IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,006,953
Granted Patent B2
US 12,006,953 · App. 17/886,556 · Granted Jun 11, 2024

Blower with silencer

Inventors: Shinya Hakuta (Ashigarakami-gun, JP); Shogo Yamazoe (Ashigarakami-gun, JP); Yoshihiro Sugawara (Ashigarakami-gun, JP); Akihiko Ohtsu (Ashigarakami-gun, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
F04D29/665F04D19/002F04D29/542
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Patent No.
US 12,006,953
App. No.
17/886,556
Granted
Jun 11, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An axial fan that includes a casing having an inner space that penetrates in one direction, and a rotor blade disposed in the inner space of the casing, and a silencer that is disposed at a position connected to the inner space of the axial fan are provided, in which the axial fan has a sound pressure distribution having a position at which a sound pressure is high and a position at which the sound pressure is low in a circumferential direction in the inner space during driving, and the silencer is disposed at the position of the axial fan in the circumferential direction at which the sound pressure is high and is not disposed at the position at which the sound pressure is low.

Claims (39)

1. A blower with a silencer, the blower comprising:

an axial fan that includes a casing having an inner space that penetrates in one direction, and a rotor blade disposed in the inner space of the casing; and

a silencer that is disposed at a position connected to the inner space of the axial fan,

wherein the axial fan has a plurality of fixed blades,

the axial fan has a sound pressure distribution having, in a plurality of fixed blade opening portions which are each formed between the adjacent fixed blades, a position at which a sound pressure is high and a position at which the sound pressure is low in a circumferential direction in the inner space during driving,

the silencer is connected to the position at which the sound pressure is high and is not connected to the position at which the sound pressure is low in the sound pressure distribution within at least one of the plurality of fixed blade opening portions, and

the silencer is not disposed at the position at which the sound pressure is low in all of the plurality of fixed blade opening portions.

2. The blower with a silencer according to claim 1 ,

wherein the silencer is a resonator.

3. The blower with a silencer according to claim 2 ,

wherein the resonator has a flow passage communicating with the inner space of the axial fan.

4. The blower with a silencer according to claim 2 ,

wherein, in a case in which a resonance frequency of the resonator is denoted by f 0 and at least one frequency of a discrete frequency sound caused by the rotor blade of the axial fan is denoted by f n , the resonance frequency f 0 of the resonator is in a range of 0.8×f n to 1.1×f n .

5. The blower with a silencer according to claim 3 ,

wherein, in a case in which a resonance frequency of the resonator is denoted by f 0 and at least one frequency of a discrete frequency sound caused by the rotor blade of the axial fan is denoted by f n , the resonance frequency f 0 of the resonator is in a range of 0.8×f n to 1.1×f n .

6. The blower with a silencer according to claim 4 ,

wherein, in a case in which the resonance frequency of the resonator is denoted by f 0 and at least one frequency of the discrete frequency sound caused by the rotor blade of the axial fan is denoted by f n , the resonance frequency f 0 of the resonator is in a range of 0.9×f n to 0.95×f n .

7. The blower with a silencer according to claim 5 ,

wherein, in a case in which the resonance frequency of the resonator is denoted by f 0 and at least one frequency of the discrete frequency sound caused by the rotor blade of the axial fan is denoted by f n , the resonance frequency f 0 of the resonator is in a range of 0.9×f n to 0.95×f n .

8. The blower with a silencer according to claim 4 ,

wherein the resonator having the resonance frequency f 0 in the range of 0.8×f n to 1.1×f n with respect to each of two or more discrete frequency sounds is provided.

9. The blower with a silencer according to claim 5 ,

wherein the resonator having the resonance frequency f 0 in the range of 0.8×f n to 1.1×f n with respect to each of two or more discrete frequency sounds is provided.

10. The blower with a silencer according to claim 6 ,

wherein the resonator having the resonance frequency f 0 in the range of 0.8×f n to 1.1×f n with respect to each of two or more discrete frequency sounds is provided.

11. The blower with a silencer according to claim 7 ,

wherein the resonator having the resonance frequency f 0 in the range of 0.8×f n to 1.1×f n with respect to each of two or more discrete frequency sounds is provided.

12. The blower with a silencer according to claim 1 ,

wherein the silencer is disposed at a position that does not overlap with a region formed by rotation of the rotor blade as viewed from an axial direction of the axial fan.

13. The blower with a silencer according to claim 1 ,

wherein the silencer is disposed at each of two or more positions at which the sound pressure is high in the sound pressure distribution of at least one discrete frequency sound caused by the rotor blade of the axial fan in the circumferential direction.

14. The blower with a silencer according to claim 1 ,

wherein the silencer is disposed in all the fixed blade opening portions.

15. The blower with a silencer according to claim 1 ,

wherein at least one silencer is disposed at a position within 25% of a distance between the fixed blades, from the fixed blade.

16. The blower with a silencer according to claim 14 ,

wherein at least one silencer is disposed at a position within 25% of a distance between the fixed blades, from the fixed blade.

17. The blower with a silencer according to claim 1 ,

wherein the number of blades of the rotor blade is more than the number of blades of the fixed blade.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 17, 2022
From: HAKUTA, SHINYA; YAMAZOE, SHOGO; SUGAWARA, YOSHIHIRO; OHTSU, AKIHIKO
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060830/0858 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-055261 · Mar 26, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2021004853 · Feb 10, 2021
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