Abstract: A cooling device for hydraulic braking systems includes a case, a turbine unit, and a ring which is connected to an end of a hub. The case has a thorough hole and a ventilation exit communicating inside and outside of the case is defined on the case. The turbine unit is located in the case and has a fixing hole which communicates with the through hole. The ring is connected to the fixing hole of the turbine unit. The ring drives the turbine unit which generates air flows in the case. The air flows flow to the outside of the case via the ventilation exit to remove the heat of the braking system.

Abstract: A compressor housing is provided with a scroll piece that includes a cylindrical intake port forming section that forms an intake port, a scroll wall surface forming section that forms an air-intake side wall surface of a discharge scroll chamber, and a scroll outer circumferential section that covers an outer circumferential side of the discharge scroll chamber; a shroud piece that includes a cylindrical shroud press fitted section press fitted into the intake port forming section, and a shroud wall surface forming section that forms an inner circumferential side wall surface of the discharge scroll chamber and also forms a shroud surface that opposes an impeller and a diffuser surface; and an outer circumferential annular piece that includes an outer circumferential annular press fitted section that is press fitted inside the scroll outer circumferential section, and an outer circumferential annular wall surface forming section that forms an outer circumferential side wall surface of the discharge scroll ch

Abstract: A method of fabricating a load compressor scroll housing includes the steps of forging near net shape parts that are machined and subsequently welded together. The forged portions are machined to define specific features of the scroll housing along with the mating surfaces. An interface between top and bottom portions is defined within the volute chamber. The weld joint at the interface provides a finished surface within the volute chamber such that airflow is not adversely affected and additional machine process are not required within the volute chamber after formation of the weld joint.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to improve air flow in an air circulating fan assembly by forming an inlet opening in a fan assembly. A static air pressure profile is calculated along a top portion of the fan assembly configured to operate in an enclosure. The shape of a section of the inlet opening in the top portion of the fan assembly is changed based on a pressure contour of the calculated static air pressure profile. The method is repeated iteratively one or more times using an inlet opening changed by a previously calculated static air pressure profile when calculating a subsequent static air pressure profile. The inlet opening is positioned in the top surface of the fan assembly so that the centroid of the inlet opening is laterally offset with respect to the rotational axis of an impeller in the fan assembly.

Abstract: An impeller arrangement for location for use with a blower and/or vac device, the impeller being rotatable about an axis of rotation and comprising a base, a shroud and a plurality of blades located therebetween, the shroud comprising an impeller inlet defining a passageway to the plurality of blades, a barrier arrangement located adjacent the impeller inlet to restrict airflow between the impeller and its housing. By providing such an arrangement, inlet losses to the impeller can be reduced when compared to known arrangements. The interaction between these components forms a barrier to bleeding of the airflow away from the inlet, reducing the likelihood of air passing between the impeller and its housing and improving the inlet efficiency of the impeller.

Abstract: A rotary pump has a pump housing enclosing a flow space and provided with an intake opening and a discharge opening, wherein the intake opening and the discharge opening are connected to each other by the flow space. An impeller wheel is disposed in the flow space and is driven in rotation. An expansion body is provided that is fluidically connected to the flow space. A spiral casing surrounds, in a mounted position in the pump housing, an outer circumference of the impeller wheel, wherein the spiral casing is a single-part or multi-part shaped component and is embodied separate from the pump housing.

Abstract: A debris blowing and/or vacuum appliance. The appliance comprises a body including a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet for exhausting fluid externally of the body, a volute located in a flowpath between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet and a centrifugal impeller located within the volute and rotatable by a motor to generate a flow of fluid, and a diffuser located immediately downstream of the centrifugal impeller between the centrifugal impeller and a volute outlet region. The diffuser comprises an annular channel surrounding the centrifugal impeller and has substantially constant radial width such that the impeller is radially spaced from the volute walls by at least the width of the diffuser. By providing such an arrangement, the efficiency of the impeller can be improved.

