US Patent Issued to IHI on Nov. 3 for "Rotary machine and turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,749, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rotary machine and turbocharger" was invented by Katsunori Tokieda (Tokyo) and Naoto Shimohara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary machine includes an impeller and a plurality of vanes arranged apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the impeller on a radially outer side with respect to the impeller, each of the vanes being provided in such a manner as to be turnable about a turning axis extending in a rotation axis direction of the impeller, the plurality of vanes including a first vane and a second vane, turning axes of the first vane and the secon...