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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,201, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fluid machine for underwater vehicle 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; a shroud having an inside surface with a diameter decreasing from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a flow path being formed between the shroud and the shaft portion and having a flo...