Appliance Design - June 2008 - (Page 33) FaNS & BlowErS New Twist to Air Flow The Delphi small axial fan for cooling electronic devices such as PCs, portable CD players, portable DVD players, and servers. M other Nature doesn’t have any diplomas hanging on the wall, but has often proved to be a pretty good design engineer nonetheless. As more researchers come to realize that, many are finding ways to successfully adapt nature’s solutions to realworld design problems, and the efforts are having a significant impact on products as diverse as medicines, floor coverings, and refrigerators. Some of those adaptations have now been employed in the realm of air moving applications. As researchers observe the ebbs and flows of fluids found in nature, they have absorbed lessons that have led them to create innovative fan designs. By adapting the concepts that underlie how fluids flow in nature, PAX Scientific of San Rafael, Calif., has developed fans that can reduce power consumption, reduce noise, increase airflow output, or combinations thereof. The company specializes in “biomimicry,” a term coined by Janine Benyus, author of “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” and a member of the board of directors of the PAX Group. The term derives from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate. In a nutshell, borrowing a design idea from nature and replicating it to fit into a man-made application. The company was founded in 1997 by Jay Harman. As a naturalist with the Australian Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (DFW), Harman logged thousands of hours studying the flow patterns of ocean and air currents. He Nature-inspired designs increase efficiency and reduce noise. by larry adams applianceDESIGN June 2008 33 www.applianceDESIGN.com http://www.appliancedesign.com
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