US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on April 21 for "Compressed air supply system of aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,310, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Compressed air supply system of aircraft" was invented by Hiroaki Takami (Kobe, Japan), Naoya Sekoguchi (Kobe, Japan), Katsuhiko Ishida (Kobe, Japan), Kenta Umezaki (Kobe, Japan), Hiroshi Sakamoto (Kobe, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Goi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed air supply system of an aircraft includes: a bleed air passage through which bleed air from a gas turbine engine flows; an auxiliary compressor including a compressor inlet and a compressor outlet, the compressor inlet being fluidly connected to the bleed air passage; a supp...