ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,332, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bearing seal and its applications" was invented by Meng Zhang (Datong, China), Dapeng Li (Shenyang, China) and Yangguang Zhao (Xinchang County, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing seal provides a first sealing member to be secured to a shoulder on one side of a first bearing ring and a second sealing member that can be secured to a shoulder on the same side of a second bearing ring. A labyrinth seal gap is formed between the first sealing member and the second sealing member, which has at least one tooth-shaped turn. On the basis of the above...