Axial flow fan with multiple segment blades

• US 7,025,569 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2002
• Issued: 04/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Huang, Wen-Shi, Lin, Kuo-Cheng, Chang, Shun-Chen
• Primary Examiner(s): Trieu, Theresa
• Application Number:
  US10/321,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20040062654A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,210 Days
• Field of Search: 416/183, 416/231.B, 416/200.R, 416/198.R, 416/212.R, 416/214.R
• US Class Current: 416/183
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/327 with non identical blades
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/38 Blades for axial flow compressors F04D29/324
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/384 characterised by form
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/681 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps

Abstract

An axial flow fan with a plurality of segment blades is described. The axial flow fan has a base, a hub and a plurality of blade units. The hub is mounted on, or pivots on, the base and supports the blade units. Each of the blade units is connected to a periphery of the hub and extends radially outward from the base has a plurality of segment blades. A segment space between the segment blades reforms a boundary layer of fluid passing over the segment blades and reduces the thickness of the boundary layer on the blade surfaces. As a result, the separation between the blade surfaces and fluid is avoided to maintain a laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the segment blades.

Claims

1. A blade structure with multiple segment blades, comprising:

a hub; and

a plurality of blade units connected to a periphery of the hub and extending radially outward from the periphery, wherein each of the blade units at least includes a first blade and a second blade, and a segment space is positioned between the first blade and the second blade to maintain a laminar flow of fluid passing over a surface region of the first blade and the second blade, wherein the second blade is configured in front of an upper surface of the first blade in a direction perpendicular to a flow direction of the fluid, and has a leading edge positioned adjacent to a first rear edge of the first blade for introducing the fluid from the first blade and reforming a boundary layer of the fluid passed through the upper surface of the first blade so as to prevent a separation effect on the upper surface of the first blade.

2. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 1, wherein the segment space between the first blade and the second blade in the flow direction of the fluid comprises a state of separation.

3. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 1, wherein the segment space between the first blade and the second blade in the flow direction of the fluid comprises a state of overlap.

4. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 1, wherein a first length of the first blade in a flow direction of the fluid is greater than a second length of the second blade along the flow direction.

5. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 1, the first blade having a first leading edge and the first rear edge to define a first chord line, and a first incident angle (A1) being defined as an angle between an entry direction of the fluid into the first leading angle and the first chord line, wherein the first incident angle (A1) comprises a range of about 0°

<

A₁≦

30°

to keep a laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the first rear edge.

6. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 1, the second blade having the leading edge and a second rear edge to define a second chord line, and a second incident angle (A2) being defined as an angle between an entry direction of the fluid into the second leading angle and the second chord line, wherein the second incident angle (A2) comprises a range of about 0°

<

A₂≦

30°

to keep a laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the second rear edge.

7. A blade structure with multiple segment blades, comprising:

a hub; and

a plurality of blade units connected to a periphery of the hub and extending radially outward from the periphery, wherein each of the blade units at least includes a first blade and a second blade having a leading edge positioned adjacent to a first rear edge of the first blade, a first length of the first blade in a flow direction of the fluid is greater than a second length of the second blade in the flow direction, and a segment space between the first blade and the second blade maintains a laminar flow of fluid passing over an upper surface of the first blade, wherein the second blade is configured in front of the upper surface of the first blade in a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the fluid.

8. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 7, wherein the segment space between the first blade and the second blade in the flow direction of the fluid comprises a state of separation.

9. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 7, wherein the segment space between the first blade and the second blade in the flow direction of the fluid comprises state of overlap.

10. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 7, the first blade having a first leading edge and the first rear edge to define a first chord line, and a first incident angle (A1) being defined as an angle between an entry direction of the fluid into the first leading angle and the first chord line, wherein the first incident angle (A1) comprises a range of about 0°

<

A₁≦

30°

to keep a laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the first rear edge.

11. The blade structure with multiple segment blades of claim 7, the second blade having the leading edge and a second rear edge to define a second chord line, and a second incident angle (A2) being defined as an angle between an entry direction of the fluid into the second leading angle and the second chord line, wherein the second incident angle (A2) comprises a range of about 0°

<

A₂≦

30°

to keep a laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the second rear edge.

12. An axial flow fan with multiple segment blades, the axial flow fan comprising:

a frame base;

a hub disposed on the frame base to support the multiple segment blades; and

a plurality of blade units connected to a periphery of the hub and extending radially outward from the periphery, wherein each of the blade units at least includes a first blade and a second blade having a leading edge positioned adjacent to a first rear edge of the first blade, and a segment space between the first blade and the second blade keeps a laminar flow of fluid passing over upper surfaces of the first blade and the second blade, wherein the second blade is configured in front of the upper surface of the first blade in a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the fluid.

13. The axial flow fan with multiple segment blades of claim 12, wherein the segment space between the first blade and the second blade in the flow direction of the fluid comprises a state of separation.

14. The axial flow fan with multiple segment blades of claim 12, wherein the segment space between the first blade and the second blade in the flow direction of the fluid comprises a state of overlap.

15. The axial flow fan with multiple segment blades of claim 12, wherein a first length of the first blade in a flow direction of the fluid is greater than a second length of the second blade along the flow direction.

16. The axial flow fan with multiple segment blades of claim 12, the first blade having a first leading edge and the first rear edge to define a first chord line, and a first incident angle (A1) being defined as an angle between an entry direction of the fluid into the first leading angle and the first chord line, wherein the first incident angle (A1) comprises a range of about 0°

<

A₁≦

30°

to keep a laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the first rear edge.

17. The axial flow fan with multiple segment blades of claim 12, the second blade having the leading edge and a second rear edge to define a second chord line, and a second incident angle (A2) being defined as an angle between an entry direction of the fluid into the second leading angle and the second chord line, wherein the second incident angle (A2) comprises a range of about 0°

<

A₂≦

30°

to maintain laminar flow of the fluid adjacent to the first rear edge.

18. The axial flow fan with multiple segment blades of claim 12, further comprising a plurality of stationary blade units mounted to the frame base and extended radially outward from the periphery to introduce fluid into the blade units, wherein each of the stationary blade units at least includes a first stationary blade and a second stationary blade, and a stationary segment space between the first stationary blade and the second stationary blade maintains a laminar flow of the fluid passing over upper surfaces of the first stationary blade and the second stationary blade, wherein the second stationary blade is configured in front of the upper surface of the first stationary blade in the direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the fluid.