US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on Nov. 4 for "Method and device for structural fatigue life testing of bearings" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,993, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and device for structural fatigue life testing of bearings" was invented by Xingzheng Li (Shaoxing, China), Keqiang Cao (Shanghai), Yuefeng Chen (Tours, China), Meng Zhang (Shanghai) and He Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for conducting structural fatigue life testing of a bearing, in which a cam embedded in the bearing under test generates a rotational dynamic radial expansion and transmits the expansion through the bearing to a load collar compactly mounted on the periphery of the bearing, forcing the load collar to deform syn...