US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on Oct. 28 for "Increasing wear resistance of a wastegate valve" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,012, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

"Increasing wear resistance of a wastegate valve" was invented by Rick Honijk (Almere, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the technical field of wastegate valves comprising a functional assembly of a body member (20) and an actuable member (30), measures are proposed to limit axial wear of the body member (20) and the actuable member (30) on each other as a result of engine vibration and pulsation. One of the measures involves a design of the wastegate valve in which at least one of surfaces (24, 33) of the b...