An Investigation on Development of Seat Cooling Fan for Vehicle

Abstract:

There is representative part among convenience items which increase convenience of driver while part that driver contacts most and recognizes easily sensuously among this convenience function drives into vehicles seat part. On high-reliability, high-tech of vehicles, convenience function in seat part is expanded greatly. Air conditioning ventilation system that can keep temperature comfortable environment on deluxe car among them is raised by important convenience function. This paper deals with a design of the seat cooling fan for vehicle, especially brushless DC (BLDC) motor and blade for cooling fan module. We achieved blade flow analysis about high effectiveness and presented various design data. We have used the 2D Finite Element Method for calculating the characteristics of brushless DC (BLDC) motor, computing fluid mechanics (CFD) as numerical analysis for blade design.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 605-607)
• Pages: 420-423
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.605-607.420
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Joo Han Kim, Jung Moo Seo, In Soung Jung
• Keywords: BLDC Motor, Cooling Fan, Fan Blade, Performance Test, Technical Development

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