Fan

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11719252-B2
Application number	US-202217688910-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2022
Priority date	Mar 12, 2021
Publication date	Aug 8, 2023
Grant date	Aug 8, 2023

Abstract

A fan adapted for being disposed in an electronic device is provided. The fan includes a hub and a plurality of metal blades respectively extending from the hub. Each of the metal blades has a root portion connected to the hub and an end portion away from the hub, and a mass of the end portion is greater than a mass of the root portion, such that the metal blade is elongated while the fan is rotated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fan, adapted for being disposed in an electronic device, wherein the fan comprises:
a hub; and
a plurality of metal blades respectively extending from the hub, wherein each of the metal blades has a root portion connected to the hub and an end portion away from the hub, and in each of the metal blades, a mass of the end portion is greater than a mass of the root portion, such that the metal blade is elongated while the fan is rotated, wherein the metal blade has a weighting portion and has a windward surface and a leeward surface opposite to each other, and the weighting portion is located on the leeward surface and connected to the end portion.

2. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein the windward surface is presented as a concave surface, and the leeward surface is presented as a convex surface.

3. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the metal blade from the root portion to the end portion is divided into a first segment and a second segment, the root portion is located in the first segment, the end portion is located in the second segment, and an area in the second segment of the metal blade is greater than an area in the first segment of the metal blade.

4. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of the metal blade from the root portion to the end portion is divided into a first segment and a second segment, the root portion is located in the first segment, the end portion is located in the second segment, and the metal blade has a weighting portion located in the second segment.

5. The fan according to claim 4 , wherein a thickness in the second segment of the metal blade where the weighting portion is disposed is greater than a thickness in the first segment of the metal blade.

6. The fan according to claim 4 , wherein the second segment is divided into a first sub-segment, a second sub-segment, and a third sub-segment, the first sub-segment is connected to the first segment, the second sub-segment is connected between the first sub-segment and the third sub-segment, the end portion is located in the third sub-segment, and the weighting portion is located in the second sub-segment and the third sub-segment.

7. The fan according to claim 6 , wherein the weighting portion increases a thickness in the second sub-segment and the third sub-segment of the metal blade.

8. The fan according to claim 7 , wherein the thickness of the metal blade from the second sub-segment to the third sub-segment is gradually increased and then gradually decreased.

9. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the metal blade from the root portion to the end portion is sequentially presented as an equal thickness, a gradually increased thickness, and a gradually decreased thickness.

10. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein each of the metal blades is inclined relative to a radial direction of the hub.

11. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein the fan is a centrifugal fan.

12. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein the metal blade is formed with a combination of a metal material and a non-metal material, and the weighting portion is the non-metal material.

13. The fan according to claim 12 , wherein the metal material is presented as a member of equal thickness, and the weighting portion is injection-molded on the member of equal thickness by using plastic injection.

Assignees

• Acer Inc

Inventors

• Lin Yu-Ming
• Liao Wen-Neng
• Hsieh Cheng-Wen
• Wang Chun-Chieh
• Huang han-liang
• Chen sheng-yan
• Chen Tsung-Ting

Classifications

• F04D29/281 Primary

  for fans or blowers · CPC title

• F04D29/305

  Flexible vanes · CPC title

• H05K7/20172 Primary

  Fan mounting or fan specifications · CPC title

• F04D29/282

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

• F04D29/30

  Vanes · CPC title