Patents by Inventor Alfons Gerner

Alfons Gerner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Snap cage for ball bearings
    Patent number: 6416230
    Abstract: A plastic snap cage for radial ball bearings includes thin-walled cup-like pocket elements spaced about the circumference and connected with each other in one piece through ribs, thereby forming pockets that are open in the axial direction to receive the balls. The radially inwardly and/or the radially outwardly extending boundary edge of the pockets is rounded in accordance with a selected rounding radius R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Ina Wälzlager Schaeffler oHG
    Inventors: Erwin Staudigel, Albert Staudigel, Werner Pest, Alfons Gerner, Herbert Rost, Herbert Zettner