US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on June 17 for "Rolling bearing, rotating apparatus, bearing monitoring apparatus and method for monitoring bearing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,787, issued on June 17, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Rolling bearing, rotating apparatus, bearing monitoring apparatus and method for monitoring bearing" was invented by Hideo Fujiura (Nagano, Japan), Shigeyuki Adachi (Nagano, Japan), Toshiaki Asakawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Atsushi Kitamura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring disposed coaxially with the outer ring, the inner ring being on an inner peripheral side of the outer ring. The rolling bearing includes multiple rolling elements disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring. The r...