Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vaned diffuser and centrifugal compressor
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Application No.: US16780094Application Date: 2020-02-03
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Publication No.: US11261878B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Yoshihiro Ishikawa , Isao Tomita , Kenichiro Iwakiri
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2019-151896 20190822
- Main IPC: F04D29/44
- IPC: F04D29/44 ; F04D17/10

Abstract:
A vaned diffuser provided on a downstream side of an impeller of a centrifugal compressor. The vaned diffuser includes: a diffuser passage forming portion having a hub-side surface and a shroud-side surface and forming an annular diffuser passage on a downstream side of the impeller; and a plurality of diffuser vanes provided in the diffuser passage at intervals in a circumferential direction of the impeller. A fillet is formed in a connection portion between each of the diffuser vanes and at least one of the hub-side surface and the shroud-side surface. Also, where R is a radius of the fillet and b is a vane height of each of the diffuser vanes, and a maximum value of R/b on a downstream side of a throat position of the diffuser passage is larger than a maximum value of R/b on an upstream side of the throat position of the diffuser passage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210054850A1 VANED DIFFUSER AND CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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