ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,524, issued on April 7, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Induction hardening system" was invented by Gerhard Wagner (Prichsenstadt, Germany), Fred Menig (Sulzthal, Germany), Martina Sticht (Sennfeld, Germany) and Michael Wendel (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction hardening system for inductively hardening a component includes a first inductor group with at least two inductors configured to heat a region to be hardened on the component, a drive unit configured to move the component along the at least two inductors, and a generator. The at least two inductors are electrically energized by...