US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Snap-action cage for a tapered roller bearing, and tapered roller bearing with the snap-action cage" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,542, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Snap-action cage for a tapered roller bearing, and tapered roller bearing with the snap-action cage" was invented by Michael Neumann (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Thomas Stahl (Poppenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snap-action cage for a tapered roller bearing is configured as a window cage with a plurality of windows for receiving tapered rollers, with a first cage portion having a plurality of first web portions. The first web portions in each case define run-on surfaces for the tapered rollers. A second cage portio...