Patents by Inventor Oliver Haaf

Oliver Haaf has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230383763
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fan and a downstream guide device for a fan, the downstream guide device having a plurality of spoilers arranged in a star shape at a central position, each with a leading edge and a trailing edge, the spoiler having a jagged or wavy leading edge with a periodically repeating waveform at least in a portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Oliver HAAF, Thorsten PISSARCZYK, Daniel GEBERT, Patrick HEINECKE
  • Patent number: 11692553
    Abstract: A diagonal fan includes an electric motor, a housing, and a diagonal impeller received inside the housing and drivable via the motor. The diagonal flow during operation is deflected in an axial flow direction. The diagonal impeller includes impeller blades distributed in the circumferential direction and a slinger ring encloses said blades. The diagonal fan includes an inlet nozzle on the suction side accommodating a main flow for the diagonal fan. The inlet nozzle extends overlapping at least in sections relative to the radial section of the slinger ring forming a nozzle gap therewith. A bypass channel on the housing forms a flow connection from a pressure-side surrounding region (U) of the diagonal fan to an inflow side of the nozzle gap. During operation of the diagonal fan, a swirl-free secondary flow (NS) is guided at the inflow side of the nozzle gap via the bypass channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Daniel Gebert
  • Patent number: 11542955
    Abstract: A diagonal fan having an electric motor and a diagonal impeller which can be driven about an axis of rotation (RA) by means of the electric motor. The diagonal impeller determines an air inlet and an air outlet and has a hub and impeller vanes which are distributed in the circumferential direction, extend radially outwards from the hub and are surrounded radially externally by a slinger ring. A flow angle ?D formed by the slinger ring relative to the axis of rotation (RA) increases from the air inlet to the air outlet, and a flow angle ?N formed by the hub relative to the axis of rotation (RA) decreases from the air inlet to the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Daniel Gebert, Johannes Dörr
  • Patent number: 11460044
    Abstract: A radial fan half-spiral housing has a pressure chamber extending in the circumferential direction about an axial intake opening (5) to a radial blow-out opening (31). The pressure chamber, as viewed in the circumferential direction, is subdivided into at least one beginning portion (7), one central portion (8), and one blow-out portion. The intake opening (5) determines a central axis of rotation for a fan wheel. An averaged half-spiral housing radius, as viewed about the axis of rotation (11), varies in the beginning portion (7), the center portion (8), and the blow-out portion (9). It reaches a maximum in the blow-out portion (9). The center portion (8) of the half-spiral housing radius is reduced in a region determining a maximum height H(?,z) of the half-spiral housing (1) compared to a logarithmic spiral radius (rlog).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Josef Rathgeb, Oliver Haaf
  • Patent number: 11428238
    Abstract: A diagonal fan having an electric motor, a housing and a diagonal impeller generating a diagonal flow which is deflected into an axial flow direction. The diagonal impeller has impeller blades, an air inlet and an air outlet, wherein the housing forms a flow channel for an airflow generated by the diagonal impeller, which has a non-rotationally symmetric axial section and a cylindrical axial section axially directly adjacent, as seen in the flow direction, wherein an air outlet-side radial outer end of the diagonal impeller is arranged in the cylindrical axial section of the flow channel of the housing and an air gap is provided between the radial outer end and the housing, and wherein the non-rotationally symmetric axial section of the flow channel is arranged in a region of the flow channel which is adjacent to the air-inlet side of the air gap in an axial plane with the diagonal impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: emb-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Daniel Gebert
  • Patent number: 11365741
    Abstract: An axial fan for use with a wall ring plate includes a housing having an inlet region and a rotor. The rotor has an increased rotor diameter compared to a standardised rotor diameter. On the inlet side, the inlet region has a tapered section that narrows in an arched manner in a cross-sectional view from an inlet diameter to a wall ring diameter. The axial width and radial length of the tapered section are formed in a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Gebert, Thorsten Pissarczyk, Angelika Klostermann, Katrin Bohl, Markus Engert, Oliver Haaf, Marc Schneider
  • Publication number: 20220049715
