US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Sept. 8 for "Angular contact self-aligning toroidal rolling element bearing" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,716, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Angular contact self-aligning toroidal rolling element bearing" was invented by Arne Lars Jonas Kullin (Landvetter, Sweden) and Andreas Lofqvist (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angular contact toroidal rolling element bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a set of rollers arranged between the inner and outer rings, and a cage having a plurality of pockets, each pocket retaining one of the rollers. Each roller has a curved raceway-contacting surface arranged for being in load carrying contact with a curved inner raceway of the...