US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Aug. 11 for "Turbine housing and variable geometry turbocharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,079, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Turbine housing and variable geometry turbocharger" was invented by Bipin Gupta (Tokyo), Nao Taniguchi (Tokyo) and Yuya Nakahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine housing has a scroll passage wall surface connecting an outer peripheral end of a scroll passage and an outer peripheral end of a hub-side passage wall surface. In a cross-section along the axis of a turbine rotor passing through a tongue portion. the scroll passage wall surface includes: a first arc portion extending from an outer peripheral end connected to the outer periphera...