US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on Nov. 25 for "Impeller of centrifugal compressor, centrifugal compressor including the impeller, and method for producing the impeller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,524, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Impeller of centrifugal compressor, centrifugal compressor including the impeller, and method for producing the impeller" was invented by Tadashi Kanzaka (Tokyo) and Yutaka Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller of a centrifugal compressor includes: a plurality of blades each of which has a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, and a shroud-side end and a hub-side end defining the pressure surface and the sucti...