US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "Sealing member and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,613, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sealing member and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kazunari Ohira (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuu Sasano (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenta Katayama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenta Kamikura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing member includes a substrate, and a coating layer on the surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a polytetrafluoroethylene matrix having a porous structure with pores that contain alumina particles, and the coating layer is made of a condensate of an organosilicon compound."

The patent was filed on Dec. 17, 2024, under Appl...