Abstract: A mechanical coolant pump for an internal combustion engine includes a main pump body comprising a volute housing and an outlet channel. A pump wheel is arranged in the volute housing. The pump wheel is configured to pump a coolant into the outlet channel. A volute tongue wall comprising a flap is configured to be axially pivotable. The volute tongue wall is configured to separate the outlet channel from a volute. An outlet valve defined by the flap of the volute tongue wall in an open position forms an end of the volute tongue wall. The outlet valve is configured to control a coolant outlet flow of the mechanical coolant pump. A pivot axis of the flap is arranged adjacent to the volute housing.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes an impeller and a housing receiving the impeller therein. The impeller includes a hub and blades extending radially from the hub. The housing includes a bottom wall, a sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall and a bracket for supporting the impeller thereon. The bottom wall defines an air inlet therein. A plurality of protruding posts extend downwardly from a bottom surface of the bottom wall around the air inlet. Each of the protruding posts defines a screw hole therein. The bracket is located in the air inlet. The bracket defines a plurality of through holes corresponding to the protruding posts respectively. The protruding posts of the bottom wall are respectively inserted into the through holes of the bracket. A plurality of bolts are respectively screwed into the screw holes of the protruding posts to connect the bracket and the bottom wall together.

Abstract: A heating and ventilation fan for a bathroom comprises an ventilation fan frame, a scroll casing provided with fan blades and a motor, an air passage-switching plate, and a heater; characterized in that: an air leakage-preventing structure is provided between an air outlet of the scroll casing and the air passage. The advantage of the present invention is that a desired air amount can be ensured and a noise can be reduced while guaranteeing a gap required for smooth rotation of the air passage-switching plate.

Abstract: A twin scroll exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal-combustion engine, includes a turbine housing and a first and a second gas inlet port separated from one another by the turbine housing. The inlet ports lead into a first and a second spiral duct, respectively, which extend radially on the outside around an exhaust gas turbine rotatable about an axis. The gas inlet ports are arranged at least in sections parallel to one another in the turbine housing and radially with respect to the axis of rotation in a mutually spaced manner. The first spiral duct, which connects to the first gas inlet port arranged closer to the axis of rotation, extends up to 180° around the exhaust gas turbine. The second spiral duct, which connects to the second gas inlet port farther away from the axis of rotation, extends up to 180° around the remaining circumference of the exhaust gas turbine. As a result, thermal stress to the turbine housing is significantly reduced.

Abstract: In a multi-blade centrifugal fan including an impeller (7) rotatably disposed in a casing and composed of a disc-shaped hub (8), a plurality of blades (9), and an annular shroud (10), the blades (9) are curved in a concave shape on a pressure side in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotating shaft of the impeller (7) and have a curved shape that is backward-swept near a leading edge (9C) thereof and that is forward-swept near a trailing edge (9D) thereof, the inner diameter of the cascade of blades (9) increases gradually from the hub (8) toward the shroud (10), and the diameter of a maximum-curvature position (9B) where the curvature of the curved shape is maximized increases gradually from the hub (8) toward the shroud (10).

Abstract: A fan impeller structure includes a frame body, a cover body and a hub. The frame body has a receiving space. The cover body has a wind inlet in communication with the receiving space. The hub is rotatably disposed in the receiving space and has multiple blades annularly arranged on a circumference of the hub. Each blade has a top end and a bottom end. The top end has a projection extending from the top end toward the cover body. An axial space is defined between the blades and the hub. The projections formed at the top ends of the blades are able to effectively prevent the air flowing within the receiving space from escaping. Accordingly, the wind pressure and wind intensity are enhanced to achieve an excellent heat dissipation effect.

Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes an impeller having a plurality of impeller blades coupled to an impeller hub body, wherein each impeller blade is sculpted having a nonlinear profile extending from a hub intersect surface of the impeller blade to a shroud intersect surface of the impeller blade.

Abstract: A diffuser divider shaped as disc with a central axis, a leading edge disposed at an inner radius about the central axis, a trailing edge disposed at an outer radius about the central axis, an upper surface disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a lower surface disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge and one or more mounting features configured to mount the disc in a diffuser section configured to receive air compressed by two compressor wheel faces and to direct the compressed air to a volute. Such a divider can define throats in a diffuser section of a compressor assembly. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a centrifugal compressor diffuser having a mounting surface and plurality of diffuser vanes extending from the mounting surface in an axial direction and forming an asymmetrical (e.g., non-periodic) pattern around the circumference of the diffuser. The asymmetrical pattern may be determined based upon characteristics of fluid flowing from an impeller across the diffuser and through a scroll of a centrifugal compressor.

