US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Sept. 22 for "Method of coating metallic component of a rolling-element bearing or a plain bearing" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,243, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method of coating metallic component of a rolling-element bearing or a plain bearing" was invented by Thilo von Schleinitz (Schweinfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coating a metallic component of a rolling-element bearing or a plain bearing having at least one non-sandblasted surface includes directly applying a first metal coating onto at least a portion of the non-sandblasted surface by a cold spray method, preferably at a pressure of more than 50 bar. Also a coated metallic component formed by the method."

The patent was file...