US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR on March 31 for "Seal removal jig, seal removal method, and seal portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,455, issued on March 31, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Seal removal jig, seal removal method, and seal portion" was invented by Yoshikuni Kono (Hiroshima, Japan), Jun Koyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Hiroaki Oka (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal removal jig is used for removing a seal portion from a casing of a rotary machine. The seal removal jig includes a jig body pushed up from below in a vertical direction by a jack, and a jig fixing portion that detachably fixes the jig body to an end surface of the seal portion. The jig body includes a jig contact portio...