JP2010249047A - Screw compressor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a screw compressor of a monogate rotor (single gate rotor) structure for suppressing the occurrence of leakage in a high pressure seal part which is formed in the clearance between a screw rotor and a bearing housing internally mounted with the bearing of the screw rotor. <P>SOLUTION: Near the boundary between a high pressure region and a low pressure region of the high pressure seal part 30, an oiling port 15 communicated with the oiling passage 14 of the bearing housing 10 is opened from which oil is injected near the boundary. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a screw compressor, and more particularly, to a screw compressor having a monogate rotor structure that compresses refrigerant gas by combining one screw rotor and one gate rotor in a casing.

FIG. 19 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a compression mechanism portion of a conventional screw compressor. FIG. 20 is a conceptual perspective view of a compression mechanism portion of a conventional twin gate rotor structure screw compressor.
The screw compressor includes a screw rotor 102 that is rotatably disposed in a casing (not shown), has a plurality of screw grooves 121 formed on the outer peripheral surface, and an electric motor 103 that rotates the screw rotor 102. . The outer periphery of the screw rotor 102 is provided with a pair of gate rotors 104 that mesh with each other so as to sandwich the screw rotor 102 from both sides, and rotate as the screw rotor 102 rotates. In the screw compressor having the pair of gate rotors 104 (hereinafter referred to as a twin gate rotor structure), compression is performed between the screw rotor 102 and the casing 101 on both sides with the pair of gate rotors 104 as a boundary. A chamber is formed.

  The screw shaft 122 of the screw rotor 102 is rotatably supported by a high pressure side bearing 107 and a low pressure side bearing (not shown), and the high pressure side bearing 107 is close to the high pressure side end portion 124 of the screw rotor 102. The bearing housing 110 is provided in the interior. A bearing housing inner chamber 111 is formed in the bearing housing 110. The bearing housing inner chamber 111 is partitioned from the discharge high-pressure portion of the screw rotor 102 by a circumferential high-pressure seal portion (a gap between the screw rotor 102 and the bearing housing 110) 130, which will be described later, and is provided in the screw rotor 102. The pressure equalizing passage 123 communicates with the low pressure side to equalize the pressure to a low pressure. The thrust force acting on the screw rotor 102 in the axial direction (thrust direction) (in this case, the force pushing from the high pressure side to the low pressure side) by communicating the bearing housing inner chamber 111 to the low pressure side and equalizing the pressure to the low pressure in this way. To balance.

  In the screw compressor configured in this way, the refrigerant gas in the compression chamber is compressed by the gate rotor 104 rotating as the screw rotor 102 rotates. In this compression process, the screw rotor 102 and the gate rotor 104, the screw rotor 102 and the casing 101, the screw rotor 102 and the bearing housing 110, etc. are relatively moving. For this reason, these gaps are not zero, and not a little refrigerant gas in the compression process leaks to the low pressure side from these gaps.

  For leakage from the gap between the screw rotor 102 and the gate rotor 104 (hereinafter referred to as the gate rotor section gap) and the gap between the screw rotor 102 and the casing 101 (hereinafter referred to as the screw outer peripheral gap), Leakage from gaps is reduced by actively injecting oil. Further, leakage generated between the discharge high pressure portion of the screw rotor 102 and the bearing housing inner chamber 111 that is set to low pressure is prevented by the circumferential high pressure seal portion 130 provided in the gap between the screw rotor 102 and the bearing housing 110. It is carried out. That is, the oil leaked together with the refrigerant gas from the compression chamber is supplied to the high pressure seal portion 130, thereby preventing the high pressure refrigerant gas from leaking to the low pressure side of the bearing housing inner chamber 111 or the like (for example, Patent Document 1). reference).

  By the way, the screw compressor of the above-mentioned patent document 1 has a twin gate rotor structure including a pair of gate rotors 104 and performs a compression operation on both sides of the cylindrical portion of the screw rotor 102 with the pair of gate rotors 104 as a boundary. . A structure in which compression is performed using a single gate rotor 104 (hereinafter referred to as a monogate rotor structure) in contrast to a twin gate rotor structure in which compression is performed on both sides of the cylindrical portion of the screw rotor 102 using two gate rotors 104. There is a screw compressor. In other words, the monogate rotor structure screw compressor performs a compression operation using only one side of the cylindrical portion of the screw rotor 102 in the twin gate rotor structure, and uses the same screw rotor 102 as the twin gate rotor structure. It is possible to cover a capacity range of about 1/2 times.

