Centrifugal blower

• US 7,883,312 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2006
• Issued: 02/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Tominaga, Tetsuo, Eguchi, Tsuyoshi, Suzuki, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Look; Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): PRAGER, JESSE M
• Application Number:
  US11/663,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20080279681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,777 Days
• Field of Search: 415/119, 415/205, 415/206, 415/211.2, 415/189
• US Class Current: 415/119
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/162 of a centrifugal flow wheel
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/282 the leading edge of each vane being substantially parallel to the rotation axis
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4226 Fan casings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/444 Bladed diffusers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/665 by means of resonance chambers or interference

Abstract

A centrifugal blower has: an impeller; and a casing that houses the impeller. The impeller has: a bottom plate; blades provided on a same circumference of the bottom plate; and a shroud that has the blades interposed between it and the bottom plate, disposed concentric with the bottom plate, and connects end sections of the respective blades. The shroud has: an inclined section that comes closer to the bottom plate moving from a radial direction inside to a radial direction outside; and a shroud side barrier that rises from a position on the radial direction outside of the inclined section towards a side opposite to the bottom plate. The casing has a bell-mouth that opens from a radial direction inside of the shroud to a radial direction outside, and a casing side barrier that projects to an area between the inner periphery of the shroud and the shroud side barrier.

Claims

1. A centrifugal blower, comprising:

an impeller;

a casing that houses said impeller and forms a spiral flow passage that surrounds a circumference of said impeller; and

a driving device that rotates said impeller about an axis, wherein said impeller has;

a disk shaped bottom plate that is rotated about said axis by said driving device;

a plurality of blades provided so as to project in said axial direction on a same circumference of said bottom plate; and

a substantially annular plate shape shroud that has said blades interposed between it and said bottom plate, and that is disposed concentric with said bottom plate, and that connects end sections of the respective blades,

said shroud has;

an inclined section in which radially the more outside a portion thereof is, the closer the portion is to said bottom plate; and

a shroud side barrier provided in a radially outer side of said inclined section to extend away from said bottom plate,

said casing has;

a bell-mouth that opposes an inner circumference of said shroud; and

a casing side barrier provided on a radially outer side of said bell-mouth to extend into a gap between said inclined section and said shroud side barrier, and

the inclined section, the shroud side barrier, the bell-mouth and the casing side barrier overlap with each other in a radial direction, wherein said casing has a wind shielding plate provided on a part of said bell-mouth in the vicinity of a start point of said spiral flow passage to rise radially inward and away from said bottom plate.

2. A centrifugal blower, comprising:

an impeller;

a casing that houses said impeller and forms a spiral flow passage that surrounds a circumference of said impeller; and

a driving device that rotates said impeller about an axis, wherein said impeller has;

a disk shaped bottom plate that is rotated about said axis by said driving device;

a plurality of blades provided so as to project in said axial direction on the same circumference of said bottom plate; and

a substantially annular plate shape shroud that has said blades interposed between it and said bottom plate, and that is disposed concentric with said bottom plate, and that connects end sections of the respective blades, and

said casing has;

a bell-mouth that opposes an inner circumference of said shroud; and

a wind shielding plate provided on a part of said bell-mouth in the vicinity of a start point of said spiral flow passage to rise radially inward and away from said bottom plate.

6. A centrifugal blower according to claim 2, wherein said casing has a backflow suppressing wall that projects from the radial direction outside of said bell-mouth toward said bottom plate, and that surrounds the radial direction outside of said shroud.

8. A centrifugal blower according to claim 6, wherein said backflow suppressing wall is such that a portion in the vicinity of a nose section, which makes a border portion between a start point of said spiral flow passage and a portion a full circle therefrom, is a projecting section that projects toward said bottom plate side to a greater degree compared to other portions.

9. A centrifugal blower according to claim 2, wherein in said spiral flow passage, a secondary flow suppressing vane that separates part of a space within said spiral flow passage into a side close to said impeller and a side distanced from said impeller is provided along said spiral flow passage.

11. A centrifugal blower according to claim 8, wherein in said spiral flow passage, a secondary flow suppressing vane that separates a part of a space within said spiral flow passage into a side close to said impeller and a side distanced from said impeller is provided from a position in said projecting section of said backflow suppressing wall, on the upstream side of a rising section on the immediate upstream side of said nose section, to at least the nose section along the spiral flow passage.

