US Patent Issued to NOK on March 31 for "Sealing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,637, issued on March 31, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Japan).

"Sealing device" was invented by Hiroka Yamaguchi (Fukushima, Japan), Kokichi Hamamoto (Fukushima, Japan), Hideaki Nagahamaya (Fukushima, Japan), Yuki Sato (Fukushima, Japan) and Kenya Yoshioka (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device includes a seal lip slidably contacting an outer surface of an inside member and seals liquid in an internal space of an outside member. The seal lip has a liquid-side inclined surface, an atmosphere-side inclined surface, and a lip edge between the liquid-side and atmosphere-side inclined surfaces and extending circum...