Abstract: A turbine housing 11 includes a first shell body 40 in which a reinforcement portion 42 is superposed on an outer peripheral face 53A of a lateral wall portion 53 of a scroll portion. Further, a reinforcement portion having a slit portion 43 that is partially discontinuous in a circumferential direction is provided as the reinforcement portion 42. Further, a shell body 30 and a base body 60 are combined with each other such that a pillar portion 65 is so located as to intersect with those ones of tangential lines T1, T2 of a turbine wheel 21 which pass a thin-walled portion 32A of the shell body 30, namely, such that the pillar portion 65 is located in a travel path of a fragment of the wheel 21 moving from a main body of the wheel 21 toward the thin-walled portion 32A.

Abstract: A sheet-metal turbine housing has a scroll part formed by joining opposing scroll members of sheet metal to form a spiral-shaped exhaust gas passage. The housing includes a member on a side of a bearing housing inclosing a bearing supporting a rotation shaft of a turbine rotor blade member on the exhaust side forms an outer side of the turbine rotor blade. Support columns connect the member on the side of the bearing housing with the member on the exhaust side in an axial direction of the turbine and are arranged at intervals on an outer circumference of the turbine. Each support columns may have a cross-sectional shape which includes an upstream corner and a downstream corner in a direction of a gas flow, each of which has an acute angle, so that an upstream surface and a downstream surface are inclined to the gas flow.

Abstract: A multiblade air blower has a multiblade impeller, an orifice, an axially overlaid portion, and an airflow collision prevention device. The multiblade impeller includes a main plate and a blade. The blade is provided at the main plate to form a blade inner periphery. The orifice has an open end and an orifice inner periphery. The open end is positioned toward the main plate from a blade end face. The orifice inner periphery has an inner diameter larger than that of the blade inner periphery, and guides air to the multiblade impeller. The axially overlaid portion is a part where the orifice and the blades are overlaid. The airflow collision prevention device is provided at the blade and at an inner side of the orifice inner periphery. The multiblade air blower suppresses loss of air distribution efficiency and increased noise.

Abstract: A fan apparatus and an air conditioner employing such a fan apparatus are provided to reduce noise and enhance efficiency. The fan apparatus may be driven by a BLDC motor that stably drives the fan and increases an air flow rate. Heat exchange efficiency of an outdoor unit of a front suction/discharge type air conditioner may be improved by such a fan apparatus driven by such a BLDC motor.

Abstract: A compressor scroll is provided for redirecting an airflow from a compressor. The compressor scroll includes a spiral-shaped body; a radial inlet formed in the body for receiving the airflow from the compressor as inlet airflow; and an outlet formed in the body such that inlet airflow flows through the body and exits the outlet as outlet airflow, with at least a portion of the outlet airflow crossing at least a portion of the inlet airflow.

Abstract: A seal body 24 is formed annularly to have a fitted/fixed portion 25 airtightly fitted and fixed to a shoulder 22 in a turbine housing 1 formed facing a scroll passage 8 and have a clearance facing portion 27 facing an outer periphery of a turbine-housing-side exhaust introducing wall 9a with a clearance S, the clearance facing portion 27 being caused to be pressed against the exhaust introducing wall 9a due to a difference in fluid pressure between the clearance S and the scroll passage 8. Slipout preventive means 29 is formed on the fitted/fixed portion 25 of the seal body 24 for preventing the fitted/fixed portion 25 from slipping out of the shoulder 22.

Abstract: An example impeller includes: an impeller body in which an internal channel is formed, the internal channel extending inside the impeller body in a direction of a rotation axis spirally about the rotation axis to connect an inlet and an outlet; and at least one centrifugal vane provided in the impeller body. The internal channel including the inlet and the outlet has a predetermined passage diameter. An external channel is formed so as to continue to the outlet and go around the circumferential surface of the impeller body, the external channel being defined by the centrifugal vane and being recessed inward in the radial direction from the circumferential surface of the impeller body. At least a part in a flow direction of the external channel has a channel width in the direction of the rotation axis smaller than the width of the outlet.

Abstract: A turbine housing for a turbocharger for use in a reciprocating internal combustion engine includes a housing having a housing axis and configured to house a rotatable shaft having a turbine wheel disposed thereon. The housing includes a volute having a volute chamber disposed around the housing axis for receiving the turbine wheel. The volute has a first volute inlet providing a first flow path in fluid communication with the volute chamber and second volute inlet providing a second flow path in fluid communication with the volute chamber. The first volute inlet is circumferentially spaced about the housing axis from the second volute inlet by a phase angle ?. The first volute inlet is also radially spaced about the housing axis from the second volute inlet, and may also be axially spaced from the second volute inlet along the housing axis.

