US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Inflatable pump" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,174, issued on July 21.

"Inflatable pump" was invented by Wei-Chi Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflatable pump has a housing and a core disposed in the housing. The housing has a core chamber, an inlet at an end of the core chamber, a fan chamber with a volute chamber at the other end of the core chamber, and an outlet fluidly communicating with the fan chamber. The core is disposed in the core chamber and a fan wheel of an electric motor thereof is disposed in the fan chamber. When the electric motor is turned on, the fan wheel is driven to spin to direct air entering the housing from the inlet. Heat a...