US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on April 7 for "Dome blower wheel attachment to minimize water intrusion" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,807, issued on April 7, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Dome blower wheel attachment to minimize water intrusion" was invented by Benjamin D. Kileen (Ferndale, Mich.) and Ted A. Vanden Berg (Waterford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable dome blower wheel attachment that mitigates a risk of water droplets infiltrating a rotor and a motor. The dome blower wheel attachment may be rotatably coupled to the shaft of the blower motor and to the blower motor wheel to protect the rotor from water that is sprayed through the wheel. The coupling also ensures that the dome blower wheel attachment rotates with...