Fan and electronic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9841034-B2
Application number	US-201414199396-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 6, 2014
Priority date	Mar 28, 2013
Publication date	Dec 12, 2017
Grant date	Dec 12, 2017

Abstract

A fan and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The fan comprises a housing and a blade wheel. The housing is shaped as a hollow column, a thickness of the housing is less than a preset thickness, a radial air inlet and an air outlet are disposed in a side of the housing, and the blade wheel is mounted in the housing and shaped as a cylinder. The housing is also provided with an axial air inlet disposed in at least one bottom surface of the housing so that air can enter the housing from the bottom surface by rotating the blade wheel. The heat dissipation performance of the fan is improved, the present invention solves the technical problem in the prior art that thinning of the fan in the super-thin electronic apparatus will lead to reduction in heat dissipation performance, and achieving technical effects that the electronic apparatus has high heat dissipation performance while super thinning the electronic apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fan, comprising:
a housing, wherein the housing is a hollow column, and a thickness of the housing is less than a preset thickness;
a blade wheel, wherein the blade wheel is mounted in the housing and shaped as a cylinder;
a radial air inlet and an air outlet which are disposed in a side of the housing; and
an axial air inlet disposed in at least one bottom surface of the housing so that air can enter into the housing from the bottom surface by rotating the blade wheel; and
a flow path directly from the axial air inlet to blades of the blade wheel;
wherein both air entering into the housing from the radial air inlet and air entering into the housing from the axial air inlet are discharged through the air outlet; and
wherein the axial air inlet has a radially inner edge and a radially outer edge, at least a part of the radially inner edge extends along a first circle along which a blade root of the blade wheel is located, at least a part of the radially outer edge extends along a second circle along which a blade outer edge of the blade wheel is located, and a center of the first circle, a center of the second circle, and an axis of rotation of the blade wheel coincide with one another when viewed in an axial direction of the blade wheel.

2. The fan of claim 1 , wherein:
the axial air inlet has a shape of a sectorial ring or a crescent shape.

3. The fan of claim 2 , wherein:
a ring center of the sectorial ring of the sectorial ring-shaped axial air inlet is the point at which the axis of the blade wheel intersects the bottom surface of the housing.

4. The fan of claim 1 , wherein:
the housing is a housing formed of a metal plate by pressing, a housing formed of plastic by molding, or a housing formed of alloy by molding.

5. The fan of claim 1 , wherein:
the blade wheel comprises at least two forward-curved blades.

6. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a case,
the fan according to claim 1 , wherein the radial air inlet and the axial air inlet of the fan are located inside the case; and
a positioning device for fixing the fan to the case,
wherein hot air inside the case can be exchanged to an outside of the case through the air outlet of the fan.

7. The fan of claim 1 , wherein the flow path extends directly to the blade root of the blade wheel.

Assignees

• Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd
• Lenovo Beijing Ltd

Inventors

• Jia Zizhou
• Sun Ying
• Na Zhigang

Classifications

• G06F1/203

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• F04D29/4226 Primary

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