ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,366, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Rolling bearing" was invented by Kenichiro Nishimura (Kitasaku, Japan) and Yoji Horiuchi (Kitasaku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a rolling element disposed in a rollable manner between the outer ring and the inner ring, and an O-ring made of an elastic body and fitted to a peripheral groove provided at an outer peripheral surface of the outer ring. A first bottom surface is provided at a center of the peripheral groove in an axial direction, and a second bottom surface is provided at an end p...