Patents Assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF
  • Patent number: 11828284
    Abstract: A screw compressor element may have a housing; a cylinder bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring, a raceway, and a cylindrical rolling element that contacts the inner ring and the outer ring at a location of the raceway thereof; and a ball bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring, a raceway, and a ball shaped rolling element that contacts the inner ring and the outer ring at a location of the raceway thereof, wherein a rotor is rotatably arranged by way of the cylinder bearing and the ball bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP, AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Simon De Bock, Tom De Rooster
  • Patent number: 11820168
    Abstract: A hub assembly includes an inner rotatable hub having inboard and outboard axial ends, a radial flange extending outwardly from the outboard axial end and connectable with the wheel, an inner circumferential surface, and an opposing outer circumferential surface providing inboard and outboard inner races. An outer hub is disposed about the inner hub, connectable with the chassis and has inboard and outboard axial ends, an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface. The inner surface provides inboard and outboard outer races and a central surface section extending between the two outer races. First and second sets of rolling elements are disposed between the inner and outer races. One or more sensors are each disposed on the central surface section of the outer hub and are each configured to sense strain within the outer hub generated by the rolling elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Hendrik Anne Mol, Elizabertus Maljaars, Johannes Ravesloot, Nicolaas Simon Willem Den Haak, Matteo Senesi, Feng Qiu
  • Patent number: 11821466
    Abstract: A grooved nut for axially securing an inner ring of a bearing that is mounted on an axle or shaft includes a body portion surrounding a threaded inner bore. The body portion has a circumferential outer surface and an axial thickness, the outer surface includes at least one recess, and an axial depth of the recess is smaller than the axial thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Padelis Katsaros
  • Patent number: 11821467
    Abstract: A sensor bearing unit includes a bearing having a first ring and a second ring centered on an axis, an impulse ring secured to the first ring and a sensor device secured to the second ring for detecting rotational parameters of the impulse ring. The impulse ring is secured into a groove formed on a cylindrical surface of the first ring which is located radially on a side of the first ring opposite the second ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Maruti Vitthal Khaire, Manoj M Babu
  • Patent number: 11822323
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a corrective solution recommendation for an industrial machine failure, the method including: monitoring a plurality of segments of at least an industrial machine behavioral model to identify a first segment having at least a first set of characteristics associated with a previous machine failure; determining a corrective solution recommendation that solved the previous machine failure; identifying at least a second set of characteristics associated with a second segment; and generating a notification comprising the corrective solution recommendation when the second set of characteristics is determined to be similar to the first set of characteristics above a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: David Lavid Ben Lulu, Waseem Ghrayeb
  • Patent number: 11821465
    Abstract: An inner ring or and outer ring for a roller bearing includes: 0.30-0.45 wt. % carbon, 0.1-0.7 wt. % silicon, 0.6-0.9 wt. % manganese, 0.9-1.2 wt. % chromium, 0.15-0.7 wt. % molybdenum, 0-2.0 wt. % nickel, 0-0.02 wt. % phosphorus, and 0-0.02 wt. % sulfur, the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities. The microstructure of the steel composition contains bainite, and a carbonitrided case layer is provided on a surface of the inner ring or outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Feizhou Zhang, Staffan Larsson
  • Patent number: 11815129
    Abstract: Disclosed is a needle roller bearing, in particular for use in supporting a bottom roller in a spinning machine. The needle roller bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring which are arranged such that the inner ring and the outer ring are rotatable relatively to each other around a bearing rotation axis. A rolling chamber is defined between the inner ring and the outer ring, in which a plurality of needle rollers are arranged. A solid lubricant is disposed in the rolling chamber of the needle roller bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Shihao Du, Thomas Kettner, Harald Metz, Sebastian Dinkel
  • Patent number: 11815131
