# US 11,441,573 B2 · Fluid machine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,441,573 B2 - Document ID: US11441573B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/237,636 - Filed: 2021-04-22 - Published: 2021-11-04 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2020-05-01 - Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki - Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki - Inventors: Kazuki Okazaki; Junya Suzuki; Hidefumi Mori - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11441573B2 ## CPC - F04D 29/266: {mounting compressor rotors on shafts} - F04D 17/10: for compressing or evacuating - F04D 17/122: {the individual rotor discs being, one for each stage, on a common shaft and axially spaced, e.g. conventional centrifugal multi- stage compressors} - F04D 25/06: the pump being electrically driven (F04D25/08 takes precedence) - F04D 25/0606: {the electric motor being specially adapted for integration in the pump} - F04D 27/001: {Testing thereof; Determination or simulation of flow characteristics; Stall or surge detection, e.g. condition monitoring} - F04D 29/058: magnetic; electromagnetic - F04D 29/102: {especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps} - F04D 29/122: {especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps} - F04D 29/4206: {especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps} - F04D: NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; ion pumps H01J41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K44/02) ## Abstract A fluid machine includes a bladed wheel, a resolver, a first fastener, and a second fastener. A resolver rotor is held between the first fastener and the rotary shaft and fixed to a large-diameter portion of the rotary shaft. The bladed wheel is held between the second fastener and the rotary shaft and fixed to a small-diameter portion of the rotary shaft. While the resolver rotor is fixed by the first fastener in a same direction as the bladed wheel is fixed by the second fastener along an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and the resolver rotor is fixed by the first fastener at a position away in a radial direction of the rotary shaft from a position where the bladed wheel is fixed by the second fastener so that the resolver rotor does not receive an axial force from the second fastener. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A fluid machine comprising: a bladed wheel rotated together with a rotary shaft; an electric motor including a motor rotor fixed to the rotary shaft, the electric motor being configured to rotate the rotary shaft; a resolver including a resolver rotor that has a cylindrical shape, the resolver being configured to sense a rotation angle of the motor rotor; a first fastener for fixing the resolver rotor to the rotary shaft; and a second fastener for fixing the bladed wheel to the rotary shaft, wherein the rotary shaft has a large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion that has a diameter smaller than a diameter of the large-diameter portion, the resolver rotor is held between the first fastener and the rotary shaft and fixed to the large-diameter portion, the bladed wheel is held between the second fastener and the rotary shaft and fixed to the small-diameter portion, and while the resolver rotor is fixed by the first fastener in a same direction as the bladed wheel is fixed by the second fastener along an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and the resolver rotor is fixed by the first fastener at a position away in a radial direction of the rotary shaft from a position where the bladed wheel is fixed by the second fastener so that the resolver rotor does not receive an axial force from the second fastener. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein the fluid machine comprises: a housing having a first accommodation chamber for accommodating the electric motor and the resolver and a second accommodation chamber for accommodating the bladed wheel, the housing including a partition wall that is disposed between the first accommodation chamber and the second accommodation chamber and has an insertion hole through which the rotary shaft is inserted; a seal ring that is disposed inside the insertion hole, extends in a circumferential direction of the insertion hole, and creates a seal between the first accommodation chamber and the second accommodation chamber; and a seal accommodation groove in which the seal ring is accommodated, the seal accommodation groove having an annular shape, being located in the insertion hole, and extending in the circumferential direction of the insertion hole, the seal accommodation groove is formed in a seal holding member that has a cylindrical shape and is disposed inside the insertion hole, and a clearance is formed between the seal holding member and the first fastener in the axial direction of the rotary shaft. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein the fluid machine comprises: a housing having a first accommodation chamber for accommodating the electric motor and the resolver and a second accommodation chamber for accommodating the bladed wheel, the housing including a partition wall that is disposed between the first accommodation chamber and the second accommodation chamber and has an insertion hole through which the rotary shaft is inserted; a seal ring that is disposed inside the insertion hole, extends in a circumferential direction of the insertion hole, and creates a seal between the first accommodation chamber and the second accommodation chamber; and a seal accommodation groove in which the seal ring is accommodated, the seal accommodation groove having an annular shape, being located in the insertion hole, and extending in the circumferential direction of the insertion hole, the seal accommodation groove is formed in the first fastener that is disposed inside the insertion hole, and a clearance is formed between the first fastener and the bladed wheel in the axial direction of the rotary shaft. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein a minimum diameter of the seal accommodation groove defined by an inner circumference of the seal accommodation groove is larger than an outer diameter of a most flexible portion of the rotary shaft.