Structure for reducing noise of ventilating fan

• US 9,441,642 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2010
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Panasonic Ecology Systems Guangdong Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Panasonic Ecology Systems Guangdong Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Li, Xiaoming, Rao, Zewei, Yang, Zhenjian
• Primary Examiner(s): Kershteyn, Igor
• Assistant Examiner(s): EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US13/634,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20150337862A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,258 Days
• Field of Search: 415/119
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/162 of a centrifugal flow wheel
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4226 Fan casings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/441 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/663 Sound attenuation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/665 by means of resonance chambers or interference
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/51 Inlet

Abstract

Disclosed is a structure for reducing noise of a ventilating fan. The structure includes an orifice plate fixed on a scroll casing and is shaped to be an annular and semi-surrounding hollow structure in order to match with the shape of an air inlet of the scroll casing, and to cover only the air inlet of the scroll casing. The noise generated by an air blower of the ventilating fan can be directed along a bell mouth of the scroll casing of the ventilating fan after being emitted from the air inlet of the scroll casing, and then can be smoothly sucked by the orifice plate. The sucked-in noise can repeatedly collide with the orifice plate and be diffused, thereby the energy being gradually weakened and the sound pressure thereof being decreased.

Claims

1. A structure for reducing noise of a ventilating fan, comprising:

a bell-mouthed panel located at an air inlet of a scroll casing; and

an orifice plate fixed on the scroll casing;

wherein the orifice plate is shaped to be an annular and semi-surrounding hollow structure in order to match with a shape of the bell-mouthed panel, and covers only a front side of the air inlet of the scroll casing,

the orifice plate comprises a radially outward side with respect to a longitudinal axis of the air inlet, a radially inward side, and a middle part in the form of a hollow structure that is disposed between the radially outward side and the radially inward side,

wherein the radially outward side extends linearly from a surface in which the air inlet of the scroll casing is located, and the radially inward side extends from the radially outward side toward the air inlet,

the radially outward side has a cylindrical shape which extends from the scroll casing in an axial direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the air inlet, and faces a housing side of the ventilating fan, and

the radially inward side has a curved shape and includes a fixed end extending from the radially outward side and a free end which arcs inwardly toward the longitudinal axis of the air inlet, the free end terminating at a location radially outside of the air inlet of the scroll casing.

2. The structure for reducing noise of the ventilating fan according to claim 1, wherein:

the orifice plate has a cross section of a J-shaped hollow structure formed with the radially inward side and the radially outward side, and a spacing portion is arranged between the free end of the radially inward side and the air inlet.

3. The structure for reducing noise of the ventilating fan according to claim 2, wherein:

a plurality of protruding ribs are disposed inside of the hollow structure of the orifice plate.

4. The structure for reducing noise of the ventilating fan according to claim 2, wherein:

a plurality of convex and concave structures are disposed inside of the hollow structure of the orifice plate.

5. The structure for reducing noise of the ventilating fan according to claim 2, wherein:

a first convex part and a second convex part are disposed outside of the orifice plate, a hole is arranged in the second convex part; and

a snap joint for snapping the first convex part and a mounting hole corresponding to the hole of the second convex part are arranged in the scroll casing.

6. The structure for reducing noise of the ventilating fan according to claim 2, wherein:

an outer diameter of the orifice plate is equal to an outer diameter of the air inlet of the scroll casing.