US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Nov. 3 for "Hybrid cage and its applications" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,799, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Hybrid cage and its applications" was invented by Bin Zhang (Beijing), Jinguang Zhu (Dalian, China), Longnian Du (Dalian, China) and Zhengjiang Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid cage includes a unitary annular main frame and a plurality of attachment members fixedly attached to the main frame to define cage pockets for receiving rolling elements. The main frame may be formed from a first material and the plurality of attachment members may be formed from a second material different than the first material."

The patent was filed on Nov. 1...