US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Dec. 16 for "Sliding member and method of manufacturing sliding member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,339, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Sliding member and method of manufacturing sliding member" was invented by Takayuki Murakami (Oumiyahata, Japan), Taito Nakamura (Yasu, Japan) and Junji Ikeda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a sliding member having improved wear resistance, and a method of manufacturing the sliding member. A femoral head ball according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a composite ceramic containing alumina and at least one oxide other than alumina. A surface roughness Ra of the sliding surface when the femoral head ball slides against a const...