US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Oct. 27 for "Roller bearing having an asymmetrical raceway, in particular for a steering column" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,720, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Roller bearing having an asymmetrical raceway, in particular for a steering column" was invented by Bruno Montboeuf (Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France), Baptiste Vidil (Levallois-Perret, France), Thomas Lepine (Tours, France) and Lucia Knoblauch (Buchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller bearing for a steering column includes a first ring, a second ring and at least one row of balls arranged between the two rings. The second ring including a casing, at least one insert arranged in the casing so as to form a raceway of the second ring, and at lea...