US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on May 20 for "Method for estimating flange displacement amount in rotary machine, program for executing the method, and device for performing the method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,970, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for estimating flange displacement amount in rotary machine, program for executing the method, and device for performing the method" was invented by Satoshi Kumagai (Tokyo), Shunsuke Mizumi (Tokyo), Koji Ishibashi (Tokyo) and Masato Kurita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for estimating flange displacement amount, effective three-dimensional coordinate data at a lower first position on a surface continuous with a lower flange surface of a first supported portion and at an upper first position coincident with the lower first posit...