[001] The present subject matter described herein, relates to the technical field of fan. The present subject matter, in particularly, relates to an air distributor for selective air flow and air delivery. The present subject matter further relates to an air distributor which can selectively deliver or restrict air flow in required direction.
BACKGROUND AND PRIOR ART AND PROBLEM IN PRIOR ART:
[002] Background description includes information that may be useful in understanding the present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the presently claimed invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
[003] Ceiling fans have become a favoured means for conditioning air, for both commercial and residential purpose. Since, ceiling fans are cheapest mode of air conditioning, the popularity of ceiling fan has grown manifold in past couple of years. The growing popularity of ceiling fans has resulted in wide variety of improvements to these products, affecting performance, appearance and ease of operation.
[004] The biggest drawback of currently available ceiling fan is that they cannot selectively deliver air in one direction or multiple directions. Also, currently available ceiling fan cannot restrict air delivery in one direction or multiple directions simultaneously.
[005] Even after the most recent advancement in ceiling fan technology, current ceiling fan cannot utilize air delivery as per user requirements. So efficiency of ceiling fan in utilizing air is low.
[006] United States Patent US6382917B1 discloses a ceiling fan having side mounted blade iron. The ceiling fan is provided with an electric motor having a stator and a rotating portion comprising a rotor and upper and lower end caps,

each attached to the rotor. The ceiling fan further includes a rotatable fan housing disposed in surrounding relationship with the electric motor and attached to the rotatable lower end cap of the motor. The rotatable fan housing includes a substantially cylindrical sidewall having an inner surface and an outer, radially outwardly facing surface. The fan further includes a plurality of blade irons and a like number of fan blades, with each of the blade irons being mounted to the radially outwardly facing surface of the rotatable fan housing and each blade being attached to one of the blade irons.
[007] United States Patent application US20050249598A1 discloses a ceiling fan with multiple motors. The ceiling fan is suspended from a mounting rod with multiple motors mounted to the mounting rod that drive more than one rotatable hub. A plurality of fan blades is coupled to the rotatable hubs and the blades rotate with the rotatable hubs.
[008] United States Patent US6358011B1 discloses a radial fan blade configuration. The fan blade configuration for a radial fan includes support structure for the cantilevered portion of each blade. This support structure is preferably affixed to an upper circumferential ring of the radial fan and extends outwardly therefrom in support of the cantilevered portion of the blade. The support structure preferably extends along the cantilevered portion of the blade for a predefined distance. The distance is preferably expressed relative to a distance to a point at which the leading edge of the blade terminates. The predefined distance is also a function of the downward inclination of the support structure extending along the cantilevered portion. The support structure extends underneath the outer ring so as to define an aligning surface for the rearward portion of the respective fan blade.
[009] United States Patent US9022731B2 discloses a centrifugal ceiling fan. The fan comprises a casing, a motor and a centrifugal propeller. The casing comprises an upper surface comprising an air inlet and a lower surface comprising an air outlet. In an embodiment, the lower surface has a round bowl-like shape including a plurality of openings defining the air outlet. The propeller comprises a shaft and

a plurality of blades provided around the shaft. The blades may be curved to push the air in all directions between a first direction substantially perpendicular to the rotation shaft and a second direction substantially parallel to the rotation shaft in order to evenly ventilate the room. The fan may include a heating element for heating the air as it exits from the fan.
[0010] The present invention seeks to provide an air distributor which obviates disadvantages of existing ceiling fan.
[0011] The information disclosed in this background of the disclosure section is only for enhancement of understanding of the general background of the invention and should not be taken as an acknowledgement or any form of suggestion that this information forms the prior art already known to a person skilled in the art.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION:
[0012] It is therefore the object of the present subject matter to overcome the aforementioned and other drawbacks in prior method/product/apparatus.
[0013] The principal objective of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor for selective air flow and air delivery.
[0014] Another object of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor which can deliver air in intended directions.
[0015] Another object of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor which can restrict air delivery in intended directions.
[0016] Another object of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor which can efficiently use the air in the room for better user experience.
[0017] Yet another object of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor with different mode of operation such as but not limited to breeze mode, sleep mode, swing mode, direction mode and automatic on/off mode.
