US Patent Issued to NOK on May 19 for "Sealing device and sealing structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,254, issued on May 19, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Japan).

"Sealing device and sealing structure" was invented by Naoki Hagiwara (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device is configured to be provided between a first member including a first surface provided with a first space and a second member including a second surface provided with a second space having a diameter greater than a diameter of the first space, the second space facing the first surface. The sealing device includes a tubular elastic body that includes a first outer-circumferential surface facing an inner-circumferential surface defining the firs...