US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 2 for "Deformation adjustment method for lower half inner casing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,395, issued on June 2, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Deformation adjustment method for lower half inner casing" was invented by Noriyuki Yokoi (Tokyo), Eiichi Tsutsumi (Tokyo), Takuya Komatsubara (Tokyo) and Naoki Goya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower half inner casing has a lower half inner casing body forming a semi-circular arc, and an inner casing accessory part provided to the lower half inner casing body. The inner casing accessory part has a protrusion which protrudes radially outward of the lower half inner casing body, and protrudes upward of a lower contact surface of the lower half ...