Low profile motor
AssigneeConair Rotron, Inc.
InventorFred A. Brown
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Abstract
A flat pack blower utilizes surface mounting techniques for mounting the blower electronics on a thin laminated circuit board to reduce the blower profile. To that end, the blower includes a stator, and a rotor rotatably coupled to the stator. The stator includes a coil, a pole coupled with the coil, and a laminated circuit board having blower control circuitry and pads for electrically connecting the blower control circuitry to the coil. Use of surface mounting techniques on the laminated circuit board thus eliminates the discrete electronic components and the wires connecting such components.
Claims21
An air moving apparatus comprising:
- a stator;
- a rotor assembly coupled to the stator;
- surface mounted circuitry to control the rotation of the rotor;
- and
- a housing forming an interior having a bottom face, the surface mounted circuitry being directly secured to the bottom face within the interior of the housing.
An air moving apparatus comprising:
- a stator;
- a rotor assembly coupled to the stator;
- a housing forming an interior having a bottom face;
- and
- means for mounting surface mounted circuitry to the bottom face of the housing, the circuitry controlling rotation of the rotor,
- wherein the mounting means is free of circuit elements between the bottom face and the rotor assembly.
An air moving apparatus comprising:
- a stator;
- a rotor assembly coupled to the stator;
- a housing forming an interior having a bottom face;
- surface mounted circuitry to control rotation of the rotor;
- and
- a housing having an interior to contain the circuitry, the circuitry including surface mounted circuitry mounted on a laminated circuit board, the laminated circuit board being mounted directly to the bottom face of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.