Ceiling fan

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9816515-B2
Application number	US-201314443394-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2013
Priority date	Nov 22, 2012
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

A ceiling fan includes a support, a motor portion, a blade portion, control section, illumination portion, and case. Illumination portion includes lower illumination cover, upper illumination cover, and LED substrate portion. Heat dissipation plates are provided on a side of upper illumination cover.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A ceiling fan comprising:
a support;
a motor portion provided at a lower portion of the support;
a blade portion rotated by the motor portion;
a control section provided below the motor portion;
an illumination portion provided below the control section; and
a case that covers at least a part of the motor portion, the control section, and the illumination portion,
wherein
the illumination portion includes
a cylindrical lower illumination cover sandwiched between the control section and the case, and having a closed lower portion,
a cylindrical upper illumination cover sandwiched between the lower illumination cover and the control section, and having a closed upper portion, and
an LED substrate portion fixed to the upper illumination cover, and having a plurality of luminescence elements attached thereto, and

a heat dissipation portion is provided on a side of the upper illumination cover, the heat dissipation portion includes a plurality of heat dissipation plates,
a side of the lower illumination cover includes a plurality of openings positioned to face the heat dissipation plates to thereby release heat from the heat dissipation plates to outside of the lower illumination cover.

2. The ceiling fan according to claim 1 , wherein
the upper illumination cover becomes wider to a downward direction, and
the heat dissipation plates that protrude from the upper illumination cover have a longer protruding length at upper portions than a protruding length at lower portions.

3. The ceiling fan according to claim 1 , wherein
the upper illumination cover is made of aluminum.

4. The ceiling fan according to claim 1 , wherein
the LED substrate portion is plate-shaped,
the plurality of luminescence elements are attached to a lower surface of the LED substrate portion, and
at least a part of an upper surface of the LED substrate portion is in contact with an upper inner surface of the upper illumination cover.

5. The ceiling fan according to claim 4 , wherein
the plurality of luminescence elements are disposed individually along circumferences of concentric circles having radii R 1 , R 2 , - - - , Rn, where a value n is 3 or larger, the radii of the circles become larger with increase in the value n, and a difference in radii Rn−R(n−1) is largest among differences in radii of all adjacent pairs of the circles, and
light emitted from each adjacent pair of the plurality of luminescence elements overlaps with each other on the lower illumination cover in an area other than a central portion of the lower illumination cover.

6. The ceiling fan according to claim 1 , wherein
an inner surface of the upper illumination cover is white-colored.

7. The ceiling fan according to claim 1 , wherein
the case is bowl-shaped and opened on an upper side, includes a case opening in a lower portion, is located below the blade portion with a gap between a case upper end portion of the case and the blade portion, and includes a plurality of plate-shaped divider portions disposed radially on an inner surface around the case opening of the case.

8. The ceiling fan according to claim 7 , wherein
the divider portions are bent with respect to a rotational direction of the blade portion so that an entrance direction of air from a part of the gap and an extension direction of divider portion from outside to inside of the case becomes substantially same direction during rotation of blade portion and support portion.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Iwamoto Kiyohiko
• Sasaki Masayuki

Classifications

• F04D29/5853

  heat insulation or conduction · CPC title

• F21V9/16

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F04D29/005

  Decorative aspects, i.e. features which have no effect on the functioning of the pump · CPC title

• F21V33/0096 Primary

  Fans, e.g. ceiling fans (forced cooling of lighting devices characterised by the arrangement of fans F21V29/67) · CPC title

• F21V29/773 Primary

  the planes containing the fins or blades having the direction of the light emitting axis · CPC title