ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,002, issued on April 29, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Roller bearing" was invented by Andreas Bierlein (HaBfurt, Germany) and Rainer Schroeder (Egenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller bearing includes inner and outer rings, and a plurality of rolling bodies configured to roll in two rows on corresponding raceways on the inner and outer rings. At least one of the inner ring and outer ring is split radially to form at least two ring portions. The raceway in an abutment region between the at least two ring portions has a ground recess locally deepening the raceway. Ea...