ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,380, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Blower and vacuum cleaner" was invented by Ryuhei Hori (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroki Yokozawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blower includes a motor having a shaft and a stator, an impeller connected to and rotating about the shaft, a first housing between the motor and impeller, and a second housing opposite to the first housing across the motor. The second housing includes a bearing holding portion holding a bearing of the shaft, a stator holding portion outside the bearing holding portion and holding the stator, and a coupling portion coupling the bea...