US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on March 25 for "Method for producing a plain bearing sleeve, plain bearing sleeve, plain bearing and use thereof" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,944, issued on March 25, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for producing a plain bearing sleeve, plain bearing sleeve, plain bearing and use thereof" was invented by Bernhard Sanders (RoBtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plain bearing sleeve includes an inner diameter, a sleeve length greater than the inner diameter, an outer diameter, and a wall thickness smaller than 8% of the inner diameter. A sleeve blank includes a longitudinal axis, an outer surface, an inner surface, a first end face, a second end face opposite the first end face, and at least three threaded hol...