ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,946, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Sliding components" was invented by Shogo Fukuda (Tokyo), Tadatsugu Imura (Tokyo), Iwa Ou (Tokyo), Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Kenta Uchida (Tokyo) and Hiroki Aizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided sliding components that allow sliding surfaces to smoothly slide against each other regardless of whether a relative rotation direction is a forward rotation or a reverse rotation. The sliding components and include: a pair of sliding surfaces and disposed to face each other at a location where a relative rotation takes place when a rotating mach...