US Patent Issued to Oiles on March 24 for "Rack guide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,505, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oiles Corp. (Fujisawa, Japan).

"Rack guide" was invented by Tomoki Watanabe (Fujisawa, Japan) and Ryouji Yoshikawa (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a rack guide which achieves a stable feed of a lubricant from a rack bar to a lubricant retaining groove when the rack bar slides against the rack guide. A lubricant retaining groove is arranged in the supporting surface, the lubricant retaining groove being configured to extend in a rack guide transverse direction perpendicular to a rack guide longitudinal direction and retain a lubricant located between a rack bar and ...