US 11,767,859 B2
Fan assembly
Steven Eduard Peet, Bristol (GB); Neil Andrew Stewart, Swindon (GB); Robert James Fryer, Swindon (GB); Adam Daniel Jouques, Swindon (GB); Victoria Anne Dorothy Gibson-Robinson, Gloucester (GB); Harriet Rebecca White, Bristol (GB); Stephen Andrew Baker, Swindon (GB); Thomas Greer Duvall, Bristol (GB); and Jack David Collins, Bristol (GB)
Assigned to Dyson Technology Limited, Malmesbury (GB)
Appl. No. 17/287,925
Filed by Dyson Technology Limited, Wiltshire (GB)
PCT Filed Oct. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/GB2019/052832
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089579, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1817849 (GB), filed on Nov. 1, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0381527 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. F04D 29/56 (2006.01); F04D 19/00 (2006.01); F24F 8/158 (2021.01); F24F 8/108 (2021.01)
CPC F04D 29/563 (2013.01) [F04D 19/002 (2013.01); F24F 8/108 (2021.01); F24F 8/158 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fan assembly comprising:
fan body;
a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow;
a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the airflow from the fan body and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly;
a nozzle retaining mechanism for relasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body; and
a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body, the nozzle rotation mechanism comprising a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis,
wherein the nozzle body comprises the driven member and the fan body comprises the rotation motor and the drive member, and
wherein when the nozzle is released from the nozzle retaining mechanism the nozzle body and the driven member are able to be separated from the nozzle retaining mechanism.