US Patent Issued to CeramicSpeed Sport on Nov. 18 for "Sprocket assembly and a method for preventing ingress of dirt in a bearing of a sprocket assembly" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,949, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CeramicSpeed Sport A/S (Holstebro, Denmark).

"Sprocket assembly and a method for preventing ingress of dirt in a bearing of a sprocket assembly" was invented by Jacob Csizmadia (Holstebro, Denmark) and Anders Pedersen (Herning, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sprocket assembly includes a sprocket including a center orifice and a bearing located in the center orifice with an outer part of the bearing fixed in relation to the sprocket. The sprocket assembly also includes a dust cover fixed in relation to an inner part of the bearing. An outer cover diameter of the dust cover is bigger th...