The present invention relates to a package-type compressor.
Patent Document 1 discloses a package-type compressor having a casing accommodating a body unit, an oil separator, a controller, a heat exchanger, a cooling fan device, etc. The compressor will be described in detail.
The body unit has a compressor body compressing air and a motor driving this compressor body, with the compressor body and the motor being integrated. More specifically, the compressor body and the motor are vertically installed such that the rotation shaft of the compressor body and the drive shaft of the motor extend in the vertical direction, with the motor being connected to the upper side of the compressor body.
At the lower portion of the right-hand side surface of the casing, there is formed an air suction port, and there are provided a first duct adjacent to a portion of the air suction port and a second duct adjacent to another portion of the air suction port. At the left-hand side surface side of the casing, there is provided a third duct extending in the vertical direction. The heat exchanger is provided at the lower portion of the third duct, and the cooling fan device is provided at the upper portion of the third duct. An air discharge port is formed in the upper surface of the casing.
The cooling fan device is equipped with a case having a suction port and a delivery port, a cooling fan (centrifugal fan) accommodated in the case, and a fan motor driving the cooling fan. The cooling fan and the fan motor are arranged such that their rotation shafts extend in the horizontal direction. The suction port of the case is connected to the third duct, and the delivery port of the case is connected to the air discharge port. The cooling fan device induces a flow of the cooling air inside the casing (more specifically, a flow of the cooling air sucked in through the air suction port and discharged through the air discharge port).
The first duct guides the cooling air from the air suction port to the motor of the body unit to cool the motor. The second duct causes the cooling air from the air suction port to flow along the controller to cool the controller. The cooling air having cooled the motor and the controller cools the heat exchanger. After this, the cooling air heads for the cooling fan device via the third duct.
In the prior-art technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, the compressor body and the motor of the body unit are vertically installed, with the compressor body and the motor being connected together in the vertical direction so as to be integrated with each other. As a result, it is possible to achieve a reduction in the installation area of the body unit and, by extension, a reduction in the installation area of the package-type compressor. Further, although not described in Patent Document 1, when the cooling air is caused to flow in the vertical direction along the body unit, it is possible to efficiently cool the body unit.
In the prior-art technique described in Patent Document 1, however, the air suction port is formed solely in one side surface of the casing, and there are limitations to the size of the air suction port due to a restriction such as sound insulation. Further, the flow path of the cooling air, which extends from the air suction port via the first or second duct and further extends to the air discharge port via the third duct, is relatively long, and the pressure loss of the cooling air flow path is relatively large. Thus, it is difficult to increase the flow rate of the cooling air cooling the body unit and the flow rate of the cooling air cooling the controller. Further, it is difficult to balance the flow rate of the cooling air in the first duct and that in the second duct, and it is difficult to increase the flow rate of the cooling air of the second duct (i.e., the flow rate of the cooling air cooling the controller). Thus, there is room for an improvement in terms of the cooling performance for cooling the body unit and the controller.
The present invention has been made in view of the above problem. It is an object of the present invention to achieve an improvement in terms of the cooling performance for cooling the body unit and the controller.
To achieve the above object, the structure as claimed in the appending claims is applied. The present invention includes a plurality of means for solving the above problem, an example of which is a package-type compressor including: a body unit which has a compressor body compressing a gas and a motor driving the compressor body and in which the compressor body and the motor are vertically connected to be integrated while vertically installing the compressor body and the motor such that a rotation shaft of the compressor body and a drive shaft of the motor extend vertically; a controller controlling the motor; a casing accommodating the body unit and the controller at a lower portion thereof; a first cooling air inlet formed in one side surface of the casing; a second cooling air inlet formed in another side surface of the casing; a cooling air outlet formed in an upper surface of the casing; a fan duct provided at an upper portion of the casing and having a suction port at a lower surface and a delivery port at an upper surface; a cooling fan accommodated in the fan duct and arranged such that a rotation shaft extends in a vertical direction, the cooling fan inducing a flow of cooling air taken in through the first and second cooling air inlets and discharged through the cooling air outlet; an air cooling type heat exchanger arranged above the delivery port of the fan duct and below the cooling air outlet; a machine chamber that is provided below the fan duct and accommodates the body unit and that causes the cooling air taken in at the first cooling air inlet to flow along the body unit and to head for the suction port of the fan duct; and a cooling duct that is provided below the fan duct and that causes the cooling air taken in at the second cooling air inlet to flow along the controller and to head for the suction port of the fan duct, wherein a center position of the suction port of the fan duct is offset away from the first cooling air inlet and toward the second cooling air inlet with respect to a center position of the drive shaft of the motor.
