Centrifugal fan

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10125774-B2
Application number	US-201514950201-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2015
Priority date	Nov 27, 2014
Publication date	Nov 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 13, 2018

Abstract

A centrifugal fan includes: a casing; and an impeller that is attached to a rotation shaft of a motor, wherein the casing has an upper suction port and a lower suction port, wherein the impeller has a rotor hub, a plurality of blades arranged around the rotor hub in a circumferential direction, and a main plate coupled to the rotor hub and connects the blades in the circumferential direction, and wherein an inclination of an outer edge of the blades at an upper blade portion that is located above the main plate with respect to a plane parallel to the rotation shaft and an inclination of the outer edge of the blades at a lower blade portion that is located below the main plate with respect to the plane parallel to the rotation shaft are set to be in the same direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A centrifugal fan comprising:
a casing that has a base portion at a lower side, to which a motor unit is installed; and
an impeller that is provided in the casing and attached to a rotation shaft of the motor to be rotatable with respect to the casing,
wherein the casing is provided with an upper suction port that is located at a position above the rotation shaft and a lower suction port that is located at a position below the rotation shaft,
wherein the impeller is provided with a rotor hub that is attached to the rotation shaft, a plurality of blades arranged around the rotor hub in a circumferential direction, and a main plate coupled to the rotor hub and connects the blades in the circumferential direction,
wherein each of the blades has an upper blade portion that is located above the main plate and a lower blade portion that is located below the main plate,
wherein an outer circumferential portion of the upper blade portion has a first inclination that is inclined from an upper outer circumferential edge of the upper blade portion to a boundary portion between the upper blade portion and the lower blade portion with respect to a plane parallel to the rotation shaft,
wherein an outer circumferential portion of the lower blade portion has a second inclination that is inclined from the boundary portion to a lower outer circumferential edge of the lower blade portion with respect to the plane parallel to the rotation shaft,
wherein the first inclination and the second inclination are inclined inward in the same direction, and
wherein the second inclination of the outer circumferential portion of the lower blade portion is set to be lamer than the first inclination of the outer circumferential portion of the upper blade portion.

2. The centrifugal fan according to claim 1 ,
wherein an inner circumferential portion of the blades at the upper blade portion and an inner circumferential portion of the blades at the lower blade portion are configured to have a draft angle and inclined toward an outer-diameter side.

3. The centrifugal fan according to claim 1 ,
wherein an opening area of the upper suction port is set to be larger than an opening area of the lower suction port.

4. The centrifugal fan according to claim 1 ,
wherein a length of a blade cross-section of each of the blades taken in a plane perpendicular to the rotation shaft is configured to gradually decrease from an upper part of the blades to a lower part of the blades.

Assignees

• Minebea Co Ltd

Inventors

• Higuchi Yukihiro
• Murakami Naoya

Classifications

• F04D29/283

  rotors of the squirrel-cage type · CPC title

• F04D17/162 Primary

  Double suction pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/30

  Vanes · CPC title