US Patent Issued to NOK on June 30 for "Method for manufacturing sealing structure and sealing structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,178, issued on June 30, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Japan).

"Method for manufacturing sealing structure and sealing structure" was invented by Tokunori Yanagi (Shizuoka, Japan), Takumi Tomatsu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hayato Kamimura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a sealing structure includes: accommodating in an inner space of a housing member a flat plate-shaped seal member including a first end face and a second end face located on opposite sides to each other, while the seal member being in a curved state such that the first end face and the second end face are close to each other; installin...