Oil-flooded screw compressor with screw rotors having contact profiles in the shape of roulettes

• US 6,000,920 A
• Filed: 08/08/1997
• Issued: 12/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Original Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Inventors: Yoshimura, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Vrablik, John J.
• Application Number:
  US08/907,486
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 418/201.3
• US Class Current: 418/201.3
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/084 Toothed wheels
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/16 with helical teeth, e.g. chevron-shaped, screw type for non-parallel axes of movement F04C18/48

Abstract

Radial cross sections of a male screw rotor and a female screw rotor at a contact portion therebetween for transmitting power from the female rotor to the male rotor are profiled in the shape of roulettes, for example, cycloids, generated by the rolling of rolling curves, for examples, circles, along pitch circles of the rotors.

Claims

1. An oil-flooded screw compressor comprising a driving female rotor and a driven male rotor, wherein radial cross sections of the female rotor inside of a pitch circle thereof at a contact portion for transmitting power to said male rotor from said female rotor are profiled in the shape of roulettes generated by the rolling of rolling curves along the inside of said pitch circle,

and radial cross sections of the male rotor outside of a pitch circle thereof at the contact portion is profiled in the shape of roulettes generated by the rolling of rolling curves along the outside of the pitch circle of the male rotor.

2. An oil-flooded screw compressor of claim 1,

wherein the radial cross sections of the female rotor outside of the pitch circle thereof at the contact portion is profiled in the shape of roulettes generated by the rolling of a rolling curve along the outside of said pitch circle of the female rotor,

and the radial cross sections of the male rotor of inside of the pitch circle thereof at the contact portion is profiled in the shape of roulettes generated by the rolling of a rolling curve along the inside of said pitch circle of the male rotor.