US Patent Issued to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES on Oct. 14 for "Three-point contact rolling bearing with improved drain" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,416, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES (Bordes, France).

"Three-point contact rolling bearing with improved drain" was invented by Benjamin Nicolas Fulleringer (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Damien Paul Antonin Lecouvreur (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Laurent Jean Crabos (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rolling bearing with three contact points, wherein the inner raceway, the third contact point being located in a sector of the outer raceway delimited by a proximal end of the outer raceway on the one hand, and by the rolling plane on the other hand, characterized in that the outer ring co...