ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,658, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Performance test bench device for centrifugal compressor under variable working condition of engine" was invented by Tianyou Wang (Tianjin, China), Lei Shi (Tianjin, China), Zhen Lu (Tianjin, China) and Kai Sun (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A performance test bench device for a centrifugal compressor under a variable working condition of an engine is composed of: a turbine back disk temperature simulator and the centrifugal compressor being coaxially arranged, and being sequentially connected with a speed regulator and a driver. Meanwhile, a...