US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Sealing arrangement for wheel bearings, and wheel bearing unit comprising a sealing arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,003, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Sealing arrangement for wheel bearings, and wheel bearing unit comprising a sealing arrangement" was invented by Branko Katana (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Marco Krapf (Burkardroth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing arrangement for a wheel bearing includes a carrier element connectable to a first bearing part of the wheel bearing, a resilient sealing element, and a counterflow plate connectable to a second bearing part of the wheel bearing. The resilient sealing element includes a resilient main body arranged on the...