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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1973
Applicant:
Inventors:
Francesco Lardi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Donald J Jones, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
60660 ;
Abstract
A protection system is provided for a turbine plant to avoid double shock or similar rotor blade operation. A digital computer controller detects excessive blade loading conditions on the basis of governor valve positions and effects bumpless mode transfer from sequential valve operation to single valve operation to avoid excessive blade loading.