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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2020
Eagle Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichiro Tokunaga, Tokyo, JP;
EAGLE INDUSTRY CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sliding component includes a pair of the sliding members being slidable relative to each other on sliding surfaces of the sliding members. One of the sliding surfaces includes a dimple group in which a plurality of dimples is arranged and each of the dimples has an opening portion whose shape has a long axis and a short axis orthogonal to the long axis. The dimple group includes a clockwise dimple group in which the dimples are arranged in a clockwise direction from an inner diameter side to an outer diameter side of the sliding surface and a counterclockwise dimple group in which the dimples are arranged in a counterclockwise direction from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side of the one of the sliding surfaces.