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Granted Patent B2
US 12,349,309 · App. 18/302,783 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Centrifugal heat dissipation fan

Inventors: Yu-Ming Lin (New Taipei, TW); Wen-Neng Liao (New Taipei, TW); Cheng-Wen Hsieh (New Taipei, TW); Tsung-Ting Chen (New Taipei, TW); Sheng-Yan Chen (New Taipei, TW); Chun-Chieh Wang (New Taipei, TW)
Assignee: Acer Incorporated
H05K7/20172F04D17/16F04D29/282F05D2250/184
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Patent No.
US 12,349,309
App. No.
18/302,783
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a centrifugal heat dissipation fan including a housing and an impeller. The impeller is disposed in the housing. The impeller has a hub and multiple blades disposed surrounding the hub. Every two adjacent blades have different blade structures relative to the housing such that the blade structures pass by a fixed position of the housing and generate blade tones of varying frequencies when the impeller rotates.

Claims (16)

1. A centrifugal heat dissipation fan, comprising:

a housing; and

an impeller, disposed in the housing, the impeller having a hub and a plurality of blades disposed surrounding the hub, wherein every two adjacent ones of the blades have blade structures relative to the housing that are different from each other such that the blade structures pass by a fixed position of the housing and generate blade tones of varying frequencies when the impeller rotates, wherein the blades respectively has a combining section and an air suction section, the combining section is combined with the hub, the air suction section has an air guiding inclined edge near the combining section, and the air guiding inclined edge corresponds to an air inlet of the housing.

2. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein sizes of the blade structures show a periodic variation in accordance with a sequence in which the blades surround the hub.

3. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 2 , wherein the periodic variation comprises a sine wave function period.

4. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has a top plate and a base plate, the impeller is located between the top plate and the base plate, and a pair of air inlets of the centrifugal heat dissipation fan are respectively located on the top plate and the base plate, wherein the blade structures are respectively blade edges of the blades, and every two adjacent ones of the blade edges keep different distances from the top plate.

5. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has a top plate and a base plate, the impeller is located between the top plate and the base plate, and a pair of air inlets of the centrifugal heat dissipation fan are respectively located on the top plate and the base plate, wherein the blade structures are respectively blade edges of the blades, and every two adjacent ones of the blade edges keep different distances from the base plate.

6. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has a top plate and a base plate, the impeller is located between the top plate and the base plate, and a pair of air inlets of the centrifugal heat dissipation fan are respectively located on the top plate and the base plate, wherein the fixed position is near the air inlet.

7. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the blade structures are respectively ribs of the blades and are respectively located on blade surfaces of the blades.

8. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 7 , wherein the ribs keep protruding distances from the blade surfaces of the blades, and the protruding distances show a periodic variation in accordance with a sequence in which the blades surround the hub.

9. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the impeller has a rotation axis, and a size of the combining section along the rotation axis is smaller than a size of the air suction section along the rotation axis.

10. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the impeller has a rotation axis, and the air guiding inclined edge is inclined relative to the rotation axis and forms an included angle.

11. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 10 , wherein the included angles of the blades show a periodic variation in accordance with a sequence in which the blades surround the hub.

12. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein each of the blades further has an extension section between the air guiding inclined edge and the combining section, and the extension section corresponds to the air inlet.

13. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the blade structures and the housing form a tapered space, and the tapered space radially tapers from an air inlet of the centrifugal heat dissipation fan relative to a rotation axis of the impeller.

14. The centrifugal heat dissipation fan according to claim 1 , wherein the blade structures and the housing form a diverging space, and the diverging space radially diverges from an air inlet of the centrifugal heat dissipation fan relative to a rotation axis of the impeller.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2023
From: LIN, YU-MING; LIAO, WEN-NENG; HSIEH, CHENG-WEN; CHEN, TSUNG-TING; CHEN, SHENG-YAN; WANG, CHUN-CHIEH
To: ACER INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 063394/0306 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 111114837 · Apr 19, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230337391A1 · Oct 19, 2023
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