Fan and air-conditioning apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10428835-B2
Application number	US-201515535917-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 1, 2015
Priority date	Apr 1, 2015
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A fan of the invention includes an impeller having a plurality of blades and rotating around a rotation axis, and at least one balance weight having at least one claw portion and attached to the impeller to correct the center of gravity of the impeller. The impeller has a circumferential convex portion formed along the circumferential direction, and on which the claw portion is hooked to restrict a range of movement of the balance weight in the radial direction of the impeller, and at least one radial concave-convex portion formed along the radial direction, and on which the claw portion is hooked to restrict the range of movement of the balance weight in the circumferential direction of the impeller.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fan comprising:
an impeller having a plurality of blades and rotating around a rotation axis; and
at least one balance weight having at least one claw portion and attached to the impeller to correct a center of gravity of the impeller, wherein
the impeller includes
a circumferential concave-convex portion formed along a circumferential direction, the at least one claw portion being engaged with the impeller such that the circumferential concave-convex portion restricts movement of the at least one balance weight in a radial direction of the impeller,
at least one radial concave-convex portion formed along the radial direction, the at least one claw portion being engaged with the impeller such that the at least one radial concave-convex portion restricts movement of the at least one balance weight in the circumferential direction of the impeller, and
the at least one claw portion comprises a plurality of claw portions,

the at least one radial concave-convex portion comprises a plurality of radial concave-convex portions,
the at least one balance weight has the plurality of the claw portions on a same surface, and
when an interval between centers of adjacent radial concave-convex portions of the plurality of radial concave-convex portions is D, and n is a natural number, a distance L between centers of two of the plurality of claw portions on the same surface satisfies L=(n+0.5)×D.

2. The fan of claim 1 , wherein the at least one claw portion has a bifurcated tip end portion.

3. The fan of claim 2 , wherein the at least one radial concave-convex portion is formed such that a convex shape of the at least one radial concave-convex portion is straddled by the tip end portion.

4. The fan of claim 1 , wherein a height of a convex shape of the at least one radial concave-convex portion is not larger than a height of a convex shape of the circumferential concave-convex portion.

5. The fan of claim 1 , wherein
the at least one radial concave-convex portion comprises a plurality of radial concave-convex portions, and
an interval between adjacent radial concave-convex portions of the plurality of radial concave-convex portions is determined so that an angle formed by the rotation axis and the adjacent radial concave-convex portions is not smaller than 0.5 degrees and not larger than 2.5 degrees.

6. The fan of claim 1 , wherein the fan is a centrifugal fan.

7. An air-conditioning apparatus comprising the fan of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Kurihara Makoto

Classifications

• G01M1/36

  by adjusting position of masses built-in the body to be tested · CPC title

• F04D29/662 Primary

  Balancing of rotors (compensating imbalance G01M1/36) · CPC title

• F04D29/281 Primary

  for fans or blowers · CPC title

• F16F15/34

  Fastening arrangements therefor · CPC title