ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,388, issued on June 3, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Ball bearing" was invented by Iman Nezami (Remscheid, Germany) and Thomas Klotten (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball bearing for the scroll of a scroll compressor, having an outer race, an inner race and a plurality of balls disposed therebetween, characterized in that the balls are held and guided in a ball bearing cage, wherein the ball bearing cage is formed as an externally guided plastic cage with a reinforcing structure made of metal as a hybrid cage."
The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/548,956.
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