  In addition, by using a single gate rotor, the volume change rate of the working fluid can be reduced by allowing the screw rotor 102 to rotate from the suction angle to the completion of compression / discharge at a rotation angle of 180 ° or more. Pressure loss can be reduced (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

JP-A-5-113184 (page 3, FIG. 1) JP-A-6-42475 (page 3, page 4, FIG. 1)

  In the case of a screw compressor having a twin gate rotor structure, the compression chambers are formed symmetrically around the screw shaft 122 on both sides of the screw rotor 102, and the same compression operation is performed in each. For this reason, the gas load in the radial direction of the screw rotor 102 (direction orthogonal to the screw shaft 122) is offset. On the other hand, the mono-gate rotor structure screw compressor, as described above, has a configuration in which the compression operation is performed using only one side in the twin-gate rotor structure, and the whole side is sucked without performing the compression operation on the other side. It is a pressure atmosphere. For this reason, an imbalance of pressure distribution occurs in the outer peripheral portion of the screw rotor 102, and as a result, in the high pressure seal portion 130, in the circumferential direction, it corresponds to a portion other than the compression chamber and the high pressure region corresponding to the compression chamber side. A low pressure region is formed. Therefore, the high-pressure refrigerant gas leaking from the compression-side screw groove 121 flows in the circumferential direction from the high-pressure region to the low-pressure region of the high-pressure seal portion 130 due to the differential pressure, and the screw groove 121 and the bearing housing inner chamber on the suction atmosphere side. There was a problem of leaking to 111.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a screw compressor having a monogate rotor structure and capable of suppressing leakage at a high-pressure seal portion. And

  A screw compressor according to the present invention has a casing, a screw rotor that is rotatably arranged in the casing and has a plurality of screw grooves on the outer peripheral surface, and teeth that fit into the screw grooves of the screw rotor. The gate rotor, which is rotated with the rotation of the screw rotor, and the casing, the screw groove, and the gate rotor are part of the outer periphery of the screw rotor, and the refrigerant gas is compressed by rotating the screw rotor. A compression chamber for discharging, a bearing housing provided close to a discharge side end of the screw rotor, and housing a bearing on the discharge side of the screw rotor, and a bearing housing inner chamber communicating with the suction side in the bearing housing. A seal portion for partitioning from the discharge high pressure portion of the bearing housing And a high-pressure seal portion that is a circumferential gap formed between the screw rotor and the screw rotor, and the high-pressure seal portion is provided with a high-pressure region on the compression side in which a compression chamber is formed in the circumferential direction, and the other reaction. It has a low pressure region on the compression side, and an oil supply port communicating with an oil supply passage provided in the bearing housing is opened near the boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region, and oil is injected from the oil supply port. .

  According to the present invention, high-pressure oil is forcibly supplied near the boundary between the high-pressure region and the low-pressure region of the high-pressure seal portion, so that there is an effect that the oil sealability of the refrigerant leakage path from the high-pressure region to the low-pressure region can be improved. .

It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of the principal part of the monogate rotor structure screw compressor which concerns on Embodiment 1. FIG. It is AA sectional drawing of the bearing housing 10 of FIG. It is BB sectional drawing of FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a structure of a monogate rotor structure screw compressor according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is CC sectional drawing of FIG. 1 is a conceptual perspective view of a compression mechanism section of a twin gate rotor structure screw compressor according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a figure which shows the pressure distribution in the compression chamber. FIG. 2 is a pressure distribution diagram of the screw rotor 2 of FIG. 1. It is a figure (the 1) which shows the other arrangement configuration example of a fuel filler opening. It is a figure (the 2) which shows the other arrangement configuration example of a fuel filler opening. It is a figure (the 3) which shows the other arrangement configuration example of a fuel filler opening. It is a figure showing the shape when the bearing housing 10 which concerns on Embodiment 2 is cut | disconnected. It is a figure showing a shape when the bearing housing 10 which concerns on Embodiment 3 is cut | disconnected. It is a figure which shows the dynamic pressure groove formed in the radial surface of the anti-compression side of FIG. It is a figure showing another example of a shape of the dynamic pressure groove which concerns on Embodiment 4. FIG. FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view showing a structure of a monogate rotor structure screw compressor according to a fifth embodiment. It is GG sectional drawing of FIG. FIG. 10 is a conceptual perspective view of a compression mechanism unit of a two-stage screw compressor according to a sixth embodiment. It is a schematic sectional drawing of the compression mechanism part of the conventional screw compressor. It is a conceptual perspective view of the compression mechanism part of the conventional twin gate rotor structure screw compressor.

Embodiment 1.
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of the main part of the monogate rotor structure screw compressor according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the bearing housing 10 of FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of the monogate rotor structure screw compressor according to the first embodiment. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line CC of FIG. FIG. 6 is a perspective view for explaining the positional relationship between the screw rotor 2 and the monogate rotor 4. 1 to 6 and the drawings to be described later, the same reference numerals denote the same or corresponding parts, and this is common throughout the entire specification. Furthermore, the form of the constituent elements appearing in the whole specification is merely an example, and is not limited to these descriptions.

