ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,335, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Double-row one-way bearing" was invented by Wei Li (Shanghai), Jianying Yang (Kunshan, China) and He Zhu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double-row one-way bearing includes a bearing outer ring and a bearing inner ring coaxially arranged around a central axis. Spherical rollers are arranged between the bearing outer ring and the bearing inner ring. Wedges are radially arranged between the bearing outer ring and the bearing inner ring relative to the central axis, and spaced apart from the spherical rollers in the axial direction. Each wedge i...