US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on Sept. 1 for "Sliding component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,656, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sliding component" was invented by Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Yuichiro Tokunaga (Tokyo), Yuta Negishi (Tokyo), Hiroki Aizawa (Tokyo), Akihiro Takahashi (Tokyo), Nobuo Nakahara (Tokyo) and Tetsuzo Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annular sliding component is one of two sliding rings that rotate relative to each other and partition a sealed fluid space and a leakage space, the sliding component includes a dynamic pressure generating groove that generates a dynamic pressure, and includes an inclined groove which extends from the leakage space toward the...