[0018] Yet another object of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor which can be operated through a remote control.

[0019] Still yet another object of the present subject matter is to develop an air distributor with aesthetic look and easy maintenance.
[0020] These and other objects and advantages of the present subject matter will be apparent to a person skilled in the art after consideration of the following detailed description taken into consideration with accompanying drawings in which preferred embodiments of the present subject matter are illustrated.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
[0021] Solution to one or more drawbacks of existing ceiling fan, and additional advantages are provided through the present air distributor as disclosed in the present disclosure. Additional features and advantages are realized through the technicalities of the present disclosure. Other embodiments and aspects of the disclosure are described in detail herein and are considered to be a part of the claimed disclosure.
[0022] According to one of the embodiment, the present subject matter relates to an air distributor for selective air flow and air delivery. The air distributer includes a casing having a top cover and a bottom cover configured to be removably connected to each other, a plurality of air blower assemblies encased in the casing, a suspending means to suspend the casing from a ceiling, and a microcontroller provided on the suspending means coupled with the plurality of the air blower assemblies to select and activate the air blowers as per the requirements.
[0023] In an aspect, the air blower assembly includes a holder having a hole in the middle, a motor mounted on a motor mounting, an air blower having its one end coupled to the holder via. a bearing and its other end coupled with the motor mounted on the motor mounting. The motor drives the air blower for air delivery in intended direction.
[0024] In an aspect, the top cover of the casing has a passage for air inlet and bottom cover of the casing has a passage for air outlet.
[0025] In an aspect, the rotation of the air blower causes air to be received from the air inlet provided on the top cover of the casing, and to be pushed out from the

air outlet provided on the bottom cover of the casing in substantially all direction between a first direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation and a second direction substantially parallel to the direction of the rotation.
[0026] In an aspect, the plurality of air blowers is arranged in various geometry
5 which includes but not limited to a triangular shape, a rectangular shape, a
pentagonal shape or a hexagonal shape.
[0027] In an aspect, the air distributor has various operation mode which includes but not limited to a breeze mode, a sleep mode, a swing mode, a direction mode and an automatic on/off mode.
10 [0028] In an aspect, the air distributor delivers the air in one direction or multiple
direction by functioning of one or more air blowers assemblies at a time.
[0029] In an aspect, provisions are provided on the top cover of the casing to suspend the air distributor using suspending means.
[0030] In an aspect, the suspending means includes but not limited to metal
15 channel, metal chains, ropes, hanger.
[0031] In an aspect, wall boundary is provided equivalent to the outer side of the top cover of the casing to adequately accommodate the plurality of air blower assemblies, in a way, that the plurality of air blower assemblies does not fall when bottom cover of the casing is removed for maintenance
20 [0032] In an aspect, structures are provided around the outlet passage of the
bottom cover of the casing to adequately direct the air towards the outlet.
[0033] In an aspect, the top cover and the bottom cover of the casing are affixed to each other through a fixing means with includes but not limited to a screw and bolt, rivets etc.
25 [0034] The foregoing summary is illustrative only and is not intended to be in any
way limiting. In addition to the illustrative aspects, embodiments, and features described above, further aspects, embodiments, and features will become apparent by reference to the drawings and the following detailed description.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0035] It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings illustrate only
typical embodiments of the present subject matter and are therefore not to be
considered for limiting of its scope, for the invention may admit to other equally
5 effective embodiments. The detailed description is described with reference to the
accompanying figures. In the figures, a reference number identifies the figure in
which the reference number first appears. The same numbers are used throughout
the figures to reference like features and components. Some embodiments of
system or methods or structure in accordance with embodiments of the present
10 subject matter are now described, by way of example, and with reference to the
accompanying figures, in which:
[0036] Fig. 1 illustrates the exploded view of the air distributor according to one of the embodiment of present subject matter;
[0037] Fig. 2a and 2b illustrates the top view and bottom view of the top cover of
15 the casing respectively, according to one of the embodiment of present subject
matter;
[0038] Fig. 3 illustrates exploded view of the air blower assembly according to one of the embodiment of the present subject matter;
[0039] Fig. 4a illustrates isometric view of the air blower according to one of the
20 embodiment of present subject matter;
[0040] Fig. 4b illustrates isometric view of the holder according to one of the embodiment of the present subject matter;
[0041] Fig. 4c illustrates isometric view of the bush according to one of the embodiment of the present subject matter;
25 [0042] Fig. 4d illustrates isometric view of the motor according to one of the
embodiment of present subject matter;
[0043] Fig. 4e illustrates isometric view of the motor mounting according to one of the embodiment of present subject matter;
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[0044] Fig. 5a and 5b illustrates top view and bottom view of the bottom cover of the casing, according to one of the embodiment of the present subject matter; and
[0045] Fig. 6 illustrates the isometric view of the air distributor according to one of the embodiments of the present subject matter.
