ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,224, issued on April 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Cooling structure for radial turbine" was invented by Naoki Kuno (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling structure for a radial turbine is equipped with a partition wall arranged between a compressor and the radial turbine, and a through hole formed in the partition wall supplying a part of air compressed by the compressor to the rear surface of the radial turbine as cooling air. The through hole is inclined in a rotational direction of the radial turbine in the range of 40deg to 80deg with respect to a rotation axis of the radial turbine."
The pate...