ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,432, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GENERATOR Co. LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Journal bearing and rotating machine" was invented by Naokatsu Takara (Tokyo), Yosuke Uchida (Tokyo) and Saya Okano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oil outlets penetrating from an inner circumferential surface to an outer circumferential surface of a carrier ring are located in at least two of: a range that is on a forward side in a rotation direction of a rotary shaft from an upstream pivot and on a backward side in the rotation direction of the rotary shaft from a downstream pivot, a range that is from 180 degrees to 360 degrees and is from ...