US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on April 29 for "Fluid machine and underwater vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,202, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fluid machine and underwater vehicle" was invented by Shigeki Senoo (Tokyo), Shinichi Isobe (Tokyo), Wataru Yamada (Tokyo), Takehiko Nishida (Tokyo), Takuyoshi Yamada (Tokyo), Kazuki Hosono (Tokyo), Yoshitomo Noda (Tokyo), Hiroki Takeda (Tokyo) and Yuichi Sekine (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion and having a diameter decreasing from an upstream side on one side in the axis direction toward a downstream side on another side in th...