ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,898, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Double row angular contact ball bearing" was invented by Martin Haertel (Stuttgart, Germany), Christian Straub (Kempten, Germany) and Dietmar Rudy (Kleinbundenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double row angular contact ball bearing includes an outer ring and an inner ring having two axially interconnected ring elements. Two outer raceways are provided on the outer ring, and an inner raceway is provided on each ring element, balls running on the outer and inner raceways in two arrows. A ring section of a ring element p...