Abstract: A radial fan comprises a casing having a side portion and a pot-like casing portion, an impeller wheel arranged therein and having radially extending blades, an electric motor arranged at the side portion, and a pressure chamber which is formed by the casing portion and the side portion. The pressure chamber with the impeller wheel space between the blades forms in cross-section a nozzle in the manner of a venturi nozzle. The ratio of the greatest blade height H/greatest diameter D of the scroll is substantially between H/D=0.08 and H/D=0.3.

Abstract: An engine blower includes a centrifugal blower, an engine, and a frame for supporting the centrifugal blower. The centrifugal blower is supported by a back support of the frame via a flexible vibration-proofing section while being connected to the back support via a belt-shaped stopper. An engaging hole is provided on at least one of the centrifugal blower and the back support, and a thick engaging section is provided on at least one end of the stopper for being engaged with the engaging hole. When the stopper is inserted into the engaging hole and the one end of the stopper is pulled, the engaging section is engaged with the engaging hole. By further pulling the one end of the stopper, the engaging section is tightly buried into the engaging hole. Thus, the stopper can be reliably attached to the centrifugal blower or the back support.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compressor housing capable of reducing the weight of a compressor without leading to an increase in the size and a reduction in the efficiency of the compressor. The compressor housing includes: an inner cylinder made of a plastic material and extending in an axial direction and in a circumferential direction to surround blade tips of the blades; and an outer cylinder made of a plastic material and extending in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction to surround the inner cylinder. The inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are bonded or jointed at the first end, opposite the second end where the volute is formed.

Abstract: A cooler and a display device including the cooler. The cooler includes: a housing; an air blowing unit disposed inside the housing and sucking external air and blowing the external air in the housing, wherein the air blowing unit includes a plurality of groups each including two air blowers; a guide vane disposed above the air blowing unit and to guide air flowed out from the air blowing unit to flow in different directions; and a plurality of auxiliary guide vanes disposed between the air blowing unit and the guide vane, and each disposed in each of the groups each including two air blowers, so as to guide air flowing below the air blowing unit to flow toward the guide vane.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes a top cover plate, a bottom plate, a sidewall and an impeller. The sidewall is defined with an air outlet. The impeller includes a hub and a plurality of blades extending radially outwardly from the hub. An air passage channel is defined between outmost free ends of the blades and an inner surface of the sidewall. A tongue is provided near the air outlet and protrudes inwardly and laterally from the inner surface of the sidewall towards the outmost free ends of the blades. The tongue has an outer surface facing the outmost free ends of the blades. A plurality of grooves is defined in the outer surface along a lengthwise direction of the tongue.

Abstract: In a multi-blade centrifugal fan in which an impeller is provided in a scroll casing in a freely rotatable manner, the scroll casing is provided with an axially expanded portion that forms an air channel at a bottom surface thereof which is expanded in a rotation-axis direction at a radially outer side of an annular flange portion which supports the impeller; and is provided, in a region of an outlet between a tongue portion and a spiral-end portion of the scroll casing in the axially expanded portion, with a protrusion that protrudes radially outward from a radially inner side surface by a predetermined amount so as to directly face an airflow in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A blower unit has a scroll casing having a first intake port and a second intake port; a first fan drawing air flowing from the first intake port; a second fan coaxially arranged with the first fan and drawing air flowing from the second intake port; a fan motor having a main body and a rotation shaft driven by the main body; and a blower cover arranged to face and cover one of the first intake port and the second intake port. The fan motor is fixed to the blower cover at a position facing the one of the first intake port and the second intake port.

Abstract: A centrifugal blowing apparatus for reducing flow-induced noise is disclosed. The apparatus includes a blower housing having a scroll section formed about a rotational axis and an exhaust section extending from the scroll section. The scroll section includes an opening defining an inlet configured to draw in air and the exhaust section defines an outlet in fluid communication with the inlet. The scroll section commences with a reduced cross-sectional area defining a cutoff and expands to an increased cross-sectional area. An impeller is disposed in the opening of the scroll section about the rotational axis and includes an outer surface having impeller blades radially disposed thereon. The impeller blades rotate to direct a flow of air from the inlet through the scroll section to the outlet. A plurality of indentations is formed along an inner surface of the scroll section at the cutoff.

