US Patent Issued to USUI on Oct. 27 for "Gas-liquid separator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,654, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to USUI Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Gas-liquid separator" was invented by Tetsunobu Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masaru Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas-liquid separator includes a pipe member through which a gas-liquid two-phase fluid flows; and a swirling flow generator configured to swirl the gas-liquid two-phase fluid to separate gas and liquid therefrom. The swirling flow generator includes blades spirally curved about a central axis of the pipe member. The blade includes a distal end in a pipe radial direction. The distal ends of the blades is continuous over an ...