Centrifugal fan with axial-flow wind

• US 10,458,417 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2012
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Hsiung, Shih-Kang, Chen, Hung-Chi, Chen, Meng-Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): White, Dwayne J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Davis, Jason G
• Application Number:
  US13/603,945
• Publication Number:
  US 20130315724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,610 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/025 comprising axial flow and radial flow stages
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/0613 the electric motor being of the inside-out type, i.e. the rotor is arranged radially outside a central stator
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/281 for fans or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/30 Vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4253 with axial entry and discharge

Abstract

A centrifugal fan with axial-flow wind includes a centrifugal fan wheel and a cover shell. The centrifugal fan wheel has a rotating core structure and a plurality of centrifugal vanes arranged around the rotating core structure; a circular wind guide surface is disposed on an internal side of the cover shell and around the rotating core structure and covered onto the centrifugal vanes, such that the circular wind guide surface can change a centrifugal airflow at the external periphery of the centrifugal vane into an axial-flow airflow.

Claims

1. A centrifugal fan with axial-flow wind, comprising:

a centrifugal fan wheel having;

a rotating core structure comprising a fan hub, an axle and a bottom plate, the axle being mounted on an internal side of the fan hub and installed in an axial direction of the fan hub, the bottom plate being extended in a radial direction of the fan hub; and

a plurality of centrifugal vanes arranged around the fan hub, each of the centrifugal vanes comprising a root portion installed on the bottom plate and a distal end extending from the root portion outwardly away from the axle and beyond an external periphery of the bottom plate;

a cover shell over an exterior of the centrifugal fan wheel, an internal side of the cover shell having a circular wind guide surface disposed around the rotating core structure and over the centrifugal vanes, and a wind inlet formed at a top of the cover shell; and

a fixed base provided for installing the centrifugal fan wheel and being coupled to the cover shell, a gap formed between a bottom of the cover shell and an external periphery of the fixed base defining a wind outlet,

wherein

the distal end is exposed to the wind outlet so that air is fed in the axial direction from the wind inlet and exited from the axial direction and along an external periphery of the centrifugal fan wheel,

the fan hub is connected to the bottom plate along a substantially circular connection line by a plurality of legs, the fan hub and the bottom plate comprise corresponding sidewalls that define a plurality of broken holes, the broken holes of the plurality of broken holes are separated from one another by the plurality of legs, and the broken holes of the plurality of broken holes are arranged around the fan hub along the substantially circular connection line, and

the distal end is twisted toward a forward direction of the centrifugal fan wheel so as to guide wind from a centrifugal direction to the axial direction.

2. The centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein the cover shell is substantially conical in shape.

3. The centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein the root portion is substantially curved in shape.

4. The centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein the centrifugal fan wheel is between the cover shell and the fixed base, and an area enclosed by the external periphery of the fixed base is smaller than an area enclosed by an external periphery of the bottom of the cover shell.

5. A centrifugal fan with axial-flow wind, comprising:

a centrifugal fan wheel having a fan hub, a bottom plate, and a plurality of centrifugal vanes arranged around the fan hub, the bottom plate being extended in a radial direction of the fan hub, each of the centrifugal vanes comprising a root portion and a distal end, the root portion of each of the centrifugal vanes being connected to the bottom plate, and the distal end being extended from the root portion outwardly away from the fan hub;

a cover shell, substantially conical in shape, over an exterior of the centrifugal fan wheel, an internal side of the cover shell having a circular wind guide surface disposed around the fan hub and over each of the centrifugal vanes, and the cover shell having a wind inlet formed at a top of the cover shell; and

a fixed base provided for installing the centrifugal fan wheel and coupled to the cover shell, a gap formed between a bottom of the cover shell and an external periphery of the fixed base defining a wind outlet,

wherein

the fan hub is connected to the bottom plate along a substantially circular connection line by a plurality of legs, the fan hub and the bottom plate comprise corresponding sidewalls that define a plurality of broken holes, the broken holes of the plurality of broken holes are separated from one another by the plurality of legs, and the broken holes of the plurality of broken holes are arranged around the fan hub along the substantially circular connection line,

the distal end is exposed to the wind outlet,

the distal end is extended beyond the bottom plate and twisted toward a forward direction of the centrifugal fan wheel, and

an airflow at an external periphery of the centrifugal fan wheel is guided by the twisted distal end to flow from a centrifugal direction to an axial-flow direction.

6. The centrifugal fan according to claim 5, wherein the wind inlet is substantially parallel to the wind outlet.

7. The centrifugal fan according to claim 5, wherein a plurality of fixed portions are extended from the external periphery of the fixed base so that the fixed base is connected to the cover shell via the fixed portions.

8. The centrifugal fan according to claim 5, wherein the cover shell further includes a static blade inwardly protruded from an external periphery of the cover shell and disposed on an internal side of the cover shell.