Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fan apparatus
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Application No.: US15132520Application Date: 2016-04-19
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Publication No.: US10294955B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Leroy Eugene Learn , Joel Terence Montione
- Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US CT Norwalk
- Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLC
- Current Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Norwalk
- Agency: McCoy Russell LLP
- Main IPC: F04D29/02
- IPC: F04D29/02 ; F04D29/32 ; F04D29/38 ; F04D29/58 ; F04D29/64

Abstract:
A fan apparatus (e.g., for a vehicle radiator) includes a hub and plural fan blades. The hub has an annular hub body with an outer peripheral wall, an interior, and a central axis. The hub body defines plural blade retention apertures spaced apart from one another around the hub body and extending radially outward from the interior through to the outer peripheral wall. The fan apparatus also includes plural fan blades respectively removably disposed in the plural blade retention apertures. The fan blades and the blade retention apertures are complimentary in shape for the fan blades to be retained by the hub solely by centrifugal force when the hub is rotated for operation of the fan apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170298952A1 FAN APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-10-19
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