    Abstract: A diagonal fan having an electric motor and a diagonal impeller which can be driven about an axis of rotation (RA) by means of the electric motor. The diagonal impeller determines an air inlet and an air outlet and has a hub and impeller vanes which are distributed in the circumferential direction, extend radially outwards from the hub and are surrounded radially externally by a slinger ring. A flow angle ?D formed by the slinger ring relative to the axis of rotation (RA) increases from the air inlet to the air outlet, and a flow angle ?N formed by the hub relative to the axis of rotation (RA) decreases from the air inlet to the air outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver HAAF, Daniel GEBERT, Johannes DÖRR
  • Publication number: 20220049714
    Abstract: A diagonal fan having an electric motor, a housing and a diagonal impeller generating a diagonal flow which is deflected into an axial flow direction. The diagonal impeller has impeller blades, an air inlet and an air outlet, wherein the housing forms a flow channel for an airflow generated by the diagonal impeller, which has a non-rotationally symmetric axial section and a cylindrical axial section axially directly adjacent, as seen in the flow direction, wherein an air outlet-side radial outer end of the diagonal impeller is arranged in the cylindrical axial section of the flow channel of the housing and an air gap is provided between the radial outer end and the housing, and wherein the non-rotationally symmetric axial section of the flow channel is arranged in a region of the flow channel which is adjacent to the air-inlet side of the air gap in an axial plane with the diagonal impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver HAAF, Daniel GEBERT
  • Patent number: 11248623
    Abstract: An axial ventilator has multiple fan wheel blades (2) arranged around an axis of rotation (RA) in a blade ring. At least one of the fan wheel blades (2) has an inner section (3) located on the radial inside. A blade edge section (4) directly adjoins the inner section (3) and borders a blade edge (5). The at least one fan wheel blade (2) has a local projection (6) over a radial extension of the blade edge section (4). The local projection (6) is formed as an extension of the chord length of the fan wheel blade. The projection locally enlarges the fan wheel blade (2) in the blade edge section (4). An average angle of attack (?) of the fan wheel blade (2), in relation to a plane of rotation (RE), of the fan wheel (1), is larger than an average angle of attack (?) of the projection (6), in relation to the plane of rotation (RE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Thorsten Pissarczyk
  • Publication number: 20220025892
    Abstract: A diagonal fan includes an electric motor, a housing, and a diagonal impeller received inside the housing and drivable via the motor. The diagonal flow during operation is deflected in an axial flow direction. The diagonal impeller includes impeller blades distributed in the circumferential direction and a slinger ring encloses said blades. The diagonal fan includes an inlet nozzle on the suction side accommodating a main flow for the diagonal fan. The inlet nozzle extends overlapping at least in sections relative to the radial section of the slinger ring forming a nozzle gap therewith. A bypass channel on the housing forms a flow connection from a pressure-side surrounding region (U) of the diagonal fan to an inflow side of the nozzle gap. During operation of the diagonal fan, a swirl-free secondary flow (NS) is guided at the inflow side of the nozzle gap via the bypass channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Daniel Gebert
  • Patent number: 11047394
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a current rectifier for being arranged on the suction area of a ventilator, with an axial initial flow side and an axial exit flow side, wherein the current rectifier comprises several crossing struts formed by at least one circumferential strut and by at least one radial strut, and a pressure measuring conduit is constructed at least in one of the struts and which comprises at least one opening facing the exit flow side, and wherein the pressure measuring conduit comprises a measuring opening for being connected to a measuring line for the connection to a pressure sensor or a pressure sensor is integrated in the pressure measuring conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Thomas Heli, Daniel Gebert
  • Patent number: 11022143
    Abstract: A fan housing includes a housing body for accommodating fan components and an outer casing which surrounds the housing body in circumferential direction. The housing body has at least two webs extending in a circumferential direction on the radial outer side. The outer casing has at least two ribs extending in the circumferential direction on the radial inner side. The ribs, in the assembled state, between the housing body and the outer casing, form a channel circulating in the circumferential direction for receiving and holding a heating band. The outer casing has at least one guiding rib directed in the radial direction toward a housing body as well as into the channel and extending in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Hoss, Oliver Haaf