Abstract: A multi-impeller arrangement and to a pump having the impeller arrangement. The impeller arrangement or impeller cluster includes at least two impellers, each impeller having an annular back plate and an annular front plate. The impellers are releasably secured together in an axially in-line series having the front plate of a first impeller at one end and the back plate of a second impeller at the other end. The second impeller includes an axial projection which extends from its back plate, through and beyond its front plate to the first impeller. The first impeller is engaged with the projection of the second impeller such that all impellers are rotatable as an assembly.

Abstract: A transverse fan assembly, including for use with agricultural combine harvesters, which fan assembly includes a supplementary air feed inlet for the infill of air flow voids or deficiencies in the air flow pathway from the air inlet of the transverse fan assembly to the air inlet entryway so as to effect a desired, generally more uniform, output air flow pattern across the entire expanse of the air outlet of the transverse fan assembly, and a method of use thereof.

Abstract: A ventilator (100) includes a frame (10), a volute (20) mounted in the frame (10), a motor bracket (60) mounted in the opening of the volute (20) and a motor (30) fitted in the motor bracket (60). The frame (10) is made of metal material. The character of the ventilator is in that the motor bracket (60) is made of metal material. Since the metal motor bracket has favorable performances of heat radiation and rigidity, the ventilator (100) has better security and stability.

Abstract: Provided is an air blower for an air conditioner. The air blower for the air conditioner includes a centrifugal fan and a fan housing. The fan housing covers the centrifugal fan, and forms a scroll-type flow path having a varying cross-sectional area and guiding air forcibly blown by the centrifugal fan to an outlet. Here, a bottom surface of the scroll-type flow path inclines and is thinnest near a region where the scroll-type flow path ends. The thickness of the bottom surface progressively increases along a straight line running from a region where the bottom surface is thinnest to an opposite outer side of the scroll-type flow path through a center of the centrifugal fan.

Abstract: A compressor unit including a compressor housing, a compressor impeller, a gas diffuser channel, a cylinder-shaped rotating diffuser wall, and a supporting device. The compressor housing includes an air inlet and an air collection channel. The compressor impeller is installed in the compressor housing. The gas diffuser channel is disposed between the compressor impeller and the air collection channel and connected to the air collection channel. The cylinder-shaped rotating diffuser wall is disposed between an inner wall of the compressor housing and the compressor impeller and rotates in the same direction as the compressor impeller. The supporting device is disposed in the compressor housing to support the cylinder-shaped rotating diffuser wall. The compressor unit has high response speed, large air inlet flow, and high efficiency.

Abstract: A multistage pump assembly includes a manifold having an inlet port configured to be coupled to a supply pipe and an outlet port configured to be coupled to a discharge pipe. The inlet and outlet ports define an end suction, radial outlet port configuration. The pump assembly also includes a cartridge having a sleeve and plurality of pumping stages that define a pump stack received within the sleeve. An outer chamber is defined between the pump stack and the sleeve. Each of the pumping stages includes an impeller mounted along a pump shaft that rotates about a rotation axis. The cartridge is aligned horizontally such that the rotation axis is substantially horizontal. An end plate is positioned between the manifold and the cartridge and includes at least one cartridge engagement surface supporting the cartridge. The end plate is removably coupled to the manifold.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vibration-absorbing device for blower motors, which is provided between a blower motor and a motor housing surrounding the blower motor. The vibration-absorbing device includes a vibration-absorbing body, which may be spherical, and an engaging depression. The vibration-absorbing body is provided in the blower motor. The engaging depression is formed in the inner surface of the motor housing such that a vibration-absorbing body can be contained therein.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump mounted in an external housing. The pump has a split housing containing an impeller with outwardly extending vanes that is mounted on a drive shaft. The drive shaft at one end is mounted to a sealed bearing within the external housing and at the other end to a drive.

