ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,702, issued on May 20, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Wheel bearing device" was invented by Koki Shiramizu (Yamatotakada, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel bearing device includes: an inner shaft including a wheel mounting flange on one side in an axial direction and including double row inner raceway surfaces on the other; an outer ring including double row outer raceway surfaces facing the inner surfaces; a plurality of first balls interposed between a first inner raceway surface located on the one side in the axial direction out of the double row inner raceway surfaces and a first outer raceway surface lo...