Shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/545 Ducts
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 1/222 with non-parallel axes
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 25/186 with reciprocation along the axis of oscillation

Abstract

There is provided a ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by long shaft, wherein an electric motor and a gearbox are placed outside the air duct by using a long shaft with an internally disposed slim shaft extending therefrom, and are connected with the first stage impeller and second stage impeller inside the air duct by using the long shaft and slim shaft extending therefrom. In this ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers, the components of the ventilation apparatus are placed inside and outside the air duct respectively by using the transmission shaft, which is convenient for maintenance and operation. By remotely arranging the impellers at an axial distance, the hub of the impellers will no longer be affected by an internally disposed electric motor, so as to reduce the ventilation resistance to ventilation. The impellers can be switched between the single impeller rotation and the counter rotation of two impellers.

Claims

1. A ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by a long shaft including a motor, a gearbox having a gear shaft, a transmission shaft, a first-stage impeller and a second-stage impeller, characterized in that,

the motor (1) and the transmission gear box (3) are disposed outside an air duct (4) and coupled to the transmission shaft extending therefrom;

in the gearbox (3) is a cross shaft (10) which is mounted with a driven bevel gear (11) in the longitudinal direction;

the gearbox (3) has a slim shaft (14) passing therethrough in the transverse direction, and further comprises a compression spring (8) and a driving bevel gear (12) adjacent the slim shaft (14) in the longitudinal direction;

the gear shaft of the gearbox (3) is connected with the long shaft (5) through the fan-blade flange;

a body of the gearbox (3) is connected to a lateral flange which comprises, sequentially, an engaging surface for a gear sector (21), a movable end-cam (20) and a stationary end-cam (19) at one side, and an operating handle (22) at the other side;

the transmission shaft is composed of the long shaft (5) and the slim shaft (14) disposed therein, and the long shaft (5) and the slim shaft (14) are connected with the gearbox (3) at one end, and are connected with the second stage impeller (6) and the first stage impeller (7) respectively at the other end for counter rotation; and

the first stage impeller (7) and the second stage impeller (6) are placed inside the air duct (4) and coupled to the transmission shaft extending therefrom, and no motor or any other component affecting the disturbance of air flow is disposed between the two impellers.

2. The ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by long shaft according to claim 1, characterized in that, engagement and disengagement between the movable end-cam (20) and the stationary end-cam (19) are controlled by means of operation handles (22) outside the body of the gearbox (3);

and

when the movable end-cam (20) engages with the stationary end-cam (19), a transmission chain is disconnected, and the slim shaft rotates the first stage impeller, to operate and ventilate with a single impeller; and

when the movable end-cam (20) disengages with the stationary end-cam (19), the transmission chain is connected, and the gear box reverses the rotation, to counter rotate the first stage impeller and the second state impeller.

3. The ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by long shaft according to claim 1, characterized in that, the first stage impeller (7) and the second stage impeller (6) have a diameter of 800 mm, the motor (1) has a rated power of 55 kW×

2 and a speed of revolution of 2970 rpm, and the gearbox (3) has a transmission ratio of 1;

1.

4. The ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by long shaft according to claim 2, characterized in that, the ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers is used in a ventilation environment in which a ventilation volume is 540 to 900 m³/min, a ventilation pressure is 8600 to 1500 Pa, and an air density is 1.20 kg/m³.

5. The ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers driven by long shaft according to the claim 3, characterized in that, under a standard operating condition of the ventilation apparatus with counter-rotating impellers in which a ventilation volume is 540 to 900 m³/min, a ventilation pressure is 8600 to 1500 Pa, and an air density is 1.20 kg/m³, a ventilation volume is 790 m³/min, and a ventilation pressure is 6000 Pa.