US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR on Oct. 6 for "Impeller and centrifugal compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,772, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Impeller and centrifugal compressor" was invented by Akihiro Nakaniwa (Tokyo) and Hideki Nagao (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller includes: a disc having a disc shape centered on an axis; a cover disposed away from the disc in an axial direction in which the axis extends; and a plurality of blades connecting the disc and the cover and disposed at intervals in a rotational direction around the axis. Each of the plurality of blades includes: a main vane extending rearward in the rotational direction as the m...