FLAT FLOW-CONDUCTING GRILLE

• US 20180298916A1
• Filed: 05/19/2016
• Published: 10/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ebm-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Ebm-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: BINYUAN, Zhang, HAAG, Christian, HUBNER, Carsten, SUDLER, Bjorn, VOGEL, Manuel
• Granted Patent: US 10,590,954 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4213 suction ports
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/444 Bladed diffusers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/541 Specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps F04D29/56 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/663 Sound attenuation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/703 specially for fans, e.g. fan guards
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/51 Inlet

Abstract

The invention relates to a flow-conducting grille designed as a pre-conducting grille for arranging on a suction region of a fan, wherein the flow-conducting grille has a grille web structure about an axial center line, which grille web structure comprises radial webs spaced apart in the circumferential direction and coaxial circumferential webs spaced apart in the radial direction and an outer ring, wherein an inflow side of the flow-conducting grille extends flat and parallel to a radial plane of the flow-conducting grille.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A flow-conducting grille comprising

a grille web structure about an axial center line, the grille web structure includes radial webs spaced apart in a circumferential direction, coaxial circumferential webs spaced apart in a radial direction and an outer ring, wherein

an inflow side of the flow-conducting grille extends flat and parallel to a radial plane of the flow-conducting grille,

a first coaxial circumferential web viewed in the radial direction has an extent from an inflow side to an outflow side and is inclined radially outward with respect to the axial center line by an angle (α

), and

a second coaxial circumferential web viewed in the radial direction has an extent from the inflow side to the outflow side, and is inclined radially inward with respect to the axial center line by an angle (β

).

17. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, the flow-conducting grille is designed flat and a ratio D₃/H of a maximum outer diameter (D₃) thereof to an axial height (H) is defined to be in a range of 6-25.

18. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 17, wherein the flow-conducting grille is formed, in a central region, about the axial center line, with a central opening having an inflow-side central diameter (D₁), wherein a ratio with respect to the maximum outer diameter (D₃) of the flow-conducting grille is defined to be in a range of D₃/D₁=1.5-6.0.

19. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, wherein the extents of the first and second coaxial circumferential webs viewed in the radial direction form, in an imaginary extension at a spacing (L) from the inflow side, an intersection point, which determines an intersection point diameter (D₄) radially spaced apart with respect to the axial center line.

20. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 19, wherein a ratio D₄/D₃ of the intersection point diameter (D₄) with respect to an outflow-side outer diameter (D₃) of the flow-conducting grille is defined to be in a range of 0.01-0.8.

21. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 19, wherein a ratio D₄/L of the intersection point diameter (D₄) with respect to the spacing (L) between the intersection point and the inflow side is defined to be in a range of 0-1.6.

22. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 19, wherein a ratio H/L of an axial height (H) of the flow-conducting grille with respect to the spacing (L) between the intersection point (7) and the inflow side is defined to be in a range of 0.01-0.5.

23. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 22, wherein the first and second coaxial circumferential webs viewed in the radial direction each have an axial extent (H₁, H₂) parallel to the axial center line, a ratio of which with respect to the axial height of the flow-conducting grille is defined to be H₁<

H₂<

H.

24. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, wherein the first and second coaxial webs viewed in the radial direction are designed to be curved convexly in the direction of the axial center line.

25. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, wherein the respective radial webs are spaced apart by a circumferential angle (δ

) of ≤

20°

.

26. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, wherein in an axial top view from the inflow side, between respective adjacent radial webs and between the first and second coaxial circumferential webs viewed in the radial direction, grille meshes having a first diagonal extent (L₁) are formed, and, between respective adjacent radial webs and between the second coaxial circumferential web viewed in the radial direction and the outer ring (5), respective grille meshes having a second diagonal extent (L₂) are formed, wherein a length ratio L₁<

L₂ is defined.

27. The flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, characterized in in that, in an axial top view from the outflow side, between respective adjacent radial webs and between the first and second coaxial circumferential webs viewed in the radial direction, grille meshes having a first diagonal extent (L₃) are formed, and, between respective adjacent radial webs and between the second coaxial circumferential web viewed in the radial direction and the outer ring (5), respective grille meshes having a second diagonal extent (L₄) are formed, wherein a length ratio L₃<

L₄ is defined.

28. A fan having a drive unit as well as a flow-conducting grille according to claim 16, wherein the drive unit extends at least in certain sections in the axial direction into a region of the flow-conducting grille, and a ratio of a radial distance (SPm) between a radial outer edge of the drive unit and an outflow-side central diameter (D₂) of a central opening and an inflow-side central diameter (D₁) is defined to have a value SPm/D₁≤

0.15.