US Patent Issued to Miba Gleitlager Austria on June 17 for "Plain bearing pad and plain bearing arrangement, and nacelle equipped with a plain bearing arrangement for a wind turbine" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,782, issued on June 17, was assigned to Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH (Laakirchen, Austria).

"Plain bearing pad and plain bearing arrangement, and nacelle equipped with a plain bearing arrangement for a wind turbine" was invented by Patrick Laubichler (Gmunden, Austria) and Johannes Hoelzl (Berg im Attergau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide bearing pad for a slide bearing arrangement has a bearing surface. On a first circumferential face of the slide bearing pad, a lubricating oil transport groove is configured in the region of the bearing surface. The lubricating oil transport groove may have a radial groove depth and a...