Rotary pump with a fixed shaft

• US 8,303,268 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Buhler Motor GmbH
• Original Assignee: Buhler Motor GmbH
• Inventors: Werson, Michael John, French, Colin Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): Kramer, Devon
• Assistant Examiner(s): FINK, THOMAS ANDREW
• Application Number:
  US12/654,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20100158725A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,057 Days
• Field of Search: 417/423.7, 417/423.14, 417/366, 417/420, 417/423.8, 417/424.2, 310/60.A, 310/63, 310/268, 31015632-15637, 310/90, 310/86, 310/87, 310/88
• US Class Current: 417/366
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/026 Details of the bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/027 Details of the magnetic circuit
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0633 Details of the bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0646 the hollow pump or motor shaft being the conduit for the working fluid
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0666 the motor being of the plane gap type
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/0413 hydrostatic; hydrodynamic thrust bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/043 Shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/047 hydrostatic; hydrodynamic
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/58 Cooling of machines or engines in general F01P; Heating; Diminishing heat transfer for the motor of air-pump units F04D25/082; cooling of shafts or bearings F04D29/04
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/61 Hollow
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49245 Vane type or other rotary, e.g., fan

Abstract

A rotary pump (1) with a multipart pump housing (4), comprising a suction connector (6) and a pressure connector (7), a pump impeller (5) mounted on a fixed shaft (3), the pump rotor (5) being designed as a permanent magnetic rotor cooperating with an electromagnetic stator. The task of the invention in a rotary pump is to achieve excellent efficiency in a compact design. The rotary pump is also supposed to guarantee high lifetime and improved heat removal. This task is solved according to the invention in that the shaft (3) is firmly connected to a first pump housing (2), referred to as pump head, which includes the suction connector (6) or is connected to it, the shaft (3) forming an axis of symmetry to an inside wall area of pump head (2).

Claims

1. A rotary pump driven by an electric motor with a stator, the rotary pump comprising:

a multipart pump having a motor housing and a pump housing including a first pump housing part defining a pump head with an inside wall area inside of the pump housing;

a pressure connector connected to the first housing part;

a suction connector connected to the pump head;

an elongated fixed shaft defining an axial direction and having a first end and a second end, the first end being in the pump housing and the second end being in the motor housing;

mounting means for exclusively and fixedly supporting the elongated fixed shaft in the pump housing at the first end and allowing the second end to extend freely unsupported, the second end extending into the motor housing with no point of attachment to the motor housing;

an electric motor including;

a permanent magnet pump impeller located in the pump housing; and

a stator located in the motor housing, the stator causing the permanent magnet pump impeller to rotate about the fixed shaft; and

a bearing for providing exclusive rotatable mounting of the impeller only in the pump housing to the first end of the fixed shaft, the bearing including a radial bearing and axial bearings,

both the mounting means for fixedly mounting and the bearing being located outside the extent of the stator in the axial direction, and the fixed shaft extending within the extent of the stator in the axial direction.

2. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the mounting means comprises a mounting pin in the pump head wherein the fixed shaft is connected in shape-mated fashion to the mounting pin secured to the first pump housing part.

3. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the fixed shaft is partially hollow.

4. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the fixed shaft is hollow over its entire length.

5. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the fixed shaft consists of a ceramic material.

6. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the axial bearings comprise a first axial bearing ring arranged on the fixed shaft for axial bearing of the pump impeller.

7. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the axial bearings comprise a first axial bearing ring arranged in the pump head for axial bearing of the pump impeller.

8. The rotary pump according to claim 6, wherein the axial bearings comprise a second axial bearing ring accommodated in a heat-conducting element in the first pump housing part.

9. The rotary pump according claim 8, wherein a bearing support ring is arranged between the second axial bearing ring and the heat-conducting element.

10. The rotary pump according to claim 8, wherein the pump impeller is arranged and mounted to freely rotate between the first and second axial bearing rings.

11. The rotary pump according to claim 9, wherein the radial bearing of the pump impeller has a hollow cylindrical fixed bearing having sliding surfaces on both ends, the sliding surfaces being supported on the first and second axial bearing rings.

12. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein the heat-conducting element protrudes into the pump housing.

13. The rotary pump according to claim 1, wherein a part of the fixed shaft extends freely into a cavity bounded by a heat-conducting element within the motor housing.

14. The rotary pump according to claim 13, wherein the second end of the elongated fixed shaft extending freely into the cavity occupies 20-60% of the total length of the elongated fixed shaft.

15. The rotary pump according to claim 1, further comprising:

wherein the axial bearings comprise a first axial bearing ring arranged on the elongated fixed shaft for axial bearing of the pump impeller, and a second axial bearing ring arranged on the elongated fixed shaft for axial bearing of the pump impeller;

a second pump housing part forming part of the multipart pump housing;

a split plate adjacent the second pump housing part;

an air gap formed between the pump impeller and the split plate;

a cavity defined in the pump housing for receiving a portion of the elongated fixed shaft;

a flow channel defined in the elongated fixed shaft; and

a mounting pin receiving a portion of the elongated fixed shaft, the mounting pin having a passage in communication with the flow channel, wherein part of a feed medium can be guided back into a main hydraulic circuit via a closed path from a pressure area of the pump via the air gap, an intermediate space between the second axial bearing ring and the fixed shaft, the cavity, the flow channel and the passage.