ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,162, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Sliding component" was invented by Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Tokunaga (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding component includes a pair of sliding members being slidable relative to each other on sliding surfaces of the sliding members. In the sliding component, one of the sliding surfaces includes a dimple group in which a plurality of dimples is arranged. Each of the dimple has an opening portion whose shape has a long axis and a short axis orthogonal to the long axis. In the dimple group, the dimples are arranged along a curve having a curv...