Fan with a rotor and a fan impeller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11754089-B2
Application number	US-202117499904-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 13, 2021
Priority date	Oct 16, 2020
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

A fan (1) has a rotor (10) and a fan impeller (20). The rotor (10) has a connecting portion (11) and the fan impeller (20) has a fastening portion (21). The impeller is centered relative to the rotor (10) with the fastening portion (21) on the connecting portion (11) by at least one centering element (40). The impeller is fixed to the rotor (10) by at least one fastening element (30). The fastening element (30) is a screw with a screw head (31), a threaded portion (33), and a shaft arranged between the threaded portion (33) and the screw head (31). A spacer sleeve (34) is arranged around the shaft. A thread (12) corresponding to the fastening element (30) is, respectively, formed in the connecting portion (11).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fan comprising:
a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation and has a connecting portion,
a fan impeller has a fastening portion corresponding to the connecting portion and, the fastening portion is centered on the connecting portion, by at least one centering element relative to the rotor, the at least one centering element is an asymmetrical arrangement, the fastening portion is fixed to the rotor by at least one fastening element and the fan impeller arranged in a single predetermined arrangement on the rotor by the centering element;
the fastening element is a screw with a screw head, a threaded portion, and a shaft, the shaft is arranged between the threaded portion and the screw head, a spacer sleeve is arranged around the shaft, an outer diameter of the spacer sleeve is smaller than an outer diameter of the screw head;
and thickness of the spacer sleeve is smaller, by a predetermined amount, than a thickness of the fastening portion,
a thread, corresponding to the fastening element or an opening corresponding to the fastening element is, respectively, formed in the connecting portion, and a through opening, corresponding to the spacer sleeve is, respectively, formed in the fastening portion, and
the fastening portion is also made of a deformable material, so that when the screw is screwed into the thread, the spacer sleeve is guided into the through opening, a predetermined preload force of the screw is supported via the spacer sleeve against the connecting portion, and the fastening portion is clamped to the connecting portion in an area adjoining the through opening where the screw head rests against the fastening portion.

2. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the thickness of the spacer sleeve and the thickness of the fastening portion,
and/or the outer diameter of the spacer sleeve, an inner diameter of the corresponding through opening, and an outer diameter of the screw head are coordinated with one another in such a way that, when the screw is screwed into the thread, the fastening portion is pressed in a predetermined manner against the connecting portion with the predetermined preload force.

3. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the fastening portion and/or the fan impeller are made of a plastic.

4. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the spacer sleeve is rotatable relative to the screw and/or held by the screw on the shaft.

5. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the spacer sleeve is made of a deformable material, so that when the screw is screwed into the thread, the outer diameter of the spacer sleeve is increased with the predetermined preload force and deformed as it presses against the fastening portion.

6. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the spacer sleeve has a knurling on an outer surface pointing in the radial direction toward the fastening portion.

7. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of fastening elements and/or a plurality of centering elements are distributed in the circumferential direction around the axis of rotation.

8. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the centering element is a centering projection that is arranged or formed on the fastening portion and extends through a corresponding centering opening formed by the connecting portion,
or wherein the centering element is a centering projection that is arranged or formed on the connecting portion and extends through a centering opening formed by the corresponding fastening portion.

9. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of centering elements, each embodied as a centering projection,
taper conically and/or are star-shaped in a cross section to their longitudinal axis (L).

10. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of centering elements are distributed asymmetrically around the axis of rotation in the circumferential direction, so that the fastening portion and the connecting portion are arranged in a predetermined orientation that is encoded by the asymmetrical distribution.

11. The fan as set forth in claim 1 ,
wherein the respective through opening and/or the spacer sleeve has a lead-in slope.

Assignees

• Ebm Papst Mulfingen Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Riegler Peter
• Bork Dominik

Classifications

• F04D29/34 Primary

  Blade mountings {(for axial flow compressors F04D29/322)} · CPC title

• F04D19/002 Primary

  Axial flow fans · CPC title

• F04D29/325

  for axial flow fans (blade mountings F04D29/34, blades F04D29/38) · CPC title

• F04D29/646

  Mounting or removal of fans · CPC title

• F04D29/662

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