Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Akito Saitou

Jun Ito

Tadayuki Yoneyama

Toshiharu Nasuno

Koichi Hirakawa

A power blower has a body having a fan housing for accommodating a fan, the fan housing having an upper portion, a lower portion opposite to the upper portion, and a pair of support portions extending from the upper portion. A driving machine is mounted to the fan housing for driving the fan. A discharge duct is mounted to the fan housing for discharging a current of air produced by driving of the fan. A pair of legs is disposed at the lower portion of the fan housing to enable the body to stand alone on a surface. A main handle having a structure separate and independent from the fan housing is removably connected to the pair of support portions of the fan housing. An auxiliary handle is integrally formed with and disposed between the pair of legs. The auxiliary handle has a holding edge aligned with a central extension line of the main handle.

Power blower

A power blower has a fan housing, a blowing fan accommodated in the fan housing, a drive source for driving the blowing fan, an operating handle connected to the fan housing for gripping by an operator of the power blower, and at least one vibration damping member interposed between the operating handle and the fan housing. The vibration damping member has resiliently deformed protruding portions contacting an inner peripheral surface of the operating handle so that vibrations in three directions, passing from the drive source and blowing fan to the fan housing, are absorbed by resilient deformation of the protruding portions to thereby suppress vibrations passing via the fan housing to the operating handle.

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Wako, Japan

Akito Saitou