US Patent Issued to IHI on Nov. 3 for "Centrifugal compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,764, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Centrifugal compressor" was invented by Katsunori Tokieda (Tokyo) and Naoto Shimohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The centrifugal compressor includes a compressor impeller, a diffuser flow path that is located outside the compressor impeller in a radial direction and into which fluid from the compressor impeller flows, a plurality of vanes that is provided in the diffuser flow path and that is arranged along a circumferential direction, a first surface that defines the diffuser flow path, and a second surface that defines the diffuser flow path and that faces the fir...