ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,012, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Rotating-machine casing support structure and rotating machine" was invented by Makoto Kondo (Tokyo) and Katsuhisa Hamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, the present invention provides a rotating-machine casing support structure including: a casing; a built-in component that is disposed inside an interior space of the casing at a lateral side of a rotor and that is supported by the casing; a protruding part that is provided so as to protrude laterally outside of the casing from a side of the casing; and a support part...