Axial ventilation device, premises equipped with such a device

• US 10,294,948 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Total SA (Cook Composites and Polymers)
• Original Assignee: Total SA (Cook Composites and Polymers)
• Inventors: Alvini, Gerard
• Primary Examiner(s): Rivera, Carlos A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pruitt, Justin A
• Application Number:
  US15/027,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20160245293A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,694 Days
• Field of Search: 4151221
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 19/002 Axial flow fans
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/02 Units comprising pumps and their driving means
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/06 the pump being electrically driven F04D25/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/08 the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/163 driven by a common gearing arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/166 using fans
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/325 for axial flow fans blade mountings F04D29/34, blades F04D29/38
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/522 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 7/013 using wall or window fans, displacing air through the wall or window
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 7/06 with forced air circulation, e.g. by fan positioning of a ventilator in or against a conduit

Abstract

The invention relates to an axial ventilation device comprising at least three axial fans disposed at the ends of a polygon. According to the invention, a single drive shaft is adapted to rotate at least the shafts of two axial fans. The invention also relates to a premises equipped with such an axial ventilation device.

Claims

1. An axial ventilation device comprising at least three axial fans arranged at the ends of a polygon and each axial fan includes two motors and each of these motors is connected to another axial fan so as to form a network wherein each axial fan comprises a case ring exhibiting symmetry of revolution extending longitudinally along an axis of the fan, a plurality of blades arranged inside the case ring and fixed to a hub, a shaft of the axial fan to which the hub is secured, said shaft extending along the axis of the axial fan, at least one motor designed to drive a drive shaft in rotation about the axis of rotation of said motor, in which the motor is situated on the outside of the case ring and the drive shaft is connected to the shaft of the axial fan by a coupling device so as to perform the rotary driving of the shaft of the axial fan, in which said axial ventilation device is further characterized in that one and the same drive shaft is designed to drive the rotation of at least the shafts of two axial fans.

2. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the coupling device for at least one axial fan comprises a gear set device between the shaft of the axial fan and a shaft of the motor.

3. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the gear set device of at least one axial fan, between the shaft of the axial fan and the shaft of a motor, is a bevel gear set forming an angle transmission.

4. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the motor of at least one axial fan is arranged in such a way that the angle between the axis of the axial fan and the axis of rotation of the motor is substantially 90°

or 270°

.

5. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the hub of at least one axial fan is driven by two motors the axes of rotation of which are arranged in one and the same plane perpendicular to the axis of the axial fan.

6. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the hub of at least one axial fan is made of aluminum and the shaft of the axial fan is made of steel.

7. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the blades of at least one axial fan are arranged inside the case ring in two rows each situated in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the axial fan and in which the two rows of blades rotate in opposite directions by virtue of two coaxial shafts of the axial fan.

8. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the external ends of the two coaxial shafts of at least one axial fan are arranged respectively in an inlet bullet and in an outlet bullet and the internal ends of the two coaxial shafts are connected to the coupling device so as to allow them to rotate in two opposite directions.

9. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the drive shaft of at least one axial fan passes through the motor longitudinally and extends to meet both a first axial fan and a second axial fan.

10. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which the polygon is chosen from the list consisting of a triangle, a square, a rectangle, a hexagon, an octagon.

11. The axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1, in which each axial fan of the axial ventilation device is identical.

12. A premises equipped with at least one axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1.

13. The use of an axial ventilation device as claimed in claim 1 for transferring energy, under very cold weather conditions, to a gas passing through said ventilation device.

14. An axial ventilation device comprising at least three axial fans arranged at the ends of a polygon, in which each axial fan comprises a case ring exhibiting symmetry of revolution extending longitudinally along an axis of the fan, a plurality of blades arranged inside the case ring and fixed to a hub, a shaft of the axial fan to which the hub is secured, the hub of at least one axial fan is driven by two motors, the axes of rotation of which are arranged in one and the same plane perpendicular to the axis of the axial fan,

said shaft extending along the axis of the axial fan, at least one motor designed to drive a drive shaft in rotation about the axis of rotation of said motor, in which the motor is situated on the outside of the case ring and the drive shaft is connected to the shaft of the axial fan by a coupling device so as to perform the rotary driving of the shaft of the axial fan,

said axial ventilation device further characterized in that one and the same drive shaft is designed to drive the rotation of at least the shafts of two axial fans.