Blower and method for decreasing eddy noise

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9790961-B2
Application number	US-201414566727-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2014
Priority date	Apr 11, 2014
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

A blower and a method for decreasing eddy noise are provided. The blower includes a fan frame, a fan wheel, at least one induction element and a coil. The fan frame has in inlet and an outlet. The fan wheel is disposed in the fan frame and has a wheel hub and a plurality of fan blades connected to periphery of the wheel hub. The induction elements are fixed to the corresponding fan blades, the coil is disposed on the fan frame for driving the at least one induction element, such that the fan blade corresponding to the induction element swing back and forth to generate a vibration sound, and the vibration sound is counteracted with eddy noise generated when the fan wheel rotates. Moreover, the method for decreasing eddy noise is also provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A blower, comprising:
a fan frame, having an inlet and an outlet;
a fan wheel, disposed in the fan frame, and having a wheel hub;
a plurality of fan blades connected to a periphery of the wheel hub;
at least one induction element, disposed with the fan blades; and
a coil, disposed on the fan frame, adapted to drive the induction elements, such that the fan blades corresponding to the induction elements swing back and forth to generate a vibration sound,
wherein a current is supplied to the coil of the fan frame to generate a magnetic field to drive at least one induction element fixed to the fan blades according to a frequency, an amplitude and a phase of an eddy noise through a control circuit, so as to drive the fan blade to swing back and forth to generate the vibration sound.

2. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fan frame has a throat portion, and a space between the fan wheel and the fan frame is defined as a pressure zone and a pressure releasing zone, and a generation position of the eddy noise is near the throat portion.

3. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the induction elements are permanent magnets.

4. The blower as claimed in claim 3 , further comprising:
a control circuit, electrically connected to the coil, and supplying a current to the coil, such that the coil generates a magnetic field to drive the induction elements, so as to drive the corresponding fan blades to swing back and forth to generate the vibration sound.

5. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the induction elements are piezoelectric materials.

6. The blower as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the control circuit is adapted to control a frequency, an intensity and a phase of the current supplied to the coil, so as to correspondingly change a frequency, an amplitude and a phase of the vibration sound.

7. The blower as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising:
a microphone, electrically connected to the control circuit, and configured to detect a frequency, an amplitude and a phase of the eddy noise.

8. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the coil surrounds the inlet.

9. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the coil is located near the throat portion.

10. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the coil surrounds the fan frame and is located between the outlet and the fan wheel.

11. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the induction elements are embedded in the corresponding fan blades.

12. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a motor, wherein the fan wheel is located between the fan frame and the motor, and the fan wheel rotates relative to the fan frame.

13. A method for decreasing eddy noise, adapted to a blower, wherein the blower comprises a fan frame and a fan wheel disposed in the fan frame, and the method for decreasing eddy noise comprising:
obtaining a frequency, an amplitude and a phase of eddy noise corresponding to a current rotation of the fan wheel; and
swinging at least one fan blade of the fan wheel of the blower back and forth to generate a vibration sound according to the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise, wherein the vibration sound has the same frequency as the eddy noise and the same amplitude as the eddy noise, and the vibration sound has an opposite phase of the eddy noise, such that the vibration sound and the eddy noise are counteracted to each other,
wherein the step of swinging the at least one fan blade of the fan wheel of the blower back and forth to generate the vibration sound further comprises:
supplying a current to a coil of the fan frame to generate a magnetic field to drive at least one induction element fixed to the fan blades according to the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise through a control circuit, so as to drive the fan blade to swing back and forth to generate the vibration sound.

14. The method for decreasing eddy noise as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the step of obtaining the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise comprises:
accessing a data from a database, wherein the data is the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise corresponding to a current rotation speed of the fan wheel.

15. The method for decreasing eddy noise as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the step of obtaining the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise comprises:
detecting the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise through a microphone.

16. The method for decreasing eddy noise as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the microphone is disposed near a throat portion of the fan frame.

17. The method for decreasing eddy noise as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control circuit controls a frequency, an intensity and a phase of the current supplied to the coil, so as to correspondingly change a frequency, an amplitude and a phase of the vibration sound.

18. The method for decreasing eddy noise as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the step of obtaining the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise comprises:
detecting the frequency, the amplitude and the phase of the eddy noise through a microphone, wherein the microphone is electrically connected to the control circuit, and the control circuit supplies the current to the coil according to a detection result of the microphone.

19. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the induction elements are fixed to the corresponding fan blades.

20. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fan blade is formed with the induction element.

21. A blower, comprising:
a fan frame, having an inlet and an outlet;
a fan wheel, disposed in the fan frame, and having a wheel hub and a plurality of fan blades connected to a periphery of the wheel hub;
at least one induction element, wherein the induction elements are fixed to the corresponding fan blades; and
a coil, disposed on the fan frame, configured to drive the induction elements, such that the fan blades corresponding to the induction elements swing back and forth to generate a vibration sound.

22. A blower, comprising:
a fan frame, having an inlet and an outlet;
a fan wheel, disposed in the fan frame, and having a wheel hub and a plurality of fan blades connected to a periphery of the wheel hub;
at least one induction element, wherein the fan blades are formed with the induction elements; and
a coil, disposed on the fan frame, configured to drive the induction elements, such that the fan blades corresponding to the induction elements swing back and forth to generate a vibration sound.

23. The blower as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the vibration sound generated by the fan blades has the same frequency as the eddy noise and the same amplitude as the eddy noise, and the vibration sound generated by the fan blades has an opposite phase of the eddy noise.

Assignees

• Wu Shang-Hsuang
• Chen Jhih-Hao
• Coretronic Corp

Inventors

• Wu Shang-Hsuang
• Chen Jhih-Hao

Classifications

• F05D2260/962

  by means of "anti-noise" · CPC title

• F04D25/08

  the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation · CPC title

• F05D2270/62

  Electrical actuators · CPC title

• F04D29/282

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

• F05D2270/44

  active, predictive, or anticipative · CPC title