US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on May 5 for "Bearing assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,440, issued on May 5, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing assembly" was invented by Klaus Dahinten (GroBbardorf, Germany), Werner Schimmel (Waigolshausen, Germany) and Jesko-Henning Tanke (Schweinfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a bearing assembly, in particular a large bearing assembly, including at least one inner ring and at least one outer ring, between which at least one circumferential seal is disposed that slips on a circumferential slip surface of the inner ring or of the outer ring, wherein guide channels are formed on the slip surface or the circumferential seal."

The pate...