US Patent Issued to NSK on July 1 for "Cage for rolling bearing and rolling bearing incorporating cage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,297, issued on July 1, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cage for rolling bearing and rolling bearing incorporating cage" was invented by Taiki Yoshima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshitaka Naganuma (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: an environment-friendly synthetic resin cage that uses a 100% biomass raw material and therefore aims for carbon neutrality while having performance as a bearing in a conventional process; and a rolling bearing incorporating said cage. A crown-type cage for holding a plurality of rolling elements incorporated between an inner ring and an outer ring is produced with a polyamide resin ...