ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,725, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Life consumption estimation device" was invented by Takahiro Yamauchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihiko Niinomi (Tokyo) and Satoru Mouri (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A life consumption estimation device for estimating life consumption of at least one part of a gas turbine includes: a predicted air temperature information acquisition unit configured to acquire predicted air temperature information regarding a future air temperature; a predicted load information acquisition unit configured to acquire predicted load information regarding a f...