US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Sept. 23 for "Blower" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,977, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Blower" was invented by Fumitoshi Numata (Anjo, Japan) and Takumi Hayashi (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blower includes a body having a main inlet opening and a discharge opening, a motor assembly housed in the body, and an auxiliary inlet opening. The motor assembly includes a case, a motor and a fan. The case has a first opening and a second opening. The motor is housed within the case. The fan is configured to rotate in response to driving of the motor to generate a flow of air passing the main inlet opening, the first opening, the motor, the se...