Axial fan motor
AssigneeMINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
InventorsToshikazu Koshiba, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Yuji Omura, Mitsuhiko Takahashi, Hiroyuki Kato
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Abstract
To provide an axial fan motor increasing the mounting area of a circuit board and further improving heat dissipation as compared with the axial fan motor in the related art. A fan device as an axial fan motor includes: a casing having a hollow tubular shape and provided with an intake opening at one end in an axial direction and an exhaust opening at another end in the axial direction; an impeller including a plurality of blades and accommodated in the casing; a motor accommodated in the casing and configured to rotate the impeller; and a plurality of circuit boards arranged along the axial direction at a side close to exhaust opening in the casing.
Claims6
An axial fan motor, comprising:
- a casing having a hollow tubular shape and provided with an intake opening at one end in an axial direction and an exhaust opening at another end in the axial direction;
- an impeller accommodated in the casing and including a plurality of blades;
- a motor accommodated in the casing and configured to rotate the impeller;
- and a plurality of circuit boards arranged along the axial direction at a side near the exhaust opening in the casing, wherein two circuit boards of the plurality of circuit board are combined with each other, the two circuit boards are disposed so that board surfaces of the two circuit boards extend in a longitudinal direction with the rotational axis of the impeller,
- wherein the casing includes an upper casing and a lower casing integrally coupled, and the plurality of circuit boards are accommodated inside the lower casing,
- wherein the plurality of circuit boards are each held by a board insertion groove formed near a corner of the lower casing,
- wherein the board insertion groove is formed at a thick portion of a flange part formed at the corner of the lower casing, and
- wherein the plurality of circuit boards are held at the lower casing in a state of being joined in a rectangular shape in plan view.
An axial fan motor, comprising:
- a casing having a hollow tubular shape and provided with an intake opening at one end in an axial direction and an exhaust opening at another end in the axial direction;
- an impeller accommodated in the casing and including a plurality of blades;
- a motor accommodated in the casing and configured to rotate the impeller;
- and a plurality of circuit boards arranged along the axial direction at a side near the exhaust opening in the casing, wherein two circuit boards of the plurality of circuit board are combined with each other, the two circuit boards are disposed so that board surfaces of the two circuit boards extend in a longitudinal direction with the rotational axis of the impeller
- wherein the casing includes an upper casing and a lower casing integrally coupled and the plurality of circuit boards are accommodated inside the lower casing,
- wherein the plurality of circuit boards are used as a side wall for the lower casing,
- wherein of the plurality of circuit boards, a circuit board forming an engagement opening part and a circuit board forming an engagement protruding part engaged with the engagement opening part are joined together, and
- wherein each of the plurality of circuit boards includes an electronic component mounted only at an exposed surface located at a side exposed to a flow channel formed by the impeller, and an outer surface located at an outer side opposite to the exposed surface is coated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.