Patents Assigned to Hunter Fan Company
  • Ceiling fan
    Patent number: 11644048
    Abstract: A ceiling fan including a retention system and method of redundantly retaining a ceiling fan can include a ceiling fan motor assembly including a hollow motor shaft at least partially surrounded by a motor housing. A retainer plate is provided at the bottom of the motor housing including an opening. A retainer rod extends through the opening in the retainer plate and secures to the retainer plate. A support cable couples to the retainer rod to suspend the retainer plate from a structure, wherein the retainer plate is configured to redundantly retainer the ceiling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Phillip Santolucito, Agustin Chacon
  • Ceiling fan blade
    Patent number: 11635081
    Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. The blade can include a body having an outer surface with a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface, and a side edge. A chamfered transition can extend between one of the flat top surface or the flat bottom surface, and the side edge. The chamfered transition can include multiple chamfered edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Charles William Botkin
  • Ceiling fan
    Patent number: 11619242
    Abstract: A ceiling fan assembly having a motor assembly with a rotating blade hub, and at least one fan blade mounted to the rotating blade hub with a blade span defined between a tip and a root, and defining an airfoil cross section including a rounded leading edge and a v-shaped trailing edge defining a chord therebetween. The blade comprising a pressure side surface and a suction side surface extending between the leading and trailing edges and including a hollow interior and including a tip opening at the tip and a root opening at the root for accessing the hollow interior. The at least one fan blade includes a thickness to chord ratio of less than about 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Michael Selig
  • Ceiling fan and blade
    Patent number: 11603863
    Abstract: A ceiling fan assembly comprising a motor, a mount for coupling to a structure and for suspending the motor, and a ceiling fan blade comprising only a blade body for coupling to the motor, wherein the ceiling fan blade is formed from a molded pulp comprising at least one of paper fibers, plant fibers, or wood fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Charles William Botkin, Bobby Neal Norwood, Douglas Troy Mason, James Walter Longmire, Seth Aaron Wood
  • Ceiling fan motor adapter
    Patent number: 11598341
    Abstract: A motor adapter assembly can couple a motor shaft for a ceiling fan motor to a downrod. The motor adapter assembly can include a base plate, a cradle with arms extending through the base plate, and a threaded bushing secured between the arms of the cradle. Threading a cap to the threaded bushing can be used to pivot the downrod between an upright position and a pivoted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: William Walter Walker, Jr., Douglas Troy Mason, Matthew McPherson, Charles William Botkin, Rickey Thomas Jones
  • Ceiling fan bearing system
    Patent number: 11592035
    Abstract: A ceiling fan mount assembly having a downrod assembly with a downrod and a motor assembly comprising motor and including a motor shaft. The ceiling fan mount assembly further includes a downrod plate coupled to the downrod and a shaft coupler coupled to the motor shaft and coupled to the downrod plate, whereby coupling the downrod plate to the shaft coupler suspends the motor from the downrod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Phillip Santolucito, Agustin Chacon
  • Ceiling fan mounting assembly
    Patent number: 11578734
    Abstract: A ceiling fan assembly or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. The ceiling fan assembly can further include a hanger ball with an indexing pin. The ball hanger can be received by a mounting bracket so that, via an alignment guide, the indexing pin of the hanger ball aligns with an indexing groove on the mounting bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Charles Wiliam Botkin, Bobby Neal Norwood
  • Ceiling fan with mounting plate
    Patent number: 11578735
    Abstract: A ceiling fan assembly having a motor with a rotor and a stator, at least one blade operably coupled to the stator, a motor shaft extending from the stator and having an internal wire passage and a wire opening in a side of the motor shaft, with the wire opening providing access to the internal wire passage, a control mounting plate having a motor shaft opening through which the motor shaft extends and an electronic control unit carried by a side of the control mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Douglas Troy Mason, Matthew McPherson
  • Ceiling fan hanger assembly
    Patent number: 11566637
    Abstract: A ceiling fan hanger assembly includes a mount plate with a pair of plate extensions and a downrod having a pair of spaced downrod extensions. A connector bracket pivotally couples to the plate extensions to define a first pivot axis and pivotally couples to the downrod extensions to define a second pivot axis different than the first pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Ryan Nicholas Ebersole, Phillip Santolucito, John Anthony Burns
  • Ceiling fan blade
    Patent number: 11566633
    Abstract: A ceiling fan or blade thereof can include a fan motor for rotating the blade. The blade can include an airfoil body having an outer surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a root and a tip. The blade can be separated into three distinct cross sections including a first cross section as a lifting cross section, a second cross section as a flat cross section, and a third cross section as a transition section between the first and second cross sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Charles William Botkin
  • Ceiling fan
    Patent number: D978322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Alexander Jonathan Haggar
  • Ceiling fan light cage
    Patent number: D979114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Claire Bernice McRoberts
  • Ceiling fan light kit
    Patent number: D979115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Alexander Jonathan Haggar, Christophe Badarello
  • Combined ceiling fan motor housing and light kit
    Patent number: D979737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Alexander Jonathan Haggar
  • Ceiling fan blade
    Patent number: D980408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Christine Marie Holmes Bradley, Charles William Botkin
  • Ceiling fan
    Patent number: D982149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Alexander Jonathan Haggar
  • Ceiling fan cage band
    Patent number: D982151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Dana Vajen Habig, Claire Bernice McRoberts
  • Remote control with icon
    Patent number: D983757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Seth Aaron Wood
  • Ceiling fan
    Patent number: D983954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventor: Claire Bernice McRoberts
  • Ceiling fan light kit
    Patent number: D986459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Christine Holmes, Claire Bernice McRoberts