US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on June 24 for "Pipe branching device and compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,932, issued on June 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Pipe branching device and compressor" was invented by Hironori Honda (Tokyo) and Nobuhito Oka (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This pipe branching device is provided with a main pipe and a branch pipe branching off from the main pipe. The main pipe includes a first pipe and a second pipe fitted into the first pipe in an axial direction of the first pipe. A chamber communicating with the branch pipe is provided between the first pipe and the second pipe. A flow path communicating with the chamber from t...