Cross flow fan of an air conditioner

• US 6,345,951 B1
• Filed: 08/14/2000
• Issued: 02/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Weon-Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Look, Edward K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): EDGAR, RICHARD A
• Application Number:
  US09/636,765
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 415/119, 415/53.1, 415/1, 416/178, 416/187, 416/203
• US Class Current: 415/1
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 17/04 of transverse-flow type
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/283 rotors of the squirrel-cage type
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/666 by means of rotor construction or layout, e.g. unequal distribution of blades or vanes

Abstract

A cross flow fan of an air conditioner for reducing noise and vibration produced due to a rotation of the cross flow fan, by an improvement in a blade arrangement which has a regularity as a whole and an irregularity as respective units. Such a cross flow fan is installed in an indoor unit of the air conditioner, and has a plurality of blades functioning to circulate an inside air. The blades of the cross flow fan are divided into a plurality of blade groups consisting of a uniform number of blades, and the blades in the same blade group are arranged at uniformly increasing angles, while the pattern of the blade arrangement throughout the complete blade groups is uniformly formed.

Claims

1. A cross flow fan of an air conditioner, comprising a plurality of blades divided into a plurality of blade groups of a uniform number of blades having angles between two neighboring blades in the same blade group being gradually increased, and blade arrangements being consistent throughout all the blade groups, said plurality of blades of said cross flow fan functioning to circulate an inside air when installed in an indoor unit of the air conditioner.

2. The cross flow fan of claim 1, wherein said blades in each blade group having the angle between the blades increase with a uniform angle increment.

3. The cross flow fan of claim 1, wherein a predetermined total number of said plurality of blades in said cross flow fan being equal to a product of the number of blade groups with a number of said blades in each group and having a minimal difference between the number of said blades in each group and the number of blade groups.

4. The cross flow fan of claim 2, wherein a predetermined total number of said plurality of blades in said cross flow fan being equal to a product of the number of blade groups with a number of said blades in each group and having a minimal difference between the number of said blades in each group and the number of blade groups.

5. The cross flow fan of claim 4, wherein the total number of said blades is 35 being divided into 5 groups of 7 blades.

6. The cross flow fan of claim 5, wherein the angles between the blades in the respective blade groups start from 10°

, and increase approximately by 0.095°

.

7. The cross flow fan of claim 6, wherein said blades being arranged concentrically and circumscribing a cylindrical shaft.

8. The cross flow fan of claim 7, further comprising a plurality of said cross flow fans being connected together in a direction of a rotational axis of the cylindrical shaft.

9. The cross flow fan of claim 8, wherein a predetermined angle being between a last blade of a first group of blades and a first blade of an adjacent second group of blades, angles between following blades of the second group of blades being progressively incremented from the predetermined angle by a set incremental angle.

10. The cross flow fan of claim 9, wherein the predetermined angle being less than an angle of a circumference of a circle divided by the number of the groups of blades.

11. A cross flow fan of an air conditioner, comprising a plurality of blades divided into a plurality of blade groups of a uniform number of blades having different angles between each of two adjacent blades, and blade arrangements in the blade groups being equal to each other, said plurality of blades of said cross flow fan functioning to circulate an inside air and being installed in an indoor unit of a separate type of air conditioner.

12. The cross flow fan of claim 11, wherein said blades in each blade group having the angle between the blades increase with a uniform angle increment.

13. The cross flow fan of claim 12, wherein the total number of said blades is 35 being divided into 5 groups of 7 blades.

14. The cross flow fan of claim 13, wherein the angles between the blades in the respective blade groups start from 10°

, and increase approximately by 0.095°

.

15. The cross flow fan of claim 11, wherein a predetermined total number of said plurality of blades in said cross flow fan being equal to a product of the number of blade groups with a number of said blades in each group and having a minimal difference between the number of said blades in each group and the number of blade groups.

16. The cross flow fan of claim 11, wherein said blades being arranged concentrically and circumscribing a cylindrical shaft.

17. The cross flow fan of claim 16, further comprising a plurality of said cross flow fans being connected together in a direction of a rotational axis of the cylindrical shaft.

18. The cross flow fan of claim 11, wherein a predetermined angle being between a last blade of a first group of blades and a first blade of an adjacent second group of blades, angles between following blades of the second group of blades being progressively incremented from the predetermined angle by a set incremental angle, the predetermined angle being less than an angle of a circumference of a circle divided by the number of the group of blades.

19. A method, comprising the steps of:

forming concentrically a plurality of blades circumscribing a cylinder of a cross flow fan of an air conditioner;

grouping an equal number of said blades;

progressively incrementing an angle in a uniform manner between each one of said blades within each group of said blades, all of the groups of blades having a same arrangement pattern of said blades; and

installing said cross flow fan in an indoor unit next to an evaporator, said plurality of blades of said cross flow fan circulating an inside air.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said grouping of said blades having a minimal difference between the number of said blades in each group and the number of groups of blades, a total number of said blades being equal to a product of the number of group of blades with a number of said blades in each group.