5 [0046] The figures depict embodiments of the present subject matter for the
purposes of illustration only. A person skilled in the art will easily recognize from the following description that alternative embodiments of the structures and methods illustrated herein may be employed without departing from the principles of the disclosure described herein.
10 DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS:
[0047] While the embodiments of the disclosure are subject to various
modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiment thereof have been
shown by way of example in the figures and will be described below. It should be
understood, however, that it is not intended to limit the disclosure to the particular
15 forms disclosed, but on the contrary, the disclosure is to cover all modifications,
equivalents, and alternative falling within the scope of the disclosure.
[0048] The terms “comprises”, “comprising”, or any other variations thereof used
in the disclosure, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a
device, system, assembly that comprises a list of components does not include
20 only those components but may include other components not expressly listed or
inherent to such system, or assembly, or device. In other words, one or more elements in a system or device proceeded by “comprises… a” does not, without more constraints, preclude the existence of other elements or additional elements in the system or device.
25 [0049] Referring to figure 1 the exploded view of the air distributor 100 according
to one of the embodiment of present subject matter. The air distributor 100 has a casing 101 having a top cover 101a and a bottom cover 101b which are configured to be removably connected to each other. The casing 101 encased a plurality of air blower assemblies 102. Further, the casing 101 is suspended to the
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ceiling by means of a suspending means. A microcontroller is provided on the suspending means coupled with the plurality of the air blower assemblies 102 to select and activate the air blowers 203 as per the requirements.
[0050] Referring to figure 2a and 2b illustrating the top view and bottom view of
5 the top cover 101a of the casing 101 respectively, according to one of the
embodiment of present subject matter. The top cover 101a is square in shape with
inner wall boundary 201 equivalent to the outer wall boundary 204 of the top
cover 101a. The inner wall boundary 201 and the outer wall boundary 204
adequately accommodate the plurality of air blower assemblies 102. Further,
10 passage 202 for air inlet is provided on the top cover 101a for delivery of air to the
air distributor 100.
[0051] Provisions 203 are provided on the top surface of the top cover 101a to
suspend the air distributor 100 from the ceiling. The provisions 203 hold one end
of the suspending means while the other end of the suspending means is affixed to
15 the ceiling of the room. The suspending means is selected so as to support the
weight of the air distributor 100 and also provide stability to whole assembly. The suspending means may be chosen from metal channel, metal chains, ropes or hangers.
[0052] Geometry of the present air distributor 100 depends on the number of air
20 blower assemblies 102 used. The plurality of air blower assemblies 102 can be
arranged into various geometry such as triangular, rectangular, pentagonal or hexagonal etc. (up to n-numbers).
[0053] Referring to figure 3 illustrating exploded view of the air blower assembly 102 according to one of the embodiment of the present subject matter.
25 The air blower assembly 102 includes a holder 301 having a hole 401 in the
middle, a motor 304 mounted on a motor mounting 305 and an air blower 303. The air blower 303 has a cylindrical outing 402 with fins 403 wrapped around a spindle 404 to pull air through the air inlet. The spindle 404 is extending out from one end of the cylindrical outing 402 while the other end of the cylindrical outing
30 402 has a void. The extended spindle 404 is coupled with the holder 301 using a
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bearing 302 which facilitates rotation of the air blower 303. The motor 304 has a
ring 405 provided on the circumference having holes to fix the motor 304 with the
motor mounting 305. The void end of the cylindrical outing 402 accommodates
the drive end 406 of the motor 304. Both the holder 301 and the motor mounting
5 305 are affixed on the bottom side of the top cover 101a.
