ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,875, issued on July 28, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC (Nagano, Japan).
"Axial fan motor" was invented by Toshikazu Koshiba (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Tomoyuki Suzuki (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Yuji Omura (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Mitsuhiko Takahashi (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kato (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an axial fan motor increasing the mounting area of a circuit board and further improving heat dissipation as compared with the axial fan motor in the related art. A fan device as an axial fan motor includes: a casing having a hollow tubular shape and provided with an intake opening at one end...