ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,936, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Sliding component" was invented by Tadatsugu Imura (Tokyo), Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Shogo Fukuda (Tokyo) and Kenta Uchida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sliding component that allows sliding surfaces to smoothly slide against each other from a low-speed state to a high-speed state in both forward and reverse relative rotation directions. A deep groove is provided that partitions a fluid-side region where a fluid-side groove and a fluid-side reverse groove are provided and a leakage-side region where leakage-side grooves and leakage-sid...