US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Seal assembly for a wheel bearing, comprising a diagonal contact surface, and wheel bearing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,719, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Seal assembly for a wheel bearing, comprising a diagonal contact surface, and wheel bearing" was invented by Christian Mock (Schweinfurt, Germany), Darius Dlugai (Schwebheim, Germany), Marco Krapf (Burkardroth, Germany) and Andreas Kaiser (Werneck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal assembly for a bearing includes an inner support element arranged for connection to an inner bearing ring and an outer support element arranged for connection to an outer bearing ring. The inner support element has a contact surface formed at...