In accordance with the present invention, it is possible to achieve an improvement in terms of the cooling performance for cooling the body unit and the controller.
Other objects, structure, and effects of the present invention will become apparent from the following description.
An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to
A package-type compressor according to the present embodiment is equipped with a casing 1 accommodating apparatuses and components described below. The casing 1 is equipped with a base 2, a front panel 3, a left-hand side panel 4, a right-hand side panel 5, a back panel 6, and a top panel 7. The front panel 3 is provided with an operation switch (not shown), a monitor, etc. The left-hand side panel 4 has a cooling air inlet 8A (first cooling air inlet/inlet port) at the lower side thereof, and has a cooling air inlet 8C (third cooling air inlet/inlet port) at the upper side of the cooling air inlet 8A. The right-hand side panel 5 has a cooling air inlet 8B (second cooling air inlet/inlet port) at the lower side thereof. The top panel 7 has a cooling air outlet 9. Each panel is detachable to allow maintenance of the apparatuses accommodated in the casing 1. In the present embodiment, the opening area of the cooling air inlet 8B is smaller than the opening area of the cooling air inlet 8A.
The casing 1 has a machine chamber 10 at its lower portion, and the machine chamber 10 accommodates a body unit 11 and a suction filter 12. The suction filter 12 is arranged on the front side of the machine chamber 10 (the right-hand side in
The body unit 11 has an oil feeding type compressor body 13, a motor 14 driving the compressor body 13, and an oil separator 15 (gas-liquid separator) separating oil from the compressed air (compressed gas) delivered from the compressor body 13, and the compressor body 13, the motor 14, and the oil separator 15 are integrated with each other. More specifically, the compressor body 13 and the motor 14 are vertically installed such that the rotation shaft of the compressor body 13 and the drive shaft (rotation shaft) of the motor 14, described below, extend in the vertical direction. In the body unit 11, the motor 14 is arranged on the upper side of the compressor body 13, and the oil separator 15 is arranged on the lower side of the compressor body 13.
The motor 14 is an axial gap type motor. This motor 14 has a drive shaft 16 extending in the vertical direction, motor rotors 17A and 17B mounted to the drive shaft 16 so as to be spaced away from each other in the axial direction, a stator 18 arranged between the motor rotors 17A and 17B, and a motor casing 19 to which the stator 18 is mounted.
The compressor body 13 is a screw compressor. This compressor body 13 is equipped with: a male rotor 20A and a female rotor 20B in mesh with each other; a compressor body casing 21 accommodating the tooth portions of the screw rotors 20A and 20B and forming a compression chamber in their tooth grooves; and a suction side casing 22 connected between the compressor body casing 21 and the motor casing 19. The suction side casing 22 has a suction port 23, and the compressor body casing 21 has a suction flow path (not shown). The compressor body casing 21 has a delivery port and a delivery flow path (not shown). A suction filter 12 is connected to the suction route of the compressor body casing 21 via piping (not shown).
The rotation shafts of the male rotor 20A and the female rotor 20B extend in the vertical direction, and the male rotor 20A is integrally formed with or connected to the drive shaft 16 of the motor 14. When the drive shaft 16 of the motor 14 rotates, the male rotor 20A and the female rotor 20B rotate, and the compression chamber moves downwards. The compression chamber sucks in air from the suction flow path via the suction port 23, compress the air, and deliver the compressed air into the delivery flow path via the delivery port.
The oil separator 15 is equipped with an outer cylinder 24 and an inner cylinder 25 that are integrally formed with or connected to the compressor body casing 21, and an oil storage portion 26 provided on the lower side of the outer cylinder 24. The inner cylinder 25 is arranged at or near the center of the upper portion of the outer cylinder 24, and a swirl flow path is formed between the outer cylinder 24 and the inner cylinder 25. This swirl flow path is connected to the delivery flow path of the compressor body 13. The compressed air delivered from the compressor body 13 swirls along the swirl flow path, and the oil contained in the compressed air is centrifugally separated. The separated oil falls along the outer cylinder 24, and is accumulated in the oil storage portion 26. The oil accumulated in the oil storage portion 26 is supplied into the suction flow path or the compression chamber of the compressor body 13 via an oil cooler described below.
