US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on April 8 for "Compressor housing and centrifugal compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,413, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Compressor housing and centrifugal compressor" was invented by Kenichiro Iwakiri (Tokyo), Tadashi Kanzaka (Tokyo) and Yutaka Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes: a shroud surface; a front-side inner peripheral surface formed on a front side of the shroud surface in the axial direction and disposed outward of a front end of the shroud surface in the radial direction; and at least one projection protruding from the front-side inner peripheral surface inward in the radial direction. A rear e...