US Patent Issued to NSK on May 19 for "Rolling bearing ring and manufacturing method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,217, issued on May 19, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo).

"Rolling bearing ring and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Kentaro Suganuma (Fujisawa, Japan), Hiroki Komata (Fujisawa, Japan), Daisuke Kobayashi (Fujisawa, Japan), Hiroki Shoda (Fujisawa, Japan) and Haruna Kodama (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a rolling bearing ring comprising: a step of obtaining a base member; a step of forming, by laser cladding, a cladded layer made of a metal material having a higher hardness than the base member on one surface of the body member; a step of forming a rolling element guide surface by ...