Abstract: A turbine apparatus is immersed in an ambient stream of a flowing fluid, such as water, so as to encapture a portion of the flowing fluid and extract power therefrom, before returning it back into the ambient stream, which may be a tidal flow of ocean water, or a relative flow of water behind a boat. The apparatus includes a converging intake duct with an inlet opening that faces forward into the ambient stream flow, a spiral volute casing that redirects the fluid into a spiral flow, a rotor arranged coaxially on the spiral axis, and an exhaust duct that diverges and curves from an exhaust inlet coaxial with the spiral axis to an exhaust outlet that opens rearwardly into the ambient flow. The rotor has a peripheral rotor inlet around the circumference of a first stage thereof and an axial rotor outlet at one axial end thereof, and is arranged with its rotor axis coinciding with the spiral axis oriented transverse to the ambient stream flow.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower having at least one radial plane dividing its scroll into sub-sections which may vary as to cut-off points and axial and radial dimensions as well as axial displacement to meet requirements of individual application system flow paths.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes coupling portions formed on both sides of a scroll case, a connection cover coupled to one coupling portion and having an inlet ring and a dual ring, a motor housing coupled to the other coupling portion of the scroll case, air holes respectively formed on faces at the same height as both sides of a discharge part of the scroll case, and a blocking portion formed on the connection cover to close one of the air holes. The air conditioner can reduce investment costs, development expenses and the development period of time because all parts excepting an intake duct can be used commonly in RHDs (Right Handle Drives) and LHDs (Left Handle Drives) and can reduce a loss of air volume because air holes for cooling a motor are formed at positions to minimize resistance of the air discharged from a scroll case.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower provided with a spiral shaped scroll chamber where a bottom part of the scroll chamber gradually expands downward in the axial direction of the fan well along with expansion of the spiral and where a flow area gradually expands toward an air outlet from a spiral start part of the casing, the centrifugal blower having an initial slant angle ?0 at the spiral start part of the bottom part of the scroll chamber of a range of angle of 5.2° to 27.5° or setting a backflow prevention rib at the fan outlet.

Abstract: A fan for a gas burner system where at the outflow side of the fan a combustion gas is fed in, in order to form a flammable mixture of gas and air, the fan comprising a spiral-shaped fan housing having a rotational axis and an air outlet; the air outlet of the fan housing widening like a snail shell towards the outflow side of the fan; an impeller that is arranged concentric to the rotational axis in the interior of the fan housing; and an electric motor for driving the impeller, which is integrated at the center of the impeller.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor for compressing gas has a casing, a rotary shaft, an impeller, a diffuser, a first scroll, a second scroll, a first passage, a second passage, and a switching member. The rotary shaft is supported by the casing. The impeller is rotatably fixed to the rotary shaft, and sends the gas radially outward to a flow path downstream thereof. The diffuser is formed around the impeller. The first scroll is formed around the diffuser. The second scroll is formed between the diffuser and the impeller. The first passage is formed from the impeller to the first scroll through the diffuser. The second passage is formed from the impeller to the second scroll. The switching member switches the flow path between the first passage and the second passage by opening and closing the diffuser.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower (10) includes a casing (12) and a rotor (14) rotatable disposed in the casing. The casing includes a base plate (121), a sidewall (122) extending from the base plate and a cover (123) covering the sidewall. The sidewall is a multilayer structure and includes a first section (128a) and a second section (128c). A distance between a central axis (A) of the rotor and an inner surface of the second section is greater than that between the central axis of the rotor and an inner surface of the first section. The first section is located below a mother board (20) and the second section sits on a top surface of the motherboard when the centrifugal blower is mounted to the mother board.

Abstract: A collecting chamber of a flow machine which expands in the direction of circumference, including at least one outer shell part and a contour insert is provided. The contour insert is provided with a groove which extends in the circumferential direction and is preferably configured as a helical spiral. The contour insert, is cut from a whole unit and is delimited at one end in the circumferential direction by a bent edge so that the flow losses are minimized during the passage from the collecting chamber into a subsequent diffuser.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a centrifugal blower capable of suppressing the generation of noise including periodic noise that is caused by interference between a tongue and an impeller. The centrifugal blower is provided with an impeller (2) provided with plural blades around a rotating shaft; a casing (3) which houses the impeller (2) and has a suction portion at one end in an axial line direction of the rotating shaft; a spiral flow passage (4) formed around the impeller (2) in the casing (3); and a tongue (6) for suppressing inflow of air from a winding end to a winding origin of the spiral flow passage (4).

Abstract: A bell mouth for a scroll case according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a bell mouth which is provided on the top plate of the scroll case to form an air inlet in order to allow air flow into the scroll case by a centrifugal blower installed inside the scroll case, and the volume of two parts of the bell mouth in respect to a rotation shaft of the centrifugal blower is different from each other. According to the present invention, it is possible to minimize generation of reverse flow of inflow air by increasing or decreasing a variation of the cross-section area of the bell mouth according to an increase in the pressure of the flow rate.