US Patent Issued to NOK on July 1 for "Sealing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,310, issued on July 1, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Japan).

"Sealing device" was invented by Tatsuya Mori (Fukushima, Japan), Yu Yamaguchi (Fukushima, Japan), Masamichi Kishiro (Fukushima, Japan) and Toshiaki Yamauchi (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device includes a seal housing disposed between a cylinder and a rod, an inner seal disposed between the rod and the seal housing, the inner seal being in contact with the rod, and an outer seal disposed between the inner seal and the seal housing, the outer seal being in contact with both the inner seal and the seal housing, in which one of the outer seal and the ...