[0054] Referring to figure 5a and 5b illustrating top view and bottom view of the
bottom cover 101b of the casing 101, according to one of the embodiment of the
present subject matter. The bottom cover 101b of the casing 101 is provided to
cover the plurality of blower assemblies 102 from bottom. The bottom cover 101b
10 is equivalent to the top cover 101a in length and width. Passages 502 for air outlet
are provided on the bottom cover 101b. A plurality of structures 501 are provided around the air outlet passages 502 to adequately direct the air towards the outlet.
[0055] Both the top cover 101a accommodating the plurality of air blower
assemblies 102 and bottom cover 101b are affixed to each other through a fixing
15 means such as screw and bolt, rivets etc.
[0056] The plurality of air blower assemblies 102 are controlled by a
microcontroller 601 provided on the suspending means. The microcontroller 601
is configured to control the plurality of air blower assemblies 102 as per the user
requirement. For example, the microcontroller 601 can power only single air
20 blower assembly out of n-number of air blower assemblies 102 encased in the
casing 101. Further, user can choose swing option for each and every air blower assembly in operation, individually.
[0057] Further, microcontroller 601 can control a combination of the air blower
assemblies 102. The combination may include but not limited to paralleled placed
25 air blower assemblies, adjacently placed air blower assemblies, the air blower
assemblies placed in even positions or in odd positions and a combination of any of these thereof. Also, the microcontroller 601 can control swing for each air blower assembly (operating in combination), individually.
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[0058] The rotation of the air blower 303 encased inside the casing 101, cause air
to be received from the air inlet passage 202 provided on the top cover 101a of the
casing 101. The fins 403 in the cylindrical outing 402 creates a flow of air thereby
creating a dynamic pressure that forces the air to flow out of the air outlet passage
5 502 provided on the bottom cover 101b of the casing 101 in substantially all
direction between a first direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of
rotation and a second direction substantially parallel to the direction of rotation.
The direction of air flow can be controlled by the microcontroller provided on the
suspending means. Users can give command to the microcontroller, according to
10 their needs which air blower assemblies 102 to start and which to stop.
[0059] Since, some of the air blower assemblies 102 has stopped working, the air drawn by those air blower assemblies 102 will be available to the air blower assemblies 102 which are still working. In this way, the air distributor 100 of the present invention ensures better efficacy in delivering air in an intended direction.
15 [0060] It will be understood by those within the art that, in general, terms used
herein, and especially in the appended claims (e.g., bodies of the appended claims) are generally intended as “open” terms (e.g., the term “including” should be interpreted as “including but not limited to,” the term “having” should be interpreted as “having at least,” the term “includes” should be interpreted as
20 “includes but is not limited to,” etc.). It will be further understood by those within
the art that if a specific number of an introduced claim recitation is intended, such an intent will be explicitly recited in the claim, and in the absence of such recitation no such intent is present. For example, as an aid to understanding, the following appended claims may contain usage of the introductory phrases “at least
25 one” and “one or more” to introduce claim recitations. However, the use of such
phrases should not be construed to imply that the introduction of a claim recitation by the indefinite articles “a” or “an” limits any particular claim containing such introduced claim recitation to inventions containing only one such recitation, even when the same claim includes the introductory phrases “one or more” or “at least
30 one” and indefinite articles such as “a” or “an” (e.g., “a” and/or “an” should
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typically be interpreted to mean “at least one” or “one or more”); the same holds
true for the use of definite articles used to introduce claim recitations. In addition,
even if a specific number of an introduced claim recitation is explicitly recited,
those skilled in the art will recognize that such recitation should typically be
5 interpreted to mean at least the recited number (e.g., the bare recitation of “two
recitations,” without other modifiers, typically means at least two recitations, or two or more recitations). Furthermore, in those instances where a convention analogous to “at least one of A, B, and C, etc.” is used, in general such a construction is intended in the sense one having skill in the art would understand
10 the convention (e.g., “a system having at least one of A, B, and C” would include
but not be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and C together, etc.). In those instances where a convention analogous to “at least one of A, B, or C, etc.” is used, in general such a construction is intended in the sense one having
15 skill in the art would understand the convention (e.g., “a system having at least
one of A, B, or C” would include but not be limited to systems that have A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B together, A and C together, B and C together, and/or A, B, and C together, etc.). It will be further understood by those within the art that virtually any disjunctive word and/or phrase presenting two or more alternative
20 terms, whether in the description, claims, or drawings, should be understood to
contemplate the possibilities of including one of the terms, either of the terms, or both terms. For example, the phrase “A or B” will be understood to include the possibilities of “A” or “B” or “A and B.”
