US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Sept. 8 for "Scroll compressor with rolling element bearings" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,683, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Scroll compressor with rolling element bearings" was invented by Michael Enes (Fairport, N.Y.), Rudolf Hauleitner (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hans Wallin (Cape Coral, Fla.) and Guillermo Enrique Morales Espejel (Ijsselstein, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor includes a housing and a rotatable drive shaft disposed within the housing and having an eccentric end portion. First and second support bearings rotatably couple the drive shaft with the housing and each includes a plurality of rolling elements, at least one of which is ceramic, ...