ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,457, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bearing block unit and use thereof" was invented by Jiakai Liu (Shanghai) and Xiaofeng Xu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing block unit for supporting a continuous casting roll, including a bearing block and a roller bearing disposed inside the bearing block. The bearing provides an inner ring raceway, an outer ring raceway, and at least one row of rolling bodies disposed between the inner and outer ring raceways. The inner ring raceway is formed by a complete and continuous independent inner ring. The inner ring is fitted on a roll shaft of...