US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Sept. 30 for "Electric fan and electric vertical takeoff/landing aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,150, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electric fan and electric vertical takeoff/landing aircraft" was invented by Junji Iwatani (Tokyo) and Kai Karikomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric fan includes a boss part; an outer peripheral part around the boss part; a rotor blade between the boss part and the outer peripheral part and rotatably supported about the boss part; a drive unit on the outer peripheral part to rotate the rotor blade; and a stator vane on a downstream side of the rotor blade in a flowing direction of fluid between the boss part and the outer peripheral ...