US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on April 21 for "Liner for bearing and bearing assembly including the liner" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,229, issued on April 21, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Liner for bearing and bearing assembly including the liner" was invented by Tianfu Jin (Shanghai), Zhangxu Zhou (Shanghai), Han Wu (Shanghai), Ricky Allan Burgess (Spring Lake, Mich.) and Yanqin Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liner configured to be mounted on a radially inner or outer surface of a bearing ring has a generally cylindrical base having first and second axial ends and at least one groove and at least one side wall extending radially from the first or second axial end. The liner is non-metallic and has a base portion covering...