US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on March 31 for "Sliding component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,604, issued on March 31, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sliding component" was invented by Yuichiro Tokunaga (Tokyo), Takeshi Hosoe (Tokyo) and Hikaru Katori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sliding component disposed at a relative rotational location of a rotating machine to slide relative to another sliding component. The sliding component has a sliding surface provided with a fluid inlet groove communicating with at least one of a sealed fluid side space and a leakage side space and a dynamic pressure generation groove communicating with the fluid inlet groove and extending in a circumf...