US Patent Issued to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 21 for "Turbopump capable of balancing axial thrust" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,195, issued on April 21, was assigned to KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Turbopump capable of balancing axial thrust" was invented by Seong Min Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbopump includes a casing, a rotational shaft rotatably supported on the casing, and an impeller mounted on a side of the rotational shaft and pressurizing a fluid flowing into the impeller from an inlet of the casing, wherein axial thrust is controlled as a clearance formed between the impeller and the casing in a length direction of the rotational shaft varies according to a fluid pressure difference ...