ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,151, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Sliding components" was invented by Shogo Fukuda (Tokyo), Tadatsugu Imura (Tokyo), Iwa Ou (Tokyo), Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Kenta Uchida (Tokyo) and Hiroki Aizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sliding component capable of maintaining high lubricity over a long period of time by efficiently using a liquid supplied between sliding surfaces. In a pair of sliding components disposed at a relatively rotating position to face each other when a rotating machine is driven, a sliding surface of the sliding component is formed on an outer peripheral ...