Fan device and vacuum cleaner including the same

• US 10,641,282 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2017
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nidec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nidec Corporation
• Inventors: Hayamitsu, Ryosuke, Takaki, Hitoshi, Tatara, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Jr., Woody A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Delrue, Brian Christopher
• Application Number:
  US15/835,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20180180058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 415211
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/28 Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle A47L5/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/149 Emptying means; Reusable bags
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2857 User input or output elements for control, e.g. buttons, switches or displays
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/06 Helico-centrifugal pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/165 Axial entry and discharge
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/06 the pump being electrically driven F04D25/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/082 the unit having provision for cooling the motor
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/162 of a centrifugal flow wheel
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/165 especially adapted for liquid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/281 for fans or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/30 Vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/384 characterised by form
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4253 with axial entry and discharge
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/444 Bladed diffusers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/544 Blade shapes
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/52 Outlet

Abstract

A fan device includes an impeller rotating around a central axis and a motor disposed farther downward than the impeller. The impeller includes a base unit enlarged downward and plural blades disposed on a peripheral surface of the base unit. Upper portions of the blades are positioned at a leading end of a rotating direction with respect to lower portions. In an outer end portion on a front surface of each blade at the leading end of the rotating direction, a radial-direction component of a normal unit vector of an upper end portion of the blade is smaller than that of a lower end portion, assuming that an outer peripheral side of the blade is a positive direction. A thickness of a root of the lower end portion is larger than that of the upper end portion.

Claims

1. A fan device comprising:

an impeller that rotates around a central axis extending in a top-bottom direction; and

a motor that is disposed below the impeller in the top-bottom direction and rotates the impeller,

the impeller including

a base unit that is enlarged toward a downward direction, and

blades that are disposed on a peripheral surface of the base unit, wherein

upper portions of the blades are positioned at a leading end of a rotating direction with respect to lower portions of the blades,

in an outer end portion on a front surface of each of the blades which is positioned at the leading end of the rotating direction, a radial-direction component of a normal unit vector of an upper end portion of the blade is smaller than a radial-direction component of a normal unit vector of a lower end portion of the blade, assuming that an outer peripheral side of the blade is a positive direction,

a thickness of a root of the lower end portion is larger than a thickness of a root of the upper end portion, and

portions of radially outermost edges of the blades are positioned radially outward from a radially outermost edge of the base unit along an entirety of the rotating direction.

2. The fan device according to claim 1, wherein a lower edge of each of the blades extends from the root upward and outward in a radial direction.

3. The fan device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a motor housing that covers the motor, a plurality of stationary blades being provided on an outer peripheral surface of the motor housing,

wherein an upper edge of each of the stationary blades extends upward as the upper edge is directed farther outward in a radial direction.

4. The fan device according to claim 3, wherein:

a lower edge of each of the blades extends upward as the lower edge is directed outward in the radial direction; and

an axial-direction gap between an inner end of the lower edge of the blade and an inner end of an upper edge of the stationary blade is equal to an axial-direction gap between an outer end of the lower edge of the blade and an outer end of the upper edge of the stationary blade.

5. The fan device according to claim 3, wherein a distance between an inner end and an outer end of a lower edge of the blade in a circumferential direction is equal to a distance between an inner end and an outer end of the upper edge of the stationary blade in the circumferential direction.

6. The fan device according to claim 3, wherein a length of an outer end portion of the stationary blade in the top-bottom direction is longer than a length of an inner end portion of the stationary blade in the top-bottom direction.

7. The fan device according to claim 3, wherein an outer end of a lower edge of the stationary blade is disposed farther downward than an inner end of the lower edge of the stationary blade.

8. The fan device according to claim 3, wherein a lower end portion on a pressure surface of the stationary blade tilts toward the leading end of the rotating direction of the blade as the lower end portion is directed farther downward.

9. The fan device according to claim 1, wherein a bottom surface of the base unit extends downward from an outer edge of the base unit as the bottom surface is directed farther inward in the radial direction.

10. The fan device according to claim 1, wherein a radius of curvature of the root on a suction surface of the blade is greater than a radius of curvature of the root on a pressure surface of the blade.

11. The fan device according to claim 1, wherein, on a suction surface of the blade, a tilt angle of the upper end portion of the blade in a circumferential direction with respect to an outer peripheral surface of the base unit is greater than a tilt angle of the lower end portion of the blade in the circumferential direction with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the base unit.

12. A vacuum cleaner comprising:

the fan device according to claim 1.