US Patent Issued to Jiangsu University on July 21 for "Fish guide device for pump and axial flow pump/tubular flow pump station" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,173, issued on July 21, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Jiangsu, China).

"Fish guide device for pump and axial flow pump/tubular flow pump station" was invented by Qiang Pan (Jiangsu, China), Desheng Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Weidong Shi (Jiangsu, China), Linlin Geng (Jiangsu, China) and Xi Shen (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a fish guide device for a pump. An axial flow pump blade is located in a runner chamber. A fish guide ring mounted on a wall surface of the runner chamber is arranged at an inlet of the axial flow pump blade. A fish guide cap is mounted on a hub of the axial flow...