US Patent Issued to NTN EUROPE on June 24 for "Plain bearing or rolling bearing equipped with a sealing device with a seal seat close to the axis of revolution" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,861, issued on June 24, was assigned to NTN EUROPE (Annecy, France).

"Plain bearing or rolling bearing equipped with a sealing device with a seal seat close to the axis of revolution" was invented by Alexandre Baudu (Annecy, France), Vincent Pourroy-Solari (Thones, France) and Siegfried Ruhland (Annecy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring and a sealing device. The sealing device includes at least an outer structure secured to the outer ring, and an inner structure secured to the inner ring. The inner structure includes a shrink-fitting portion shrink-fitted onto a shrink-fitting beari...