US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Dec. 16 for "Wheel hub assembly having low friction and high performance" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,996, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Sweden).

"Wheel hub assembly having low friction and high performance" was invented by Francesco Lamboglia (Pinerolo, Italy), Marco Gemello (Nichelino, Italy) and Steffen Krines (Mellrichstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing unit for a wheel hub assembly for motor vehicles, the bearing unit having an axis of rotation (X) and having two radially outer raceways, two radially inner raceways, two rows of rolling bodies, the bearing unit having tribological parameters whose values affect the magnitude of the frictional forces between the respective raceways and ro...