Shaft sealing device and electric rotary machine

An electric rotary machine comprising:

• an electric rotary machine casing, an interior of which is filled with a cooling gas such that the interior of the electric rotary machine casing has a higher pressure than an exterior of the electric rotary machine casing;
• a rotary shaft penetrating the electric rotary machine casing;
• and
• a shaft sealing device disposed between the electric rotary machine casing and the rotary shaft, and configured to seal the cooling gas in the interior of the electric rotary machine casing, the shaft sealing device including:
• a seal casing having a seal casing chamber formed therein, such that a sealing oil having a higher pressure than the cooling gas is supplied to the seal casing chamber;
• and
• a seal ring housed in the seal casing chamber, the seal ring including:
• a machine-interior-side seal ring member;
• and
• a machine-exterior-side seal ring member located closer to the exterior of the electric rotary machine casing than the machine-interior-side seal ring member in an axial direction of the rotary shaft,
• a ring gap being left between the machine-interior-side seal ring member and the machine-exterior-side seal ring member, and a seal gap being left between an inner peripheral surface of the machine-interior-side seal ring member and an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft and between an inner peripheral surface of the machine-exterior-side seal ring member and the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft,
• the inner peripheral surface of the machine-interior-side seal ring member being a flat surface that generally follows along the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft, and a groove extending along a direction of rotation of the rotary shaft being formed in the inner peripheral surface of the machine-exterior-side seal ring member, and
• the sealing oil being supplied into the seal gap from the seal casing chamber via the ring gap, and the sealing oil being also supplied into the groove from the seal casing chamber, wherein
• an introduction groove is formed in the inner peripheral surface of the machine-exterior-side seal ring member to introduce the sealing oil to the groove from the seal casing chamber, and
• the introduction groove is located closer to a backward side than the groove in the direction of rotation.