US Patent Issued to NSK on Oct. 27 for "Grease deterioration detecting method and lubricant deterioration detecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,002, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo).

"Grease deterioration detecting method and lubricant deterioration detecting method" was invented by Takenobu Inaba (Fujisawa, Japan), Keisuke Yokoyama (Fujisawa, Japan) and Shunsuke Iwase (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a grease deterioration detecting method which can detect deterioration of grease and in which the amount of grease necessary for detecting deterioration is small. The grease deterioration detecting method includes a dilution step of diluting grease with a diluent to obtain diluted grease, and a measurement step of measuring a color ...