Patent ID: 11895803
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  H  G | IPC F  G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
rotating a fan to cool an electronic device, wherein the fan includes:
a center shaft;
fan blades that extend from the center shaft, wherein the center shaft and the fan blades are a single component; and
a plurality of magnets, wherein a magnet from the plurality of magnets is located on an outside portion of at least two of the fan blades, wherein stator coils interact with the plurality of magnets to drive the fan blades around the center shaft, wherein a fan tip to stator coil distance for the fan blades that do not include anter magnet from the plurality of magnets is four (4) millimeters or more and a magnet to stator coil distance is one (1) millimeter or less such that an end of each of the plurality of magnets extends past a tip of the fan blades that do not include any magnet by at least three (3) millimeters or more.