Recirculation fan and wind-guiding device thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9574569-B2
Application number	US-201213479976-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2012
Priority date	Dec 9, 2011
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

A recirculation fan includes a casing, a covering member, a wind-guiding device, a passive impeller, and an active impeller. The covering member is coupled with the casing to define an accommodation space. The wind-guiding device is disposed on the covering member, and includes a wind-guiding cover and a magnetoresistive structure. The magnetoresistive structure is disposed on the covering member and the wind-guiding cover. The passive impeller is disposed within the accommodation space. The active impeller is disposed within the accommodation space and located beside the passive impeller for generating a wind to drive rotation of the passive impeller and the wind-guiding cover. In response to a magnetic torque resulted from a magnetic vortex of the magnetoresistive structure, a rotating speed of the wind-guiding cover is slowed down.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A recirculation fan, comprising:
a casing;
a covering member coupled with said casing to define an accommodation space;
a wind-guiding device disposed on said covering member, and comprising a wind-guiding cover and a magnetoresistive structure, wherein said magnetoresistive structure is disposed on said covering member and said wind-guiding cover, said magnetoresistive structure comprises at least one first magnetic member and at least one second magnetic member, and said first magnetic member and said second magnetic member are disposed between said wind-guiding cover and said covering member, and
wherein one of said first magnetic member and said second magnetic member is a permanent magnet, and the other one of said first magnetic member and said second magnetic member is a magnetic conductor;
a passive impeller disposed within said accommodation space; and
an active impeller disposed within said accommodation space and located beside said passive impeller for generating a wind to drive rotation of said passive impeller and said wind-guiding cover,
wherein said covering member is disposed between said wind-guiding cover and said active impeller, and wherein in response to a magnetic torque resulted from a magnetic vortex of said magnetoresistive structure, a rotating speed of said wind-guiding cover is slowed down.

2. The recirculation fan according to claim 1 , wherein said covering member further comprises a first airflow-guiding structure and a second airflow-guiding structure for increasing airflow-inhaling and airflow-exhaling regions.

3. The recirculation fan according to claim 2 , wherein said airflow-guiding structure and said second airflow-guiding structure are annular structures, sheet structures, meshed structures, hollow structures or rectangular structures.

4. The recirculation fan according to claim 2 , wherein said second airflow-guiding structure includes a plurality of blades having skew angles along the same direction.

5. The recirculation fan according to claim 1 , wherein said recirculation fan further comprises at least one fastening element, wherein said fastening element is penetrated through said casing and said covering member, so that said casing and said covering member are combined together.

6. The recirculation fan according to claim 1 , wherein said wind-guiding cover, said passive impeller and said active impeller are rotated relative to a center axle line.

7. The recirculation fan according to claim 1 , wherein said passive impeller comprises a holder and a plurality of first blades, wherein first ends of said first blades are disposed on an outer periphery of said holder.

8. The recirculation fan according to claim 7 , wherein said passive impeller further comprises a ring-shaped structure, wherein second ends of said first blades are connected with said ring-shaped structure, and said holder is surrounded by said ring-shaped structure.

9. The recirculation fan according to claim 8 , wherein said passive impeller further comprises a plurality of second blades, wherein said second blades are connected to an outer periphery of said ring-shaped structure.

10. The recirculation fan according to claim 9 , wherein said second blades of said passive impeller are discretely arranged on said outer periphery of said ring-shaped structure at regular intervals.

11. The recirculation fan according to claim 8 , wherein said active impeller is at least partially accommodated in a space defined by said ring-shaped structure of said passive impeller.

12. A wind-guiding device for a recirculation fan, said recirculation fan comprising a covering member and an active impeller, said wind-guiding device being disposed on said covering member, said wind-guiding device comprising:
a wind-guiding cover, wherein a wind generated by said active impeller drives rotation of said wind-guiding cover, and wherein said covering member is disposed between said wind-guiding cover and said active impeller; and
a magnetoresistive structure disposed on said covering member and said wind-guiding cover, wherein said magnetoresistive structure comprises at least one first magnetic member and at least one second magnetic member, one of said first magnetic member and said second magnetic member is a permanent magnet, the other one of said first magnetic member and said second magnetic member is a magnetic conductor, and said first magnetic member and said second magnetic member are disposed between said wind-guiding cover and said covering member, and wherein in response to a magnetic torque resulted from a magnetic vortex of said magnetoresistive structure, a rotating speed of said wind-guiding cover is slowed down.

Assignees

• Chang Shun-Chen
• Liu Wen-Bin
• Chuang Kun-Fu
• Delta Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Chang Shun-Chen
• Liu Wen-Bin
• Chuang Kun-Fu

Classifications

• F04D29/541

  Specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps (F04D29/56 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F04D29/329

  Details of the hub · CPC title

• F04D25/082 Primary

  the unit having provision for cooling the motor · CPC title

• F04D25/022

  comprising a yielding coupling, e.g. hydraulic (a magnetic coupling F04D25/026) · CPC title

• F04D29/542

  Bladed diffusers (fixing blades to stators F01D9/042) · CPC title