Axial fan and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9963970-B2
Application number	US-201213673597-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2012
Priority date	Apr 20, 2012
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

An axial fan includes a fan frame, an impeller and a motor. The fan frame has a frame body, a base and plural connecting members. The base is disposed at the center of a side of the frame body. The connecting members connect the frame body to the base. The impeller is accommodated in the frame body and disposed on the base. The impeller has a rotating shaft, a hub and plural blades disposed around the hub. The motor is disposed on the base and connects with the rotating shaft to drive the impeller to rotate. When the impeller rotates forwardly, the airflow is induced to flow through the connecting members, blades, and one side of the frame body away from the base. When the impeller rotates reversely, the airflow is induced to flow through the side of the frame body, blades and connecting members.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An axial flow fan, comprising:
a fan frame having a frame body, a base and a plurality of connecting members, the base being disposed at a central portion of one side of the frame body, the connecting members connecting the frame body and the base;
a single impeller accommodated in the frame body and disposed at the base, the single impeller having a rotating shaft, a hub and a plurality of blades disposed around the outer periphery of the hub, wherein each of the blades has a camber line, an edge end and a hub end, wherein a straight line connecting the edge end and the hub end and a projection line of each of the blades on a tangent plane of the rotating shaft form a stagger angle in a cross section from the hub end to the edge end of the blade, wherein a tangent line tangent to the camber line at the edge end and a tangent line tangent to the camber line at the hub end form a camber angle in the cross section from the hub end to the edge end of the blade; and
a motor disposed at the base, the motor being connected with the rotating shaft to drive the single impeller switching between forward rotations and reverse rotations;
wherein, when the single impeller rotates forwardly, an airflow is induced to flow through the connecting members, the blades, and one side of the frame body away from the base;
when the single impeller rotates reversely, the airflow is induced to flow through the side of the frame body away from the base, the blades, and the connecting members,
wherein in the cross section from the hub end to the edge end of the blade, the stagger angle is in a range of 40 degrees to 50 degrees and the camber angle is equal to or less than 30 degrees.

2. The axial flow fan according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting members are static blades or planar ribs.

3. The axial flow fan according to claim 1 , wherein a wing shape of the blades has a reverse blade design.

Assignees

• Delta Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Chien-Ming
• Hsu Chia-Ming
• Chen Jung-Yuan
• Hsieh Ching-Sen
• Lin Jian-Cun
• Lai Shih-Yu

Classifications

• F04D29/384

  characterised by form · CPC title

• F04D19/002

  Axial flow fans · CPC title

• F04D25/0613

  the electric motor being of the inside-out type, i.e. the rotor is arranged radially outside a central stator · CPC title

• F04D17/16 Primary

  for displacing without appreciable compression · CPC title

• F01D5/00 Primary

  Blades; Blade-carrying members (nozzle boxes F01D9/02); Heating, heat-insulating, cooling or antivibration means on the blades or the members {(special arrangements in rotors dealing with breaking off of part thereof F01D21/045)} · CPC title