US Patent Issued to IHI on Sept. 29 for "Turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,674, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Turbocharger" was invented by Takahiro Tanaka (Tokyo) and Akihiro Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbocharger includes a shaft, a rolling bearing that includes an inner ring and an outer ring, a housing that includes a bearing hole and a side wall intersecting the bearing hole, and a bearing retainer that is attached to the side wall and that faces a side face of the outer ring, a lower part of the bearing retainer including a small-radius area, a first distance from a central axis of the shaft to an outer edge of the small-radius area being shorter than a se...