ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,703, issued on May 20, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Tapered roller bearing and cage" was invented by Youzou Taniguchi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tapered roller bearing includes: an inner ring; an outer ring; a plurality of tapered rollers in rolling contact with an inner and an outer ring raceway; and an annular cage that has a plurality of pockets for accommodating the tapered rollers. The cage has a plurality of first lateral faces respectively facing outer peripheral surfaces of the tapered rollers respectively accommodated in the plurality of pockets from a first side in a circumferential dir...