Ventilation device and vehicle with a ventilation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9850914-B2
Application number	US-201514726757-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 1, 2015
Priority date	Nov 30, 2012
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

A ventilation device has a holder, in particular a ventilation frame, with a substantially circular continuous opening for receiving a ventilation wheel rotating about the central axis, thereof. The opening is bordered by an edge face running substantially cylinder-symmetrically about the central axis. As the edge face in two separate, diametrically opposed peripheral sections the radius is at least partly enlarged in comparison to the cylinder-symmetrical form in the remaining peripheral sections, and/or a circular projection of she edge face, which projection projects radially inwards, is axially offset away from a space provided for the ventilation wheel. Because of she corresponding shaping of the edge face of the opening, contact and/or development of noise between the ventilation wheel and the edge of the opening is prevented in the ventilation frame in the event of a yawing of the ventilation wheel.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A ventilation device, comprising:
a fan wheel;
a holder having a substantially circular continuous opening formed therein for receiving said fan wheel rotating about a center axis of said opening, said holder having a peripheral face and said opening being bordered by said peripheral face running substantially cylinder-symmetrically about said center axis; and
said peripheral face having
two separate circumferential portions diametrically opposite one another and remaining circumferential portions between said separate circumferential portions; and

a circumferential projection projecting from said peripheral face radially inwards and being axially offset from said fan wheel, said circumferential projection being spaced from said fan wheel at a greater axial distance in said separate circumferential portions than in said remaining circumferential portions.

2. The ventilation device according to claim 1 , wherein:
said peripheral face extends in a circumferential direction and in an axial direction of said center axis of said opening; and
said radius of said peripheral face in said two separate circumferential portions is enlarged at least on a partial face of a part of said peripheral face which extends in the axial direction, in comparison with the cylinder-symmetrical form in said remaining circumferential portions.

3. The ventilation device according to claim 1 , wherein said peripheral face in a longitudinal section has a step or a lip running in a radial direction in respect of said center axis, said step or said lip forms a sealing surface for a radial outer region of said fan wheel, and said step or said lip is offset in an axial direction in said two separate circumferential portions diametrically opposite one another in comparison with said remaining circumferential portions, in order to increase the space for receiving said fan wheel.

4. The ventilation device according to claim 3 , wherein an axial offset of said step or said lip in said separate circumferential portions in a circumferential direction is variable in steps or continuously and reaches a maximum in each case in a center of said separate circumferential portions.

5. The ventilation device according to claim 1 , wherein said peripheral face is concavely curved in said two separate circumferential portions diametrically opposite one another in a longitudinal section.

6. The ventilation device according to claim 5 , wherein said circumferential portions of said peripheral face which are of concave design in a longitudinal section form part of a spherical face which has a spherical center point within said opening, said spherical center point within said opening is on said center axis.

7. The ventilation device according to claim 1 , wherein said holder is a fan frame.

8. A ventilation device, comprising:
a fan wheel;
a holder having a substantially circular continuous opening formed therein for receiving said fan wheel rotating about a center axis of said opening, said holder having a peripheral face and said opening being bordered by said peripheral face running substantially cylinder-symmetrically about said center axis; and
said peripheral face having two separate circumferential portions diametrically opposite one another with a radius being at least partly enlarged in comparison with a cylinder-symmetrical form in remaining circumferential portions of said peripheral face;

said peripheral face being concavely curved in said two separate circumferential portions diametrically opposite one another in a longitudinal section, said circumferential portions of said peripheral face which are of concave design in a longitudinal section forming part of a spherical face having a spherical center point within said opening.

9. A vehicle, comprising:
a ventilation device having a fan wheel and a holder for said fan wheel, said holder having a substantially circular continuous opening formed therein with said fan wheel rotating about a center axis of said continuous opening, said holder having a peripheral face bordering said continuous opening, said peripheral face running substantially cylinder-symmetrically about said center axis, and formed between a circumferential contour of said fan wheel and said peripheral face is a gap;

said peripheral face having two separate circumferential portions diametrically opposite one another and remaining circumferential portions between said separate circumferential portions;
a circumferential projection projecting from said peripheral face radially inwards and being axially offset from said fan wheel, said circumferential projection being spaced from said fan wheel at a greater axial distance in said separate circumferential portions than in said remaining circumferential portions; and
an installation position of said ventilation device in the vehicle being such that said center axis is substantially oriented in a straightforward driving direction of the vehicle, said separate circumferential portions being disposed in an uppermost region of said peripheral face and in a lowermost region of said peripheral face.

Assignees

• Brose Fahrzeugteile
• Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co Kommandtigesellschaft Wuerzburg

Inventors

• Dreesen Thomas

Classifications

• F04D19/002

  Axial flow fans · CPC title

• F04D29/547

  having a special shape in order to influence fluid flow · CPC title

• F04D29/646 Primary

  Mounting or removal of fans · CPC title

• F04D29/164 Primary

  of an axial flow wheel · CPC title

• F04D29/325

  for axial flow fans (blade mountings F04D29/34, blades F04D29/38) · CPC title