    Abstract: A seal assembly is for sealing a space adjacent to a bearing and defined between an inner member and an outer member disposed about the inner member. The seal assembly includes an annular seal disposed about the inner member and having a sealing lip sealingly engageable with the inner member. An annular load ring is disposed within the outer member bore and has an inner circumferential surface defining a bore, the seal being disposed within the bore and coupled with the ring. A first axial end of the ring is disposed against the bearing outer ring, or a spacer disposed axially between the load ring and the bearing outer ring, and a second axial end is disposed against a radial surface of the outer member. The load ring is configured to support axial loading on, and to prevent axial displacement of, the bearing outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: John Arthur Wilkins
  • Patent number: 11802811
    Abstract: Belt tensioning monitoring device for monitoring the belt tensioning of a belt of a belt drive system having a driving pulley and a driven pulley rotated by the driving pulley. The belt tensioning monitoring device is configured to determine the belt slip effect with at least one mark provided on the belt and a sensor configured to detect the mark and to send a signal to an electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Thomas Frost, Andreas Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11796003
    Abstract: A seal assembly is for a wheel bearing assembly including an inner axle and a rotatable outer hub disposed about the axle. The seal assembly includes an annular inner case having an axial portion disposable about the axle and a radial portion extending radially outwardly from the axial portion. A seal is coupled with the hub and has sealing lip(s) sealingly engageable with the annular case. Further, an annular flinger has an inner radial end coupled with or integrally formed with the annular inner case and an outer radial end including an outer axial portion spaced radially inwardly from the inner circumferential surface of the hub so as to define an annular labyrinth gap. The flinger includes a central portion that is at least partially frustoconical and extends between the inner and outer axial ends so as to obstruct an annular space between the inner case and the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Rico Dittmar
  • Patent number: 11796001
    Abstract: A method of forming a bearing cage segment includes punching a plurality of openings in a sheet metal band to form a plurality of pockets separated by a plurality of bridges, the bridges having a length direction transverse to a length direction of the band and having a width in the length direction of the band and having a thickness in a direction perpendicular the length direction and to the width, and laser cutting the sheet metal band along one of the plurality of bridges transversely to the length direction of the band to form a joint edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Friedrich, Norbert Huhn, Thomas Kettner, Manfred Mattes, Harald Metz, Achim Mueller, Alfred Radina, Jonas Schierling, Maximilian Soellner, Markus Volkmuth
  • Patent number: 11796421
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring a bearing in an electromagnetic field environment includes a vibration sensor for delivering at least one measurement that includes at least one vibration frequency generated by a bearing, and a processing module that includes a first processing module configured to determine at least one normalized measured value from the at least one vibration frequency, a filtering module configured to compare the normalized measured value to at least one predetermined normalized reference value indicative of electromagnetic phenomena acting on the bearing, and a second processing module configured to process the at least one vibration frequency to determine a bearing defect if the normalized measured value is different from the at least one predetermined normalized reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Elizabertus Maljaars, Alireza Azarfar, Kareem Gouda, Lambert Karel van Vugt, Cornelis Harm Taal
  • Patent number: 11788595
    Abstract: A machine assembly includes a first machine component and a second machine component, the first machine component including a first installation surface and the second machine component including a second installation surface. The first and second installation surfaces are mounted against one another in the assembly. A friction-increasing element is provided in the assembly between the first installation surface and the second installation surface. Further, in the assembled state, a sealing material is introduced into an intermediate space between the first and second installation surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Matthias Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11788605
    Abstract: A modular high precision gear box arrangement includes first and second gear boxes. The first gear box has a first rotatable hollow wheel, a second fixed hollow wheel and at least one double planet having a first planet and a second planet arranged on a planet shaft. The first planet meshes with the first hollow wheel, the second planet meshes with the second hollow wheel, and the first hollow wheel is coupled with an output. The second gear box includes a fixed hollow wheel that is the second hollow wheel of the first gear box and at least one planet that is the second planet of the at least one double planet of the first gear box. The second gear box further includes an input for driving the planet shaft, wherein the input is arranged centrically or eccentrically to a central rotation axis of the gear box arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Ingo Schulz
