US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on July 8 for "Rotor bearing assembly for fluid flow power plants" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,327, issued on July 8, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Rotor bearing assembly for fluid flow power plants" was invented by Matthias Hofmann (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Michael Baumann (Gadheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor bearing assembly for an underwater generator of a fluid flow power plant includes a hollow cylindrical bearing carrier configured to be inserted into an interior of a rotor and releasably connected to the rotor such that they rotate together and an axle journal extending into an interior of the bearing carrier and rotatably supporting the bearing carrier. The bearing the axle...