ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,095, issued on July 29, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Centrifugal blower" was invented by Kazuhiko Fujita (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The centrifugal blower includes an impeller, a motor for rotating the impeller, and a circuit board for driving and controlling the motor, the impeller, the motor, and the circuit board being accommodated in the centrifugal blower, at the inner side of a lower casing. The motor is arranged at a first end portion side in the shaft direction of the circuit board, an end cap is provided at the second end portion side in the shaft direction of the circuit board. T...