US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Jan. 27 for "Grease composition, pivot assembly bearing, and bearing apparatus including the bearing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,680, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Grease composition, pivot assembly bearing, and bearing apparatus including the bearing" was invented by Motojiro Tsuna (Nagano, Japan), Jun Hatcho (Nagano, Japan) and Takanori Shingai (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "ObjectObjective is to provide a grease composition for a pivot assembly and a pivot assembly bearing filled with the grease composition, and to provide a bearing apparatus as well as a drive apparatus including the bearing apparatus, which is capable of suppressing adhesion of a volatilized component to a magnetic disk or the lik...