US Patent 7766629 Fluid pump, cooling apparatus and electrical appliance

A fluid pump having a case with a pump chamber defined by axial side surfaces and a circumferential surface, a suction port and a discharge port both provided in the circumferential surface so as to communicate with the pump chamber, an impeller formed into a disc shape and rotatably mounted in the pump chamber, a pressure generating protrusion, which generates pressure by rotation of the impeller and is located inside the pump chamber at a radial position, and a motor, which drives the impeller, installed in the case and having a stator and a rotor to which the impeller is attached for rotating together.