US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on March 11 for "Fuel injector, combustor including the fuel injector, and gas turbine including the combustor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,740, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fuel injector, combustor including the fuel injector, and gas turbine including the combustor" was invented by Kiyoshi Fujimoto (Yokohama, Japan), Shinichi Fukuba (Tokyo), Mitsuhiro Nakao (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Matsumura (Yokohama, Japan), Kota Yoshino (Yokohama, Japan), Satoshi Takiguchi (Tokyo), Sosuke Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan) and Shinji Akamatsu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel injector has a body extending in an axial direction. The body includes: an axial passage formed so as to extend in the axial direction; a radial passage...