ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,302, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Turbine" was invented by Atsushi Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Eiji Konishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine includes: a rotor having a rotor body, and a plurality of rotor blades; a casing covering the rotor; and a plurality of stator blades, wherein the stator blades each include a stator blade body having formed on the surface thereof a suction part that extends in the radial direction and can suction at least a portion of working fluid, a nozzle inner peripheral member provided inward of the stator blade body in the radial direction, and a pl...