ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,987, issued on March 17, was assigned to Aktiebolaget, SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bearing unit with optimized clamping device" was invented by Andrea A. Bertolini (Carrara, Italy), Fausto Baracca (Massa, Italy), Alessio Nebbia Colomba (Pisa, Italy) and Pasquale Frezza (Aversa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing unit configured to be clamped on a machine shaft includes a stationary radially outer ring, a rotatable radially inner ring having a radially inner surface, a row of rolling bodies interposed between the radially outer ring and the radially inner ring, and a clamping device that includes a clamping sleeve between ...