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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,849, issued on March 31, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sliding component" was invented by Yuta Negishi (Tokyo), Sayaka Kosugi (Tokyo), Hiroki Inoue (Tokyo), Hideyuki Inoue (Tokyo), Takeshi Hosoe (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Tokunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary embodiment of a sliding component, a sliding face S is provided with a first fluid-side negative pressure generation mechanism 12 including a first negative pressure generation groove 13, and is provided with a second fluid-side negative pressure generation mechanism 14 including second negative pressure generation grooves 15 located on the ...