US Patent Issued to NOK on July 21 for "Sealing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,228, issued on July 21, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sealing device" was invented by Yusuke Kamiya (Fukushima, Japan), Masayuki Tanida (Fukushima, Japan), Kokichi Hamamoto (Fukushima, Japan) and Hiroka Yamada (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device is arranged between two relatively displaceable members containing an object to be sealed, for example, a drive shaft of an electric vehicle, and a housing for the drive shaft. A sealing body made of conductive rubber provided in the sealing device is fixed in a state of contact with the housing by an outer peripheral seal, and brings a sealing surface prov...