US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Dec. 30 for "Steam valve and power generation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,186, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Steam valve and power generation system" 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 steam valve according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, includes: a valve body that includes a steam flow path through which steam flows, and a valve seat disposed in the middle of the steam flow path and having an opening portion; and a stop valve that includes a valve stem which extends in an axial direction, where an axis extends, and is movable back...