Permanent magnet motor pump

• US 9,702,364 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2016
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Assoma Inc.
• Original Assignee: Assoma Inc.
• Inventors: Shih, Chih-Hsien, Wang, Chin-Cheng, Chien, Huan-Jan
• Primary Examiner(s): Plakkoottam, Dominick L
• Application Number:
  US15/236,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20160348682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 417 441, 417 63, 4174237, 41742314
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 2207/70 Warnings
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 49/065 and making use of computers
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/78 Warnings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/026 Details of the bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0626 Details of the can
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 13/0633 Details of the bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 15/0088 Testing machines
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 15/0094 Indicators of rotational movement
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/046 Bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/0465 Ceramic bearing designs
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/22 specially for centrifugal pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4286 inside lining, e.g. rubber
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 7/06 the fluids being hot or corrosive, e.g. liquid metals
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2240/14 Casings, housings, nacelles, gondels or the like, protecting or supporting assemblies there within
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2240/52 Axial thrust bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2280/4003 Synthetic polymers, e.g. plastics
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 13/04 Bearings
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/07 Hall effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/077 Vertical Hall-effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/20 for measuring, monitoring, testing, protecting or switching rectifiers H02K11/04; power electronics H02K11/33
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 11/215 : Magnetic effect devices, e.g. Hall-effect or magneto-resistive elements
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/1677 : radially supporting the rotor around a fixed spindle; radially supporting the rotor directly

Abstract

A structural improvement of the canned pump is to improve the stiffness of a stationary shaft and, according to requirement, to dispose a monitor device. The method for improving the stiffness of the stationary shaft includes axially inserting a shaft metal rear support of the metal structural of a motor rear casing of a canned motor into the inner side of a rotor yoke of an inner rotor of the canned motor, tightly attaching the shaft metal rear support to a rear shaft seat for improving the stiffness of the stationary shaft by longer hold length, and for shortening an arm length of the composite force. The monitor device, used for detecting the wear of a bearing for enhancing the reliability and satisfying the driving requirement, is installed in the ring slot to be protected by the rear shaft seat.

Claims

1. A permanent magnet motor pump is a single-sided-supported cantilever stationary shaft structure adapted for installing a monitor device and comprises:

a pump casing, an impeller, a containment shell, a composited stationary shaft and a motor, wherein;

the pump casing includes an inlet, an outlet and a flow channel, and is used for containing the impeller;

the inlet of the pump casing and another inlet of the impeller form a smooth and increasing-inner-diameter channel without any disturbance, the pump casing is a metal wok structure by casting, a casing liner is made of anti-corrosive plastic and covered on an inner side of the pump casing, a front thrust ring is installed at the inlet in an inner side of the pump casing and used for mating with a front thrust bearing of the impeller to form a front axial thrust bearing;

the impeller is installed in the pump casing and a hub plate is used for being combined with an axially extended part of an inner rotor so that the impeller and the inner rotor are integrated into one piece or embedded to be combined into one piece, a hub balance hole is a through hole at the center of a curve hub plate for making circulating fluid re-circulate;

the containment shell is a cup-shaped structure, on a bottom side has a rear shaft seat with a hole and a concave aperture on an outer side, a shell flange part is on a front side and combined with the pump casing and a pump side flange of the motor casing, which prevents the fluid from leakage;

a shell column part is on a lateral side and passes through the inner side of the stator with a loose slide fit, and the bottom is combined with a motor rear casing;

the containment shell is characterized in that;

the rear shaft seat is on the center on the bottom side of the containment shell and extends inwardly towards the inner space of a rotor yoke;

the concave aperture has a ring-shaped surface for installing the monitor device which is used for detecting a mechanical wear of a ceramic bearing;

the rear shaft seat is combined with a composited shaft metal rear support to form a metal composited support, an outer ring-shaped surface of the composited shaft metal rear support is used for installing a secondary yoke, and a seal surface of the rear shaft seat is combined by a surface of a ceramic shaft sleeve including an O ring and a composited shaft metal rear support makes no leakage;

the composited stationary shaft is the single-sided-supported cantilever stationary shaft structure and made of the ceramic shaft sleeve, a metal shaft and a motor rear casing, an end of the composited stationary shaft is installed on a composited shaft metal rear support of the motor rear casing, mates with the ceramic bearing to support the rotation of the inner rotor;

the composited stationary shaft is characterized in that;

the metal shaft passes through a sleeve central hole of the ceramic shaft sleeve, and includes a circular head which is positioned at an end of the metal shaft covered with a resin enclosure, and pressed against a front end surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve, a teeth part of the metal shaft passes through the rear shaft seat of the containment shell and a central hole of the composited shaft metal rear support of the rear casing which is extended inwardly in a radial direction, a nut of the teeth part is fixed on the rear casing so that the two ends of the ceramic shaft sleeve are pressed against the circular head and the composited shaft metal rear support to form the high-stiffness composited stationary shaft;

