US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on April 15 for "Variable displacement exhaust turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,200, issued on April 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Variable displacement exhaust turbocharger" was invented by Yuya Nakahara (Tokyo), Toyotaka Yoshida (Tokyo), Yosuke Dammoto (Sagamihara, Japan) and Yoji Akiyama (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable displacement exhaust turbocharger according to at least one embodiment comprises: a plurality of nozzle vanes; an annular drive ring; and a lever plate fitted at one end in a groove portion disposed in the drive ring via a connecting pin portion and connected at another end to each nozzle vane. The va...