US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on April 15 for "Steam turbine exhaust chamber and steam turbine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,203, issued on April 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Steam turbine exhaust chamber and steam turbine" was invented by Nao Taniguchi (Tokyo), Ryo Takata (Tokyo) and Soichiro Tabata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steam turbine exhaust chamber for guiding steam after passing through a rotor blade of a final stage of a steam turbine to outside of the steam turbine includes: a casing; a bearing cone; and a flow guide. An inner surface of the casing includes an inner circumferential surface extending along an axial direction of the rotor at a radially outer side of the flow guide and a side ...