ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,960, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAFRAN VENTILATION SYSTEMS (Blagnac, France).
"Electric fan for an aircraft" was invented by Fabien Orlandini (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Frederic Garcia (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan including a casing, a body defining, with the casing, a flow channel of an air flow, the body having an upstream cone, a central portion and a downstream cone, the downstream cone having at least a first opening, a shaft, a ventilation wheel, an electric motor, a first air bearing located upstream of the electric motor and supported by the upstream cone, a second air bearing locat...