US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Aug. 11 for "Fan assembly" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,129, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Fan assembly" was invented by Yuwei Wang (Suzhou, China) and De Wei (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a fan assembly, this fan assembly is characterized by: a motor and an impeller, the motor having a motor body and a motor shaft extending from the motor body, a distal end of the motor shaft having a first positioning mark with a certain spacing from 5 a central axis of the motor shaft, the distal end of the motor shaft having an end surface, the first positioning mark being at least partially visible on th...