US Patent Issued to WILO on Jan. 28 for "Bearing arrangement for guiding a motor shaft of a vertical turbine pump" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,589, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to WILO SE (Dortmund, Belgium).

"Bearing arrangement for guiding a motor shaft of a vertical turbine pump" was invented by Daniel Albers (Dortmund, Germany), Maksim Kirpo (Dortmund, Germany) and Shashank Pawar (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing arrangement for guiding a motor shaft for supporting axial and/or radial forces of a vertical turbine pump. The bearing arrangement includes a bearing comprising an inner ring which can be non-rotatably connected to the motor shaft and an outer ring, an oil sump filled with an oil, within which the bearing is arranged at least parti...