Rotary fluid machine

• US 4,938,670 A
• Filed: 10/02/1989
• Issued: 07/03/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tocew Lee
• Original Assignee: Tocew Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Tocew
• Primary Examiner(s): Koczo, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/416,033
• Time in Patent Office: 274 Days
• Field of Search: 418/15, 418/150, 418/206
• US Class Current: 418/150
• CPC Class Codes: F01C 1/086 Carter
• CPC Class Codes: F01C 1/126 with elements extending radially from the rotor body not necessarily cooperating with corresponding recesses in the other rotor, e.g. lobes, Roots type
• CPC Class Codes: F01C 21/006 Equalization of pressure pulses silencing for compressors F04C29/06
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2250/102 of the outlet

Abstract

A rotary fluid machine includes two intermeshing rotors rotatably mounted in a double-cylinder bore portion of a casing, each rotor having two lobe portions disposed on two opposite ends of a long coordinate axis of the rotor and having a waist portion confined by two shallow recess portions formed on two opposite sides of a short coordinate axis of the rotor so that one rotor can be smoothly rotatably engageable with the other rotor in a single-point contact for a smooth running of the two rotors. For a buffer of a higher output fluid pressure, a balancing chamber is formed between the bore portion and a fluid outlet so that a fluid suddenly increased with fluid pressure may be backflowed into the bore portion through a plurality of holes formed in a partition plate between the chamber and the bore portion for preventing water or air hammer when handling high-pressure fluid.

Claims

1. A rotary fluid machine comprising:

a casing having a double-cylinder bore portion formed in said casing, a fluid inlet formed in one side of said casing communicated with said bore portion, and a fluid outlet formed in the other side of said casing opposite to said fluid inlet fluidically communicated with said bore portion through a check valve formed between said outlet and said bore portion; and

a pair of intermeshing Roots type rotors respectively mounted on a pair of shafts rotatably mounted in said double-cylinder bore portion of said casing and respectively driven by a pair of gears,

each said rotor having a pair of lobe portions respectively disposed on two opposite ends of a long coordinate axis of a profile of said rotor, and a waist portion formed on a central portion of said rotor having a pair of shallow recess portions formed on two opposite sides of a short coordinate axis perpendicular to said long coordinate axis of said profile of said rotor, both said axes intersected at an origin of a center of said rotor,

the improvement which comprises;

each said lobe portion of said rotor having a curvature radius r of one half of a radius R of said rotor rotatably defined in each cylinder of said double-cylinder bore portion of said casing, said cylinder of said double-cylinder bore portion having the same radius R of said rotor, each said shallow recess portion of said waist portion having a curvature radius R as same as the radius R of said rotor, of which each said recess portion is obtained by plotting an arc with the radius R around a curvature center on a line extrapolated from said short coordinate axis of said rotor, and said curvature center for plotting said recess portion having a distance of √

2 R separated from center of said rotor and also said center of said cylinder of said double-cylinder bore portion, said waist portion having a transverse thickness of 2R (√

2-1), a distance between two said centers of two said cylinders or between two centers of two said rotors intermeshed and rotatably mounted in said double-cylinder bore portion being √

2 R,

whereby upon a tangential intersecting between each said shallow recess portion and each said lobe portion, a smooth rotor profile will be formed for ensuring a single-point contact between the two intermeshing rotors for a smooth running of said rotors.

2. A rotary fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein said casing of said fluid machine further includes a pressure-balancing chamber in between said check valve of said fluid outlet and said double-cylinder bore portion, said pressure-balancing chamber separated from said bore portion by a partition plate having a plurality of backflow holes formed through said partition plate, and a fluid discharge port formed in a central portion of said partition plate communicating said bore portion and said pressure-balancing chamber.

3. A rotary fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein each said backflow hole is enlarged from said chamber towards said bore portion.

4. A rotary fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein said pressure-balancing chamber is generally shaped as a cylinder having a diameter equal or smaller than a diameter of said fluid inlet, and having a height smaller than a length of said discharge port.

5. A rotary fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein said fluid discharge port has a diameter smaller than the diameter of said fluid inlet.