An electric motor assembly includes a stator, rotor, housing, rotatable shaft, and cooling fan. The stator and rotor are at least partly housed in the housing. The shaft is associated with the rotor to rotate about an axis. The cooling fan is fixed to and thereby rotates with the shaft to induce airflow within the housing. The cooling fan includes a wheel plate projecting radially relative to the shaft. The cooling fan further includes a plurality of radial blades that project axially from the wheel plate. The blades define a series of radial channels. The wheel plate defines an axial plate opening therethrough in alignment with a respective one of the channels.

A backpack power tool has drive motor and blower mounted on a backpack frame. The bottom plate of the backpack frame has a passage for working air sucked in by the blower. Ribs on the bottom side of the bottom plate have end faces forming a contact surface for leaves aspirated in blower operation against the bottom plate. The bottom plate has intake openings positioned between the end faces of the ribs in the contact surface and fluidically connected to the passage. Working air is sucked in through the intake openings and the passage. The bottom plate has an intake surface that is the sum of surfaces of all intake openings and of all end faces of ribs with a width of less than 10 mm positioned between the intake openings. The intake surface amounts to at least 50% of the surface of the bottom side of the bottom plate.

A fan assembly has a support structure and a motor fixed to the support structure. The motor has a stator, an outer rotor and a controller. Components of the controller are in a thermal exchange relationship with a plate-like heat sink at one end of the stator. A fan, fixed to the rotor, has a hollow hub from which blades extend. Air flows through inlet openings in a front wall of the hub. The heat sink has a slit with an outer side, axially offset from the inner side. A portion of the heat sink forms a wing deflecting part of the air flow coming from the inlet openings through the slit to pass over the surface of the heat sink.

A blower assembly includes a housing including an inner shell and an outer shell that define a flow passage therebetween. The inner shell also at least partially defines a cavity. The blower assembly also includes a fan coupled within the housing such that the fan also at least partially defines the cavity. The blower assembly further includes a motor configured to rotate about an axis. The motor is coupled to the inner shell and is positioned within the cavity radially inward of the flow passage.

A blower unit can include an outer housing, an inlet subassembly, a fan subassembly, an outlet subassembly, and a grommet. The outer housing can have an aperture extend along a first axis between first and second ends. The inlet subassembly can be received in the first end of the aperture. The fan subassembly can be received in the aperture adjacent to the inlet subassembly and include at least one wire. The outlet subassembly can be received in the second end. The grommet can be positioned between at least part of the second end and the outlet subassembly. The at least one wire can extend through the grommet. The grommet can seal against the at least one wire. The grommet can seal between the outer housing and the outlet subassembly.

A fan assembly, including motor cooling configurations and/or integrated controller configurations and associated methods are shown. Some examples of fan motors shown include electronically commutated motors that may include integrated controller circuitry. A number of cooling configurations are shown that may be used individually or in combination 10 to provide cooling to a motor in a fan assembly.

A fan motor including: a motor body; a fan; a controller that includes a circuit board and a circuit element; a heat sink that is attached to the controller and that includes a heat dissipating section; a case body that includes a motor holder, and a center piece supporting the stator, with the heat dissipating section disposed between the center piece and the motor holder and the center piece forming an airflow passage along which airflow passes; an introduction section through which airflow flowing toward the heat dissipating section is introduced; a discharge section through which the airflow that has been introduced through the introduction section is discharged toward the fan side; and a facing section that is disposed at a downstream side of the airflow with respect to the heat dissipating section and that extends in a direction to obstruct the airflow.

A ceiling fan and a fan set are provided. The fan set includes an upper fixed plate, a lower fixed plate, and a plurality of fan blades. The upper fixed plate has a plurality of first through holes that are in a ring-shaped arrangement, and the lower fixed plate has a plurality of second through holes that are in a ring-shaped arrangement. The quantity of the second through holes is equal to the quantity of the first through holes, and the positions of the second through holes respectively correspond to the positions of the first through hole. Each of the fan blades has an assembly portion, a blade portion, and three fasteners. The fasteners pass through the first through holes and the second through holes such that each of the fan blades is fastened between the upper fixed plate and the lower fixed plate.

Provided is an air-conditioning blower motor unit that includes: a brushless motor which has an output shaft to be coupled with an air-conditioning blower fan constituting an air conditioner; a circuit board configured to allow the brushless motor to be driven by a supply of electric power; a casing configured to house the brushless motor and the circuit board; and a base frame configured to support the circuit board and the output shaft. The circuit board on the base frame is disposed at a position eccentric with respect to the output shaft inside the casing.

A fan includes a stationary portion, a rotating portion, and an impeller arranged to rotate about a central axis together with the rotating portion to produce an axial air current. The rotating portion includes a rotor holder. The impeller includes a cup portion arranged to cover the rotor holder and a plurality of blades arranged on an outer circumference of the cup portion. The cup portion includes a cup cover portion arranged to extend radially outward from the central axis; a cup cylindrical portion being substantially cylindrical in shape, and arranged to extend in an axial direction from an outer edge portion of the cup cover portion; and a cup through hole arranged to extend through the cup portion at a position overlapping with a portion or boundary between the cup cover portion and the cup cylindrical portion.