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OwnerThiago Piazera de Carvalho, Ricardo Reis Costa +2inventors
InventorsThiago Piazera de Carvalho, Ricardo Reis Costa, Ramon Gomes da Silva, Daniel Strauss
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A fan assembly with an electric motor, where the motor control drive is positioned on the external side of the fan casing and is cooled by ambient air. The fan casing has an opening on the fan low pressure side in the region that the control drive is positioned on the fan casing. In this way, the external air is sucked by the low pressure of the fan creating a forced airflow over the external surface of the control drive. This airflow allows the cooling of the control drive without requiring an additional auxiliary fan and without requiring the increase on the size of the control drive to allow its proper cooling. The present invention provides improved cooling of the control drive using ambient air, eliminating the need for an auxiliary fan and enhancing reliability and efficiency compared to prior art solutions.
A fan assembly comprising:
A method of cooling a control drive of a fan assembly, the fan assembly comprising a fan casing having an inlet and an outlet, a fan rotor mounted inside the fan casing and configured to create an air flow from the inlet to the outlet, an electric motor connected to the fan rotor and configured to drive the fan rotor, and a control drive configured to control the electric motor, the method comprising:
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