US Patent Issued to JTEKT, FUKUI SEIKI INDUSTRY on June 23 for "Cage, rolling bearing, and method for molding cage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,043, issued on June 23, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and FUKUI SEIKI INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cage, rolling bearing, and method for molding cage" was invented by Hironori Hiraoka (Yao, Japan), Takashi Iwata (Kitakatsuragi-gun, Japan), Yuya Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Matsuyama (Kitakatsuragi-gun, Japan), Ichizo Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Taro Sakaga (Itami, Japan) and Yuki Kunii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cage made of synthetic resin includes an annular body, a plurality of prongs, a plurality of gate marks formed away from each other in a circumferential direction, a weld formed between ...