US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 11 for "CPAP device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,570, issued on March 11, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"CPAP device" was invented by Yuzo Higashiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Takahiro Yamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The CPAP device includes a blower. The blower includes a motor and a blower fan rotatable by the motor. The motor includes a stator assembly including a plurality of coils arranged in a circumferential direction, and a rotor assembly including a permanent magnet and disposed in an inner side portion of the stator assembly in a radial direction. An output shaft is inserted into the rotor assembly. The output shaft rotate...