Patent Application
20170184316
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Field of Invention
This invention relates to ventilating equipment such as air cooler and heater, in particular, to a movement mechanism adapted to be used as an air blower device, which is an integratable movement device for ventilating equipment, providing multi-directional air blowing ability and being able to be assembled and arranged flexibly.
Description of Related Arts
Various air conditioning equipments, such as air conditioners, electric fans, heaters, cooling fans, are commonly used in our daily lives. Among these devices, air conditioners use medium like refrigerant to absorb heat in the air during the cooling process, so as to cool the air for conditioning the temperature. Heaters such as warm air blowers and cooling fans increase or decrease room temperature by heating or cooling the intake air through their electric heating elements or cooling elements and then sending out. Ventilating equipments like heaters and cooling fans are commonly used because of their compact sizes, ease of moving, relatively lower costs, good performances in heating and cooling, and etc.
A conventional heater or cooling fan usually includes a case containing heating or water cooling component, fan wheel component, temperature controlling component, and etc. The components of the conventional heater and cooling fan are made independently and then assembled in the case respectively that not only complicates the manufacturing process, but also results inefficiency in assemble and causes product quality issues. Besides, there is only one vent outlet provided at a front side of the conventional heaters and cooling fans for blowing out air directly here through the rotation of the fans of the air blower thereof that results in uneven air blowing and generating more noise.
The objective of the present invention is to solve the above conventional drawbacks and to provide an integratable movement device for ventilating equipment that integrates heating and cooling components and blowing and exhaling components and is able to assemble flexibly to form various products, allowing multi-directional air blowing, simplification of the assembling, the increase of production efficiency of such ventilating equipments significantly, and a guarantee of the product quality of the integratable movement device for ventilation equipment of the present invention.
In order to achieve the above objects, the present invention provides an integratable movement device for ventilating equipment, which includes an electric machine such as a motor and a fan wheel connected to the electric machine, characteristic in that the movement device further includes a housing, wherein the electric machine and the fan wheel are disposed in a lower portion in the housing which provides one or more venting outlets at an upper portion thereof. A venting outlet unit is provided at each of the venting outlets. An air chamber formed between each the venting outlet and the fan wheel in the housing defines a venting channel to allow air blown from the fan wheel to be buffered and evenly sent out through the venting outlet. The housing, having the one or more venting outlets and venting channels, the venting outlet units secured at the one or more venting outlets, and the electric machine and the fan wheel installed in the housing configure an integratable movement device that is able be directly assembled to produce a ventilating equipment.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the movement device includes a housing, wherein an electric machine and a fan wheel are installed at a lower portion of the housing. An upper portion of the housing forms one or more venting outlets. A venting outlet unit is provided at each of the venting outlets. An air chamber formed between each the venting outlet and the fan wheel in the housing defines a venting channel to allow air blown from the fan wheel to be buffered and evenly sent out through the corresponding venting outlet. The lower portion of the housing, opposite to the fan wheel, provides a PCT heating component for configuring a heater movement device. The housing having the one or more venting outlets and venting channels, the venting outlet units secured at the one or more venting outlets, the electric machine and fan wheel installed in the housing, and the PCT heating component configure an integratable movement device that is able to be assembled directly to form a heater.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the movement device includes a housing, wherein an electric machine and a fan wheel are installed at a lower portion of the housing. An upper portion of the housing forms one or more venting outlets. A venting outlet unit is provided at each of the venting outlets. An air chamber formed between each the venting outlet and the fan wheel in the housing defines a venting channel to allow air blown from the fan wheel to be buffered and evenly sent out through the corresponding venting outlet. The lower portion of the housing, opposite to the fan wheel, provides a cooling component for configuring a cooling fan movement device. The housing having the one or more venting outlets and venting channels, the venting outlet units secured at the one or more venting outlets, and the electric machine, the fan wheel and the cooling component secured in the housing, configure an integratable movement device that is able to be assembled directly to form a cooling fan.
The housing comprises a pair of left shell and a right shell coupled together that upper end portions of the left shell and right shell provide a front vent hole, a left venting outlet unit mounting hole, and a right venting outlet unit mounting hole, and that lower end portions of the left shell and the right shell have a semicircular fan wheel site. Grid shaped venting inlets are provided on two sides of the fan wheel site on the left shell and the right shell.
The venting outlet unit includes a front venting outlet unit and a side venting outlet unit, which are respectively provided at one or more venting outlets of the housing.
The front side of the housing is provided with one of the venting outlets, where the front venting outlet unit is provided thereat. The more than one venting outlets are respectively provided at the front, left, and right sides of the housing. Side venting outlet units are respectively provided at the venting outlets.
The front venting outlet unit includes a front vent hole and a guiding fin unit. The front vent hole is in rectangular shape and is integrally formed in the upper front side of the housing. The guiding fin unit has a plurality of fins installed intervally for air blowing direction adjustment. The guiding fin unit is provided at an outlet of the front vent hole.
The side venting outlet unit includes a venting tube, a barrel, a guide fin body, and a ring shaped cover, wherein the barrel is moveably disposed in the venting tube. A front end of the barrel is turnably connected to the guiding fin body. The cover is secured in the front end of the venting tube. The side venting outlet units are respectively mounted in the left venting outlet unit mounting hole and the right venting outlet unit mounting hole of the housing.
