US Patent Issued to DAICEL on June 3 for "Lubricant composition for initial break-in, sliding member, and sliding member manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,887, issued on June 3, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lubricant composition for initial break-in, sliding member, and sliding member manufacturing method" was invented by Norihiro Kimoto (Tokyo), Tomohiro Goto (Tokyo) and Hiroki Kageyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an initial break-in lubricant composition capable of easily and economically reducing the coefficient of friction of a sliding portion. The initial break-in lubricant composition includes an organic dispersion medium and nanocarbon particles in a quantity from 0.1 to 2000 ppm by mass. The nanocarbon particles are preferably particles of ...