Centrifugal fan

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10428838-B2
Application number	US-201615277714-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2016
Priority date	Oct 1, 2015
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A centrifugal fan includes: a housing; an impeller which is mounted in the housing; a hub which is provided in the impeller and is rotated by a driving force of a motor; and a plurality of blades which radially extend at the hub. Each of the plurality of blades is formed to have a shape curved from a leading edge to a trailing edge in a rotational direction of the impeller in each of the plurality of blades. A farthest point from a plane connecting the leading edge and the trailing edge is defined as a peak portion. The peak portion is placed closer to the leading edge than the trailing edge.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A centrifugal fan comprising:
a housing;
an impeller mounted inside the housing;
a hub provided inside the impeller, the hub being rotated by a driving force of a motor; and
a plurality of blades attached to the hub, each of the blades radially extending from the hub and having a leading edge and a trailing edge;
wherein each of the plurality of blades has a curved shape from the leading edge to the trailing edge in a rotational direction of the impeller,
wherein a peak point of each of the plurality of blades is located closer to the leading edge than the trailing edge, whereby the peak point is a point that is farthest from a plane connecting the leading edge and the trailing edge, and
wherein to increase efficiency of the impeller and reduce a flow noise, for each of the plurality of blades, an exit angle of air at the trailing edge is greater than or equal to 49.95° and less than or equal to 63.85°.

2. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a distance from the leading edge to the peak portion to a distance from the leading edge to the trailing edge is defined as a position of maximum camber (POMC) value, the POMC value being greater than or equal to 0.01 and less than or equal to 0.49.

3. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a height of the peak portion to a distance from the leading edge to the trailing edge is defined as a maximum camber (MC) value, the MC value being greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 0.16.

4. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein an entrance angle of air at the leading edge is greater than or equal to 90.74° and less than or equal to 104.35°.

5. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein an angle formed by the leading edge and the trailing edge is greater than or equal to 5.5° and less than or equal to 9.8° with respect to a rotational center of the impeller.

6. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein the number of the plurality of blades mounted in the impeller is greater than or equal to 50 blades and less than or equal to 60 blades.

7. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein a diameter of a circle connecting the leading edges respectively provided in the plurality of blades is greater than or equal to 116.4 mm and less than or equal to 128.8 mm.

8. The centrifugal fan of claim 2 , wherein when the POMC value is greater than or equal to 0.40 and less than or equal to 0.49.

9. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein the impeller generates air flow through the housing.

10. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein the peak point is located at a position closer to a rotational axis of the impeller than a central portion of each of the blades.

11. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein the housing comprises a suction port through which air is suctioned by rotation of the impeller and a discharge port through which air is discharged by rotation of the impeller.

12. The centrifugal fan of claim 1 , wherein a cut-off portion is formed at one side of the discharge port.

13. The centrifugal fan of claim 12 , wherein a cross-sectional area of an air channel for air flowing in the housing gradually increases from the cut-off portion to the discharge port in an air flow direction.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Song Kiwook
• Kim Jinsoo
• Choi Dongwook

Classifications

• F24F1/0022

  Centrifugal or radial fans · CPC title

• F05D2250/70

  Shape · CPC title

• F04D29/282

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

• F05D2240/303

  related to the leading edge of a rotor blade · CPC title

• F05D2240/304

  related to the trailing edge of a rotor blade · CPC title