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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2015
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Eguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Seiji Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiko Takahashi, Aichi, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a multi-blade centrifugal fan in which an impeller is provided in a scroll casing in a freely rotatable manner, the scroll casing is provided with an axially expanded portion that forms an air channel at a bottom surface thereof which is expanded in a rotation-axis direction at a radially outer side of an annular flange portion which supports the impeller; and is provided, in a region of an outlet between a tongue portion and a spiral-end portion of the scroll casing in the axially expanded portion, with a protrusion that protrudes radially outward from a radially inner side surface by a predetermined amount so as to directly face an airflow in a circumferential direction.