Rear grill assembly for box fan

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10731667-B2
Application number	US-201615748627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	Aug 4, 2020
Grant date	Aug 4, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed is a rear grill assembly for a box fan including a rear grill, an electric motor support positioned on the rear grill by a positioning structure, and a frame arranged on the periphery of the rear grill by a snap structure. The frame includes a bottom cover, a top cover, and two side boards connected between the bottom cover and the top cover. The electric motor support is positioned on the rear grill by the positioning structure so that the electric motor support can be mounted easily and firmly. Thus, shortening the time for mounting the motor support, and improving the efficiency for mounting the rear grill assembly. Moreover, since the bottom cover, the top cover and the two side boards are assembled to form a frame, each part can be produced separately, whereby the difficulty in producing the frame is decreased to a certain extent.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rear grill assembly for a box fan comprising:
a rear grill;
a plurality of positioning structures;
a snap structure;
an electric motor support located on the rear grill through the plurality of positioning structures; and
a frame arranged at a peripheral edge of the rear grill through the snap structure, and comprising a bottom cover, a top cover and two lateral plates connected between the bottom cover and the top cover;
wherein the top cover and/or the bottom cover is provided with a limiting plate, and an end portion of the electric motor support extends into a rear of the limiting plate;
wherein each of the limiting plate and the electric motor support is provided with a threaded hole, a screw in the rear grill assembly passes through the threaded holes of the limiting plate and the electric motor support.

2. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 1 , wherein the electric motor support comprises: a plurality of support bodies in a strip shape, each support body is located with respect to the rear grill through one of the plurality of positioning structures.

3. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 2 , wherein two support bodies are provided and arranged in parallel to each other, each support body extends upwards to an upper edge of the rear grill and downwards to a lower edge of the rear grill, an electric motor of the box fan is configured to be fixed between the two support bodies.

4. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 2 , further comprising an electric motor fireproof hood, the electric motor fireproof hood being fixed to the electric motor support, and the electric motor of the box fan is configured to be disposed in the electric motor fireproof hood.

5. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of positioning structures are spaced from each other in a length direction of the electric motor support, and each of the plurality of positioning structure comprises a positioning hole and a positioning pillar which are fitted with each other.

6. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 1 , wherein a rear edge of the bottom cover is provided with a bottom-cover rear edge snap connecting portion, and the rear grill is provided with a first rear-grill snap connecting portion snap-fitted with the bottom-cover rear edge snap connecting portion.

7. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 1 , wherein an end portion of each lateral plate is provided with a lateral-plate end snap connecting portion, and a rear side edge of each lateral plate is provided with a lateral-plate rear edge snap connecting portion;
each of two end portions of the bottom cover is provided with a bottom-cover end snap connecting portion, and the bottom-cover end snap connecting portion is snap-fitted with the corresponding lateral-plate end snap connecting portion; and
the rear grill is further provided with a second rear-grill snap connecting portion, and the second rear-grill snap connecting portion is snap-fitted with the lateral-plate rear edge snap connecting portion.

8. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 1 , wherein a rear edge of the top cover is provided with a top-cover rear edge snap connecting portion, and an end portion of the top cover is provided with a top-cover end snap connecting portion, the rear grill is provided with a third rear-grill snap connecting portion, the third rear-grill snap connecting portion is snap-fitted with the top-cover rear edge snap connecting portion, and the top-cover end snap connecting portion is snap-fitted with the corresponding lateral-plate end snap connecting portion.

9. The rear grill assembly for the box fan according to claim 1 , wherein the electric motor support is a metal part, and the rear grill and the frame both are a plastic part.

Assignees

• Gd Midea Env Appliances Mfg Co Ltd
• Midea Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Guo Runming
• Liu Weiliang
• Yan Fengxi
• Zhang Xusheng
• Deng Meihua

Classifications

• F04D25/08 Primary

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

• F04D29/522 Primary

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/703

  specially for fans, e.g. fan guards · CPC title

• F04D25/06

  the pump being electrically driven (F04D25/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F04D19/002

  Axial flow fans · CPC title