US Patent Issued to NIDEC on July 15 for "Blower" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,680, issued on July 15, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Blower" was invented by Shinji Takemoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blower includes an impeller and a housing. The impeller is rotatable about a central axis. The housing accommodates the impeller. The housing includes a cylindrical wall portion extending along the central axis and covers the impeller from radially outside and including groove portions recessed in a radial direction from an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical wall portion and arranged in a circumferential direction. A circumferential width of each of the groove portio...