[0061] It will be further appreciated that functions or structures of a plurality of
25 components or steps may be combined into a single component or step, or the
functions or structures of one-step or component may be split among plural steps
or components. The present invention contemplates all of these combinations.
Unless stated otherwise, dimensions and geometries of the various structures
depicted herein are not intended to be restrictive of the invention, and other
30 dimensions or geometries are possible. In addition, while a feature of the present
invention may have been described in the context of only one of the illustrated
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embodiments, such feature may be combined with one or more other features of other embodiments, for any given application. It will also be appreciated from the above that the fabrication of the unique structures herein and the operation thereof also constitute methods in accordance with the present invention. The present invention also encompasses intermediate and end products resulting from the practice of the methods herein. The use of "comprising" or "including" also contemplates embodiments that "consist essentially of or "consist of the recited feature.

WE CLAIM:

An air distributor (100) for selective air flow and air delivery, the air distributer (100) comprises:
a casing (101) having a top cover (101a) and a bottom cover (101b) configured to be removably connected to each other;
a plurality of air blower assemblies (102) encased in the casing (101);
a suspending means to suspend the casing (101) from a ceiling; and
a microcontroller (601) provided on the suspending means coupled with the plurality of the air blower assemblies (102) to select and activate the air blower assemblies (102) as per the requirements.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the air blower assembly (102) comprises:
a holder (301) having a hole in the middle;
a motor (304) mounted on a motor mounting (305);
an air blower (303) having its spindle end coupled to the holder (301) via. a bearing (302) and its void end coupled with the motor (304) mounted on the motor mounting (305), wherein the motor (304) drive the air blower (303) for air delivery in intended direction.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the top cover (101a) of the casing (101) has a passage for air inlet (202) and bottom cover (101b) of the casing (101) has a passage for air outlet (502).
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotation of the air blower (303) causes air to be received from the air inlet (202) provided on the top cover (101a) of the casing (101), and to be pushed out from the

air outlet (502) provided on the bottom cover (101b) of the casing (101) in substantially all direction between a first direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation and a second direction substantially parallel to the direction of the rotation.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of air blowers (303) is arranged in various geometry which includes but not limited to a triangular shape, a rectangular shape, a pentagonal shape or a hexagonal shape.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the air distributor (100) has various operation mode which includes but not limited to a breeze mode, a sleep mode, a swing mode, a direction mode and an automatic on/off mode.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the air distributor (100) delivers the air in one direction or multiple direction by functioning of one or more air blowers assemblies (102) at a time.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein provisions (203) are provided on the top cover (101a) of the casing (101) to suspend the air distributor (100) using suspending means.
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the suspending means includes but not limited to metal channel, metal chains, ropes, hanger.
). The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein inner wall boundary (201) is provided equivalent to the outer wall boundary (204) of the top cover (101a) of the casing (101) to adequately accommodate the plurality of air blower assemblies (102), in a way, that the plurality of air blower assemblies (102) does not fall when bottom cover (101b) of the casing (101) is removed for maintenance.

The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein structures (501) are provided around the outlet passage (502) of the bottom cover (101b) of the casing (101) to adequately direct the air towards the outlet (502).
The air distributor (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the top cover (101a) and the bottom cover (101b) of the casing (101) are affixed to each other through a fixing means with includes but not limited to a screw and bolt, rivets etc.