US20040086394A1 - Air impeller and a housing for such an impeller - Google Patents

Air impeller and a housing for such an impeller Download PDF

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US20040086394A1
US20040086394A1 US10/468,139 US46813903A US2004086394A1 US 20040086394 A1 US20040086394 A1 US 20040086394A1 US 46813903 A US46813903 A US 46813903A US 2004086394 A1 US2004086394 A1 US 2004086394A1
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Reijo Kohonen
Juhani Hyvärinen
Sami Wainio
Ilkka Ikonen
Kimmo Forsman
Matti Pöyhönen
Jorma Rinta-Valkama
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D29/00—Details, component parts, or accessories
    • F04D29/40—Casings; Connections of working fluid
    • F04D29/52—Casings; Connections of working fluid for axial pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D25/00—Pumping installations or systems
    • F04D25/02—Units comprising pumps and their driving means
    • F04D25/06—Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven
    • F04D25/0606—Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven the electric motor being specially adapted for integration in the pump
    • F04D25/066—Linear Motors

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  • the present invention relates to an air impeller as defined in the preamble of claim 1 , comprising a bladed wheel for generating a substantially axial gas flow, an alternating-current motor for rotating the bladed wheel, said alternating-current motor having a fixed stator and a rotating rotor, and a frequency converter or inverter for the control of the alternating-current motor.
  • the invention also relates to a housing for an axial impeller.
  • Various axial impellers designed for different uses have been known for years.
  • Traditional axial impellers have a separate electric motor, which is coupled via a power transmission system to the bladed wheel of the air impeller to rotate it.
  • Power transmission is implemented e.g. via a belt drive or a shaft-clutch-shaft transmission.
  • the motor used is either an alternating-current motor or a direct-current motor.
  • An alternating-current motor is simpler in construction and is therefore in many cases better suited for use as the drive motor of an air impeller.
  • the rotational speed of an alternating-current motor can be controlled steplessly and accurately by means of a frequency converter, so the motor drive has a good performance and a simple structure.
  • the frequency converter produces a sinusoidal output voltage, the motor drive is relatively disturbance-free and quiet.
  • the bearing of the bladed wheel is not heated unnecessarily by the heat produced by the electric motor, as it would if the electric motor were mounted near the bearing. Placing the rotor and stator on the outer rim eliminates the fast wear of the bearing caused by bearing currents. The bearing is thus potential-free.
  • a drawback with prior-art axial impellers is their complex structure, large size and therefore a large space requirement especially in the axial direction. This is due in particular to the fact that the air impeller and the frequency converter of its motor drive are separate components.
  • a further problem with prior-art axial impellers is their relatively poor reliability and difficulty of installation, because, for example, installing a frequency converter in the particular air impeller in question and connecting it to it takes plenty of time and is a relatively difficult operation. In many cases, the installation work has to be carried out in a tight space, so the work needed to install separate extra components significantly increases the installation time as well as the installation costs.
  • the object of the present invention is to eliminate the drawbacks of prior-art solutions and to achieve a new type of integral impeller provided with a frequency converter, in which all structural parts of the air impeller are integrated in a single unit.
  • Another object of the invention is to achieve a new type of housing structure for an axial impeller, in which all components of the impeller are disposed in the same housing.
  • the primary advantage provided by the invention is that a very compact construction is achieved with no need for separate components, which means that the axial impeller of the invention can be installed quickly and in a simple manner. Moreover, the axial impeller of the invention has a very short axial dimension, and the unitary housing structure means that the impeller is well protected, and therefore manufacturing impeller structures consistent with different IP classifications is relatively easy.
  • FIG. 1 presents an axial impeller according to the invention and one half of its housing
  • FIG. 2 presents an exploded view of an axial impeller according to the invention.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 present an axial impeller according to the invention, designed for use e.g. in air conditioning systems and producing an axial air flow.
  • the axial impeller has a plastic housing consisting of two halves, a front cover 1 and a back cover 2 , fastened together e.g. by means of screws, the housing also serving as the frame of the impeller.
  • Fitted in the front and back covers 1 , 2 is a shaft journal 3 , with a plastic impeller wheel 4 mounted on said shaft journal.
  • the impeller wheel 4 has in its center a hole 41 for a shaft and impeller blades 42 fitted around it between an inner cylindrical part 43 and a second, outer cylindrical annular part 44 .
  • the impeller wheel 4 is rotated by an electric motor drive comprising a synchronous motor 5 and a frequency converter 6 or inverter controlling it and connected to a three-phase alternating-current network or a medium-level direct-current network, said frequency converter or inverter producing a sinusoidal output voltage with controlled frequency variation.
  • an electric motor drive comprising a synchronous motor 5 and a frequency converter 6 or inverter controlling it and connected to a three-phase alternating-current network or a medium-level direct-current network, said frequency converter or inverter producing a sinusoidal output voltage with controlled frequency variation.
  • the stator of the motor is mounted in the housing around the outer rim of the impeller wheel 4 and the rotor is integrated with the impeller wheel so that it consists of permanent magnets 51 fitted to the circumference of the outer annular part 44 .
  • the stator again consists of four stator segments placed symmetrically at even distances around the impeller wheel 4 , each segment comprising a stator frame 52 and stator windings 54 wound in holes 53 at the curved inner rim of the stator segment. Each stator segment forms a segment of about 45° on the circumference of the impeller wheel 4 .
  • the permanent magnets 51 are curved permanent magnet pieces mounted on the circumference of the cylindrical part 44 .
  • An iron ring on the rim prevents magnetic particles from adhering to the inner rim of the impeller wheel from the air flow.
  • the curved permanent magnets 51 can thus be placed on the very rim of the bladed wheel 4 , without requiring any insulation of plastic or other material between it and the stator.
  • the curvature of the magnet 51 is determined by the curvature of the outer rim of the bladed wheel 4 . As the magnet is placed near the stator and no insulating plastic material is used in the air gap, the same power can be achieved with a smaller magnetic mass. This allows savings in the material costs, reduces the gyratory forces generated by the rotation of the bladed wheel and reduces the need for stabilization.
  • stator segments 52 again have outer edges parallel to the vertical and horizontal edges of the impeller housing and extending only slightly outside the plane tangential to the outer rim of the rotor 4 to minimize the space required by the stator.
  • stator segments 52 may be provided with mounting holes to allow the stator segments to be fastened to mounting pins provided in the housing.
  • the housing part is provided with mounting pins 21 for attachment to the second housing part, and it has below the stator a space 23 for a frequency converter 6 , said space being placed in the same plane perpendicular to the axial direction determined by the longitudinal axis A, separated by a partition 22 from the two stator segments.
  • the entire axial impeller is integrated in the same housing 1 , 2 , which is very thin because all components are placed in the same plane perpendicular to the axial direction.
  • the housing 1 , 2 also functions as a mounting base, on which the various fixed components can be mounted and fastened as described above. It has fastening elements for the stator, the bearings and the frequency converter or inverter.
  • the mounting base functions as a lead-through element for the motor conductors from the motor space into the housing of the frequency converter or inverter.
  • the axial impeller of the invention can be provided with guides, by means of which the direction of the air flow obtained from the impeller is changed as desired.

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FI20010432A0 (fi) 2001-03-05
CA2438916A1 (en) 2002-09-12
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KR20030086263A (ko) 2003-11-07
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JP2004522897A (ja) 2004-07-29

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