Air-bearing fan
AssigneeHsin-Mao Hsieh
InventorsPing-Huey Tang, Chi-Wei Tien, Hsin-Pu Chen
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Abstract
Air-bearing fan includes a dust-proof cover, a fan blade structure, a magnet, a stator, a sleeve, an electronic circuit board, a housing and a thrust disk. While the fan blade structure is rotating, air can be induced into a ring-shaped gap so that an air-bearing is formed. And, air is also induced into a thrust gap and forms a thrust bearing. Therefore, this invention significantly reduces the noise and increases the fan's rotating speed, fan capacity and life.
Claims4
An air-bearing fan comprising a fan blade structure, a magnet, a stator, a sleeve, an electronic circuit board, a housing and a thrust disk;
- wherein
- said fan blade structure including a plurality of fan blades, an upper surface having several air-inducing inlets and a central shaft perpendicularly extending from a lower surface of said fan blade structure, a ring-shaped gap being formed between an outer surface of said fan blade structure and a housing inner surface of said housing;
- said magnet being disposed on an inner side of the fan blades and being fixed with said fan blade structure;
- said stator being disposed inside said magnet without contacting each other, said stator having a stator central hole;
- said sleeve being fitted in the stator central hole, said sleeve having a sleeve inner surface, the diameter of said sleeve inner surface being larger than the diameter of said central shaft;
- said electronic circuit board being fitted on and fixed with said sleeve, said electronic circuit board having an electronic circuit board central hole;
- said housing having several housing flow-guiding slots and a housing central hole;
- and
- said thrust disk having several thrust disk flow-guiding slots and a thrust disk central hole, said thrust central hole being fitted in an end of the central shaft so as to be fixed with said fan blade structure and said magnet, a thrust gap being formed between said thrust disk flow-guiding slots and a bottom of said housing when the fan structure is rotating.
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