VANE WHEEL AND BLOWING DEVICE

• US 20190010954A1
• Filed: 05/22/2018
• Published: 01/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2017
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Nidec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nidec Corporation
• Inventors: TAKAO, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US15/985,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20190010954A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/06 Helico-centrifugal pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/08 Centrifugal pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/165 Axial entry and discharge
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/08 the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/242 Geometry, shape
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/263 mounting fan or blower rotors on shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/281 for fans or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/626 Mounting or removal of fans
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/14 Casings or housings protecting or supporting assemblies within
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/30 Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/60 Shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/131 polygonal
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/232 conical
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/711 convex

Abstract

A vane wheel includes a shaft, an impeller, and a fixing member. The impeller includes an impeller cylinder portion into which one end portion of the shaft in an axial direction is inserted. The fixing member is disposed on one end side of the impeller cylinder portion in the axial direction and fixes the shaft and the impeller to each other. The shaft includes a step surface at the other end of the one end portion of the shaft in the axial direction. The other end surface of the impeller cylinder portion faces the step surface in the axial direction. The impeller includes a convex portion protruding in the axial direction on at least one of one end surface and the other end surface of the impeller cylinder portion in the axial direction. The convex portion is in contact with the fixing member or the step surface.

Claims

1. A vane wheel comprising:

a shaft which is disposed along a center axis;

an impeller which includes an impeller cylinder portion into which one end portion of the shaft in an axial direction is inserted; and

a fixing member which is disposed on one end side of the impeller cylinder portion in the axial direction and which fixes the shaft and the impeller to each other,

wherein the shaft includes a step surface which is a flat surface spreading outward in a radial direction at the other end of the one end portion of the shaft in the axial direction,

wherein the other end surface of the impeller cylinder portion in the axial direction faces the step surface in the axial direction,

wherein the impeller includes a convex portion which protrudes in the axial direction on at least one of one end surface and the other end surface of the impeller cylinder portion in the axial direction, and

wherein the convex portion is in contact with the fixing member or the step surface.

2. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein an outer end portion of the convex portion in the radial direction is positioned inside an outer end portion of the fixing member or the step surface in the radial direction.

3. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein the convex portion has a ring shape which continues in a circumferential direction.

4. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein the convex portion includes a plurality of arc-shaped portions which are arranged with an interval in a circumferential direction.

5. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein the impeller includes

a truncated cone-shaped impeller base portion including a plurality of vanes on an outer circumferential surface, and

a gap portion which is positioned between the impeller base portion and the impeller cylinder portion in the radial direction,

wherein the impeller cylinder portion is positioned inside the impeller base portion in the radial direction,

wherein the one end portion of the shaft in the axial direction is press-fitted into the impeller cylinder portion, and

wherein at least a portion of the one end portion of the shaft in the axial direction faces the impeller base portion with the gap portion in between in the radial direction.

6. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein the impeller cylinder portion includes, on an inner circumferential surface thereof,

a plurality of first portions which are disposed with an interval in the circumferential direction, and are in contact with the shaft and fix the shaft, and

a plurality of second portions which face the shaft with an interval in the radial direction and each of which is positioned between two of the first portions which are adjacent in the circumferential direction.

7. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein the shaft is fixed to the impeller cylinder portion using an adhesive.

8. The vane wheel according to claim 1,

wherein the fixing member includes a screw thread in a direction in which the fixing member is fastened by rotation of the impeller.

9. A blowing device comprising

the vane wheel of claim 1.