US Patent Issued to Resonac on Sept. 23 for "Aluminum alloy for sliding components, and sliding component" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,577, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aluminum alloy for sliding components, and sliding component" was invented by Takumi Maruyama (Kitakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum alloy for sliding components contains 8.0-11.5% by mass of Si, 0.7-1.2% by mass of Cu, 0.2-0.6% by mass of Mg, 0.30-0.60% by mass of Mn, 0.10-0.30% by mass of Fe, 0.01-0.03% by mass of Cr, and balance Al with inevitable impurities, in which a tensile strength at 25deg C. is within a range of 330 MPa or more and 380 MPa or less, the aluminum alloy does not contain, per 1182 micro metre2, two or more crystallized produc...