a sliding thrust surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve is pressed against a surface of the composited shaft metal rear support and two O rings are installed on the both ends of the ceramic shaft sleeve to form a sealing system;

the canned motor comprises the stator, a motor casing, a motor rear casing and the inner rotor;

the stator is fixed in the motor casing, windings are winded on the stator, a PWM electric power which is applied on the windings inputs to generate a magnetic flux to interact with a magnetic flux of the inner rotor, so the inner rotor generates torque and drives the impeller, the containment shell prevents the windings of the stator from being corroded by the corrosive fluid;

the motor casing has the pump side flange a back flange of the motor casing is used for fixing the motor rear casing with the composited shaft metal rear support;

the motor rear casing is fixed on the back flange of the motor casing, and the motor rear casing is characterized in that;

the composited shaft metal rear support of the rear casing which extends inwardly and axially is combined with the rear shaft seat of the containment shell and provides support and holding strength needed by the composited stationary shaft, the surface of the composited shaft metal rear support is fixed with and pressed against a sliding thrust surface of the ceramic shaft sleeve, a seal surface of the rear shaft seat is pressed and packed by both of the composited shaft metal rear support and the ceramic shaft sleeve press and sealed by a rear thrust ring with an O ring for preventing the containment shell from leakage, the outer ring-shaped surface of the composited shaft metal rear support is used for installing the monitor device; and

the inner rotor which is installed in the inner space of the containment shell is a ring-shaped structure comprising main magnets, the rotor yoke and the axially extended part, the main magnets are installed on the outer surface of the rotor yoke at symmetric angular positions, the inner rotor is covered with an engineering plastic with anti-corrosion property, the ceramic bearing is installed in the central hole of the inner rotor for mating with the stationary shaft to bear a composite force, the axially extended part combines with the hub plate of the impeller, so that the impeller and the inner rotor are integrated into one piece or embedded to be combined with each other into one piece;

the inner rotor is characterized in that;

the inner space of the rotor yoke contains the rear shaft seat of the containment shell and the composited shaft metal rear support of the motor rear casing, which extend inwardly and axially in the inner space.

2. The permanent magnet motor pump according to claim 1, further comprising the monitor device, wherein the monitor device comprises a plurality of secondary magnets and a monitor set, the monitor device is characterized in that:

the number of the secondary magnets is the same as main magnets, the secondary magnets are assembled at one end of the inner side of the rotor yoke of the inner rotor at the bottom side of the containment shell, the secondary magnets are encapsulated with the main magnets in the inner rotor to prevent from being corroded by the corrosive fluid;

an axial length of the secondary magnets is at least more than twice as great as a length of an axial movement of the inner rotor, the length of the axial movement equals to a length of a rear axial free space and the axial wear of the front thrust bearing and the ceramic bearing, a length of the axial wear of the front thrust bearing is less than a length of a front axial free space, a magnetic flux line emitted from a surface of one of the plurality of secondary magnets pass through an air gap to a secondary yoke via a backward field line continuing to the other one of the plurality of secondary magnets adjacent to the one of the plurality of secondary magnets, and through the rotor yoke to the original secondary magnet as a closed loop, the magnetic flux line forms a secondary magnetic loop which coexists with a main magnetic loop in the rotor yoke;

the monitor set comprises the secondary yoke and multiple monitor elements, the monitor elements are installed on a surface of the ring-shaped secondary yoke with ferromagnetic material, and the secondary yoke and the multiple monitor elements are encapsulated as a set with an isolating material to be assembled in the ring-shaped surface of the concave aperture of the rear shaft seat of the containment shell;

the inner side of the secondary yoke is combined with and fixed with an outer-diameter surface of the monitoring composited shaft metal rear support axially extending from a motor rear casing;

a secondary magnetic pole alignment point is positioned on the rear end of the secondary yoke and connected to an axis alignment point of the monitoring composited shaft metal rear support and a magnetic pole alignment point of a winding stator of the stator;

a front axial end and a rear axial end of the secondary magnets do not exceed a front axial end and a rear axial end of the secondary yoke;

the monitor elements cut the magnetic flux lines to output voltage signals while the inner rotor rotates.

3. The permanent magnet motor pump according to claim 1, wherein the ceramic bearing of the motor mates with the stationary shaft to support the rotation of the inner rotor, and the required length of the ceramic bearing satisfies a composite force borne by the inner rotor;

wherein the length of the rotor yoke matches the length of the ceramic bearing.

4. The permanent magnet motor pump according to claim 1, wherein the rear shaft seat is supported by the shaft metal rear support of the motor rear casing, the rear shaft seat has an axially extended part extending axially from the bottom side of the containment shell to an opening of the shaft hold hole, a length of the axially extended part is 50% to 200% of the diameter of the stationary shaft.

5. The permanent magnet motor pump according to claim 1, wherein the shaft metal rear support of the motor rear casing provides a hold length needed by the stationary shaft and the hold length includes a total length of a secondary yoke which is installed on the shaft metal rear support, and the hold length is 60% to 200% of the diameter of the stationary shaft.