US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Variable capacity turbocharger" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,467, issued on July 14.

"Variable capacity turbocharger" was invented by Takao Asakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example turbocharger includes a turbine blade wheel, a housing including a flow path through which gas received from an inlet flows, and a variable capacity assembly disposed in the housing and configured to receive the gas from the flow path and guide the gas to the turbine blade wheel. The housing includes a housing contact surface that is in contact with the variable capacity assembly in an axial direction of a rotation axis of the turbine blade wheel. The variable capacity assembly includes an assembly c...