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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2015
Nidec Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Yuuichi Sakuma, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshihiro Uchitani, Kyoto, JP;
Shinichi Noda, Kyoto, JP;
Takamasa Yamashita, Kyoto, JP;
NIDEC CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A hair dryer includes a fan motor, a heater unit, and a body case arranged to cover the fan motor and the heater unit, and arranged to extend in a front-rear direction around a central axis. The fan motor includes an impeller arranged to rotate about the central axis, and a motor arranged to rotate the impeller. The body case includes an intake case portion including an air inlet, a discharge case portion including an air outlet, and an admission case portion arranged between the air inlet and the air outlet, and including an admission inlet. The intake case portion includes a suction tube portion arranged to extend toward the admission inlet. The intake case portion and the admission case portion are arranged to together define an expansion chamber arranged between the admission inlet and the air inlet and radially outside of the suction tube portion and the admission inlet.