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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2022
Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Corporation;
Jing Dong, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Nafih Mekhilef, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Vincent Dimartino, Clifton, NJ (US);
Christian Murphy, Worcester, MA (US);
SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION, Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A sliding material including: a substrate, and a textured sliding layer overlying the substrate, where the sliding layer includes asperities including a plurality of apexes and nadirs, where 1) the sliding layer has a root mean square gradient of less than 0.064; 2) the sliding layer has an apex material portion of less than 10%; 3) the sliding layer has a nadir material portion of less than 75%, and where the textured sliding layer induces formation of a film when engaged in a rotational interface w/ another component.