Single suction type centrifugal fan

• US 9,702,373 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2014
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Uehara, Akimasa, Ousaka, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bomberg, Kenneth
• Assistant Examiner(s): DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER
• Application Number:
  US14/476,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20150086348A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,041 Days
• Field of Search: 415204, 415206, 416187, 416186 R, 416223 B, 417369, 417370
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/082 the unit having provision for cooling the motor
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/162 of a centrifugal flow wheel
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4206 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4226 Fan casings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/4233 with volutes extending mainly in axial or radially inward direction
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/5806 Cooling the drive system
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/685 Inducing localised fluid recirculation in the stator-rotor interface

Abstract

A single suction type centrifugal includes: a casing; and an impeller housed in the casing and provided with a plurality of blades fixed to an impeller main plate. The casing includes a suction side plate having a suction port, and a motor fixing side plate. A center portion of the impeller main plate is fixed to the motor, and a main plate opening is formed in the impeller main plate between the blades and a center portion of the impeller main plate. A blade end portion imaginary plane passes end portions of the blades on a motor fixing side plate side and is perpendicular to a rotary shaft of the motor. A constriction portion is formed where a distance between the blade end portion imaginary plane and the motor fixing side plate is narrowed between the main plate opening and the blades.

Claims

1. A single suction centrifugal fan comprising:

a motor;

a casing having a spiral shape; and

an impeller housed in the casing, the impeller having a plurality of blades,

an impeller main plate and an auxiliary ring to which the blades are fixed,

the casing including

a suction side plate having a suction port, and

a motor fixing side plate to which the motor is fixed,

the impeller main plate having a center portion fixed to the motor, wherein

both of the impeller main plate and an auxiliary ring are planar,

the impeller main plate has a main plate opening formed between the blades and the center portion of the impeller main plate,

a constriction portion is formed between the main plate and the motor fixing side plate by projecting a portion of the motor fixing side plate towards the main plate, in a region between the outer side of the main plate opening and the inner side of the blades,

the constriction portion projects in a direction of a blade end portion imaginary plane,

the constriction portion being closer to the blade end portion imaginary plane than an end of the motor except the motor shaft, and

a distance between the motor fixing side plate and a blade end portion imaginary plane is narrower at the constriction portion than a distance between the blade end portion imaginary plane and the motor fixing side plate where the constriction portion is not formed,

where the blade end portion imaginary plane is defined as a plane which passes end portions of the blades on a motor fixing side plate side and is perpendicular to a rotary shaft of the motor.

2. The single suction type centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein

an impeller main plate projecting portion which projects toward a suction port side from a motor fixing side plate side is formed on the impeller main plate,

the center portion of the impeller main plate is formed on the impeller main plate projecting portion,

the impeller main plate projecting portion is formed into a projecting shape having a cross sectional area gradually decreasing toward the suction port side from the motor fixing side plate side, and

the main plate opening is formed in an inclined portion of the projecting portion.

3. The single suction type centrifugal fan according to claim 2, wherein the projecting shape is a frustoconical shape or a conical shape.

4. The single suction type centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein the main plate openings are distributed equidistantly along a circumference about a rotary shaft of the motor.

5. The single suction type centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein the constriction portion is disposed in a vicinity of the end portions of the blades.

6. The single suction type centrifugal fan according to claim 1, wherein a width of the constriction portion is 1 mm to 10 mm.