US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on July 29 for "Centrifugal compressor and turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,093, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Centrifugal compressor and turbocharger" was invented by Kenichiro Iwakiri (Tokyo) and Isao Tomita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal compressor comprises: an impeller; an inlet pipe portion forming an intake passage to introduce air to the impeller; and a throttle mechanism capable of reducing a flow passage area of the intake passage upstream of the impeller. When PA is a throttle position where the throttle mechanism minimizes the flow passage area of the intake passage, PB is a tip position of a le...