US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on June 17 for "Bearing seal and a bearing with the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,785, issued on June 17, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing seal and a bearing with the same" was invented by Hongyuan An (Shanghai), Yafen Chen (Shanghai) and He Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing seal is suitable for sealing a space between a first rotating body and a second rotating body of a bearing. The first radial end of the bearing seal is arranged on the first rotating body and forms a contact seal with the first rotating body, the second radial end of the bearing seal is arranged close to the second rotating body and forms a non-contact seal with respect to the second rotating...