  The monogate rotor structure screw compressor includes a casing 1, a screw rotor 2 that is rotatably arranged in the casing 1 and has a plurality of screw grooves 21 formed on the outer peripheral surface, and an electric motor 3 that rotates the screw rotor 2. And an oil separator 60 for preventing oil from flowing into the refrigerant circuit and holding the oil. On the outer periphery of the screw rotor 2, there is disposed a single gate rotor 4 that has teeth 41 that fit into the screw grooves 21 and rotates as the screw rotor 2 rotates.

  A part of the outer peripheral surface of the screw rotor 2 is covered with a part of the casing 1, and the closed space surrounded by the screw groove 21, the gate rotor 4, and the casing 1 of the screw rotor 2 covered with the casing 1. A compression chamber 5 is formed.

FIG. 7 is a view showing the pressure distribution in the compression chamber 5. In FIG. 7, the dotted line indicates the casing 1, and the portion surrounded by the dotted line is the compression chamber 5. The other region is an anti-compression region, and all are suction pressure atmospheres. Moreover, in FIG. 7, the pressure distribution in each compression chamber 5 is shown by making hatching different. Hereinafter, the compression stroke in the compression chamber 5 will be described with reference to FIG.
When the screw rotor 2 rotates in the direction of arrow a, the gate rotor 4 rotates in the direction of arrow b in the drawing along with the rotation. Thereby, the screw groove 21a located in the suction atmosphere enters the region surrounded by the casing 1 with the refrigerant gas at the suction pressure inside (the screw groove 21a becomes the compression chamber 5). Then, as the screw rotor 2 further rotates and the volume of the compression chamber 5 gradually decreases as shown by the arrow c in the figure, the refrigerant gas is gradually compressed to low pressure, intermediate pressure, and further high pressure. Then, the refrigerant gas having a high pressure is discharged from a discharge port 1 a opened in the casing 1.

  Thus, the suction gas is compressed in the compression chamber 5 by the rotation of the screw rotor 2. In this example, focusing on one compression chamber 5, the compression operation from suction to completion of compression / discharge is performed while the screw rotor 2 rotates 180 °. 5 are formed, and each compression chamber 5 performs the same compression operation with a phase difference of 60 °. Therefore, in the following, the cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the screw rotor 2 in which the plurality of compression chambers 5 are formed is divided by 180 °, and the semi-cylindrical surface side having the compression chambers 5 is referred to as a compression side, and the opposite side is referred to as an anti-compression side. I will decide.

  Further, as described above, in FIG. 7, the portion not surrounded by the casing 1 (suction side portion) is all the suction pressure atmosphere and has a low pressure, whereas the inside of the compression chamber 5 surrounded by the casing 1 is sucked. It is distributed from pressure to discharge pressure and is higher than the suction side. Therefore, of the axial end portions of the screw rotor 2, the side where the discharge port 1a is located (the front side in FIG. 7 and the left side in FIG. 1) is high pressure, and the opposite side (the back side in FIG. The right side) is under low pressure. For this reason, below, the high voltage | pressure side is called the high voltage | pressure side edge part 24 among the axial direction both ends of the screw rotor 2. FIG.

  Here, the description returns to FIG. The screw shaft 22 of the screw rotor 2 is rotatably supported by a high-pressure side bearing 7 and a low-pressure side bearing 8, and the high-pressure side bearing 7 is provided close to the high-pressure side end 24 of the screw rotor 2. The bearing housing 10 is internally provided. The bearing housing 10 has a cylindrical shape extending in the direction of the screw shaft 22 and has a through hole through which the screw shaft 22 is inserted. The through-hole is composed of a small-diameter through-hole 10 a that houses the high-pressure side bearing 7 and a large-diameter through-hole 10 b that is formed on the screw rotor 2 side of the small-diameter through-hole 10 a and accommodates a part of the screw rotor 2. . Since the end portion (discharge end portion) of the screw rotor 2 on the bearing housing 10 side has a two-stage cylindrical shape, the inner surface of the through hole of the bearing housing 10 is also stepped in the axial direction according to the shape of the screw rotor 2. The shape has.

  In the bearing housing 10, a bearing housing inner chamber 11 is configured that is partitioned from a discharge high-pressure portion of the screw rotor 2 by a high-pressure seal portion 30 described later. The bearing housing inner chamber 11 is connected to the low pressure side by a pressure equalizing passage 23 provided in the screw rotor 2 to equalize the high pressure inside to a low pressure. Thereby, the thrust force acting in the axial direction of the screw rotor 2 is balanced.

  Further, a circumferential high pressure seal portion 30 is formed in the gap between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 to form a film made of a liquid such as oil (refrigeration machine oil) and seal (seal) the gap. Yes. The high-pressure seal portion 30 includes a thrust seal portion 31 that seals a gap between thrust surfaces opposed in the axial direction of the screw rotor 2 in a gap where the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 face each other, and a shaft of the screw rotor 2. It is comprised from the radial seal part 32 which seals the clearance gap between the radial surfaces which oppose the direction orthogonal to a direction. The thrust surface of the bearing housing 10 (surface perpendicular to the axial direction (thrust direction) of the screw rotor 2) is the thrust surface 12, and the radial surface of the bearing housing 10 (surface perpendicular to the radial direction perpendicular to the thrust direction (large diameter) This corresponds to the inner surface of the through-hole 10b)).

