US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on June 24 for "Bearing structure, compressor, and refrigeration cycle apparatus with foreign matter separator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,825, issued on June 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bearing structure, compressor, and refrigeration cycle apparatus with foreign matter separator" was invented by Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Daisuke Katagiri (Tokyo), Shinichiro Ido (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Yamada (Tokyo) and Nobukazu Kosone (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary machine includes a rotor having a cylindrical shape and having a main oil feed hole through which lubricating oil passes and that is provided in an axial direction and a slide bearing provided outward in a radial direction with a gap between the rotor and the slide bearing and confi...