Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps – Working fluid passage or distributing means associated with... – Casing with axial – conical flow runner
Patent
1991-04-19
1993-06-08
Kwon, John T.
Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
Working fluid passage or distributing means associated with...
Casing with axial, conical flow runner
415220, F01D 502
Patent
active
052173518
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a small fan according to the introductory portion of the independent patent claim 1.
A small fan of this type has been disclosed by the applicant through U.S. Pat. No. 4,504,751. The applicant took on the task of improving this fan so that it has a higher capacity with the same outside dimensions and at the same time is quieter and can be produced more cost-favorably. In contrast to the above fan, which is a small axial blower, the small fan according to the invention presents an approximately laminar throughflow. Because essentially no turbulence develops in the air flowing through, it is considerably quieter. An improvement that has long been desired in this area is thus achieved.
Tests have now shown that with the invention fan the power density is ca. 30% higher, compared with the one axial fan. Although it has long been know that meridian-accelerated blowers have a favorable power density, this knowledge had not yet influenced the construction of small fans. It is essential that the blades of the impeller are not twisted and have the same angle of pitch over the entire blade length. The impeller can thus be produced in one piece with simple removal from the mold and thus cost-favorably in the injection molding process.
Through the combination of the essential features of the invention, a fan with more favorable operating characteristics is thus obtained in a simple production process.
A particularly flat construction with a favorable power density is achieved according to a further refinement of the invention in that the leading edges of the impeller and the front side of the hub as well as the front side of the housing lie approximately in the same plane.
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is elucidated in greater detail with respect to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a section through a small fan according to the invention.
FIG. 2 shows a partial view of an impeller.
FIG. 3 shows a section through a blade along the line III--III in FIG. 2.
And FIG. 4 shows a view of the air conduction housing.
The small fan has a quadratic air conduction housing 2 with an outside part 2a and a circular recess 2f. A familiar electric motor 4 with electromagnet coils 4a is installed on a shaped bottom 2b. The electric motor 4 is connected with the outer part of the housing 2a with arms 2c.
An impeller 1 of plastic is inserted into the recess 2f and supported rotatably in the housing 2 by means of a shaft 3 and a bearing 6. The shaft 3 connected solidly with the impeller 1 is surrounded by an annular permanent magnet 5, which forms a component of the electric motor 4.
As is evident from FIGS. 2 and 3 in particular, the impeller 1 preferably has five shaped blades 1a, which have the same angle of pitch .alpha. and thus parallel vane edges (FIG. 3) over the entire blade length. It turned out that with a number of blades between 3 and 7 a particularly favorable ratio between volume flow and noise is achieved. The blades are not twisted and have the same cross section as shown in FIG. 3 up to their point of attachment. The angle of pitch is preferably ca. 30.degree.. In the representation according to FIG. 1 the air enters the fan axially through the front side of the housing 2d and leaves it also in the axial direction through the rear side of the housing 2e. The flow to the runner and the outflow are thus essentially axial. The impeller 1 is on the other hand traversed diagonally as indicated by the flow lines 7.
The hub 2d of the impeller has a flat front surface 1c, which lies approximately in a plane with the front side of the housing 2d and the leading edges of the blades 1b. The flow surface 1e of the hub 1d connected to the surface 1c has the shape shown in FIG. 1. The flow surface 1e and 1f of the blades 1a are evident from the section according to FIG. 3. The hubs and blades are designed so that the air flow through the housing is laminar and essentially no pressure differences arise at the blades in the radial direction.
1. Small fan with a quadratic and flat air conduction housing, in wh
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Meier Peter
Scherrer Ernst
Kwon John T.
Micronel AG
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