US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF, SKF Aerospace France S.A.S on Nov. 3 for "Bearing unit with retaining cage" (Italian, Austrian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,798, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Perrigny, France) and SKF Aerospace France S.A.S (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing unit with retaining cage" was invented by Federico Dal Zilio (None, Italy), Alexander Mocnik (Steyr, Austria), Salvatore Cerasuolo (Pinerolo, Italy) and Valentin Roger Claude Fleury (Romans-sur-Isere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing unit has a central rotation axis and includes radially inner and outer rings and a one-piece retaining cage having pockets bounded by cage rings and separated by bridges. A plurality of radially outwardly extending protuberances are arranged in a first row...