ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,043, issued on March 25, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Japan).
"Sliding component" was invented by Iwa Ou (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a sliding component that supplies a sealed fluid to a leakage side in a gap between sliding surfaces to exhibit high lubricity and has a small leakage of the sealed fluid. A sliding component that has an annular shape and is disposed in a place where relative rotation is performed in a rotary machine, includes a plurality of dynamic pressure generating mechanisms provided in a sliding surface of the sliding component, each of the dynamic pressure generating mecha...