US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Feb. 24 for "Suspension bearing unit with gasket and method of forming same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,202, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Suspension bearing unit with gasket and method of forming same" was invented by Thomas Lepine (Tours, France), Paul Rabourdin (Tours, France), Jordan Renaudon (Saint Cyr sur Loire, France) and Bruno Montboeuf (Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension bearing unit includes a lower support cap, an upper bearing cap, at least one bearing disposed between the lower support cap and the upper bearing cap, and at least one gasket overmolded to the upper bearing cap and having a sealing portion extending toward the lower support cap...