Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Centrifugal fan and air conditioner having the same
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Application No.: US14220809Application Date: 2014-03-20
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Publication No.: US09624932B2Publication Date: 2017-04-18
- Inventor: Hyun Joo Jeon , Dae Gyu Kang , Seon Uk Na , Yong Ho Seo
- Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Staas & Halsey LLP
- Priority: KR10-2013-0029971 20130320
- Main IPC: F04D17/10
- IPC: F04D17/10 ; F04D29/28 ; F04D29/42 ; F24F1/00

Abstract:
An air blowing unit of an air conditioner includes a housing to guide suction and discharge of air, a centrifugal fan positioned inside the housing, and a motor to drive the centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan includes a base coupled to a motor shaft coupled to the motor, a plurality of blades disposed spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the base to guide air introduced in an axial direction of the base to the circumferential direction, a leading edge provided to the blades and arranged close to the motor shaft, a trailing edge provided to the blades and facing in an outer circumferential direction of the base, and at least one first blade of the blades, the leading edge of the first blade being shorter than the leading edge of the other blades.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140286800A1 CENTRIFUGAL FAN AND AIR CONDITIONER HAVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2014-09-25
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