  The high-pressure seal portion 30 configured in this manner seals the gap between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10, so that the refrigerant leaks from the discharge high-pressure portion of the screw rotor 2 to the low-pressure bearing housing inner chamber 11 and the like. To prevent. Note that the oil supplied to the high-pressure seal portion 30 is a leak of oil injected into the compression chamber 5 in order to reduce refrigerant leakage in the compression chamber 5.

  In this example, in order to further improve the sealing performance in the high-pressure seal portion 30, an oil supply passage 14 is provided in the bearing housing 10, and an oil supply port 15 communicating with the oil supply passage 14 is opened in the high-pressure seal portion 30. Oil is forcibly supplied from the port 15 to the high pressure seal portion 30. Thereby, the leakage amount of the refrigerant gas leaking from the gap is reduced.

  In addition, this example is characterized by the position of the fuel filler opening 15. This point will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 8 is a distribution diagram of pressure acting on the screw rotor 2 of FIG. Also in FIG. 8, as in FIG. 7, the pressure distribution is shown by changing the hatching. Further, as described above, in this example, since the plurality of compression chambers 5 are formed on the semi-cylindrical surface divided by the outer periphery of the screw rotor 2 at 180 °, the pressure distribution is distributed from the suction pressure to the discharge pressure. The opposite cylindrical surface where 5 is not formed is at the suction pressure. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 8, the high pressure side end 24 and the high pressure seal portion 30 of the screw rotor 2 have a high pressure region corresponding to the compression side and a non-compression side other than that at 180 ° in the circumferential direction. And a low-pressure region corresponding to. Therefore, as shown by the arrows in the figure, the refrigerant leaks from the high pressure region to the low pressure region. Therefore, in this example, an oil supply port 15 communicating with the oil supply passage 14 provided in the bearing housing 10 is opened near the boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region of the high pressure seal portion 30. Thereby, since the high pressure oil can be forcibly injected aiming at the vicinity of the boundary where the refrigerant leaks, the effect of reducing the refrigerant leakage can be enhanced.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the oil supply port 15 (15a, 15b) is open to both the thrust surface 12 and the radial surface 13 of the bearing housing 10, and supplies oil to both the thrust seal portion 31 and the radial seal portion 32. Like to do. As a result, oil is reliably supplied into the gap, the oil sealability is improved, and a high refrigerant leakage reduction effect is obtained.

  Further, the thrust surface 12 and the radial surface 13 of the bearing housing 10 are respectively provided with arc-shaped labyrinth grooves 16t and 16r for preventing seizure due to friction when the screw rotor 2 contacts the bearing housing 10 due to a thrust load or the like. Is provided. The arc-shaped labyrinth grooves 16t and 16r are provided for the purpose of reducing the contact area as much as possible in case the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 come into contact with each other. The arc-shaped labyrinth grooves 16t and 16r are terminated in the vicinity of each other's boundary in each of the high pressure region and the low pressure region, and do not communicate with each other. This prevents refrigerant leakage from the high pressure region to the low pressure region via the arc-shaped labyrinth grooves 16t and 16r.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the high pressure oil is forcibly injected near the boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region of the high pressure seal portion 30. The oil sealability of the refrigerant leakage path can be improved. Therefore, the refrigerant gas is effectively prevented from leaking into the low-pressure bearing housing inner chamber 11 and the screw groove 21 on the suction atmosphere side. Therefore, the compression efficiency is improved and it can contribute to energy saving.

  Further, in this example, oil supply ports 15 a and 15 b are provided on both the thrust surface 12 and the radial surface 13 of the bearing housing 10 at two locations near the boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region of the high pressure seal portion 30. For this reason, oil is reliably supplied into the leakage path, high oil sealability is obtained, and a high refrigerant leakage reduction effect is obtained.

  In addition, in this example, as shown in FIG. 2, an example in which the fuel filler port 15 is provided over the very boundary portion between the high pressure region and the low pressure region is shown, but it may be provided on the low pressure region side as shown in FIG. 9. It may be provided on the high pressure region side. Since the oil pressure differential pressure is higher in the low pressure region than in the high pressure region, the amount of oil supply can be adjusted more easily than in the case of supplying oil to the high pressure region, and there is an effect that stable oil feeding can be performed.

  Further, in this example, the oil supply ports 15a and 15b are opened at two locations near the boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region, respectively, but only one location near the boundary on the discharge port 1a side is opened. Also good. The vicinity of the boundary on the discharge port 1a side is a portion where the pressure is particularly high in the high pressure region, and thus the pressure difference from the low pressure region is large and a large amount of refrigerant leakage occurs. Therefore, by providing the oil filler port 15 at this portion, a sufficient refrigerant leakage reduction effect can be obtained even at only one location.

