US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on Feb. 18 for "Variable geometry turbine and turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,038, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Variable geometry turbine and turbocharger" was invented by Toshimitsu Tanaka (Tokyo), Bipin Gupta (Tokyo) and Nao Taniguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable geometry turbine includes a variable nozzle unit for adjusting a flow of exhaust gas in an exhaust gas passage for introducing exhaust gas to the turbine rotor. The variable nozzle unit includes a plurality of nozzle vanes disposed in the exhaust gas passage at intervals in the circumferential direction of the turbine rotor. When the exhaust gas pa...