ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,768, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Axial fan" was invented by Zuozhou Chen (Osaka, Japan), Kaname Maruyama (Osaka, Japan), Anan Takada (Osaka, Japan), Ryusuke Otaguro (Osaka, Japan), Hideaki Konishi (Osaka, Japan), Hirotaka Tomioka (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Kashihara (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Nakai (Osaka, Japan) and Yuki Yamashita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial fan includes a hub attachable to a rotary shaft, and five or less blades arranged on the hub. Each blade includes a leading edge located forward in a rotation direction of the rotary shaft, a trailing edge located ...