US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on May 27 for "Impeller of centrifugal compressor and centrifugal compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,079, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Impeller of centrifugal compressor and centrifugal compressor" was invented by Tadashi Kanzaka (Tokyo), Kenichiro Iwakiri (Tokyo), Yutaka Fujita (Tokyo) and Hironori Honda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller (10) of a centrifugal compressor (4) is provided with a hub (14) and a plurality of blades (16) provided at intervals in a circumferential direction of the impeller (10) on an outer peripheral surface of the hub (14). In a meridian plane shape of the blades (16), as the coordinate axes with the origin ...