US Patent Issued to NORITZ on July 8 for "Air blower and combustion device including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,438, issued on July 8, was assigned to NORITZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Air blower and combustion device including the same" was invented by Mikihiro Iwamoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Ryosuke Umakoshi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air blower and a combustion device including the air blower are provided.An air blower includes an impeller housed in a casing and rotating. The impeller includes multiple blades to form multiple inter-blade passages, and a central space portion. When the impeller rotates, air flowing into the central space portion through an air intake port of the casing passes through the inter-blade passages at an...