US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Thrust component, assembly method therefor, and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,469, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Thrust component, assembly method therefor, and apparatus" was invented by Huaiwei Guo (Shanghai) and Bin Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrust component is used for fixing an engaged member on a housing, said component comprises a stop ring and a position limiting structure; a second outer surface of the stop ring is provided with a stop flat portion and a stop inclined portion; and the position limiting structure is provided with a position limiting flat portion and a position limiting inclined portion at a si...