US Patent Issued to TAIHO KOGYO, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on March 25 for "Compressor having bulged bushings" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,965, issued on March 25, was assigned to TAIHO KOGYO Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan) and DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Compressor having bulged bushings" was invented by Ukyo Ishiguro (Toyota, Japan), Shingo Goto (Toyota, Japan), Ryohei Nakamura (Toyota, Japan) and Yasuyuki Tago (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression mechanism that can suppress generation of galling and seizure is provided. The compression mechanism includes a bush 60 including a first sliding surface 61 sliding with an inner surface 45a of a bush hole 45 and a second sliding surface 63 sliding with a side surface 52a of a blade of a piston, a...