US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on April 1 for "Centrifugal compressor and turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,613, issued on April 1, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Centrifugal compressor and turbocharger" was invented by Shotaro Watabe (Tokyo), Kenichiro Iwakiri (Tokyo), Yutaka Fujita (Tokyo) and Yuki Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this centrifugal compressor, when a passage cross-section of a bypass passage at a connection point where the bypass passage and a compressor inlet passage are connected to each other is defined as an outlet cross-section of the bypass passage, a range of the outlet cross-section on the downstream side of the center of the outlet cross...