Water heater

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9746204-B2
Application number	US-201514804005-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2015
Priority date	Jul 28, 2014
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

A water heater is provided that can suppress backflow (entry) of drainage water into a fan from downstream of the fan in a path of a flow of combustion gas. The fan includes a fan case, an impeller housed within the fan case, a drive source attached to the fan case so as to drive the impeller, and a rotation shaft connecting the impeller and the drive source. An exhaust connection portion has a connection portion case and is provided with an exhaust port for emitting combustion gas delivered from the fan to outside of the water heater. The exhaust connection portion also has a drainage water discharge portion for discharging drainage water accumulated downstream of the fan in the path of the flow of combustion gas.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A water heater of a latent heat recovery type capable of heating water by recovering latent heat of combustion gas, said water heater comprising:
a burner including a plurality of burner port portions and generating combustion gas from an opening at an end of each of said plurality of burner port portions;
a heat exchanger heating water flowing through inside by heat exchange with combustion gas generated in said burner;
a fan including a fan case, an impeller housed within said fan case, a drive source attached to said fan case so as to drive said impeller, and a rotation shaft connecting said impeller and said drive source, and suctioning combustion gas having passed through said heat exchanger and emitting combustion gas to outside of said water heater; and
an exhaust connection portion having a connection portion case and provided with an exhaust port for emitting combustion gas delivered from said fan to outside of said water heater,
said exhaust connection portion having a drainage water discharge portion for discharging drainage water accumulated downstream of said fan in a path of a flow of combustion gas, wherein
in plan view as seen from a shaft direction of said rotation shaft,
a tongue portion extending between an internal space of said fan and an internal space of said exhaust connection portion is located at one end of a boundary between the internal space of said fan and the internal space of said exhaust connection portion,
a circumferential wall of said fan case and a circumferential wall of said connection portion case are linearly connected to each other at the other end of said boundary, and
said drainage water discharge portion is provided in a region surrounded by said boundary, said circumferential wall of said connection portion case and a tangent line of said exhaust port, and located along said circumferential wall of said connection portion case.

2. The water heater according to claim 1 , wherein said drainage water discharge portion is located in said circumferential wall of said connection portion case.

3. The water heater according to claim 2 , wherein
said connection portion case has a bottom wall provided with a recess,
a height position of said recess is located close to a height position of a reference plane including said opening as compared with a height position of a bottom wall of said fan case in said boundary, and
said recess extends from said tongue portion toward said drainage water discharge portion.

4. The water heater according to claim 3 , wherein said recess is inclined such that the height position of said recess comes close to said reference plane from said tongue portion toward said drainage water discharge portion.

5. The water heater according to claim 2 , wherein said drainage water discharge portion is connected to said heat exchanger.

6. The water heater according to claim 2 , wherein said fan case and said connection portion case are integrally formed.

7. The water heater according to claim 1 , wherein
said connection portion case has a bottom wall provided with a recess,
a height position of said recess is located close to a height position of a reference plane including said opening as compared with a height position of a bottom wall of said fan case in said boundary, and
said recess extends from said tongue portion toward said drainage water discharge portion.

8. The water heater according to claim 7 , wherein said recess is inclined such that the height position of said recess comes close to said reference plane from said tongue portion toward said drainage water discharge portion.

9. The water heater according to claim 8 , wherein said drainage water discharge portion is connected to said heat exchanger.

10. The water heater according to claim 7 , wherein said drainage water discharge portion is connected to said heat exchanger.

11. The water heater according to claim 1 , wherein said drainage water discharge portion is connected to said heat exchanger.

12. The water heater according to claim 1 , wherein said fan case and said connection portion case are integrally formed.

13. A water heater of a latent heat recovery type capable of heating water by recovering latent heat of combustion gas, said water heater comprising:
a burner including a plurality of burner port portions and generating combustion gas from an opening at an end of each of said plurality of burner port portions;
a heat exchanger heating water flowing through inside by heat exchange with combustion gas generated in said burner;
a fan including a fan case, an impeller housed within said fan case, a drive source attached to said fan case so as to drive said impeller, and a rotation shaft connecting said impeller and said drive source, and suctioning combustion gas having passed through said heat exchanger and emitting combustion gas to outside of said water heater; and
an exhaust connection portion having a connection portion case and provided with an exhaust port for emitting combustion gas delivered from said fan to outside of said water heater,
said exhaust connection portion having a drainage water discharge portion for discharging drainage water accumulated downstream of said fan in a path of a flow of combustion gas, wherein
said drainage water discharge portion is connected to said heat exchanger.

14. The water heater according to claim 13 , wherein said fan case and said connection portion case are integrally formed.

Assignees

• Noritz Corp

Inventors

• Matsunaga Hironao
• Kameyama Shuji
• Fukunishi Keigo
• Wada Norihide

Classifications

• F23D14/586

  formed by a set of sheets, strips, ribbons or the like · CPC title

• F23L17/005

  using fans · CPC title

• Y02E20/363

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F24H8/006 Primary

  Means for removing condensate from the heater · CPC title

• Y02B30/106

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic