US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Jan. 13 for "Bearing assembly" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,234, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing assembly" was invented by Gregory Hofmann (Telford, Pa.), Hans Wallin (Cape Coral, Fla.), Benkui Xia (Nanjing, China) and Jingwen Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly includes a first bearing unit and a second bearing unit for supporting a shaft, in particular a rotor shaft within a centrifugal compressor in which an axial load acts on the shaft in a first or a second axial direction, the second axial direction being opposite to the first axial direction. When the axial load acts in the first axial direction, the first...