Fan, molding die, and fluid feeder

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9869324-B2
Application number	US-201514858155-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2015
Priority date	Mar 15, 2010
Publication date	Jan 16, 2018
Grant date	Jan 16, 2018

Abstract

A fan includes a plurality of blade portions arranged spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, each blade portion having a blade surface including a pressure surface disposed on a rotational direction side of the fan and a suction surface disposed on a back side of said pressure surface. The plurality of the blade portions include a first blade portion and a second blade portion in which when they are rotated around the rotation axis of the fan and overlapped on one blade portion, one of an inner edge portion and an outer edge portion is disposed to be coincident with each other, and the other of the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion is disposed to be displaced from each other.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fan comprising a plurality of blade portions arranged spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, each blade portion having a blade surface including a pressure surface disposed on a rotational direction side of the fan and a suction surface disposed on a back side of said pressure surface, wherein
when cut along a plane orthogonal to a rotation axis of the fan, said blade portion has an inner edge portion at which a center line between said pressure surface and said suction surface intersects an inner peripheral-side blade tip, and an outer edge portion at which the center line intersects an outer peripheral-side blade tip,
as the fan is rotated, a fluid flow is produced on said blade surface to flow between said inner edge portion and said outer edge portion,
when an angle between a straight line passing through a rotational center of the fan and said outer edge portion and a tangent of said center line at said outer edge portion is defined as an outer peripheral blade tip angle, and an angle between a straight line passing through the rotational center of the fan and said inner edge portion and a tangent of said center line at said inner edge portion is defined as an inner peripheral blade tip angle,
a plurality of said blade portions are provided such that said outer peripheral blade tip angle and said inner peripheral blade tip angle are each equal among a plurality of said blade portions, and
a plurality of said blade portions include a first blade portion and a second blade portion in which when they are rotated around the rotation axis of the fan and overlapped on one blade portion, one of said inner edge portion and said outer edge portion is disposed to be coincident with each other, and the other of said inner edge portion and said outer edge portion is disposed to be displaced from each other.

2. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein
said blade portion has flection portions at which said center line is flexed at different points between said inner edge portion and said outer edge portion, and
said first blade portion and said second blade portion are different from each other in flection angle at said flection portion.

3. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein plural kinds of said blade portions are arranged to be placed in an irregular order, in which when plural kinds of said blade portions are rotated around the rotation axis of the fan and overlapped on one blade portion, one of said inner edge portion and said outer edge portion is disposed to be coincident with each other, and the other of said inner edge portion and said outer edge portion is disposed to be displaced from each other.

4. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein
an inside space is formed inside a plurality of said blade portions arranged in the circumferential direction, and an outside space is formed outside thereof, and
the fan is a cross-flow fan that takes in fluid to said inside space from said outside space on one side with respect to the rotation axis, as viewed from a direction of the rotation axis of the fan, and outputs the taken-in fluid to said outside space on the other side with respect to the rotation axis.

5. The fan according to claim 4 , wherein a plurality of said blade portions are arranged at irregular intervals.

6. The fan according to claim 1 , wherein
an inside space is formed inside a plurality of said blade portions arranged in the circumferential direction, and an outside space is formed outside thereof, and
the fan is a centrifugal fan that outputs fluid from said inside space to said outside space.

7. A molding die for use to mold the fan of claim 1 , the fan being formed of resin.

8. A fluid feeder comprising a blower configured with the fan of claim 1 and a driving motor coupled to said fan to rotate a plurality of said blade portions.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Shiraichi Yukishige
• Ohtsuka Masaki

Classifications

• B29L2031/08

  Blades for rotors, stators, fans, turbines or the like, e.g. screw propellers · CPC title

• F05D2240/303

  related to the leading edge of a rotor blade · CPC title

• F04D29/282

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

• F04D25/02

  Units comprising pumps and their driving means · CPC title

• F04D29/384

  characterised by form · CPC title