US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on April 15 for "Sliding component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,338, issued on April 15, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Sliding component" was invented by Yuta Negishi (Tokyo), Ryosuke Uchiyama (Tokyo), Hiroki Inoue (Tokyo), Minori Onuma (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Takigahira (Tokyo), Hikaru Katori (Tokyo), Nobuo Nakahara (Tokyo) and Takeshi Hosoe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annular sliding component includes a sliding surface provided with a plurality of fluid introduction grooves communicating with a space on the side of a sealing target fluid and introducing the sealing target fluid thereinto and a plurality of inclined grooves extending from a leakage side toward the seal...