US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Aug. 25 for "Bearing cage and roller bearing including the cage" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,453, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing cage and roller bearing including the cage" was invented by Roland Harich (Hochheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing cage for a roller bearing includes first and second axially spaced ring elements and a plurality of bridges extending therebetween and defining a plurality of pockets each configured to receive a roller element. Each of the bridges has first and second circumferential side faces that form contact surfaces for the rollers. Furthermore, each of the contact faces has an embossing depth greater than 50% of the radial th...