Structure of radial turbine scroll

• US 8,591,177 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2009
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yokoyama, Takao, Osako, Katsuyuki, Ebisu, Motoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Look, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRIGOS, WILLIAM G
• Application Number:
  US12/867,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20110008162A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 415/119, 415/205, 415/203, 415/204, 415/208.1
• US Class Current: 415/119
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 9/026 Scrolls for radial machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2220/40 in turbochargers
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/94 Functionality given by mechanical stress related aspects such as low cycle fatigue [LCF] of high cycle fatigue [HCF]
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/941 particularly aimed at mechanical or thermal stress reduction

Abstract

In a radial turbine scroll, an operating gas is led to flow in the radial direction from a spiral scroll formed in a turbine casing into turbine moving blades of a turbine rotor, which is positioned on the inner side of the scroll, so as to act on the turbine moving blades, and then led to flow outside in an axial direction, thereby rotatively driving the turbine rotor, wherein the scroll 4 has a partition plate 20 a length of a certain range on a line of a tongue portion formed on the inner periphery of a gas inlet portion or has a reduced height between scroll side walls at an outlet portion of a tongue portion 21 formed on the inner periphery of a gas inlet portion of the scroll.

Claims

1. A structure of a radial turbine scroll in which an operating gas flows from a spiral scroll formed in a turbine casing into turbine moving blades of a turbine rotor, which is positioned on the inner side of the scroll, in a radial direction to act on the turbine moving blades, and then flows out in an axial direction, thereby rotatively driving the turbine rotor,

wherein the scroll has a tongue portion formed on an inner periphery of a gas inlet portion and a partition plate formed on an extended center line of the tongue portion in a circumferential direction, further at some part of a passage width in the width direction, an opening is formed to provide vertical communication between an upper space on an outer side and a lower space on an inner side in the radial direction of the scroll through a part without the partition plate,

wherein the passage width of said opening is changed in a circumferential direction of said partition plate or in a cross-section direction from said upper space to the lower space of the partition plate, and

wherein the passage width of said opening becomes smaller toward the tongue portion along the circumferential direction.

2. The structure of a radial turbine scroll according to claim 1,

wherein a section of an end portion of the partition plate has a shape that is cut from the upper space side to the lower space side such that an opening width relative to an inner wall surface of the scroll decreases toward radial inner side.

3. The structure of a radial turbine scroll according to claim 2,

wherein the end portion of the partition plate is shaped to have an inclined surface the opening width relative to the inner wall surface of the scroll decreases toward the radial inner side.

4. The structure of a radial turbine scroll according to claim 1,

wherein the partition plate is protrusively provided on a turbine casing wall surface continuing to a shroud side of the turbine moving blades of the scroll.

5. The structure of a radial turbine scroll according to claim 1,

wherein a flow passage area of the lower space of the partition plate is reduced in the circumferential direction to induce a narrowing effect, thereby generating a gas flow from the lower space to the upper space of the partition plate.

6. The structure of a radial turbine scroll according to claim 1,

wherein a flow passage area of the lower space of the partition plate is reduced in the circumferential direction rather than reducing the flow passage area of the upper space of the partition plate, thereby restraining a gas flow from the upper space to the lower space.

7. The structure of a radial turbine scroll according to claim 1,

wherein a height between the scroll side walls at the outlet portion of the tongue portion formed on the inner periphery of the gas inlet of the scroll is reduced to decrease a sectional area of the passage at the outlet portion of the tongue portion.