Pump
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorChangjoon Kim
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a pump. The pump of the present disclosure includes: a housing; an impeller disposed in the housing and rotating to generate a flow of fluid; and a pump motor configured to rotate the impeller, wherein the impeller includes: a first plate having a disk shape; a boss extending vertically from a center of the first plate, and coupled to a rotating shaft of the pump motor; a plurality of blades extending from an outer circumferential surface of the boss in a radial direction of the first plate; and a second plate having a surface parallel to the first plate, spaced apart from the first plate by a predetermined distance, and connected to the plurality of blades.
Claims10
A pump comprising:
- a housing;
- an impeller disposed in the housing and rotating to generate a flow of fluid;
- and
- a pump motor configured to rotate the impeller,
- wherein the impeller comprises:
- a boss coupled to a rotating shaft of the pump motor;
- a first plate extending radially from an upper end of the boss and having a disk shape;
- a plurality of blades extending from an outer circumferential surface of the boss in a radial direction, a portion of an upper end of each of the plurality of blades being in contact with the first plate;
- and
- a second plate having a surface parallel to the first plate, spaced downward from the first plate by a predetermined distance, and connected to the plurality of blades, and
- wherein a width of the second plate in the radial direction is greater than a distance which the second plate is radially spaced from the first plate, and is less than a length of the first plate in the radial direction from the boss.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.