US Patent Issued to Kubota on Aug. 26 for "Mowing device with a rotary fan and related features" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,389, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Mowing device with a rotary fan and related features" was invented by Hirokazu Ito (Sakai, Japan) and Nozomu Akiyama (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor 15 includes a motor section 15b and an output shaft 15a protruding from the motor section 15b. The output shaft 15a supports a rotary fan 24. The rotary fan 24 is drivable by the output shaft 15a to rotate to supply cooling air to the motor section 15b."

The patent was filed on June 10, 2021, under Application No. 17/344,124.

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