3. A centrifugal blower, comprising:

an impeller;

a casing that houses said impeller and forms a spiral flow passage that surrounds a circumference of said impeller; and

a driving device that rotates said impeller about an axis, wherein

said impeller has;

a disk shaped bottom plate that is rotated about said axis by said driving device;

a plurality of blades provided so as to project in said axial direction on a same circumference of said bottom plate; and

a substantially annular plate shape shroud that has said blades interposed between it and said bottom plate, and that is disposed concentric with said bottom plate, and that connects end sections of the respective blades, and

said casing has;

a bell-mouth that opposes an inner circumference of said shroud; and

a backflow suppressing wall provided on a radially outer side of said bell-mouth to project toward said bottom plate and to surround a circumference of said shroud, the backflow suppressing wall having such a height that a tip of a brim of said backflow suppressing wall is on an imaginary extended plane of said inner circumference of said shroud, or is aligned with an outer periphery of said inner circumference of said shroud, wherein said backflow suppressing wall is such that a portion in the vicinity of a nose section, which makes a border portion between a start point of said spiral flow passage and a portion a full circle therefrom, is a projecting section that projects toward said bottom plate side to a greater degree compared to other portions.

4. A centrifugal blower according to claim 3, wherein in said spiral flow passage, a secondary flow suppressing vane that separates a part of a space within said spiral flow passage into a side close to said impeller and a side distanced from said impeller is provided from a position in said projecting section of said backflow suppressing wall, on the upstream side of a rising section on the immediate upstream side of said nose section, to at least the nose section along the spiral flow passage.

5. A centrifugal blower, comprising:

an impeller;

a casing that houses said impeller and forms a spiral flow passage that surrounds a circumference of said impeller; and

a driving device that rotates said impeller about an axis, wherein

said impeller has;

a disk shaped bottom plate that is rotated about said axis by said driving device;

a plurality of blades provided so as to project in said axial direction on a same circumference of said bottom plate; and

a substantially annular plate shape shroud that has said blades interposed between it and said bottom plate, and that is disposed concentric with said bottom plate and that connects end sections of the respective blades,

said casing has;

a bell-mouth that opposes an inner circumference of said shroud, said shroud has a shape that inclines with respect to said axis in which radially the more outside a portion thereof is, the closer the portion is to said bottom plate,

an inner circumference of a radially outer portion of said shroud is an inclined plane that inclines at a predetermined angle with respect to said axis,

an inner circumference of a radially inner portion of said shroud has;

a first convex curved plane that includes a brim of said shroud, in which the closer a portion thereof is to said bottom plate, the closer the portion is to said bell-mouth so as to make a gap between said radially inner portion and said bell-mouth, measured in a direction perpendicular to a median line of said gap, gradually narrower; and

a second convex curved plane that smoothly connects said first convex curved plane and said inclined plane, and

a width of said gap measured at the brim of said shroud and a width of said gap measured at a brim of said bell-mouth are smaller than a width of said gap measured at a point between the brim of said shroud and the brim of said bell-mouth.

7. A centrifugal blower, comprising:

an impeller;

a casing that houses said impeller and forms a spiral flow passage that surrounds a circumference of said impeller; and

a driving device that rotates said impeller about an axis, wherein

said impeller has;

a disk shaped bottom plate that is rotated about said axis by said driving device;

a plurality of blades provided so as to project in said axial direction on a same circumferences of said bottom plate; and

a substantially annular plate shape shroud that has said blades interposed between it and said bottom plate, and that is disposed concentric with said bottom plate, and that connects end sections of the respective blades,

said shroud has;

am inclined section in which radially the more outside a portion thereof is, the closer the portion is to said bottom plate; and

a shroud side barrier provided on a radially outer side of said inclined section to extend away from said bottom plate,

said casing has;

a bell-mouth that opposes an inner circumference of said shroud; and

a casing side barrier provided on a radially outer side of said bell-mouth and the casing side barrier overlap with each other in a radial direction,

wherein said casing has a backflow suppressing wall provided on a radially outer side of said bell-mouth to project toward said bottom plate and to surround a circumference of said shroud, the backflow suppressing wall having such a height that a tip of a brim of said backflow suppressing wall is on an imaginary extended plane of said inner circumference of said shroud, or is aligned with an outer periphery of said inner circumference of said shroud, and wherein said backflow suppressing wall is such that a portion in the vicinity of a nose section, which makes a border portion between a start point of said spiral flow passage and a portion a full circle therefrom, is a projecting section that projects toward said bottom plate side to a greater degree compared to other portions.

10. A centrifugal blower according to claim 7, wherein in said spiral flow passage, a secondary flow suppressing vane that separates a part of a space within said spiral flow passage into a side close to said impeller and a side distanced from said impeller is provided from a position in said projecting section of said backflow suppressing wall, on the upstream side of a rising section on the immediate upstream side of said nose section, to at least the nose section along the spiral flow passage.