On the other hand, the separated compressed air flows into the inner side of the inner cylinder 25, and is supplied to an air cooler described below via a flow path and piping, which are not shown. After this, the compressed air is supplied to a dryer described below.
The casing 1 has a fan duct 27 in the upper portion thereof (in other words, above the machine chamber 10). The fan duct 27 is formed by a lower plate, a front plate, a left-hand side plate, a right-hand side plate, a back plate, and an upper plate. The lower plate of the fan duct 27 (in other words, the partition plate defining the machine chamber 10) has a suction port 28 (see
The fan duct 27 accommodates a turbo fan 30 (cooling fan) and a fan motor 31 driving the turbo fan 30. The turbo fan 30 and the fan motor 31 are arranged such that their rotation shafts extend in the vertical direction. The turbo fan 30 is a kind of centrifugal fan, and is formed by an upper shroud, a lower shroud, and a plurality of vanes provided between them. As indicated by arrows A, B, and C of
Above the delivery port 29 of the fan duct 27 and below the cooling air outlet 9, there is arranged an air cooling type heat exchanger 32. The heat exchanger 32 has an oil cooler and an air cooler as mentioned above. The heat exchanger 32 is, for example, made of aluminum or formed by a copper pipe and an aluminum plate. The cooling air delivered through the delivery port 29 of the fan duct 27 cools the heat exchanger 32, and is then discharged through the cooling air outlet 9 (see arrows C in
On the left-hand side (the left-hand side in
On the right-hand side (the right-hand side in
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In the upper portion of the machine chamber 10, the cooling air having flowed through the cooling duct 35 joins the cooling air from the introduction duct 33, and heads for the suction port 28 of the fan duct 27. Here, a feature of the present embodiment is that, as shown in
The rotation shaft of the turbo fan 30 is arranged concentrically with the suction port 28 of the fan duct 27. As shown in
On the front side of the cooling duct 35, there is arranged a suction duct 41 so as to be adjacent thereto, and this suction duct 41 is connected to the suction side of the compressor body 13 via the suction filter 12. As shown in
On the left-hand side of the machine chamber 10 and the fan duct 27 and on the upper side of the introduction duct 33, there is formed a dryer chamber 43, and this dryer chamber 43 is cut off from the machine chamber 10. The dryer chamber 43 accommodates a dryer 44 drying the compressed air, which is generated by the body unit 11 and cooled by the air cooler, through heat exchange with the cooling air (in other words, a heat exchanger removing drain from the compressed air). Further, the dryer chamber 43 accommodates a dryer cooling fan 45 (propeller fan) and a dryer fan motor driving this cooling fan 45. The dryer cooling fan 45 is arranged opposite the cooling air inlet 8C, and, as indicated by an arrow E of
Next, the effects of the present embodiment will be described.
In the present embodiment, the cooling air inlets 8A and 8B are respectively formed in the left-hand side panel 4 and the right-hand side panel 5 of the casing 1, so that, as compared with the case where the cooling air inlet is formed solely in one side surface of the casing 1, it is possible to increase the total area of the cooling air inlets 8A and 8B. Further, the cooling air flow path extending from the cooling air inlet 8A to the cooling air outlet 9 via the introduction duct 33, the machine chamber 10, and the fan duct 27, and the cooling air flow path extending from the cooling air inlet 8B to the cooling air outlet 9 via the cooling duct 35, the upper portion of the machine chamber 10, and the fan duct 27 are relatively short, and the pressure loss of the cooling air flow path is relatively small. Thus, it is possible to increase the flow rate of the cooling air cooling the body unit 11 and the flow rate of the cooling air cooling the control panel 34. Thus, it is possible to achieve an improvement in terms of the cooling performance for cooling the body unit 11 and the control panel 34. Further, it is also possible to improve the cooling performance for cooling the heat exchanger 32.
