ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,503, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).
"Electric compressor" was invented by Yuki Yamada (Tokyo), Naomichi Shibata (Sagamihara, Japan) and Katsuyuki Osako (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric compressor comprising: an electric motor; a rotation shaft configured to be driven by the electric motor; two impellers respectively provided to both ends of the rotation shaft; two housings that respectively contain the two impellers; and an intake manifold pipe configured to branch off from one intake pipe to supply air to each of the two hous...