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US 12,704,131 B2Granted
Comfort fan providing continuous radial air flow
AssigneeWhiskey Lima Corporation
InventorsLionel Valentin Ortiz Santini, Nelson Juan Ortiz Santini, Arnaldo Santini Green, Wendy Diane Ortiz
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Abstract
A fan device provides airflow throughout a radial region from the location of the fan so that people positioned around the fan simultaneously receive a continuous flow of air at a calculated velocity that provides a desired cooling or heating effect and thermal comfort, and that can be further adjusted by the operator/user.
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A fan device, comprising:
- a housing having a columnar shape and defining a central vertical axis, the housing having a base that is configured to sit on a surface, and a top having a top edge that extends circumferentially around the central vertical axis;
- an inlet configured to allow air into the housing at a side of the housing above the base;
- a fan positioned inside the housing between the inlet and an outlet at the top of the housing, and configured to blow air toward the outlet;
- a motor coupled to the fan and positioned below the fan;
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- a directional ducting member positioned inside the housing between the fan and the outlet, wherein the directional ducting member has a lower terminus positioned over a center of the fan, and a top of the directional ducting member has an outer edge that extends circumferentially around the vertical axis and that is positioned over the top edge of the housing to form the outlet as a gap between the outer edge of the top of the directional ducting member and the top edge of the housing to direct air blown by the fan outward radially and circumferentially from the outlet, and the outer edge of the top of the directional ducting member extends outward radially from the central vertical axis at least as far as the top of the housing, and wherein a distance between an inside of the housing and the directional ducting member decreases between the lower terminus and the housing, in a horizontal direction, and between the top edge of the housing and the directional ducting member, in a vertical direction, the outlet, wherein the lower terminus of the directional ducting member is within the housing and below the top edge of the housing, and is positioned centrally over the fan.
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A comfort fan, comprising:
- a housing having a vertical axis and top having a top edge, and partially defining an air inlet at a bottom of the housing;
- a base on which the housing is mounted, the base configured to sit on a surface, the air inlet being a gap between the base and the bottom of the housing;
- a fan having fan blades positioned inside the housing between the air inlet and the top of the housing;
- a motor coupled to the fan blades to drive the fan blades at a selected speed of a variable speed range of the motor;
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- a directional ducting member inside the housing positioned over the fan blades, the directional ducting member having a top having an outer edge that is positioned over the top of the housing and which extends outward from the vertical axis at least as far as the top of the housing to define a circumferential air outlet as a gap between the top edge of the housing and the outer edge of the top of the directional ducting member, wherein the air outlet is configured to direct air blown by the fan blades through the air outlet radially outward perpendicular to the vertical axis, wherein a distance between the directional ducting member and the housing decreases from a lower terminus of the directional ducting member, in a horizontal direction, to the top edge of the housing and the directional ducting member at the air outlet, in a vertical direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.