US Patent Issued to DAIDO METAL on July 1 for "Sliding member and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,296, issued on July 1, was assigned to DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Sliding member and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tsuyoshi Iwata (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member includes a resin layer that slides with a mating member. The resin layer contains polytetrafluoroethylene and an additive. The resin layer includes a plurality of rich regions formed in a thickness direction of the resin layer, the rich regions having a higher concentration of the polytetrafluoroethylene than other regions."

The patent was filed on March 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/189,746.

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