Fan and mould for making the same

• US 10,018,201 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2015
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Jia, Zizhou, Na, Zhigang, Sun, Ying
• Primary Examiner(s): Kraft, Logan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fountain, Jason
• Application Number:
  US14/657,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20160053771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/0613 the electric motor being of the inside-out type, i.e. the rotor is arranged radially outside a central stator
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/023 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/281 for fans or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2230/21 by casting
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2300/43 Synthetic polymers, e.g. plastics; Rubber
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2300/436 Polyetherketones, e.g. PEEK
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2300/603 Composites; e.g. fibre-reinforced

Abstract

Embodiments of the application disclose a fan and a mold for making a fan blade structure for the fan. An embodiment of the fan comprises a fan blade structure and the fan blade structure comprises a mounting ring and a plurality of fan blades provided on the mounting ring, wherein mounting ring and the fan blades are integrally formed. The mold comprises a mounting ring and a plurality of fan blades provided on the mounting ring, the mold comprising a cavity having a ring-shaped channel configured for forming the mounting ring and a plurality of fan blade channels configured for forming the plurality of fan blades, in order to integrally form the fan blade structure.

Claims

1. A fan, comprising:

a fan blade structure comprising;

a mounting ring and a plurality of fan blades provided on the mounting ring,

wherein the mounting ring and the fan blades are integrally formed; and

wherein the plurality of the fan blades comprise a plurality of residual positions of die thimbles, and the number of the residual positions of the die thimbles are no larger than the number of the fan blades.

2. The fan according to claim 1, wherein the fan blade structure further comprises a demoulding ring provided on the plurality of fan blades, and the radius of the demoulding ring is larger than the radius of the mounting ring.

3. The fan according to claim 2, wherein a length of each fan blade is shorter than the radius of the demoulding ring.

4. The fan according to claim 2, wherein the demoulding ring is integrally formed with the plurality of fan blades.

5. The fan according to claim 1, wherein the fan blade structure is made from a liquid crystal polymer, a composite of polyphenylene sulfide and fibreglass, or a composite of polyetheretherketone and fibreglass.

6. The fan according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of residual positions of injection ports are located on surfaces of the plurality of the fan blades, and the number of the residual positions of injection ports is larger than 3 and no larger than 15.

7. The fan according to claim 1, wherein at most two fan blades are located between two adjacent residual positions of die thimbles.

8. The fan according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of each fan blade is smaller than 0.35 mm.

9. The fan according to claim 1, wherein the number of the fan blades is more than 35 but no more than 70.

10. The fan according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of opposite ends of each fan blade is smaller than 0.3 mm.

11. A mould configured for making a fan blade structure comprising a mounting ring and a plurality of fan blades provided on the mounting ring, the mould comprising a cavity to integrally form the fan blade structure, wherein the cavity comprises:

a ring-shaped channel configured for forming the mounting ring; and

a plurality of fan blade channels configured for forming the plurality of fan blade,

wherein the plurality of the fan blades comprise a plurality of residual positions of die thimbles, and the number of the residual positions of the die thimbles are no larger than the number of the fan blades.

12. The mould of claim 11, wherein the number of fan blade channels is more than 35 but no more than 70.

13. The mould according to claim 11, further comprising a plurality of injection passages extending from an outer surface of the mould to the cavity, wherein the number of injection passages is set to be larger than 3 and no larger than 15.

14. The mould according to claim 11, further comprising a plurality of thimble passages, wherein the number of thimble passages is set to be no larger than the number of the fan blades.

15. The mould according to claim 14, wherein the thimble passages are configured to have at most two fan blades located between two adjacent thimble passages.

16. The mould according to claim 14, wherein the number of thimble passages is set to be equal to the number of the fan blades, and each thimble passage corresponds to one corresponding fan blade.

17. The mould according to claim 11, wherein a width of each fan blade passage corresponding to a thickness of a fan blade is configured to be smaller than 0.35 mm.

18. The mould according to claim 11, wherein each fan blade passage is configured to have a width decreasing gradually from an intermediate portion to both end portions of the fan blade passage, and a width of the end portions is smaller than 0.3 mm, and a maximum width of the intermediate portion is no larger than 0.5 mm.