ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,465, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Fan motor" was invented by Eunji Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Byungjik Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sunggi Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jisu Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan motor is disclosed. The fan motor includes a rotating shaft, a motor, a bearing, a bearing housing, a preload applying device, and a bush. The preload applying device is disposed between one axial end of the bearing and the bearing housing, and applies force to the one axial end of the bearing in an axial direction by using elastic force. The bush is coupl...