US Patent Issued to Nidec Motor on May 20 for "Support roller bearing regreasing arrangement for high load crank assembly" (Missouri, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,785, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nidec Motor Corp. (St. Louis).

"Support roller bearing regreasing arrangement for high load crank assembly" was invented by Thomas A. Neese (Columbus, Ind.), Barry M. Newberg (Florissant, Mo.), Raymond D. Heilman (Florissant, Mo.) and William R. Lewis (St. Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crank assembly for displacing a load includes a motor and a displacement arm assembly. The motor includes a rotatable output shaft that defines a rotation axis. The displacement arm assembly includes a swingable crank arm and a support roller bearing. The swingable crank arm is coupled to the output...