US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on Aug. 25 for "Sliding component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,502, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sliding component" was invented by Takahiro Tsukamoto (Tokyo), Ryosuke Uchiyama (Tokyo), Gai Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Yuta Negishi (Tokyo), Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Tadatsugu Imura (Tokyo), Iwa Ou (Tokyo), Shogo Fukuda (Tokyo) and Kenta Uchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sliding component that allows a fluid to be easily introduced into a spiral groove. A sliding component includes a pair of sliding rings that slide relative to each other, and a spiral groove communicating with a space on a leakage side is provided on a sliding surface of...