US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Oct. 6 for "CPAP device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,066, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"CPAP device" was invented by Hiroki Maeda (Kyoto, Japan), Atsushi Hattori (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshio Yamanaka (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshiro Konishi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blower of a CPAP device is housed inside a main body case of a CPAP device. The blower is roughly divided into a fan unit housing a fan therein, and a delivery tube, through which air sent from the fan passes. In the main body case, a first support member, a second support member, and a third support member are interposed between the main body case and the fan unit ...