Blower device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025198420-A1
Application number	US-202318540001-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 14, 2023
Priority date	Dec 14, 2023
Publication date	Jun 19, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A blower device for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, including: a blower housing defining an internal volume with an inlet and an outlet; a blower wheel with blower blades, arranged within the internal volume of the blower housing; a motor configured to rotate the blower wheel in a first direction around a central axis; a preswirler arranged within the inlet upstream of the blower wheel and including a plurality of vanes extending towards the blower wheel. Each vane of the plurality of vanes includes a first section and a second section, both extending along the central axis toward the blower wheel, with the second section being closer to the blower wheel than the first section is. The vanes of the plurality of vanes slope in a second direction as they extend along the central axis towards the blower wheel, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

First claim

1 . A blower device for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, comprising:
a blower housing defining an internal volume with an inlet and an outlet; a blower wheel with blower blades, arranged within the internal volume of the blower housing; a motor configured to rotate the blower wheel in a first direction around a central axis; a preswirler arranged within the inlet upstream of the blower wheel and including a plurality of vanes extending towards the blower wheel;
wherein each vane of the plurality of vanes includes a first section and a second section, both extending along the central axis toward the blower wheel, with the second section being closer to the blower wheel than the first section is, wherein the vanes of the plurality of vanes slope in a second direction as they extend along the central axis towards the blower wheel, the second direction being opposite to the first direction.

2 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the first section extends parallel to the central axis.

3 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the second section extends along a curve.

4 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the second section extends along an arch with radius between 10 and 20 mm.

5 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the number of blower blades is uneven.

6 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the number of vanes within the plurality of vanes is uneven.

7 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the number of blower blades is between 5 and 41.

8 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the number of vanes within the plurality of vanes is between 5 and 19.

9 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the preswirler includes a core from which the vanes of the plurality of vanes radially extend, the core being hollowed so that air from the inlet can travel through the core to the blower wheel in addition to flowing around the core.

10 . The blower device according to claim 9 , wherein the core is a tube with a radius measuring between 10 and 40 mm degrees.

11 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the inlet is constituted by a wall, with the vanes of the plurality of vanes extending from the wall.

12 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the first section of each vane of the plurality of vanes extends along the central axis for a distance measuring between 1 and 35 mm.

13 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the second section of each vane of the plurality of vanes extends along the central axis for a distance measuring between 1 and 45 mm.

14 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the second section of each vane of the plurality of vanes extends perpendicularly from the central axis for a distance measuring between 1 and 15 mm.

15 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein each vane of the plurality of vanes extends along respective extension axis extending radially from central axis for a distance measuring between 20 and 100 mm.

16 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the blower wheel includes blower core from which the blower blades extend.

17 . The blower device according to claim 16 , wherein the blower core is in form of a cone with an apex pierced by the central axis, and a side surface extending between the apex and the blower blades.

18 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein each vane of the plurality of vanes measures between X and Y along the central axis.

19 . The blower device according to claim 1 , wherein the blower blades extend for a distance along the central axis, the distance measuring between 30 and 85 mm.

Assignees

• Valeo Systemes Thermiques

Inventors

• Barnebee Cody
• Shevade Anshuman
• Marshall Steven
• Mayer Timothy

Classifications

• F04D29/441

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/30

  Vanes · CPC title

• F04D29/4226

  Fan casings · CPC title

• B60H1/00471

  The ventilator being of the radial type, i.e. with radial expulsion of the air · CPC title

• F04D29/444

  Bladed diffusers · CPC title