US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Feb. 10 for "Collecting apparatus, condensation equipment, and collecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,537, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Collecting apparatus, condensation equipment, and collecting method" was invented by Kazushige Kuwazuru (Tokyo), Tatsuki Ueda (Tokyo), Daiki Fujimura (Tokyo) and Motohiro Goshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This collecting apparatus collects foreign matter mixed in condensate in/from a condenser of a steam turbine plant, and comprises a first foreign matter collector and an in-condenser collector. The first foreign matter collector is provided on an upstream side of a condensate pump in a pipe connecting a drain outlet provided to the bottom ...