US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on April 29 for "Measurement method for steam valve and measurement device for steam valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,045, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Measurement method for steam valve and measurement device for steam valve" was invented by Shingo Nishida (Tokyo), Kazuo Hirota (Tokyo), Fumiyuki Suzuki (Tokyo) and Masaki Hata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement method for a steam valve according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, includes: a step of measuring acceleration of a valve stem when a slave valve is opened by driving the valve stem with an actuator from a fully closed state of a master valve and the slave valve; a step of detecting a timing at which the sl...