Automatic power generation light-image fan device

• US 20060113796A1
• Filed: 01/17/2006
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yi Feng Fang
• Original Assignee: Yi Feng Fang
• Inventors: Fang, Yi Feng
• Granted Patent: US 7,161,256 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/1.R
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/28 with armatures rotating within the magnets
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/1807 Rotary generators H02K7/006 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/812 Signs

Abstract

An automatic power-generation light-image fan device is described. It has a fan motor, a vane set, a circuit board, a programmable chip, an automatic power-generation component, a rectifier filter circuit, a magnetic sensor and a positioning magnet. In this device, the circuit board is mounted on the vanes of the vane set and also has plural light-emitting elements, which are respectively connected to I/O terminals of the programmable chip, and an accommodating room is mounted on an inner surface of the vane set, in which an inner circular surface of the accommodating room is circularly mounted by an inductance coil whose ends are connected to an input terminal of the rectifier filter circuit. Thereby, the light-emitting elements mounted on the fan can be controlled to generate various different twinkling light-image variations and an effect of persistence of vision when the fan motor is rotating.

Claims

1. An automatic power-generating light-image fan device, comprising:

a fan motor having a base and a mandrel mounted on the base;

a connector connected to the base, an axle hole being mounted on the connector for passing there through the mandrel of the fan motor;

a positioning magnet mounted on the connector;

a vane set having a housing base, an axle hole being mounted on the housing base for passing there through the mandrel of the fan motor, an accommodating room mounted on an inner surface of the housing base and plural vanes circularly mounted around the housing base;

an automatic power generation component having at least one permanent magnets and an inductance coil which is circularly mounted inside the accommodating room of the vane set at a position corresponding to the permanent magnet, and an axle hole being mounted on the automatic power generation component for passing there through the mandrel of the fan motor;

a rectifier filter circuit connected to the automatic power generation component for rectifying and filtering an AC voltage generated by the automatic power generation component so as to obtain a DC voltage;

a circuit board mounted on the vanes of the vane set and having more than one light-emitting element;

a programmable chip mounted on the circuit board and respectively connected with the rectifier filter circuit and those light-emitting elements, wherein when the programmable chip receives the DC voltage output by the rectifier filter circuit, the programmable chip outputs a control of different timings of a waveform so as to trigger those light-emitting elements to generate various twinkling light-image variations and also an effect of persistence of vision, and wherein between those light-emitting elements, an effect of light-mixing for generating different color variations is also formed; and

a magnetic sensor, connected to the programmable chip for sensing the position of the positioning magnet when the fan motor rotates, moreover the programmable chip counts the rotational speed of the fan motor in response to the sensing for generating an effect of persistence of vision.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the programmable chip is a single chip having an oscillator, a frequency selector, a ROM, a counter, a pattern memory and a buffer integrated thereon.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the programmable chip comprises a power terminal, a trigger terminal and plural I/O terminals, the power terminal being connected to an output terminal of the rectifier filter circuit and the plural I/O terminals being respectively connected to a light-emitting element.