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EP1619395A1 - Pompe à vide rotative et son procédé d'équilibrage - Google Patents

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EP1619395A1
EP1619395A1 EP04103445A EP04103445A EP1619395A1 EP 1619395 A1 EP1619395 A1 EP 1619395A1 EP 04103445 A EP04103445 A EP 04103445A EP 04103445 A EP04103445 A EP 04103445A EP 1619395 A1 EP1619395 A1 EP 1619395A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D19/00—Axial-flow pumps
    • F04D19/02—Multi-stage pumps
    • F04D19/04—Multi-stage pumps specially adapted to the production of a high vacuum, e.g. molecular pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D17/00—Radial-flow pumps, e.g. centrifugal pumps; Helico-centrifugal pumps
    • F04D17/08—Centrifugal pumps
    • F04D17/16—Centrifugal pumps for displacing without appreciable compression
    • F04D17/168—Pumps specially adapted to produce a vacuum
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D27/00—Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
    • F04D27/001—Testing thereof; Determination or simulation of flow characteristics; Stall or surge detection, e.g. condition monitoring
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D29/00—Details, component parts, or accessories
    • F04D29/66—Combating cavitation, whirls, noise, vibration or the like; Balancing
    • F04D29/661—Combating cavitation, whirls, noise, vibration or the like; Balancing especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
    • F04D29/662—Balancing of rotors

