US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on May 5 for "Bearing element for a bearing unit, and bearing unit with an increased life" (Austrian, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,439, issued on May 5, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing element for a bearing unit, and bearing unit with an increased life" was invented by Paul Dietl (Stephanshart, Austria) and Xiaobo Zhou (Houten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing element of a bearing unit includes a substrate, a first coating on the substrate and a second coating on the first coating. The first coating is configured to increase a wear resistance of the substrate and includes a first solid lubricant, and the second coating is softer than the first coating and includes a second solid lubricant. The solid lubricants of...