US Patent Issued on Oct. 27 for "Variable capacity turbocharger with variable nozzle assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,674, issued on Oct. 27.

"Variable capacity turbocharger with variable nozzle assembly" was invented by Ryosuke Miyao (Tokyo), Takao Asakawa (Tokyo) and Kengo Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable capacity turbocharger includes: a turbine impeller; a turbine housing accommodating the turbine impeller; a nozzle flow passage located around the turbine impeller; a variable nozzle assembly having a nozzle vane located in the nozzle flow passage, and a drive mechanism configured to drive the nozzle vane; a bearing of the turbine impeller; a bearing housing accommodating the bearing; a biasing part configured to bias the va...