Patent ID: 7437833

Claim:
A hand dryer for drying a users hands by blowing air thereon, said hand dryer comprising: a box-shaped main housing including a front member, a back member, side members, and a hand drying chamber with a hand insertion opening portion opening on the top surface thereof, said hand drying chamber being formed by a front side wall portion, a rear side wall portion, and a bottom portion; an electric blower contained within the main housing; a nozzle device disposed on the front side wall portion and the rear side wall portion of the hand drying chamber for blowing an air flow carried from the electric blower toward hands inserted into the hand drying chamber; a ventilation opening portion, formed in the side of the main housing, for ventilating the air flow within the hand drying chamber to the outside of the hand drying chamber therethrough; and a water droplet splatter prevention device disposed on the ventilation opening portion in the side of the main housing for preventing the splattering to the outside of water droplets in the hand drying chamber, said water droplet splatter prevention device including a plurality of transversely orientated plate-shaped members vertically spaced apart at predetermined intervals spanning across the ventilation opening portion so as to allow air to pass therebetween, the plate-shaped members having rising slopes from the inside toward the outside of the ventilation opening portion to inhibit water droplets from exiting the hand dryer.