ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,121, issued on May 27, was assigned to DAIDO METAL COMPANY LTD. (Aichi, Japan).
"Sliding member" was invented by Hideyuki Harada (Inuyama, Japan), Kentaro Tsujimoto (Inuyama, Japan), Yuma Haneda (Inuyama, Japan) and Yuhei Maegawa (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member of the present embodiment includes: a lining layer including a Bi phase; and a coating layer containing Ni, the coating layer being provided on a surface of the lining layer, the coating layer partially forming an entrance portion that has entered the lining layer side at an interface with respect to the lining layer. At any observation region i...