Canned motor pump

• US 5,397,220 A
• Filed: 08/05/1993
• Issued: 03/14/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Company Limited, Teikoku Electric Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Company Limited, Teikoku Electric Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Akihisa, Kazumi, Takashima, Takehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): McAndrews, Jr., Roland G.
• Application Number:
  US08/102,197
• Time in Patent Office: 586 Days
• Field of Search: 417/369, 417/370, 417/DIG. 1
• US Class Current: 417/369
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0633 Details of the bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/047 hydrostatic; hydrodynamic
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/061 especially adapted for liquid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2230/90 Coating; Surface treatment manufacture with deposition of material F05B2220/30
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/128 using air-gap sleeves or air-gap discs
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/167 using sliding-contact or spherical cap bearings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 9/197 in which the rotor or stator space is fluid-tight, e.g. to provide for different cooling media for rotor and stator
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 417/01 Materials digest

Abstract

A canned motor pump having an enclosing casing on the inside of a stator and a rotor on the inside of the enclosing casing, in which the interior parts of the enclosing casing communicates with the interior parts of a pump. Surfaces of supported portions on a shaft of the rotor which are contacted with the liquid flowing on the inside of the enclosing casing are treated by electrolytic polishing so that a liquid liable to polymerization or an adherent liquid can normally circulate as a circulating liquid for cooling a motor, and furthermore supporting portions which support the shaft contain bearings produced from fluororesin or glass-fiber reinforced fluororesin.

Claims

1. A canned motor pump comprising:

a pump for pumping an easily polymerized liquid;

a pump motor comprising a stator, an enclosing casing within said stator and a rotor within said enclosing casing, said rotor including a shaft having supported portions,

wherein said pump motor is so configured that the easily polymerized liquid flows within said enclosing casing and into contact with said supported portions, and

wherein said supported portions comprise composite electropolished elements having a surface roughness no higher than about 0.5 μ

m Rmax.

2. The canned motor pump of claim 1, wherein said supported portions are supported by bearings of said pump motor, said bearings comprising one from the group consisting of a fluororesin and a glass-fiber reinforced fluororesin.

3. A canned motor pump according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said canned motor pump is a circulation-type canned motor pump having a circulating pipe which connects a discharge port of a pump casing and the interior parts of said enclosing casing.

4. A canned motor pump according to claim 3, wherein a cooling means is provided in a circulating line of said circulating pipe.

5. A canned motor pump according to claim 3, wherein at least one of the inside diameter of said circulating pipe and a clearance between the outer wall of a rotor can and the inner wall of a stator can of said canned motor pump are sized in accordance with the amount of the circulating liquid flow.