US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on May 19 for "Wheel hub bearing unit with optimized positioning of outboard balls" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,214, issued on May 19, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Wheel hub bearing unit with optimized positioning of outboard balls" was invented by Lokesh Nagarajan (Northville, Mich.), Nicholas J Maslany (Brighton, Mich.) and Paolo A Re (Nichelino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel hub bearing unit includes a hub rotatable about an axis and having a flange connectable with a wheel, an inner ball raceway and an inner roller raceway. An outer ring is connectable with the vehicle and disposed about the hub and has an outer ball raceway and an outer roller raceway. A plurality of balls roll upon the inner and o...