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US5215438A
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Fan housing
Assignee: Carrier Corp
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Filing: 1992-09-30
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Granted: 1993-06-01
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Expires: 2012-09-30
Abstract
Abstract A housing for a propeller or axial flow fan. The housing comprises an orifice portion, a stator element portion and a motor mount portion, preferably made in a single piece by casting in metal. The single piece construction makes possible the positioning of the axis of rotation of the fan to be used with the housing precisely coincident with the axis of the orifice and thus permits very small fan blade tip to orifice wall clearances to be attained, increasing the efficiency of the fan assembly and reducing its radiated noise. The inlet of the orifice is elliptical to promote attached flow. In a preferred embodiment, the motor mount portion of the housing also is configured to serve as the motor shaft end cap of the electric motor used to drive the fan. The number of parts in a complete fan, housing and motor unit in such a configuration is reduced to two, the fan and the motor, reducing the time required to assemble and install the unit.
Inventors
- 👤 Rudy S. Chou
- 👤 Ronald L. Doyel
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 17:24
CPC Classifications
F; F01; F01D; F01D25/00; F01D25/24; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S415/00; Y10S415/914
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
216 words
A one piece fan housing (1) for use with an axial flow fan comprising: an orifice portion (13) having an inner diameter (D i ) and an interior wall (14), said wall having a surface in form like the surface produced by rotating a planar line about a coplanar axis of generation (A g ) that is coincident with the axis of rotation (A r ) of said fan, said planar line having a segment that when rotated produces the contour of said wall at an air inlet end with said line segment being a quarter of an ellipse (E) whose minor axis (A m ) is from two to 20 hundredths (0.02 to 0.2) of said inner diameter and whose major axis (A M ) is parallel to said axis of generation and is one to three times the length of said minor axis; a motor mount portion (11) centered in said orifice portion and adapted to receive an electric motor (50,50') having a rotor shaft (51) so that the axis of rotation of said rotor shaft is coincident with said interior wall surface axis of generation; and a motor support and fan stator portion (12) joined to and extending radially from said motor mount portion to join said interior wall of said orifice portion.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
216 words
A one piece fan housing (1) for use with an axial flow fan comprising: an orifice portion (13) having an inner diameter (D i ) and an interior wall (14), said wall having a surface in form like the surface produced by rotating a planar line about a coplanar axis of generation (A g ) that is coincident with the axis of rotation (A r ) of said fan, said planar line having a segment that when rotated produces the contour of said wall at an air inlet end with said line segment being a quarter of an ellipse (E) whose minor axis (A m ) is from two to 20 hundredths (0.02 to 0.2) of said inner diameter and whose major axis (A M ) is parallel to said axis of generation and is one to three times the length of said minor axis; a motor mount portion (11) centered in said orifice portion and adapted to receive an electric motor (50,50') having a rotor shaft (51) so that the axis of rotation of said rotor shaft is coincident with said interior wall surface axis of generation; and a motor support and fan stator portion (12) joined to and extending radially from said motor mount portion to join said interior wall of said orifice portion.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
The fan housing of claim 1 in which said motor mount portion further functions as an end cap of said electric motor.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
The fan housing of claim 1 in which said motor mount portion has means for receiving and positioning an end cap of said electric motor.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The fan housing of claim 1 further comprising means for mounting said fan housing in position to move air from one desired location to another desired location.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
15 words
The fan housing of claim 1 in which said fan housing is a metal casting.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The fan housing of claim 1 in which the length of said minor axis is one tenth of said inner diameter and the length of said major axis is three times said minor axis.
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