US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER on Oct. 7 for "Impeller of centrifugal compressor and centrifugal compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,730, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTD. (Sagamihara, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller of a centrifugal compressor includes: a hub; and at least one blade disposed on a hub surface of the hub. A hub-side end of a trailing edge of the at least one blade is located radially outward of an outer peripheral portion of the hub, and is located on either of a first line extending radially outward...