ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,754, issued on June 17, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Axial fan motor" was invented by Toshikazu Koshiba (Nagano, Japan), Tomoyuki Suzuki (Nagano, Japan), Yuji Omura (Nagano, Japan), Mitsuhiko Takahashi (Nagano, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kato (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an axial fan motor increasing the mounting area of a circuit board and further improving heat dissipation as compared with the axial fan motor in the related art. A fan device as an axial fan motor includes: a casing having a hollow tubular shape and provided with an intake opening at one end in an axial direction and an...