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  • the present invention concerns a rotary vacuum pump and a structure and a method for the balancing thereof.
  • the present invention concerns a rotary vacuum pump of the kind equipped with mechanical bearings.
  • the present invention concerns a turbomolecular rotary vacuum pump of the kind disclosed for instance in EP-A-0962264 or EP-A-0773367.
  • rotary pumps and especially turbomolecular rotary pumps, are machines equipped with a rotating portion, including a rotating shaft to which a set of parallel rotor discs are secured, and co-operating with a stationary portion, generally a set of stator discs, in order to obtain gas pumping from an inlet port to an outlet port of the pump.
  • a turbomolecular pump can generate a vacuum of the order of 10 -7 mbar (10 -5 Pa) with a shaft rotation speed in the range 2x10 4 to 9x10 4 rpm.
  • a vacuum pump is thus a machine with a mass that is rotated at extremely high speed.
  • a rotating mass generally includes a rotating shaft, the rotor of the electric motor driving said shaft into rotation, the set of rotor discs and the inner rings of the rolling bearings rotatably supporting the pump shaft.
  • vibrations are sources of disturbances altering the operation of the measuring instrument and therefore they cannot be tolerated.
  • balancing of a rotating mass can be obtained by means of further additional rotating masses, coupled to the main mass so that the centre of gravity of the overall mass is brought again on the rotation axis (static balancing) and the rotation axis coincides with a main axis of inertia (dynamic balancing).
  • static balancing static balancing
  • dynamic balancing dynamic balancing
  • the pump rotor is dynamically balanced through an iterative process in which measuring steps of the vibrations transmitted by the pump to an external structure alternate with adjusting steps of the position of one or more additional masses placed on the rotor, until the optimum conditions are attained.
  • the main problems related to the rotor balancing step are, on the one hand, the definition of the mathematical model used in order to relate the vibrations measured during the balancing step to the rotor unbalance and, consequently, to the arrangement of the correcting masses, and, on the other hand, the choice of the kind of vibration sensors and the arrangement thereof.
  • the sensors generally used during the rotor balancing step are accelerometers, that is sensors capable of transforming the acceleration of a moving body to which they are secured into an electric signal, the intensity of which is just a function of the acceleration the sensor is being submitted to.
  • the dynamic balancing of a vacuum pump rotor is performed by placing the pump, without stator discs, inside a bell-shaped casing onto which at least two accelerometers, for instance piezoelectric accelerometers, are located. Once the rotor is rotated at high speed, the accelerometers located onto the stationary bell allow measuring the vibrations induced by unbalances, if any, of the rotating masses.
  • the iterative balancing process may need several pump stopping and starting phases in order to apply the correcting masses, and this results in a considerable increase of the time required to reach the optimum conditions and hence in a considerable slowing down of the production.
  • the vibration measurement is not affected by the presence of other pump components, which allows a considerable simplification of the mathematical model relating the measured displacements to the rotor unbalance inducing them.
  • the provision of displacement sensors permanently located inside the pump allows measuring the rotating mass unbalance also during steady state operation of the same pump, that is when the pump has been completed with the stator part, assembled and delivered to the customer.
  • a first turbomolecular rotary pump 101 according to the invention is schematically shown.
  • Said pump 101 comprises a stationary portion and a rotating portion.
  • the stationary portion comprises a basement 103 on which the rotating portion is mounted.
  • the latter comprises a rotating shaft 105 supported by rolling bearings 107, for instance ball bearings.
  • Rotor 109 of electric motor 111 (the stator of which has not been shown for sake of simplicity) used to rotate shaft 105, and pump rotor 113, equipped with smooth or finned discs 115, are mounted on said rotating shaft 105.
  • said pump rotor 113 has a bell-shaped cavity 117 housing rotating shaft 105 of the pump and electric motor 111, in order to make the pump axially more compact.
  • Such an arrangement is generally used for big turbomolecular pumps (rotor diameter of about 250 mm).
  • rotor 113 is not located inside the pump housing, which, as known, is equipped with stator discs, but inside a vacuum-tight stationary bell 119 specifically intended for the balancing of said rotor 113. Vacuum in said bell is made by means of an ancillary pumping system, not shown.
  • a plurality of displacement sensors (four in the disclosed embodiment) 121A - 121D are directly mounted in basement 103 of pump 101, close to rotor 113 and to rotating shaft 105 thereof.
  • Each sensor faces said shaft 105 or said rotor 113 so that changes, if any, in the distance between the rotor and the sensor during rotation of the rotor can be detected.
  • a first pair of sensors 121A, 121B face rotating shaft 105 and are turned towards it, whereas a second pair of sensors 121C, 121D face inner wall 113a of rotor 113 and are turned towards such wall.
  • eddy current displacement sensors are advantageously employed.
  • a generic displacement sensor 51 comprising a coil 53, which is wound on a core 55 and in which a high frequency AC current generating a main magnetic field flows.
  • the variation of distance "a" between coil 53 and an electrically conducting body R, for instance the pump rotor or the shaft thereof, causes a corresponding variation of the magnetic field induced and consequently of impedance Z measured in the coil of sensor 51.
  • a voltage signal U the value of which depends on impedance Z and hence on the distance of the metal body from the sensor, can be obtained at the output from sensor 51.
  • the circuit shown in Fig. 2 comprises a high frequency oscillator 65, an impedance 67 in series and a demodulator 63.
  • Impedance 67 must be sufficiently high to obtain a high sensitivity.
  • Demodulation of voltage signal u outgoing from the sensor allows obtaining a voltage signal U that is a function of distance "a".
  • Eddy current displacement sensors are capable of measuring distance variations of the order of 1 nm and are perfectly suitable for use in balancing turbomolecular pump rotors.
  • cylindrical threaded bores 123 are provided in rotor 113 and are arranged with their axes lying in a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis of the rotor and tangentially relative to the same rotor. Additional masses consisting of threaded dowels can be located and displaced in said bores.
  • balancing methods comprise the insertion of masses consisting of threaded dowels to be screwed into bores with axes radially arranged relative to the rotor.
  • a third pair of displacement sensors 121E, 121F is provided, which sensors are arranged close to external wall 113b of rotor 113, between a pair of said rotor discs, and are turned towards said wall. Said sensors 121 E, 121F are cantilevered on a vertical support 120 adjacent to a wall of outer bell 119.
  • FIG. 3b a second embodiment of the invention is partly depicted.
  • a turbomolecular pump 201 differs from that previously disclosed with reference to Fig. 3a in that rotor 213 has no bell-shaped cavity receiving rotating shaft 205 and electric motor 211.
  • Shaft 205 is instead supported by a pair of rolling bearings 207, for instance ball bearings, and is driven by an electric motor 211, the bearings and the motor being located in a pump region that is axially separated from the pumping region where rotor 213 is located.
  • That arrangement is generally used for small and medium size turbomolecular pumps (rotor diameter smaller than about 160 mm).
  • a pair of displacement sensors 221A, 221B is provided in basement 203 of pump 201, opposite rotating shaft 205 and at opposite sides of rotor 209 of electric motor 211.
  • said displacement sensors are preferably eddy current sensors.
  • a second pair of sensors 221C, 221D is provided close to inner wall 213a of rotor 213, whereas a third pair of sensors 221E, 221F is provided close to outer wall 213b of rotor 213. Said sensors are turned towards said rotor so that any variation in the distance between the rotor and the sensor during rotation of the same rotor can be detected.
  • bell 219 is advantageously equipped with a central cylindrical projection 219a penetrating into central bore 213c of rotor 213.
  • a removable vertical support 220 is provided adjacent to one of the walls of external bell 219 for the cantilevering of the third pair of displacement sensors 221E, 221F.
  • pump 201 has multiple threaded bores 223 with axes lying in planes orthogonal to the rotation axis of rotor 223 to allow locating and displacing additional masses.
  • threaded dowels located in radial bores instead of tangentially oriented bores can be used.
  • turbomolecular pump attains the intended aims, since using displacement sensors directly mounted inside the pump, close to the rotor or the rotating shaft thereof, allows using simpler and more precise mathematical models to determine the rotor unbalance. Consequently, the balancing phase might be carried out in quicker manner and with better results.

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DE602004025916T DE602004025916D1 (de) 2004-07-20 2004-07-20 Rotationsvakuumpumpe und ihr Auswuchtverfahren
EP04103445A EP1619395B1 (fr) 2004-07-20 2004-07-20 Pompe à vide rotative et son procédé d'équilibrage
US11/184,280 US20060018772A1 (en) 2004-07-20 2005-07-19 Rotary vacuum pump, structure and method for the balancing thereof
JP2005208883A JP2006029338A (ja) 2004-07-20 2005-07-19 回転真空ポンプ、そのバランス調整構造体およびそのバランス調整方法

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