PAP system blower

US10576227B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ResMed Motor Technologies Inc. · US

Inventors

• Samuel Aziz Mebasser · Santa Monica, US
• Peter Jeffrey Thomas · San Fernando, US
• Roman Vinokur · Calabasas, US
• Kevin Gene McCulloh · Simi Valley, US
• William S Lane · Palmdale, US
• Yeu-chuan Hsia · Twin Lakes, US
• Michael David Bednar · Chino, US
• John Paul Freese · Palmdale, US
• Karl Yutaka Iwahashi · San Fernando, US
• David Brent Sears · Calabasas, US
• Barton John Kenyon · Sydney, AU
• Richard G. Krum · معلمی نژاد, US
• Par Egron Dannas · Thousand Oaks, US
• Hiroshi Suzuki · Humphreys, US
• Malcolm Edward Leader · Durango, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 18, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 3, 2020
• Expiry date: May 2, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F04D29/703
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.