US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on May 26 for "Contact-free wheel bearing pre-seal and wheel bearing arrangement with such a pre-seal" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,910, issued on May 26, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Contact-free wheel bearing pre-seal and wheel bearing arrangement with such a pre-seal" was invented by Gregor Schaaf (Cremlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact-free wheel bearing pre-seal between a wheel carrier, on the one hand, and a wheel hub, a wheel bearing, and/or an axle stub, on the other hand. A sealing ring which is fixed to the wheel hub, the wheel bearing, and/or the axle stub and forms a sealing gap together with a mating contour on the wheel carrier or on a component fastened to the wheel carrier. The sealing ring has radial w...