Patents Assigned to SKF
  • Patent number: 10345171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnet-integrated-type torque angle sensor module and, more particularly, to a torque angle sensor module that integrates magnets used for detecting steering direction, steering angle, torque, and steering speed and simplifies component configuration, capable of minimizing the rate of defects during assembly, improving disassembling ability, and inducing performance stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SKF SEALING SOLUTIONS KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Soo Hur, Chun Soo Han, Jung Sik Choi, Seong Jun Park, Shin Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 10344802
    Abstract: A seal assembly is for a spherical plain bearing with an inner ring mounted on a shaft and an outer ring disposed about the inner ring and having a concave inner surface slidably displaceable against the inner ring convex outer surface. The seal assembly includes an annular inner member disposed about the shaft axially adjacent to the bearing inner ring and having opposing first and second axial ends and an outer engagement surface extending axially between the first and second ends. A generally annular outer member has a base portion coupled with the bearing outer ring and a lip portion extending radially inwardly from the base portion and having an outer end sealingly engageable with the outer engagement surface of the seal inner member. The lip portion slidably displaces generally axially along the inner member engagement surface when the outer ring displaces axially relative to the inner ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Daniel Hurst, Tadd McBride
  • Patent number: 10344868
    Abstract: A seal assembly includes an annular inner casing disposed on a shaft and including an axial portion and two radial portions. An annular outer casing is disposed about the inner casing and includes an axial portion engageable with the body bore and a radial portion. An annular elastomeric seal member is coupled with the first radial portion of the inner casing and is engageable with the outer casing axial portion. An annular bumper has a fixed end coupled with the outer casing radial portion and a free end disposed adjacent to the inner casing second radial portion. At least one spacer extends from the bumper free end and is disposed against the inner casing second radial portion or within an opening through the inner casing second radial portion. The spacer(s) are detachable from the bumper when one of the inner and outer casings angularly displaces relative to the other casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Ron Jarosinski, Mahmoud Zandieh
  • Patent number: 10337773
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a refrigerant compressor and a first operating medium, which provides a mixture of refrigerant and lubrication oil. An oil separator reduces the percentage of the refrigerant in the operating medium to a value between 15% by weight and 50% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauleitner, Mario Kammerhuber, Guillermo Morales Espejel, Hans Wallin
  • Patent number: 10328746
    Abstract: A wheel hub unit having a central hub and a single central nut that includes respective shaped profiles radially oriented facing towards an axis (A) is provided. The wheel hub unit further includes an anti-unscrewing element interposed between the central hub and the single central nut to prevent accidental unscrewing of the single central nut. The anti-unscrewing element is provided with respective shaped profiles both radially oriented facing away from the axis (A) to engage with shaped profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Fabio Falsetti, Michele Appendini, Maurizio Bertola, Alessandro Galeazzi
  • Patent number: 10330155
    Abstract: A bearing unit provided with a rolling bearing having a radially outer race, two radially inner races, a ring of conical rollers arranged between the radially outer race and the two radially inner races, and a device for retaining grease and metering oil housed inside a groove of the radially outer race and having an annular wall arranged transversely with respect to the rolling bearing and acting as barrier for the flow of grease and provided with a plurality of through-openings for retaining the grease and allowing the oil to pass between the two rings of conical rollers in any operating condition, and also with a plurality of radial vanes engaged with the annular wall for retaining the grease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Massimiliano Ribet, Giuseppe Guala
  • Patent number: 10323731
    Abstract: A pulley device for a belt that includes an eccentric adjusting member fixed on a support, an eccentric hub rotatably mounted on the eccentric adjusting member, a torsion spring between the eccentric adjusting member and hub to exert a biasing force, and a pulley rotatably mounted on the hub. The hub provides an upper radial surface and the eccentric adjusting member provides a radially outwardly projecting flange formed at an upper end of the eccentric adjusting member and forming an axial abutment for the upper radial surface. The upper radial surface provides a pair of axially projected stops formed integrally within, each stop being dedicated to come into abutment against a corresponding stop provided by the radially outwardly projecting flange of the eccentric adjusting member. The hub further provides engaging means adapted to cooperate with an external tool, the engaging means circumferentially located between the projected stops of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Nicolas Tronquoy, Dirk Albrecht, Alain Gezault, Romuald Lescorail
  • Patent number: 10323970
    Abstract: A housing for a device for metered dispensing of a medium, the housing including at least one inlet, preferably threadless, configured to allow the medium to enter the housing from a reservoir, a plurality of receptacles, preferably threadless, a metering device in each of the plurality of receptacles, an inlet line connected to the at least one inlet, and a plurality of distribution lines connected to the inlet line and to each of the plurality of receptacles, wherein the housing includes a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schmidt, Dieter Schoenherr, Juergen Kreutzkaemper
  • Patent number: 10323685
    Abstract: A non-locating bearing arrangement for supporting one side of a trunnion ring of a converter. The arrangement provides a toroidal roller bearing mounted in a split housing having top and bottom halves, an inner ring of the bearing mounted to a trunnion of the trunnion ring and an outer ring of the bearing mounted to a bore in the housing. A first spacer ring mounted in axial abutment between a first side part of the housing an opposing end face of the outer bearing ring; a second spacer ring mounted in axial abutment between a second side part of the housing and an opposing end face of the outer bearing ring. The first spacer ring has an axial width greater than an axial width of the second spacer ring, and the protrusion has a plane of symmetry that is parallel to and axially offset from the housing center plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventor: Alfred Schildberger
