US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Sept. 30 for "Load adjustment method, load adjustment device, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,002, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Load adjustment method, load adjustment device, and program" was invented by Yasuhiro Ojiro (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Ohara (Kanagawa, Japan), Masanori Fujioka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukihiko Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load adjustment method, comprising: a step of acquiring a warm-up parameter indicating the degree of warm-up of a gas turbine during operation under load; a step of determining an upper limit of a load increase rate in accordance with the warm-up parameter; and a step of increasing the load of the gas turbine at or ...