  In this example, the oil supply port 15 is provided on both the thrust surface 12 and the radial surface 13 of the bearing housing 10 to supply oil to both the thrust seal portion 31 and the radial seal portion 32. It is not necessary. In short, it is only necessary that the oil filler port 15 is opened near the boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region of the high pressure seal portion 30. For example, the following arrangement configuration may be adopted.

  That is, the oil supply port 15 may be opened only in the thrust surface 12 as shown in FIG. 10, or the oil supply port 15 may be opened only in the radial surface 13 as shown in FIG. 10 and 11, oil is supplied to either the thrust seal portion 31 or the radial seal portion 32. For this reason, oil distribution may occur in the leakage path due to the action of centrifugal force or pressure difference. Therefore, from the viewpoint of oil sealability, it is preferable to supply oil to both the thrust seal portion 31 and the radial seal portion 32 as in the above configuration.

  By the way, it is preferable that the thrust surface 12 of the bearing housing 10 has a small area from the viewpoint of reducing the thrust load acting on the high-pressure side bearing 7 (this will be described in the following equation (1)). For this reason, as shown in FIG. 11, when the oil supply passage 14 is formed to penetrate from the outer peripheral surface of the bearing housing 10 in the radial direction and the oil supply port 15 is opened in the radial surface 13, the thrust surface 12 can be reduced. That is, an area larger than the oil supply port 15 is required when the oil supply port 15 is opened on the thrust surface 12, but this restriction is not necessary when the oil supply port 15 is opened on the radial surface 13. Therefore, the thrust surface 12 can be reduced, the thrust load can be reduced, and an improvement in bearing life can be expected.

Here, the thrust load will be described. Since both end surfaces of the screw rotor 2 are equalized to the suction pressure by the pressure equalizing passage 23, a thrust load corresponding to the pressure difference acting on the thrust seal portion 31 is generated in the thrust direction. When the discharge pressure P _d is acting on the compression side thrust seal portion 31, the thrust load F _t acting on the screw rotor 2 is calculated by the following equation (1). Therefore, as apparent from the equation (1), if the thrust surface 12 is large (if the difference between R _out and R _in is large), the thrust load F _t becomes large. Here, in the equation (1), R _out is the outer radius of the radial seal portion 32 (the outer radius of the screw rotor 2), R _in is the inner radius of the radial seal portion 32, and P _s is the suction pressure.
F _t = π (R _out ² −R _in ² ) · (P _d −P _S ) / 2 (1)

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 11, when the oil supply passage 14 is provided via the inside of the displacement control slide valve 6, the structure can be simplified. The slide valve 6 slides the outer surface of the portion constituting the compression chamber 5 in the casing 1 in the thrust direction, and opens and closes a bypass hole (not shown) provided in a part of the casing 1 to suck the suction volume. This is an existing one. The slide valve 6 plays a role of supplying high-pressure oil for preventing leakage of refrigerant from the oil separator 60 in addition to the role of capacity control as described above. An oil supply passage 14 for supplying high-pressure oil to a gap between the portion and the outer peripheral surface of the screw rotor 2 is provided. For this reason, by branching from the oil supply passage 14 and configuring the oil supply passage 14, the structure can be simplified as compared with a structure in which the oil supply passage 14 is separately provided.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
As described above, the monogate rotor structure screw compressor corresponds to a configuration in which a compression operation is performed using only one side in a twin gate rotor structure. And since all the other side is a suction pressure atmosphere, the pressure distribution imbalance has arisen in the outer peripheral part of the screw rotor 102, and gas is sent to the screw rotor 2 in the direction from the compression side to the non-compression side. A load (radial load) acts (for example, the direction indicated by the arrow in FIG. 5). When such a radial load is applied to the screw rotor 2, the screw shaft 22 is decentered from the normal position (rotation center), and for example, there is a high possibility that seizure or the like will occur due to contact with members around the compression mechanism portion. Become. The second embodiment intends to solve this problem. In the second embodiment, only the configuration of the bearing housing 10 is different, and the other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment. For this reason, for the parts other than the bearing housing 10, refer to the drawings of the first embodiment as appropriate.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a shape when the bearing housing 10 according to the second embodiment is cut. 12 (a) is a plan view of the bearing housing 10, FIG. 12 (b) is a sectional view taken along the line DD in FIG. 12 (a), and FIG. 12 (c) is a sectional view taken along the line EE in FIG. FIG.
As described above, in the compressor having the monogate rotor structure, the screw shaft 22 bends due to the radial load, and the screw rotor 2 is decentered (the position of the rotation center moves). there's a possibility that. Therefore, in the second embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 12A and 12B, the screw rotor 2 is provided on the anti-compression side (the anti-compression side end 17) of the screw rotor side end of the bearing housing 10. An escape portion that allows eccentricity from the normal position is formed. Hereinafter, the structure of the bearing housing 10 will be described in detail.

