US Patent 8096777 Mixed flow turbine or radial turbine

A mixed flow turbine or radial turbine suppresses a rapid increase in load applied on a leading edge of a blade, and can reduce incidence loss. The mixed flow turbine or radial turbine includes a hub, and a plurality of blades provided on an outer circumference surface of the hub at substantially equal intervals. The camber line of the blade section is convex-curved to the rotational direction side as seen entirely from a leading edge side toward trailing edge side. On a leading edge section of the blade, there is provided an inflected section that is inflected so that a camber line in a sectional surface along the outer circumference surface is concave-curved to the rotational direction side.