I searched for Balmuda's patented assets

It has become a hot topic that Balmuda, an emerging home appliance maker, has released its own smartphone, BALMUDA Phone (reference article). We will leave the review of the smartphone itself to a specialist, but since there is a statement in this article that "Balmuda has applied for a patent for coating technology", let's examine the company's patent assets. I did.

Regarding the coating technology, it seems that the application was published (1.5 years after the filing), but even if it is published, a total of 36 patent applications have been filed so far, 21 of which have been patented. It has been. In almost all applications, the company's president, Gen Terao, is credited as the inventor (or co-inventor). The contents of the patent are related to the company's main products such as electric fans (circulators), air purifiers, axial flow motors used for them, cooking appliances such as toaster ovens, etc.

In the patent value evaluation by the patent research company, Balmuda seems to be ranked 7th in the fields of cooking utensils, air conditioning and home appliances (reference article). You can see that it is a company that is backed by solid technology as well as atmosphere.

Balmuda has also registered 35 designs. In many (but not all) of them, President Gen Terao is the creator. Two cases filed in August of last year are secret designs. A secret design is a system that allows you to keep the contents of a registered design secret for up to 3 years from the date of registration. These two may be the design of this BALMUDA Phone, but I can't say anything at this point.

Here, let's take a look at one of the company's first patents, the "axial fan" (patent No. 5916319). There are several family patents, but I think this one is probably the broadest.