US Patent Issued to JTEKT Bearings North America on March 11 for "Stop pin for a ball screw assembly" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,648, issued on March 11, was assigned to JTEKT Bearings North America LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Stop pin for a ball screw assembly" was invented by Justin K. Brubaker (Greenville, S.C.), Ken Anderson (Taylors, S.C.), Trent L. Carpenter (Anderson, S.C.) and Daniel J. Schertz (Pickens, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball screw having a threaded stem including a ball groove formed in an outer surface thereof, a ball nut including a central bore formed by an inner surface thereof, the inner surface defining a ball groove, a first recess extending inwardly from an end face of the ball nut and into the ball groove of the inner surfa...