ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,742, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD. (Aichi, Japan).
"Sliding member" was invented by Tetsuya Ogawa (Inuyama, Japan), Erina Yasuda (Inuyama, Japan) and Kenji Nimura (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member includes a resin overlay layer on a sliding-surface side of a bearing alloy layer. The resin layer includes a resin binder and 20% by volume or more of solid lubricant particles with an anisotropic shape dispersed in the resin binder. The sliding surface is located at 0deg and has a virtual axis perpendicular to the sliding surface at 90deg. An angle Theta is formed by a straight lin...