  Of the end of the bearing housing 10 on the screw rotor 2 side, the anti-compression side is referred to as an anti-compression side end 17 and the compression side is referred to as a compression side end 18. The non-compression side end portion 17 is formed so that the height is lower than the compression side end portion 18 and the width of the peripheral portion is narrow (small). Specifically, the distance between the central axis of the large-diameter through hole 10b and the inner peripheral surface (radial surface) 13 of the large-diameter through-hole 10b is longer on the non-compression side than on the compression side. Further, the length of the large diameter through hole 10b in the axial direction is shorter on the non-compression side than on the compression side. That is, out of the thrust surface 12 of the bearing housing 10, the thrust surface 12 on the anti-compression side is notched compared to the compression side. As a result, the relief portion is formed, and on the non-compression side, the clearance between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 becomes wide, and contact can be prevented. On the non-compression side, there is no screw groove 21 at a high pressure, and the demand for refrigerant leakage from the gap is not as strong as the compression side. For this reason, priority is given to preventing contact between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10.

  Further, the bearing housing 10 is provided with an arc-shaped labyrinth groove 16 for preventing excessive contact while suppressing leakage as in the first embodiment. In the case of the second embodiment, the arc-shaped labyrinth groove 16 is provided only on the compression-side thrust surface 12 and is terminated near the boundary with the non-compression side so as not to communicate with each other. This prevents refrigerant leakage from the compression side to the non-compression side via the labyrinth groove 16.

  In the screw compressor of the second embodiment configured as described above, the pressure distribution on the compression side and the non-compression side of the screw rotor 2 are different from each other as in the first embodiment. A gas load (radial load) is applied in the direction toward. For this reason, although the rotation center of the screw rotor 2 moves to the non-compression side, the clearance between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 is widened on the anti-compression side, so that the contact between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 is increased. Can be prevented.

  As described above, in the second embodiment, in addition to the configuration of the first embodiment, the shape of the end portion on the screw rotor 2 side of the bearing housing 10 is changed so that the gap between the end portion and the screw rotor 2 is the same. The anti-compression side was formed wider than the compression side. For this reason, the same operational effects as in the first embodiment can be obtained, and even if the screw rotor 2 is eccentric due to the radial load applied in the direction from the compression side to the non-compression side or the screw rotor 2 is thermally expanded, Contact between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10 can be prevented. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a screw compressor that prevents seizure of the screw rotor 2, has high reliability and durability, and can achieve a long life.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
In the third embodiment, a dynamic pressure groove for generating a dynamic pressure opposed to the radial load is provided on the radial surface 13 of the bearing housing 10 on the non-compression side, and loads on the high-pressure side bearing 7 and the low-pressure side bearing 8 are applied. It is intended to reduce.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a shape when the bearing housing 10 according to the third embodiment is cut. 13A is a plan view of the bearing housing 10, and FIG. 13B is a cross-sectional view taken along line FF in FIG. 13A. FIG. 14 is a view showing dynamic pressure grooves formed on the radial surface on the anti-compression side of FIG. In the third embodiment, only the configuration of the bearing housing 10 is different, and the other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment. For this reason, for the parts other than the bearing housing 10, refer to the drawings of the first embodiment as appropriate.

  As shown in FIG. 14, the dynamic pressure groove 19 of the third embodiment is a herringbone-shaped groove, and can generate a fluid dynamic pressure facing a radial load. The dynamic pressure groove 19 also has a role of preventing excessive contact, like the arc-shaped labyrinth groove 16. In this example, the end portion of the dynamic pressure groove 19 is opened in the thrust surface 12 and communicated with the thrust seal portion 31 so that oil can easily flow from the portion other than the radial seal portion 32.

  In the screw compressor of the third embodiment configured as described above, the pressure distribution on the compression side and the non-compression side of the screw rotor 2 are different from each other as in the first embodiment. A gas load (radial load) is applied in the direction toward. This radial load acts on the high-pressure side bearing 7 and the low-pressure side bearing 8 that support the screw shaft 9 (screw rotor 2). In this example, the radial load acting on the high-pressure side bearing 7 and the low-pressure side bearing 8 can be reduced by the dynamic pressure generated in the herringbone-shaped groove, and the life of the bearing can be extended. For this reason, a screw compressor with high reliability etc. is obtained.

  Even if the screw rotor 2 is eccentric due to thermal expansion or radial load of the screw rotor 2, the arc-shaped labyrinth groove 16 and the dynamic pressure groove 19 prevent excessive contact between the screw rotor 2 and the bearing housing 10. Can do.

