Centrifugal blower

• US 8,105,026 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2008
• Issued: 01/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Eguchi, Tsuyoshi, Suzuki, Atsushi, Nakao, Mitsuhiro, Tominaga, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US12/224,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20100226766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,363 Days
• Field of Search: 415/204, 415/206, 415/211.1
• US Class Current: 415/204
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/422 Discharge tongues F04D17/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4226 Fan casings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/663 Sound attenuation
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/232 conical

Abstract

It is intended to provide a centrifugal blower capable of suppressing the generation of noise including periodic noise that is caused by interference between a tongue and an impeller. The centrifugal blower is provided with an impeller (2) provided with plural blades around a rotating shaft; a casing (3) which houses the impeller (2) and has a suction portion at one end in an axial line direction of the rotating shaft; a spiral flow passage (4) formed around the impeller (2) in the casing (3); and a tongue (6) for suppressing inflow of air from a winding end to a winding origin of the spiral flow passage (4). The centrifugal blower is characterized in that an extension (20) is provided at a tip of the tongue (6) in a reverse rotational direction that is reverse to a rotational direction of the impeller (2) in such a manner that it projects in the reverse rotational direction by a length that varies depending on the position in the axial line direction and that the gap between itself and the impeller (2) in the radial direction of the impeller (2) is kept approximately constant.

Claims

1. A centrifugal blower comprising:

an impeller provided with plural blades around a rotating shaft;

a casing which houses the impeller and has a suction portion at one end in an axial line direction of the rotating shaft;

a spiral flow passage formed around the impeller in the casing;

a tongue for suppressing inflow of air from a winding end to a winding origin of the spiral flow passage; and

an extension which is provided at a tip of the tongue in a reverse rotational direction that is reverse to a rotational direction of the impeller and which projects in the reverse rotational direction by a length that varies depending on the position in the axial line direction while the gap between the extension and the impeller in a radial direction of the impeller is kept approximately constant.

2. The centrifugal blower according to claim 1, wherein at least an outside surface, in the radial direction, of the extension is formed with a hanging portion which projects outward in the radial direction by a length that varies depending on the position in the axial line direction.

3. The centrifugal blower according to claim 2, the hanging portion is a slant surface which extends in a direction that crosses the outside surface, in the radial direction, of the extension, the outside surface extending parallel with the axial line direction.

4. The centrifugal blower according to claim 2, the hanging portion is stepped so as to project outward in the radial direction from the extension by different lengths that depend on the position in the axial line direction.

5. The centrifugal blower according to claim 1, wherein the extension is a slant surface which extends in a direction that crosses the axial line.

6. The centrifugal blower according to claim 1, wherein the extension is stepped so as to project in the reverse rotational direction by different lengths that depend on the position in the axial line direction.

7. The centrifugal blower according to claim 1, wherein:

the tongue is provided with a split surface which divides the tongue into one tongue that is located on the side of the suction portion and other tongue; and

the one tongue or the other tongue is provided with the extension, and the length of projection of the extension in the reverse rotational direction increases as the position goes away from the split surface starting from a region close to the dividing surface.

8. The centrifugal blower according to 7, wherein the extension is provided at least in the vicinity of an end, on the side of the suction portion, of the tongue.

9. The centrifugal blower according to claim 1, further comprising a shield which is disposed in a region close to the tongue in the spiral flow passage, projects parallel with the axial line direction, and extends in a longitudinal direction of the spiral flow passage.