Cooling fan with reduced noise for variable speed machinery
CA 2018816 C · Owner: Ford Motor Company · Inventors: Nelson, David Arthur
Overview
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A centrifugal fan for ventilated rotating machinery is provided having tapered fan blades to reduce sound pressure levels generated by fan operation over a wide speed range. The tapering of the fan blades keeps the cross-sectional area of each flow channel substantially constant as the air flows radially through the fan, resulting in a less turbulent flow. Each fan blade may include a height profile having a tapered segment in which blade height decreases in proportion to increasing radial distance from the central axis of the fan.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 12, 1990 and granted November 10, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 12, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 12, 2012.
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