Fluid driving device, motor assembly and centrifugal friction clutch thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10145427-B2
Application number	US-201615255721-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2016
Priority date	Sep 2, 2015
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

A blower, a motor assembly and a centrifugal friction clutch thereof are provided. The centrifugal friction clutch includes: a fixing member for being fixed on a rotary shaft and comprising a guiding groove disposed in a radial direction of the fixing member and passing through an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member; a centrifugal block disposed in the guiding groove and slidable in the guiding groove; and a loading wheel having an inner hole in which the fixing member is received. A gap between a wall of the inner hole and the outer circumferential surface of the fixing member is less than a length of the centrifugal block along its sliding direction. The centrifugal friction clutch reduces vibrations at startup of the motor, thereby effectively reducing the vibrational noise. In addition, this also avoids the startup failure of the motor and effectively improves the startup performance of the motor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A centrifugal friction clutch comprising:
a fixing member for being fixed on a rotary shaft, the fixing member defining at least one guiding groove extending in a radial direction of the fixing member and passing through an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member;
at least one centrifugal block correspondingly slidably received in said at least one guiding groove; and
a loading wheel having an inner hole in which the fixing member is received, a gap between a wall of the inner hole and the outer circumferential surface of the fixing member being less than a length of said at least one centrifugal block along its sliding direction;
wherein the loading wheel is formed with latching grooves for latching with a load;
wherein the fixing member comprises:
a support portion comprising the guiding groove; and
a first stop plate for axially positioning the support portion;
wherein an elastic washer is provided at one end of each of said at least one centrifugal block toward a radial inner side of the support portion.

2. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 1 , wherein the fixing member further comprises a positioning shaft sleeve fastened to the rotary shaft, and the support portion is fixed on the positioning shaft sleeve.

3. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 2 , wherein the first stop plate and the positioning shaft sleeve are fixedly connected.

4. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 3 , wherein the positioning shaft sleeve and the first stop plate are an integral structure.

5. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 2 , wherein a part of the positioning shaft sleeve extending into a connecting hole of the support portion is of a non-circular structure, and the connecting hole is a non-circular hole matching with the non-circular structure.

6. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 5 , wherein the part of the positioning shaft sleeve extending into the connecting hole of the support portion is of a prism structure.

7. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 1 , wherein the support portion is a circular cylindrical structure with a constant diameter, the inner hole of the loading wheel is a circular inner hole matching with the support portion, and an end face of each of said at least one centrifugal block toward an outer side of the support portion is a convex arc surface.

8. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 7 , wherein the convex arc surface has the same curvature radius as the wall of the inner hole and is coaxially arranged with the inner hole of the loading wheel.

9. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 7 , wherein the inner hole of the loading wheel is a stepped hole, the support portion is disposed in a large-diameter hole of the stepped hole, and an end face of the support portion away from the first stop plate contacts a step end face of the stepped hole.

10. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 7 , wherein the inner hole of the loading wheel is a circular cylindrical hole, and one end of the support portion away from the first stop plate is provided with a second stop plate for being fixed on the rotary shaft.

11. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 1 , wherein the fixing member is an integral structure.

12. The centrifugal friction clutch of claim 1 , wherein said at least one guiding grooves comprises two or more guiding grooves evenly arranged at the fixing member in an circumferential direction of the fixing member.

Assignees

• Johnson Electric Sa

Inventors

• Li Yue
• Liu li sheng
• Wang Yong
• Zhang Ya Ming

Classifications

• F04D29/282

  the leading edge of each vane being substantially parallel to the rotation axis · CPC title

• H02K7/14

  Structural association with mechanical loads, e.g. with hand-held machine tools or fans (with fan or impeller for cooling the machine H02K9/06) · CPC title

• H02K7/108

  with friction clutches · CPC title

• F04D25/08

  the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation · CPC title

• F16D43/18 Primary

  with friction clutching members · CPC title