US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Method for producing a rolling bearing component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,361, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for producing a rolling bearing component" was invented by Werner Trojahn (Niederwerrn, Germany), Markus Dinkel (Wurzburg, Germany) and Johannes Moeller (Schweinfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a rolling bearing component includes providing a rolling bearing component formed from a rolling bearing steel, heating the rolling bearing component to form an austenitic microstructure, and cooling the rolling bearing component in a warm salt bath to a temperature below a martensite start temperatu...