Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Ecology Systems Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Manufacturing Malaysia Berhad

Kee Cheng Ng

Hiroyuki Kuramochi

Kiminobu Yamamoto

Wei Ming Tan

Boon Hooi Teo

The ceiling fan includes: a body having a plurality of blades and an upper mounting pipe portion; a suspender which is fixed to a ceiling; a first pipe which is suspended from the suspender and suspends the body by the upper mounting pipe portion; and a second pipe which is accommodated in the inside of a lower portion of the first pipe and into which an upper portion of the upper mounting pipe portion is inserted. The first pipe, the second pipe and the upper mounting pipe portion are connected to each other by a connecting bolt which penetrates an overlapping part where the first pipe, the second pipe and the upper mounting pipe portion overlap with each other. A hollow projecting portion which projects from an outer peripheral surface of the second pipe is engaged with a recessed portion formed on an edge of a lower opening of the first pipe and a protruding portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the upper mounting pipe portion thus restricting at least the relative movement among the first pipe, the second pipe, and the upper mounting pipe portion in the rotating direction of the blades.

Ceiling fan

In a ceiling fan in which root portions of blades are attached to a support portion to be rotary driven, a fall preventing member having a loop portion formed by a wire rod is provided, a through hole of which the loop portion of the fall preventing member penetrates is provided on the root portions of the blades, the support portion is provided with an engaging portion which is engageable with the loop portion of the fall preventing member, the loop portion of the fall preventing member is disposed to be engageable with the engaging portion of the support portion, the loop portion is engaged with the engaging portion of the support portion when an attachment part of the support portion and the blades is broken, and the blades are supported on the support portion through the loop portion of the fall preventing member in a state in which inner edges of the root portions of the blades are positioned on an outside of an outer edge of the support portion.

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Selangor, Malaysia

Kee Cheng Ng