US Patent Issued to NSK on Feb. 17 for "Angular ball bearing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,472, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo).

"Angular ball bearing" was invented by Haruka Matsuzaki (Gunma, Japan), Nobuhiko Nishimura (Gunma, Japan), Chiharu Shigeta (Gunma, Japan) and Shinji Fujita (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angular ball bearing includes an outer ring having an outer ring raceway surface, an inner ring having an inner ring raceway surface, and a plurality of balls being rollable between the outer ring raceway surface and the inner ring raceway surface at a contact angle, a bearing ring of at least one of the outer ring and the inner ring being a press-formed product of a steel pla...