  • Patent number: 10324003
    Abstract: A process for monitoring for the presence of fretting and/or smearing with false brinelling potential in a non-rotating bearing provides the steps of: acquiring acoustic emission data emanating from the non-rotating bearing under an alternating load; and comparing the acoustic emission data with a threshold indicative of fretting and/or smearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Allan Thomson, Joseph Erskine, Donald Howieson
  • Patent number: 10324103
    Abstract: An impulse ring centered on a central axis, for a sensor-bearing unit including a bearing is provided. The impulse ring includes a magnetized target that generates a magnetic fields adapted to be sensed by a sensor, and an annular target holder. The target holder provides an inner axial tubular portion adapted to be fixed to a rotatable inner ring of the bearing, an outer axial tubular portion holding the magnetized target that is positioned radially beyond an outer ring of bearing, and an intermediate portion that radially extends between the inner axial tubular portion and outer axial tubular portion. The intermediate portion provides a radial part, an inclined part and a plurality of stiffening ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Anthony Simonin, Vincent Sausset
  • Patent number: 10309452
    Abstract: A bearing assembly is for supporting a pivotable member and includes a laminated bearing having a generally cylindrical body with a centerline and a central bore for receiving at least a portion of the pivotable member. The body is formed of a plurality of alternating, generally tubular elastomeric and metallic laminae nested coaxially about the central axis, each one of the elastomeric and metallic laminae having opposing axial ends. At least one and preferably two thermally conductive members are coupled with a separate one of the two axial ends of one of the metallic laminae and each extends generally axially from the bearing body so as to provide a heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Thomas G. Mueller
  • Patent number: 10309697
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a refrigerant compressor and a first operating medium, which provides a mixture of refrigerant and lubrication oil. An oil separator reduces the percentage of the refrigerant in the operating medium to a value between 15% by weight and 60% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauleitner, Mario Kammerhuber, Guillermo Morales Espejel, Hans Wallin
  • Patent number: 10302530
    Abstract: Methods and systems to achieve highly efficient rotational machine integrity determinations in which at least one sensor (106) senses indicia (105) such as time-varying rotational indicia from a rotational motive apparatus (103) and a processor (108) may provide many different functions including but not limited to operational function energy apportioning decisional processing, data compression, intelligent hierarchical data ranking, differential data processing, or the like perhaps to generate information (109) such as a rotational integrity abridgment transmissor to which an abridgment transmissor electromagnetic signal (112) may be created and perhaps even transmitted from a rotational motive apparatus to facilitate a machine integrity determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Johannes I. Boerhout
  • Patent number: 10295232
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a refrigerant compressor and a first operating medium, which includes a mixture of refrigerant and lubrication oil. An oil separator reduces the percentage of the refrigerant in the operating medium so that a second lubrication oil enriched operating medium is provided by the oil separator, the provided second operating medium having at least in a second operating state a viscosity ratio of ?>1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauleitner, Mario Kammerhuber, Guillermo Morales Espejel, Hans Wallin
  • Patent number: 10295231
    Abstract: A cooling system includes a refrigerant compressor and a first operating medium, which provides a mixture of refrigerant and lubrication oil. An oil separator reduces the percentage of the refrigerant in the operating medium to a value between 25% by weight and 80% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauleitner, Mario Kammerhuber, Guillermo Morales Espejel, Hans Wallin
  • Patent number: 10279821
    Abstract: The invention relates to a railway axlebox bearing assembly including a radially outer mounting surface configured to be mounted so as to face a radially inner mounting surface of an axlebox housing. It is proposed to further provide the assembly with least two spacer elements configured to be mounted between the radially outer mounting surface and the mounting surface of an axlebox housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: François Champalou, Thierry Le Moigne
  • Patent number: 10280973
    Abstract: A hybrid roller bearing having an inner raceway and an outer raceway and a plurality of rollers arranged therebetween. The inner raceway and the outer raceway are made from bearing steel and have a first surface RMS roughness Rq1. At least one roller is made from a ceramic material and has at least at the roller raceway a second surface RMS roughness Rq2. The roughness of the raceways Rq1 is 1.2 to 4 times higher than the roughness Rq2 of the at least one roller, as well as a refrigerant compressor with such a hybrid roller bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Rudolf Hauleitner, Guillermo Enrique Morales Espejel, Aidan Kerrigan, Hans Wallin
  • Patent number: 10281299
    Abstract: An angle sensor is provided for determining an absolute angle signal of a first part rotated with respect to a second part. The angle sensor comprises a first grating ring for generating a first signal representative of a relative position of a first sensor along a corresponding ring segment of the first grating ring. The angle sensor further comprises a second grating ring for generating a second signal representative of a relative position of a second sensor along the corresponding ring segment of the second grating ring. The first plurality and the second plurality are co-prime numbers and a difference between the first plurality and the second plurality being larger than 1. The angle sensor also comprises a calculator configured for calculating the absolute angle signal using a first linear combination of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Georgo Angelis, Evren Yurtseven
  • Patent number: D847889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Dominik Gerber, Hans-Peter Panzer, Thomas Sikorski, Marcel Soltermann