US Patent Issued to Miba Gleitlager Austria on Aug. 5 for "Plain bearing arrangement and nacelle equipped with a plain bearing arrangement for a wind turbine" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,996, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH (Laakirchen, Austria).

"Plain bearing arrangement and nacelle equipped with a plain bearing arrangement for a wind turbine" was invented by Christopher Zeh (Obernfeld, Germany), Patrick Laubichler (Gmunden, Austria), Albert Waldl (Laakirchen, Austria) and Johannes Hoelzl (Berg im Attergau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide bearing arrangement includes an inner ring element, an outer ring element, and at least one slide bearing element, which is arranged between the inner ring element and the outer ring element. The slide bearing element includes at least ...