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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Ronald Robert Anderson, Corvallis, OR (US);
Gregory Charles Reed, Corvallis, OR (US);
Richard Walter Riper, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D 29/58 (2006.01); F04D 29/056 (2006.01); F04D 29/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D 29/582 (2013.01); F04D 29/056 (2013.01); F04D 29/4226 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one example, a centrifugal fan includes a bearing, a shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, fan blades operatively connected to and rotatable with the shaft to take in air axially and to exhaust air radially, and a groove in the shaft extending axially along an outer surface of the shaft through the bearing.