US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on July 21 for "Pair of sliding components" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,229, issued on July 21, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pair of sliding components" was invented by Yuta Negishi (Tokyo), Yuki Maetani (Tokyo), Hiroki Inoue (Tokyo), Ryosuke Uchiyama (Tokyo), Minori Onuma (Tokyo), Gai Yamaguchi (Tokyo), So Makishima (Tokyo), Osamu Matsumoto (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Takigahira (Tokyo) and Koji Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding surface of a second sliding component is provided with a plurality of second positive pressure generation grooves communicating with a leakage side space, extending in a relative rotation direction of the second sliding component, and having clo...