US Patent Issued to Oiles on Sept. 30 for "Gas restriction structure constituting aerostatic bearing, and aerostatic bearing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,090, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oiles Corp. (Fujisawa, Japan).

"Gas restriction structure constituting aerostatic bearing, and aerostatic bearing" was invented by Akihiko Ito (Fujisawa, Japan) and Hirotsugu Tomita (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a gas restriction structure constituting an aerostatic bearing configured to eject a gas obliquely from an ejection port end of a pocket hole part, while reducing an area of the restrictor, and an aerostatic bearing. A gas restriction structure used for an aerostatic bearing made of a single base material and configured to eject a compressed air for supp...