  • Patent number: 10927846
    Abstract: A radial fan has a housing with a motor-drivable fan wheel. The fan wheel generates an air volume flow during operation. The housing has a blow-out portion (4) with an impeller (5). The impeller (5) has a plurality of impeller blades (7) spaced apart in the circumferential direction. The impeller (5) is driven by the air volume flow generated by the fan wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Thomas Heli, Daniel Gebert, Peter Riegler, Valerius Schaaf
  • Patent number: 10781829
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a flow-conducting grille for arranging on the suction side of a fan, with a grille web structure which comprises radial webs spaced apart in the circumferential direction and coaxial circumferential webs spaced apart in the radial direction, wherein the radial webs of at least one quadrant of the flow-conducting grille are curved in each case over their radial extension, viewed in the circumferential direction, towards a predetermined radial plane extending from a central axis of the flow conducting grille.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Müller, Daniel Gebert, Oliver Haaf, Josef Rathgeb, Manuel Vogel
  • Publication number: 20200284268
    Abstract: An axial ventilator has multiple fan wheel blades (2) arranged around an axis of rotation (RA) in a blade ring. At least one of the fan wheel blades (2) has an inner section (3) located on the radial inside. A blade edge section (4) directly adjoins the inner section (3) and borders a blade edge (5). The at least one fan wheel blade (2) has a local projection (6) over a radial extension of the blade edge section (4). The local projection (6) is formed as an extension of the chord length of the fan wheel blade. The projection locally enlarges the fan wheel blade (2) in the blade edge section (4). An average angle of attack (?) of the fan wheel blade (2), in relation to a plane of rotation (RE), of the fan wheel (1), is larger than an average angle of attack (?) of the projection (6), in relation to the plane of rotation (RE).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Thorsten Pissarczyk
  • Publication number: 20200191163
    Abstract: A radial fan half-spiral housing has a pressure chamber extending in the circumferential direction about an axial intake opening (5) to a radial blow-out opening (31). The pressure chamber, as viewed in the circumferential direction, is subdivided into at least one beginning portion (7), one central portion (8), and one blow-out portion. The intake opening (5) determines a central axis of rotation for a fan wheel. An averaged half-spiral housing radius, as viewed about the axis of rotation (11), varies in the beginning portion (7), the center portion (8), and the blow-out portion (9). It reaches a maximum in the blow-out portion (9). The center portion (8) of the half-spiral housing radius is reduced in a region determining a maximum height H(?,z) of the half-spiral housing (1) compared to a logarithmic spiral radius (rlog).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Josef Rathgeb, Oliver Haaf
  • Patent number: 10677265
    Abstract: A spiral housing of a radial fan has a flow cross-sectional area which, starting from a housing tongue, increases in the circumferential direction, around a fan impeller which can be arranged on an axial central axis. The cross-sectional area is determined via a contour of at least one axial side part of the spiral housing. The one axial side part has an axial suction opening with an opening edge section surrounding the suction opening, which is directly adjoined, viewed in the radial direction, by a transition section extending in the circumferential direction. The transition section, in a starting section which extends from the housing tongue in the circumferential direction over a predetermined angle, is spaced apart in the axial direction relative to the opening edge section and has a course which increases the flow cross section in the circumferential direction until axial surfaces of the opening edge section and of the transition section extend in the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Gebert, Oliver Haaf
  • Patent number: 10662972
    Abstract: A connecting element (1) interacting with a fan blade (50) to transfer torque of a drive to the fan blade (50). An attachment portion (2) connects the connecting element (1) with the fan blade. The attachment portion (2) forms an outer edge portion (4) adjoining the outer contour of the connecting element (1). The attachment portion (2) cross-sectional shape is designed to taper toward the outer edge in at least some portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Baer, Erhard Gruber, Oliver Haaf, Alexander Konzal
  • Patent number: D937803
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oliver Haaf
  • Patent number: D971398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Thorsten Pissarczyk