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US 3,993,415 AGranted
Fan with fluid friction clutch
AssigneeSuddeutsche Kuhlerfabrik Julius Fr. Behr GmbH & Co. KG
InventorKurt Hauser
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AssigneeSuddeutsche Kuhlerfabrik Julius Fr. Behr GmbH & Co. KG
InventorKurt Hauser
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In a fan with a fluid friction clutch wherein the housing of the clutch is connected with the fan or has fan blades attached thereto and wherein the surface of the clutch housing facing the air intake opening of the fan is provided with cooling ribs to carry off slippage heat, the improvement comprises flow direction means for reducing the effects of the secondary air flow around the clutch housing. The flow directing means comprise either the cooling ribs on the surface of the clutch housing facing the air intake opening of the fan which ribs are curved at the outer edges thereof in a direction reverse to that of the rotation of the fan; cooling ribs of construction angled in reverse direction to that of the direction of rotation of the fan; annular cooling ribs; or cooling ribs of conventional radial arrangement covered by a flow directing intake housing.
In a fan having an axis of rotation and a fluid friction clutch, especially for cooling internal combustion engines, wherein the clutch housing of said clutch is connected with the fan or has fan blades attached thereto and wherein a front surface of said clutch housing facing the air intake opening of the fan is provided with arcuate cooling ribs to carry off the slippage heat developed in the clutch, the improvement wherein said arcuate cooling ribs have an arcuate length many times there radial width and are disposed on said front surface of said clutch housing in the form of concentric circles radially displaced from said axis of rotation, said arcuate cooling ribs being interrupted at several points around the circumferences thereof;
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