US Patent Issued to DAIDO METAL on July 1 for "Sliding member and method for producing sliding member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,295, issued on July 1, was assigned to DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Sliding member and method for producing sliding member" was invented by Takashi Morikawa (Aichi, Japan) and Masahiro Nakai (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member includes a base material and an alloy layer that includes Cu as a main component and Bi and having a sliding surface formed on a side opposite to the base material. The alloy layer has a first region and a second region. The first region is set to a region taking up 30% of the thickness of the alloy layer which is from an interface in contact with the base material toward t...