Portable blower

• US 6,655,926 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2002
• Issued: 12/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hsin-Yen Lin, Hua-Chiang Wang
• Original Assignee: Hsin-Yen Lin, Hua-Chiang Wang
• Inventors: Lin, Hsin-Yen, Wang, Hua-Chiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Tyler, Cheryl J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gray, Michael K.
• Application Number:
  US10/150,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20030035735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 561 Days
• Field of Search: 417/234, 417/410.1, 417/423.1, 415/203, 415/206, 415/214.1
• US Class Current: 417/234
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/084 hand fans
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/083 especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps

Abstract

A blower includes a casing for receiving a motor therein and the shaft of the motor extends through an opening in a top surface of the casing. A blade assembly is connected to the shaft and a cover is fixedly connected to the top surface of the casing and has an air outlet. The blade assembly is enclosed by the cover. Two recesses are defined in an outer periphery of the casing and a handle is connected to one of the two recesses, and an air inlet is defined in an inside of the other recess of the casing.

Claims

1. A blower comprising:

a casing having an opening defined in a top surface of the casing and two recesses defined in an outer periphery of the casing, a handle connected to the casing and located in one of the two recesses, an air inlet defined in an inside of the other recess of the casing;

a motor enclosed by the casing and a shaft of the motor extending through the opening of the casing and a blade assembly connected to the shaft, and

a cover fixedly connected to the top surface of the casing and having an air outlet, the blade assembly enclosed by the cover.

2. The blower as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a groove defined in the top surface of the casing and a seal received in the groove, a periphery of an open bottom of the cover pressed on the seal.

3. The blower as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of sink areas defined in the top surface and located around a periphery of the opening, a plurality of lugs extending from the motor and engaged with the sink areas.