Further, the center position O1 of the suction port 28 of the fan duct 27 is offset with respect to the center position O2 of the drive shaft 16 of the motor 14, whereby it is possible to attain a balanced state in terms of the flow rate of the cooling air at the cooling air inlet 8A and the cooling air inlet 8B. In particular, the former center position is offset with respect to the latter center position so as to be away from the cooling air inlet 8A and toward the cooling air inlet 8B, whereby it is possible to increase the flow rate of the cooling air cooling the control panel 34 to improve the cooling performance for cooling the control panel 34 without impairing the cooling performance for cooling the body unit 11. Generally speaking, a control panel includes a lot of components vulnerable to heat, so that a dedicated cooling fan for the control panel is often installed.
According to the present embodiment, it is possible to secure a sufficient cooling air amount for the control panel 34, making it possible to advantageously eliminate the installation cost of such a dedicated fan. That is, there is no need to provide a dedicated fan or the output power of the dedicated fan is reduced, whereby it is possible to achieve a reduction in cost.
Further, the center position O1 of the suction port 28 of the fan duct 27 is offset with respect to the center position O2 of the drive shaft 16 of the motor 14, whereby it is possible to diminish the distance in the height direction between the suction port 28 of the fan duct 27 and the motor 14. This helps to achieve a reduction in the size of the package-type compressor.
Further, in the present embodiment, the dryer chamber 43 is provided between the compressor body 13 and the left-hand side panel 4, and the control panel 34 and the cooling duct 35 are provided between the compressor body 13 and the right-hand side panel 5, whereby it is possible to enhance the sound insulation effect.
Although not described in particular in connection with the above embodiment, as in the case of a first modification shown in
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While in the embodiment described above the turbo fan 30 (centrifugal fan) is provided as the cooling fan in the fan duct 27, this should not be construed restrictively. The embodiment allows modification without departing from the scope of the gist and technical idea of the present invention. As in the case of a second modification shown in
Further, while in the embodiment described above there is provided one suction system connected to the suction side of the compressor body 13 (more specifically, the suction duct 41 and the suction filter 12), this should not be construed restrictively. The embodiment allows modification without departing from the scope of the gist and technical idea of the present invention. As in the case of a third modification shown in
Further, while in the embodiment described above the cooling air inlet 8A is formed in the left-hand side surface of the casing 1 and the cooling air inlet 8B is formed in the right-hand side surface on the opposite side of the left-hand side surface of the casing 1, this should not be construed restrictively. The embodiment allows modification without departing from the scope of the gist and technical idea of the present invention. As in the case of a fourth modification shown in
Further, while in the embodiment described above the body unit 11 has the oil feeding type compressor body 13 supplying oil into the suction flow path or the compression chamber, and the oil separator 15 separating oil from the compressed air delivered from the compressor body 13, with the motor 14 being integrated with the compressor body 13 and the oil separator 15, this should not be construed restrictively. The embodiment allows modification without departing from the scope of the gist and technical idea of the present invention. For example, there may be provided a water feeding type compressor body supplying water into the suction flow path or the compression chamber, and a water separator (a gas-liquid separator) separating water from the compressed air delivered from the compressor body, with the motor being integrated with the compressor body and the water separator. Further, for example, there may be provided a compressor body not supplying oil or water into the suction flow path or the compression chamber, with the motor being integrated with this compressor body (that is, the gas-liquid separator may not be provided). Also in these cases, it is possible to attain the same effect as that of the above embodiment.
Further, while in the embodiment described above the compressor body 13 has the two screw rotors 20A and 20B, this should not be construed restrictively. That is, it may also have a single screw rotor or a tri-rotor. Further, the rotor is not restricted to a screw type one. For example, it may also be a scroll type, a vane type or the like. Further, while in the embodiment described above the compressor body 13 compresses air, this should not be construed restrictively. It may compress some other gas than air.
Further, while in the embodiment described above the motor 14 is an axial gap type motor (more specifically, a motor equipped with motor rotors 17A and 17B spaced away from each other in the axial direction of the drive shaft 16 and a stator 18), this should not be construed restrictively. For example, it may also be a radial gap type motor (more specifically, a motor equipped with a motor rotor and a stator that are spaced away from each other in the radial direction of the drive shaft).
Further, while in the embodiment described above there are provided the dryer 44 and the dryer cooling fan 45 and the cooling air inlet 8C is formed in the left-hand side panel 4, this should not be construed restrictively. That is, the dryer 44 and the dryer cooling fan 45 may not be provided, and the cooling air inlet 8C may not be formed in the left-hand side panel 4.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/JP2016/063704 | 5/9/2016 | WO | 00 |