Nidec Corporation

Ryosuke Ishida

Shinji Takemoto

Yoshiaki Oguma

Jun Nagasawa

An axial fan includes an impeller rotatable about a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a motor, and a housing. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The impeller includes blades on a radially outer surface of an impeller cup fixed to the rotor. The housing includes a motor base portion below the motor to support the stator, a tubular portion radially outside of the impeller, a first rib below the blades to join the motor base portion to the tubular portion, and a second rib being annular, centered on the central axis, and joined to the first rib. A lower edge of each blade includes a first blade region that is convex downward. A radially inner end of the second rib is radially outward of a lower end of the first blade region.

Axial fan

An axial fan includes an impeller, a motor, and a housing. The impeller is configured to rotate about a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction; a motor configured to rotationally drive the impeller. The housing is disposed radially outside the impeller and the motor. An inner wall surface of the housing includes a groove recessed radially outward and extending in the vertical direction. At least a first end of the groove in the vertical direction extends to one end of the housing in the vertical direction.

Axial fan and refrigerator

An axial fan according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an impeller, a motor, and a housing. The impeller is configured to rotate about a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction. The motor is configured to rotationally drive the impeller. The housing is disposed radially outside the impeller and the motor. In a region overlapping in the vertical direction with the impeller, an inner wall surface of the housing includes at least one first wall having a narrow gap with a radially outer edge of the impeller and at least one second wall having a wide gap with the radially outer edge of the impeller.

In an axial fan, a housing includes a side wall arranged to surround an outer circumference of an impeller, and a substantially square or substantially rectangular flange arranged to project radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the side wall. The side wall preferably includes three slit groups each including a plurality of slits arranged in a circumferential direction and arranged to extend through the side wall from an inner circumferential surface to the outer circumferential surface thereof. Two of the slit groups are defined in portions of the side wall which correspond to two adjacent corner portions in an upper half portion of the flange, while the remaining slit group is defined in a portion of the side wall which corresponds to a lower half portion of the flange. The upper and lower half portions are divided at a line parallel or substantially parallel to two opposing sides of the flange and passing through a central axis.

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Kyoto, Japan

Ryosuke Ishida