IP Library Granted Patent US 8,282,344
Granted Patent B2
US 8,282,344 · App. 12/238,985 · Granted Oct 9, 2012

Balancing group for the rotor of a fluid rotary machine

Assignee: Nuovo Pignone, S.p.A.
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Patent No.
US 8,282,344
App. No.
12/238,985
Granted
Oct 9, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A balancing group ( 22 ) is described for the rotor of a fluid rotary machine ( 10 ), wherein the rotor is of the type comprising at least one shaft ( 16 ) equipped with an internal pass-through hole ( 20 ) which develops along the longitudinal axis (A) of the shaft ( 16 ). The balancing group ( 22 ) includes at least a first inner element ( 24 ) and at least a second outer element ( 26 ), the first inner element ( 24 ) being suitable for being engaged by interference, in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A), inside the second outer element ( 26 ). The balancing group ( 22 ) thus formed is suitable for being inserted, in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A), inside the pass-through hole ( 20 ) of the shaft ( 16 ).

Claims (11)

1. A balancing group for a rotor of a fluid rotary machine, wherein said rotor comprises:

at least one shaft equipped with an internal pass-through hole which develops along the longitudinal axis of the shaft;

at least one first inner element;

at least one second outer element; and

at least one protruding end connected to a front side of said second outer element, wherein said protruding end and said second outer element are a single piece;

said first inner element suitable being engaged by interference in the direction of said longitudinal axis inside said second outer element, and said balancing group suitable for insertion, in the direction of said longitudinal axis, inside the pass-through hole of said shaft.

2. The balancing group according to claim 1 , wherein on a front side of said first inner element there is a male conical portion suitable for being coupled by interference with a corresponding female conical portion envisaged inside the front part of said second outer element.

3. The balancing group according to claim 1 , wherein during rotation of said shaft the protruding end creates the imbalance necessary for balancing said rotor in the area in which said protruding end is situated.

4. The balancing group according to claim 1 , wherein said second outer element has a longitudinal pass-through split which facilitates the blocking, by interference, of said second outer element on the inner surface of the pass-through hole of said shaft.

5. The balancing group according to claim 1 , wherein said first inner element is produced in the form of a conical stopper equipped, in a rear portion, with a threaded tang which substantially develops along said longitudinal axis.

6. The balancing group according to claim 5 , wherein said second outer element is produced in the form of a cylindrical bush which, inside the rear part, has an inner threaded portion surrounding said threaded tang when said conical stopper is inserted inside said cylindrical bush, said inner threaded portion and said threaded tang suitable for being engaged with means suitable for the application of said balancing group inside the pass-through hole of said shaft.

Assignments (3)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded May 31, 2022
From: NUOVO PIGNONE S.R.L.
To: NUOVO PIGNONE TECNOLOGIE S.R.L.
Reel/Frame 060243/0913 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded May 25, 2022
From: NUOVO PIGNONE INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.
To: NUOVO PIGNONE S.R.L.
Reel/Frame 060441/0662 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2008
From: MEI, LUCIANO; BIANCHI, DINO; PINZAUTI, MASSIMO
To: NUOVO PIGNONE S.P.A.
Reel/Frame 021807/0556 →
Priority Claims (1)
IT MI2007A1908 · Oct 4, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090092492A1 · Apr 9, 2009