US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder on April 7 for "Sliding member and internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,754, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sliding member and internal combustion engine" was invented by Yoshinori Izawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsunori Otobe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member is provided with a sliding film at least on a surface of the sliding member. The sliding film contains copper-based alloy particles including titanium and has a titanium oxide layer in part of an interface between the particles forming the sliding film. The titanium content of the copper-based alloy particles is 3.5 mass % ...