Patent 9051941 was granted and assigned to Daikin Industries, Ltd. on June, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An axial-flow fan has a blade with a recessed part that is recessed toward a front edge formed in a rear edge of the blade. A rounded stress-relieving part is formed in a positive pressure surface side and a negative pressure surface side of a front-edge-side edge part of the recessed part as seen in a cross-sectional view of the blade.