US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Sept. 8 for "Rolling bearing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,718, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Rolling bearing" was invented by Kunihiro Matsumoto (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Ryutaro Hirano (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Kazuki Watanabe (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling bearing includes an outer ring and an inner ring, a rolling element disposed in a rollable manner between the outer ring and the inner ring, a cage holding the rolling element, and a shield. The outer ring includes a raceway surface supporting the rolling element in a rollable manner, recess parts formed at both direction sides in an axial direction with respect to ...