The PCT heating component includes a PCT heating body and a PCT heating body frame. The PCT heating body comprises a plurality of PCT heating element units. The PCT heating body frame is a rectangular frame which upper side has a plurality of connector terminal limiting grooves. The PCT heating element units are vertically installed in the PCT heating body frame, wherein each of the PCT heating element unit has a connector terminal provided at an end thereof. Each connector terminal protrudes from the respective connector terminal limiting groove provided in the PCT heating body frame. The PCT heating element units are connected to a power source with the connector terminals.
The cooling component includes a container, an absorbing element, a lid, a tank, and a water tray, wherein the tank contains cool water and its water outlet is downwardly provided in the water tray. The container has two openings provided in two sides thereof. The absorbing element is disposed into the container and secured with the lid. The container containing the absorbing element is inserted into the water tray. The absorbing element absorbs water from the water tray for the fan wheel to inhale and form cool air to send out through the venting channel and the one or more venting outlets.
The contributions of the present invention are that it effectively solved the problems of conventional ventilating equipment, including complicated production process, inefficient assembling, high product defective rate, and single blowing direction.
The present invention integrates the heating component and/or cooling component and the blowing and exhaling elements into one piece, becomes a device that can be directly assembled to use as a heater device and/or cooling fan device, wherein a heater device can be assembled and made through just installing the movement device with the heating component or, alternatively, a cooling fan device can be assembled and made through simply installing the movement device with the cooling component, that is able to greatly simplify the assembling process, increase production efficiency of a heater device and/or cooling fan device, and guarantee the product quality of a heater device and/or cooling fan device.
The movement device of the present invention is able to be flexibly assembled into different products like a heater device and a cooling fan device, and to produce air blowing in multiple directions from the front and sides thereof simultaneously, so as to effectively enhance the coverage of hot and/or cool air of a ventilating equipment, to increase the utilization of the ventilating equipment, and to strengthen the results of using the ventilating equipment.
These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.
The following description is disclosed to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present invention. Preferred embodiments are provided in the following description only as examples and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. The general principles defined in the following description would be applied to other embodiments, alternatives, modifications, equivalents, and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
As illustrated in the Figures as shown, the techniques, features, and embodiments of the present invention are herein described for further understanding the present invention.
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The housing 30 has at least a venting outlet 40 integrally formed in an upper portion thereof. The housing 30 may have only one or venting outlet 40 or more than one venting outlets 40 provided therein. When there is only one vent outlet 40 provided, it is provided at the upper front portion of the housing 30, wherein the venting outlet unit 50 comprises a front venting outlet unit 51 provided at the front venting outlet 40. When there are more than one venting outlets 40 provided, they can be provided in the front, left, and right sides of the housing 30 respectively, wherein the venting outlet unit 50 comprises the front venting outlet unit 51 and one or more side venting outlet units 52 provided at the front, left and right sides of the housing 30 respectively.
A round left venting outlet unit mounting hole 311 is provided adjacent a left portion of the venting outlet 40 provided at the upper end portion the left shell 31. A round right venting outlet unit mounting hole 321 is provided adjacent to a right portion of the venting outlet 40 provided at the upper end portion of the right shell 32. The left venting outlet unit mounting hole 311 and the right venting outlet unit mounting hole 321 are used for installing the side venting outlet units 52 respectively.
The upper front sides of the left shell 31 and right shell 32 are coupled to form a rectangular front vent hole 33, which is used for air blowing towards the front side of the housing 30 and installing the front venting outlet unit 51. A lower end portion of the left shell 31 has a first semicircular fan wheel site 312 and a lower end portion of the right shell 32 has a second semicircular fan wheel site 322. The pair of first and second semicircular fan wheel sites is coupled to form a circular fan wheel site where the fan wheel 20, which is a centrifugal style fan wheel, is installed therein. The left and right sides of the fan wheel 20 have a left fan wheel cover 21 and a right fan wheel cover 22 respectively. The left fan wheel cover 21 and the right fan wheel cover 22 are respectively affixed on the left shell 31 and the right shell 32 with screws.
The fan wheel 20 and the electric machine 10 are connected with each other, wherein the housing 30 comprises an electric machine stand 11 and electric machine 10 is affixed on the electric machine stand 11.
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During the operation of the integratable movement device of the present invention, the electric machine 10 drives the turning fan wheel 20 to rotate centrifugally to inhale air through the grid shaped venting inlets 313, 323 in the housing 30, wherein the inhaled air is sent to the venting channel 60 and then delivered to the venting outlet 40 upwardly along the venting channel 60 so as to discharged into the room containing the integratable movement device through the one or more venting outlets 40. The user may open all the venting outlets 40 or selectively open one or more venting outlets 40, while the venting outlets 40 can be closed up simply by turning the guide fin unit 512 or guide fin body 523.
Therefore, the present invention has implemented buffered air through the venting channel 60 and the multiple venting outlets 40 for various air blowing directions.
The integratable movement device of the present invention can be assembled flexibly according to the requirement of the buyers to integrate with a PCT heating component 70 or a cooling component 80 to assemble and form a heater movement device or a cooling fan movement device in handily and quickly manner.
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One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. The embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
