US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Nov. 4 for "Sealing device and drive apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,693, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sealing device and drive apparatus including the same" was invented by Shingo Nishida (Tokyo) and Ryoichi Kawakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device includes a movable part which is fixed to a shaft penetrating a wall of a vessel and is movable with the shaft, the vessel being configured to include an interior space, a first bellows part which has a first end fixed to the vessel and a second end fixed to the movable part, for sealing a penetrated portion of the vessel by the shaft, a second bellows part which is disposed opposite to ...