  As described above, according to the screw compressor of the third embodiment, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained, and the following effects can be further obtained by providing the dynamic pressure groove 19. That is, the radial load acting on the high-pressure side bearing 7 and the low-pressure side bearing 8 can be reduced, and the life of the bearing can be extended. For this reason, the screw compressor which has high reliability and durability and can achieve a long life can be obtained.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating another shape example of the dynamic pressure groove according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the third embodiment, the herringbone groove dynamic pressure groove 19 is provided. However, the dynamic pressure groove 19 is not limited to a shape like a herringbone groove, and may be a shape that can generate a dynamic pressure against a radial load, for example, and may be a spiral groove.

  FIG. 15A shows a spiral groove (a dynamic pressure groove) 19 a that is inclined downward in the rotation direction of the screw rotor 2 and is terminated at the center portion of the radial surface 13. FIG. 15B shows a spiral groove (the dynamic pressure groove thereof) inclined upward from the high-pressure side bearing 7 side of the radial surface 13 toward the rotation direction of the screw rotor 2 and terminated at the center portion of the radial surface 13. ) 19b.

  FIG. 15C shows not the shape of the inner peripheral surface of the bearing housing 10 but the depth of the groove, and the volume of the concave portion of the groove decreases in the rotational direction of the screw rotor 2. This is a dynamic groove 19c of a wedge-shaped groove configured to go.

  As described above, according to the screw compressor of the fourth embodiment, the dynamic pressure grooves 19 having various shapes are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the bearing housing 10, and dynamic pressure is generated to oppose the radial load to the screw rotor. 2 can be pressurized. In particular, since the spiral grooves 19a, 19b and the like can be formed with a small number of man-hours, it is possible to obtain a screw compressor that is highly reliable and durable and can improve the life while reducing costs.

Embodiment 5 FIG.
In the fifth embodiment, an oil pocket to which high-pressure oil is supplied from the oil separator 60 is provided at a position facing the radial load in the bearing housing 10, the screw rotor 2 is pressurized from the non-compression side, and the high-pressure side bearing 7 is provided. In addition, the radial load acting on the low-pressure side bearing 8 is reduced.

FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of the mono-gate rotor structure screw compressor according to the fifth embodiment, and corresponds to the HH cross section of FIG. 17 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line GG in FIG.
High pressure oil is supplied to the oil pocket 20 from the oil separator 60 through an oil supply passage 14 a provided in the bearing housing 10. An oil pocket 20 is provided at a position of the bearing housing 10 facing the radial load, and the screw rotor 2 is pressurized by a hydrostatic pocket bearing action. Here, the oil pockets 20 may be provided not only at one place but at a plurality of places, and the places where the screw rotor 2 is pressed against the radial load may be dispersed in a wider range.

  As described above, according to the screw compressor of the fifth embodiment, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained, and the oil pocket 20 is provided at a position facing the radial load. can get. That is, by filling the oil pocket 20 with high-pressure oil and pressurizing the screw rotor 2 by the static pressure pocket action, the radial load acting on the high-pressure side bearing 7 and the low-pressure side bearing 8 is reduced, and the life of the bearing is extended. be able to. For this reason, a highly reliable screw compressor is obtained. The oil supply passage 14a communicating with the oil pocket 20 may be shared with the oil supply passage 14 communicating with the oil supply port 15, or may be provided separately.

Embodiment 6 FIG.
FIG. 18 is a conceptual perspective view of a compression mechanism section of a two-stage screw compressor according to Embodiment 6 of the present invention. In FIG. 18, the screw rotor 2a in which the compression operation is performed at two locations using the two gate rotors 4a and 4b is arranged on the low stage side, and in the monogate rotor structure described in the first to fifth embodiments. The screw rotor 2 is arranged on the higher stage side.

  As shown in FIG. 18, the high-stage side has a monogate rotor structure, so that the low-stage side and the high-stage side having different volumes can be configured by using the same-diameter screw rotors 2 and 2a, thereby reducing the cost due to the mass production effect. I can plan. Furthermore, since only one high-stage gate rotor is required, not only the gate rotor but also peripheral components can be reduced, and the weight can be reduced. And also in this two-stage screw compressor, there exists an effect similar to the screw compressor of the monogate rotor structure of Embodiment 1-5.

  In each of the first to sixth embodiments, an example in which the screw rotor 2 is rotated 180 ° from the suction to the completion of compression / discharge is shown, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, even if the angle is 180 ° or more, the effect of the present invention is not changed.

  1 casing, 1a discharge port, 2 screw rotor, 2a screw rotor, 3 electric motor, 4 gate rotor, 4a gate rotor, 5 compression chamber, 6 slide valve, 7 high pressure side bearing, 8 low pressure side bearing, 9 screw shaft, 10 bearing Housing, 10a Small-diameter through-hole, 10b Large-diameter through-hole, 11 Bearing housing inner chamber, 12 Thrust surface, 13 Radial surface, 14 Oil supply passage, 14a Oil supply passage, 15 Oil supply port, 15a Oil supply port, 15b Oil supply port, 16 Arc shape Labyrinth groove, 16t Arc-shaped labyrinth groove, 16r Arc-shaped labyrinth groove, 17 Anti-compression side end, 18 Compression-side end, 19 Dynamic pressure groove, 19a Dynamic pressure groove, 19b Dynamic pressure groove, 19c Dynamic pressure groove, 20 Oil Pocket, 21 Screw groove, 21a Screw groove, 22 Screw shaft, 23 Pressure equalizing passage, 24 high pressure side end, 30 high pressure seal part, 31 thrust seal part, 32 radial seal part, 41 teeth, 60 oil separator.

