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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2023
Broan-nutone Llc, Hartford, WI (US);
Tom Dare, Hartford, WI (US);
Santosh Narasimhan, Hartford, WI (US);
Broan-NuTone LLC, Hartford, WI (US);
Abstract
A ventilating fan has a fan housing formed to define an interior space, an inlet opening, and an outlet opening spaced apart from the inlet opening, a fan wheel arranged to lie within the interior space, the fan wheel comprising a blade hub and a plurality of fan blades from the blade hub, and a fan-wheel rotation drive assembly configured to rotate the plurality of fan blades about a rotation axis, the fan-wheel rotation drive assembly comprising one or more rotor magnets fixed to the fan wheel and arranged circumferentially around the rotation axis, and one or more stator magnets fixed to the fan housing and arranged circumferentially around the rotation axis.