US Patent Issued to Parker-Hannifin on Jan. 28 for "Sealing elements with integrated intrinsic energizers" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,666, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Sealing elements with integrated intrinsic energizers" was invented by Glenn R. Craig (Lakewood, Ohio) and Dale M. Ashby (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing element (10) includes a sealing lip (16), an outer shell (12) defining an outer perimeter of the sealing element (10), and an energizing porous matrix structure (18) that is formed integrally with the sealing lip (16) or the outer shell (12) and extends from the outer shell (12) to the sealing lip (16). The energizing porous matrix structure (18) is used to tune a sealing force of the se...