Heat-dissipating device

• US 7,607,886 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Issued: 10/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Chang, Shun-Chen, Chang, Hsiou-Chen, Huang, Wen-Shi, Hsu, Wei-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): EDGAR, RICHARD A
• Application Number:
  US11/150,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20050260070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,597 Days
• Field of Search: 416/180, 416/183, 416/175, 416/203, 416/198.R, 416/200.R, 416/201.A, 416/211.1, 415/211.1
• US Class Current: 415/206
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/0606 the electric motor being specially adapted for integration in the pump
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/281 for fans or blowers

Abstract

A heat-dissipating device includes a housing having at least one opening, and a rotor disposed in the housing and having a base, a hub, a first set of blades disposed around the hub, and a second set of blades disposed on the base for increasing air volume and stabilizing a blast pressure of airflow passing through the heat-dissipating device.

Claims

1. A heat-dissipating device, comprising:

a housing having at least one opening;

a rotor disposed in the housing and having a base, a hub;

a first set of blades disposed around the hub, and a second set of blades disposed on the base; and

a driving device disposed inside the hub,

wherein the housing has a sidewall and a flange radially extending from the bottom of the sidewall to define an entrance of an air-gathering chamber, the entrance is between the flange and the bottom of the housing, and the air-gathering chamber is between the sidewall and a peripheral wall of the housing, and

wherein an outermost end of the flange is vertically aligned with an outermost end of at least one of the first set of blades and the second set of blades.

2. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the first set of blades extends downward from a periphery of the hub to a surface of the base.

3. The heat-dissipating device of claim 2, wherein the first and second sets of blades are alternately arranged.

4. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the first and second sets of blades are correspondingly partially connected with each other.

5. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the first and second sets of blades are shaped as curved or airfoil structures, respectively.

6. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the first and second sets of blades are correspondingly connected with each other and bent to different directions.

7. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the base, the hub, the first and second sets of blades are integrally formed as a single unit.

8. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the hub and the first set of blades are integrally formed as a first unit, and the base and the second set of blades are integrally formed as a second unit to be assembled with the first unit.

9. The heat-dissipating device of claim 1, wherein the housing further comprises:

a first frame for accommodating the rotor therein; and

a second frame coupled to the first frame, provided with the opening and having the sidewall extending from a periphery of the opening inwardly to define the air-gathering chamber in the housing.

10. The heat-dissipating device of claim 9, wherein the second frame further comprises a plurality of air-guiding members disposed along the sidewall for increasing a blast pressure of airflow passing through the heat-dissipating device.

11. The heat-dissipating device of claim 10, wherein the plurality of air-guiding members are shaped as strip, plate, curved, inclined or airfoil structures.

12. The heat-dissipating device of claim 10, wherein The second frame further comprises a support mounted inside the opening and the plurality of air-guiding members are arranged between the sidewall and the support.

13. The heat-dissipating device of claim 12, wherein the first frame has a bearing tube for allowing a first bearing to be disposed therein and the support of the second frame receives a second bearing so as to jointly support a shaft of the rotor with the first bearing.

14. The heat-dissipating device of claim 10, further comprising an another set of air-guiding members disposed on an air outlet of the housing.

15. The heat-dissipating device of claim 9, wherein the sidewall has a flange radially extending from one end thereof to define an entrance of the air-gathering chamber, and each of the blades has an end extending toward the entrance of the air-gathering chamber for guiding the airflow into the air-gathering chamber.

16. The heat-dissipating device of claim 9, wherein the air-gathering chamber partially or completely overlaps an air passage through the rotor in height along an axis of the heat-dissipating device.

17. The heat-dissipating device of claim 9, wherein the second frame has an extending part formed on an inner surface thereof and extending toward a direction of the first frame to form an axially compressed airflow passage in the housing.

18. The heat-dissipating device of claim 9, wherein a cross-sectional area of the air-gathering chamber is substantially equal in size to that of an air outlet of the housing.

19. A heat-dissipating device, comprising:

a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet;

a rotor disposed in the housing, and having a first set of blades and a second set of blades, both of which are disposed on a base of the rotor and have upper edges facing to the air inlet and positioned at different heights;

wherein the housing includes;

a first frame for accommodating the rotor therein; and

a second frame coupled to the first frame, having a sidewall and a flange radially extending from the bottom of the sidewall toward the direction of the first frame to define an entrance of an air-gathering chamber, the entrance is between the flange and the bottom of the housing, and the air-gathering chamber is between the sidewall and a peripheral wall of the housing, and

wherein an outermost end of the flange is vertically aligned with an outermost end of at least one of the first set of blades and the second set of blades.

20. The heat-dissipating device of claim 19, wherein the rotor further comprises a hub for connecting the first set of blades thereon and a base for mounting the second set of blades thereon.

21. The heat-dissipating device of claim 20, wherein the first set of blades extends from a periphery of the hub to a surface of the base, and the first and second sets of blades are alternately arranged.

22. The heat-dissipating device of claim 20, wherein the first and second sets of blades are correspondingly connected with each other and bent to different directions.