US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on May 13 for "Seal for taper roller bearing and taper roller bearing assembly" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,868, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Seal for taper roller bearing and taper roller bearing assembly" was invented by Jie Liu (Quzhou, China), Jinyan Lu (Yinchuan, China) and Xiaozhou Zhu (Quzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention may comprise a seal for a taper roller bearing. The seal includes: a frame having: an outer flange, extending radially outward, an inner flange, extending radially inward, an middle flange, located between the outer flange and the inner flange and extending in an axial direction. The outer flange, the inner flange and the middle flange are i...