A cooling system for optimizing fan air flow performance without compromising acoustic performance is disclosed. At least three fan feature embodiments are disclosed: (1) sloped fan blades, (2) sloped impeller hubs, and (3) inlet flow guidance features. For the first embodiment, fan blades attached to an impeller disc and having leading edges that progressively curve toward a center of the impeller disc. For the second embodiment, the impeller disc is attached to and centered on an impeller hub that has a sloped hub surface that progressively curves toward the fan blades. For the third embodiment, an inlet flow guidance feature is positioned within a region surrounding a fan's inlet promoting smooth passage of air into the fan. In some embodiments, all three fan features are combined.

An impeller includes a backing plate, a rim disposed so as to face the backing plate, and a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction around a virtual rotation axis of the backing plate. Each of the plurality of blades has an inner circumferential end, an outer circumferential end a sirocco blade portion being forward-swept and including the outer circumferential end and having a blade outlet angle of larger than 90 degrees, and a turbo blade portion being swept-back and including the inner circumferential end, a first region located closer to the backing plate than a middle point in an axial direction of the rotation axis, and a second region located closer to the rim than the first region. Each of the plurality of blades is formed such that a blade length in the first region is longer than a blade length in the second region. In the first region and the second region, a ratio of the turbo blade portion in the radial direction is larger than a ratio of the sirocco blade portion in the radial direction.

A multi-blade centrifugal air-sending device includes a fan including a back plate having a disk shape, a plurality of blades arranged at a peripheral portion of the back plate in a circumferential direction, and a rim having an annular shape and coupling the plurality of blades to each other, the plurality of blades being connected at respective first end portions on one side to the back plate, the rim being provided at respective second end portions of the plurality of blades on a side opposite to the one side where the respective first end portions are present; and a scroll casing having a spiral shape and including a facing side wall where an air inlet is provided and a peripheral wall, the scroll casing housing the fan such that the side wall faces the respective second end portions of the plurality of blades, the scroll casing being configured such that air is introduced through the air inlet and blown out to the outer peripheral side.

A blower assembly having a blower housing, an impeller fan within the blower housing, the impeller fan being adapted for rotation about an axis and having a plurality of impeller blades and having an axial length, a motor having a stator and a rotor, the motor having an axial length, the rotor being configured to rotate relative to the stator for rotation about the axis, the rotor and the impeller fan being coupled so that the impeller fan rotates with the rotor about the axis, wherein a ratio of the axial length of the motor to the axial length of the impeller fan is less than 0.3, and a motor support bracket operatively securing the stator to one of the first and second side walls of the blower housing.

The present invention relates to a blower. A blower according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: an upper fan for generating a first airflow, which is suctioned through an upper suction part and is then discharged; a lower fan disposed under the upper fan to generate a second airflow, which is suctioned through a lower suction part and is then discharged; an airflow changing device disposed between the upper fan and the lower fan to generate a third airflow by joining the first airflow and the second airflow; and a control part for controlling the rotation speed of each of the upper fan and the lower fan to adjust the discharge direction of the third airflow.

The present technology is directed to a respiratory pressure therapy system, that includes a plenum chamber pressurisable to a therapeutic pressure above ambient air pressure, a seal-forming structure to form a seal with an entrance to the patient's airways to maintain said therapeutic pressure in the plenum chamber throughout the patient's respiratory cycle in use, a positioning and stabilising structure constructed and arranged to provide an elastic force to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on the patient's head, a blower configured to generate the flow of air and pressurise the plenum chamber to the therapeutic pressure, the blower having a motor, the blower being connected to the plenum chamber such that the blower is suspended from the patient's head and the axis of rotation of the motor is perpendicular to the patient's sagittal plane, and a power supply configured to provide electrical power to the blower.

A fan unit includes a centrifugal fan, an air flow volume detector, and a main body casing housing the centrifugal fan and the air flow volume detector. The centrifugal fan includes a fan casing and a rotor. The air flow volume detector includes main body, and a probe that detects an air flow volume equivalent quantity equivalent to an air flow volume provided by the centrifugal fan. The fan casing includes a bell mouth defining an air inlet and having a convex surface. A distance from the probe to the surface of the bell mouth is larger than 0 and smaller than one third of a radius of the air inlet. A thermal air velocity sensor detects, as the air flow volume equivalent quantity, an air velocity of air flowing through the air inlet not connected to a duct by measuring an amount of heat dissipated from the probe.

A blower including a housing at least partially defining a chamber, a motor including a drive shaft defining a rotational axis, and an impeller drive by the motor to generate an air flow in the chamber. The blower also includes a coupler operably connected between the drive shaft and the impeller to transmit torque therebetween, the coupler being connected to one of the drive shaft and the impeller and including a plurality of ribs configured to engage the other of the drive shaft and the impeller, each rib defining a rib axis transverse to the rotational axis, each rib axis being arranged tangent to a circle centered on the rotational axis.

A disclosed submersible pump apparatus includes a three-dimensional frame, a pump housing, a drive shaft, an impeller, and first and second motors. The impeller is mounted on the driveshaft within the pump housing and is driven by one or both of the motors. The first motor is connected to a first end of the drive shaft and the second motor connected a second end of the drive shaft. The first and second motors are hydraulic motors and in a first configuration, the first and second motors are configured to cooperatively rotate the drive shaft with hydraulic fluid supplied to and removed from the first and second motors using a parallel fluidic connection. In a second configuration, only one of the motors has a drive gear and drives the drive shaft while the second motor does not have a drive gear and acts as a frictionless bearing supporting the drive shaft.

The present technology is directed to a respiratory pressure therapy system, that includes a plenum chamber pressurisable to a therapeutic pressure above ambient air pressure, a seal-forming structure to form a seal with an entrance to the patients airways to maintain said therapeutic pressure in the plenum chamber throughout the patients respiratory cycle in use, a positioning and stabilising structure constructed and arranged to provide an elastic force to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on the patients head, a blower configured to generate the flow of air and pressurise the plenum chamber to the therapeutic pressure. the blower having a motor, the blower being connected to the plenum chamber such that the blower is suspended from the patients head and the axis of rotation of the motor is perpendicular to the patients sagittal plane, and a power supply configured to provide electrical power to the blower.