ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,382, issued on Nov. 11.
"Turbine with biased nozzle vane members" was invented by Kenichi Segawa (Tokyo), Hayato Shibayama (Tokyo), Takao Asakawa (Tokyo), Kengo Ikeda (Tokyo), Naotoshi Shimizu (Tokyo), Taiki Yoshizaki (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Miyao (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine includes a turbine wheel, a housing having a flow path for a gas, a variable geometry device to guide the gas from the flow path to the turbine wheel, and a biasing member. The variable geometry device includes one or more nozzle vane member, each having a nozzle vane, a nozzle shaft and a nozzle link plate. The biasing member is in contact with t...