  • Patent number: 11781595
    Abstract: A deep groove ball bearing providing an inner ring, an outer ring and a plurality of balls being arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring. The inner ring and the outer ring each include a raceway for the plurality of balls. Each raceway encompasses the plurality of balls symmetrically. The deep groove ball bearing is lubricated by a lubricant being arranged on each axial side of the plurality of balls. The raceways are offset in the same axial direction from the axial center of the inner ring and the outer ring such that the raceways are offset to the axial side of the deep groove ball bearing where the shear rate acting on the lubricant is higher than on the other axial side of the deep groove ball bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Pieter Martin Lugt, Mourad Chennaoui, Nicola de Laurentis, Sathwik Chatra Kalsanka Ramakrishna, Jun Wang, Frank Berens
  • Patent number: 11780496
    Abstract: A steering suspension of a vehicle includes a suspension upright and a mechanical component consisting of a radially outer ring of a wheel hub unit or of a rolling bearing forming part of a wheel hub unit. The outer ring is provided integral in one piece with a flange and a steering arm, extending radially cantilevered from the outer ring and the flange, with which it is also integral in one piece. On the side opposite to the steering arm the flange is integral in one piece with a pair of axially drilled radial lugs, configured to support, in use, a brake caliper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF, FCA ITALY S.p.A.
    Inventors: Renato Badino, Marco Falossi, Francesco Lamboglia, Carlo Pavesio
  • Patent number: 11773908
    Abstract: An electrically conductive assembly prevents current flow through the raceways of a bearing disposed about a shaft and an outer ring disposed and within a bore of an outer member. An arcuate conductor has a centerline, an inner radial end engageable with the shaft or a bearing inner ring, an outer radial end and two circumferential ends spaced circumferentially apart such that an arcuate gap is defined between the two ends when the conductor is installed about the shaft or the bearing inner ring. The two circumferential ends define a gap angle about the centerline, the gap angle having a value of at least thirty degrees. At least one conductive coupler is configured to attach the conductor to the outer member, another member or the bearing outer ring such that an electrically conductive path extends through the conductor and the at least one coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Gene A Kovacs
  • Patent number: 11774040
    Abstract: A piston assembly is for a fluid delivery device, preferably a lubricant injector, the injector having a measuring chamber defined by an inner cylindrical surface and an axial end face, a flow port through the end face, and a central axis extending through the chamber. The piston assembly includes a piston body disposeable within the chamber so as to be linearly displaceable along the central axis. The piston body includes a cylindrical head, the head having first and second axial ends and an outer circumferential surface, and a rod extending axially from the second axial end of the piston head. A seal is coupled with the first axial end of the piston head and has an annular lip sealingly engageable with the chamber inner cylindrical surface and an axial end engageable with the chamber end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: LINCOLN INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIO, AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Tadd McBride, Chris Holland, Brandon Green
  • Patent number: 11772419
    Abstract: A wheel end assembly includes a hub connectable with a wheel and having a bore for receiving a shaft. An inboard bearing within the bore includes an outer ring coupled with hub, an inner ring within the outer ring and rolling elements. A seal assembly is coupled with the inner ring and retains the inner ring within the outer ring when the end assembly is separate from the shaft. An outboard bearing within the hub bore includes an outer ring coupled with the hub, an inner ring within the outer ring and rolling elements. A nut assembly is disposed adjacent to the outboard bearing and includes a nut threadably engaging the shaft. A retainer retains the nut assembly adjacent to the outboard bearing to limit axial displacement of the outboard inner ring to maintain the inner ring within the outer ring when the wheel end is separate from the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Ganesh Kamath, Cengiz R Shevket, Fabricio Teixeira
  • Patent number: D1004404
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Abraham Hendrik Hooghart, René Vermeulen