ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,522, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Bearing device" was invented by Takuzo Shigihara (Tokyo), Chihiro Yoshimine (Tokyo), Shimpei Yokoyama (Tokyo), Yuki Kameyama (Tokyo) and Yoshitomo Noda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing device includes a plurality of bearing pads tiltably supporting a rotation shaft which rotates about an axial line, from the outer circumferential side of the rotation shaft, the bearing pads being spaced apart along the circumferential direction; and an oil supply part that supplies oil between the outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft and p...