Claims (17)

A casing,
A screw rotor rotatably disposed in the casing and provided with a plurality of screw grooves on the outer peripheral surface;
One gate rotor having teeth that fit into the screw grooves of the screw rotor, and rotating with the rotation of the screw rotor;
A compression chamber configured to form a part of the outer periphery of the screw rotor by the casing, the screw groove, and the gate rotor, and compressing and discharging refrigerant gas by rotating the screw rotor;
A bearing housing provided close to a discharge-side end portion of the screw rotor and housing a screw-side bearing of the screw rotor;
A seal portion for separating a bearing housing inner chamber communicating with the suction side in the bearing housing from a discharge high-pressure portion of the screw rotor, and a circumferential shape formed between the bearing housing and the screw rotor. With a high-pressure seal that is a gap,
The high pressure seal portion has a high pressure region in which the compression chamber is formed in the circumferential direction and a low pressure region other than the high pressure region, and is provided in the bearing housing near a boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region. A screw compressor characterized in that an oil supply port communicating with an oil supply passage is opened and oil is injected from the oil supply port.   2. The screw compressor according to claim 1, wherein the oil filler opening is opened to the low pressure region side in a vicinity of a boundary between the high pressure region and the low pressure region.   The high-pressure seal portion includes a thrust seal portion that seals a gap between thrust surfaces facing each other in the axial direction of the screw rotor among gaps formed between the screw rotor and the bearing housing, and the oil supply The screw compressor according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a port is opened in a thrust surface of the bearing housing.   The high-pressure seal portion includes a radial seal portion that seals a gap between radial surfaces facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the screw rotor, among the gaps formed between the screw rotor and the bearing housing. The screw compressor according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the oil filler opening is opened in a radial surface of the bearing housing.   5. The screw compressor according to claim 4, wherein the oil supply port of the radial surface is formed so as to penetrate the bearing housing from an outer peripheral surface in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the screw rotor.   The high-pressure seal part includes a thrust seal part that seals a gap between thrust surfaces facing in the axial direction of the screw rotor, of the gap formed between the screw rotor and the bearing housing; and the screw rotor A radial seal portion that seals a gap between the radial surfaces facing each other in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the shaft, and the oil filler opening is opened on both the thrust surface of the bearing housing and the radial surface of the bearing housing. The screw compressor according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by the above.   The screw compressor according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the oil supply passage is provided via a slide valve that performs capacity control.   In the bearing housing, the shape of the rotor side end facing the screw rotor is different between the compression side where the compression chamber is formed and the other non-compression side, and the anti-compression side is the screw rotor. The screw compressor according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising an escape portion that allows eccentricity from the normal position.   The bearing housing has a through hole through which the screw shaft of the screw rotor is inserted, and the through hole is formed on the screw rotor side of the small diameter through hole and the small diameter through hole. A large-diameter through-hole that accommodates a part of the through-hole, and the distance between the central axis of the through-hole and the inner peripheral surface of the large-diameter through-hole is longer on the non-compression side than on the compression side. The screw compressor according to claim 8, wherein the screw compressor is provided.   The bearing housing has a through hole through which the screw shaft of the screw rotor is inserted, and the through hole is formed on the screw rotor side of the small diameter through hole and the small diameter through hole. 10. The large-diameter through hole that accommodates a part of the large-diameter through hole, wherein the axial length of the large-diameter through hole is shorter on the non-compression side than on the compression side. Screw compressor.   The screw compressor according to any one of claims 8 to 10, wherein an arc-shaped labyrinth groove having a terminal portion is provided on a thrust surface on a compression side of the bearing housing.   The screw compressor according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein a dynamic pressure groove is provided on a radial surface of the bearing housing on a non-compression side.   The screw compressor according to claim 12, wherein the dynamic pressure groove is a herringbone groove.   The screw compressor according to claim 12, wherein the dynamic pressure groove is a spiral groove.   The screw compressor according to any one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the dynamic pressure groove is a groove having a shape in which a cross-sectional area of the groove gradually decreases in a rotation direction of the screw rotor.   The screw compressor according to any one of claims 7 to 15, wherein an oil pocket communicating with an oil supply passage is provided on a radial surface of the bearing housing on a non-compression side.   A compression comprising a plurality of stages, each component of the screw compressor according to any one of claims 1 to 16, wherein the screw rotor and the single gate rotor serve as a high-stage compression mechanism. A screw compressor characterized by having a mechanism.

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