US Patent Issued to Aktibolaget SKF on May 26 for "Bearing unit with retaining cage" (Italian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,052, issued on May 26, was assigned to Aktibolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing unit with retaining cage" was invented by Riccardo Restivo (Turin, Italy), Piero Santangelo (Turin, Italy), Gianpiero Scaltriti (Turin, Italy) and Nils Manne (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bearing unit (30) has a central axis of rotation (X) and a retaining cage (40) for a plurality of rolling bodies (34) interposed between a radially outer ring (31) and a radially inner ring (33). The retaining cage (40) has a base rib (41), a plurality of tenons (42) that are spaced apart circumferentially and rigidly connected to the rib (41), ...