US Patent Issued to KOBE STEEL on Nov. 3 for "Compressor unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,731, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Compressor unit" was invented by Kenji Nagura (Takasago, Japan), Kenji Kubo (Takasago, Japan), Katsuhiro Seyama (Takasago, Japan) and Satoshi Tezuka (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor unit includes a first spillback valve, an adjusting means that adjusts a processing amount of hydrogen gas by a succeeding compression stage, an upstream side temperature sensor, and a controller. The controller refers to suction temperature acquired by the upstream side temperature sensor, and can execute a first control and a second control, the first cont...