US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR on Nov. 25 for "Inlet guide vane and rotary machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,416, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Inlet guide vane and rotary machine" was invented by Takashi Oda (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inlet guide vane according to the disclosure includes a plurality of movable blades disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction of a rotor shaft and rotatable about a center axis extending in a radial direction of the rotor shaft. Each of the movable blades includes a first blade surface and a second blade surface extending in a direction connecting a leading edge and a trailing edge, and an inclined surfa...