The emergence of ventilators is related to the humid weather in coastal areas. After the invention of the electric fan, Japanese ginseng tested the principle that the electric fan can speed up the gas flow when blowing, and invented the ventilator in 1958, which was first put into production in Japan.

Early products can only exhaust in one direction, so they are also called exhaust fans. 1964 A louver ventilator appeared.

Since 1980s, plastics have been widely used, that is, today's duct fans, shutters, window sashes and so on.

Around 2000, in North America, Western Europe and other developed countries, with the use of central air conditioning, combined with the characteristics of fans, booster fans were invented, which are today's split duct fans, DC fans and circulating fans.