ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,106, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Slide member" was invented by Tomoyasu Shiroya (Inuyama, Japan) and Akira Ando (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member includes a bearing alloy layer and an overlay. The overlay includes a diffusion prevention layer on the bearing alloy layer, and a corrosion prevention layer on the diffusion prevention layer. A surface of the corrosion prevention layer is a sliding surface. The corrosion prevention layer constitutes 50% to 90% of an entire volume of the overlay. The corrosion prevention layer and the diffusion prevention layer ...