US Patent Issued to NOK on June 23 for "Gasket" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,080, issued on June 23, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gasket" was invented by Isao Watanabe (Fukushima, Japan), Ryota Shimura (Fukushima, Japan) and Daiki Takekawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gasket includes an elastic part containing a rubber having a dynamic spring constant of 1.5 g/micro metre or lower as measured under conditions of 23plus-minus2deg C., 100 Hz, and a strain amplitude of 0.1% according to JIS K6394:2007."

The patent was filed on Feb. 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/799,015.

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