US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on March 25 for "Rolling bearing with a guiding flange for a cage" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,003, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Rolling bearing with a guiding flange for a cage" was invented by Bruno Capoldi (Charentenay, France) and Herve Dondaine (Avallon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bearing includes a first ring, a second ring, at least one row of radial and axial rolling elements arranged between axial and radial raceways provided on the rings. The second ring has a protruding nose engaged into an annular groove of the first ring and provided with the axial raceway and with the radial raceway of the second ring. The bearing further provides at least one cage fo...