Patents by Inventor Antonia Nastasi

Antonia Nastasi 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).

  • Patent number: 11927227
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the sealing device being provided with a shield mounted on an outer ring of the bearing and with an annular cylindrical wall having an inner lateral surface mounted on an outer lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring; and with a sealing material fixed to the shield and defined by a pre-formed annular covering of polymer material, preferably but not necessarily rubber or thermoplastic material, formed independently and separately from the shield and mounted on the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Mickael Sansalone
  • Patent number: 11833853
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub unit is disclosed herein, wherein the sealing device being able, during use, to form a static seal for protecting the wheel hub unit from any environmental pollutant and being provided with a screen, which is engaged with a collar of the wheel hub unit and has a bottom wall, a cylindrical side wall integral with and more or less perpendicular to the bottom wall. The sealing device is designed and structured to protect the wheel hub unit from any environmental contaminant that the wheel hub unit may be exposed to during usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Daniele Duch, Antonia Nastasi, Laura Sguotti
  • Patent number: 11485172
    Abstract: A sealing device for a wheel hub unit configured to form a static seal to protect the wheel hub unit from environmental contaminants. The sealing device including a shield that is coupled to a collar of the wheel hub unit. The sealing device having a cylindrical lateral mounting wall pressed into the collar, an annular seat with a blind end formed in the cylindrical lateral wall, and a sealing gasket positioned, inside the seat and compressed radially between the groove and the collar, and formed by a sealing compound to allow the formation of a bead against the cylindrical lateral wall in a transport and/or assembly configuration of the sealing device. The bead being movable into the seat by a scraping action exerted by the collar during the assembly of the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Daniele Duch
  • Patent number: 11460074
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the sealing device being provided with a shield mounted on an outer ring of the bearing and with an annular cylindrical wall having an inner lateral surface mounted on an outer lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring; and with a sealing material fixed to the shield; an annular snap catch being positioned radially inside the cylindrical wall and extending radially from the inner lateral surface through a specified radial thickness so as to be snap-fitted into a circular groove formed on the outer lateral surface of the collar, and the sealing material being positioned behind the catch before the shield is mounted on the outer ring, with a radial overall dimension smaller than the thickness of the catch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Giorgio Missiaggia, Antonia Nastasi
  • Patent number: 11359671
    Abstract: A sealing device for bearing units is disclosed herein. The sealing device may comprise a static component and a dynamic component. The static component is provided with a shaped metal support, with a plurality of non-contacting sealing lips, and with two contacting lips. The dynamic component defines a labyrinth seal with a second sealing lip of said non-contacting sealing lips, a third lip, preferably non-contacting, being positioned along the labyrinth seal and having a full angular extension, so as to form a full seal against any ingress of contaminants into the bearing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Daniele Duch, Fausto Morello, Antonia Nastasi, Laura Sguotti
  • Patent number: 11318783
    Abstract: A sealing device for a wheel hub unit configured to form a static seal to protect the wheel hub unit from environmental contaminants. The sealing device including a metal shield that is coupled to a collar of the wheel hub unit, and has an end wall, a cylindrical lateral wall integral with, and orthogonal to, the end wall. The lateral wall has twice the thickness of the end wall in order to impart stiffness to the metal shield, and a stop edge integral with the cylindrical lateral wall on the opposite side to the end wall, for bearing axially against the collar; a sealing gasket formed by a silicone-based sealing compound being provided to allow the formation of a bead against a cylindrical lateral wall in an assembly configuration of the sealing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Daniele Duch
  • Publication number: 20220055403
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub unit is disclosed herein, wherein the sealing device being able, during use, to form a static seal for protecting the wheel hub unit from any environmental pollutant and being provided with a screen, which is engaged with a collar of the wheel hub unit and has a bottom wall, a cylindrical side wall integral with and more or less perpendicular to the bottom wall. The sealing device is designed and structured to protect the wheel hub unit from any environmental contaminant that the wheel hub unit may be exposed to during usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Daniele Duch, Antonia Nastasi, Laura Sguotti
  • Patent number: 11192400
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub unit is disclosed herein, wherein the sealing device being able, during use, to form a static seal for protecting the wheel hub unit from any environmental pollutant and being provided with a screen, which is engaged with a collar of the wheel hub unit and has a bottom wall, a cylindrical side wall integral with and more or less perpendicular to the bottom wall. The sealing device is designed and structured to protect the wheel hub unit from any environmental contaminant that the wheel hub unit may be exposed to during usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Daniele Duch, Antonia Nastasi, Laura Sguotti
  • Patent number: 11156251
    Abstract: A sealing device for a bearing unit having an axis of rotation and providing; a static component placed on a non-rotatable outer ring having a reinforcement support that abuts the outer ring and elastomeric material disposed on the reinforcement support, the elastomeric material forming first and second lips; a rigid shield configured for placement on one of a rotatable hub and a rotatable inner ring; the first and second lips have an equilibrium position where they do not contact the metallic shield; the elastomeric material forming a third lip that contacts the rigid shield to form an internal volume of the sealing device, the second lip and the rigid shield define a labyrinth seal in communication with the internal volume; the second lip, does not extend a full three hundred sixty degrees around the axis of rotation. This creates a channel for drainage of contaminants from the internal volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Paolo A Re
  • Publication number: 20210071763
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the sealing device being provided with a shield mounted on an outer ring of the bearing and with an annular cylindrical wall having an inner lateral surface mounted on an outer lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring; and with a sealing material fixed to the shield and defined by a pre-formed annular covering of polymer material, preferably but not necessarily rubber or thermoplastic material, formed independently and separately from the shield and mounted on the shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Mickael Sansalone
  • Publication number: 20210033149
    Abstract: A sealing device for bearing units is disclosed herein. The sealing device may comprise a static component and a dynamic component. The static component is provided with a shaped metal support, with a plurality of non-contacting sealing lips, and with two contacting lips. The dynamic component defines a labyrinth seal with a second sealing lip of said non-contacting sealing lips, a third lip, preferably non-contacting, being positioned along the labyrinth seal and having a full angular extension, so as to form a full seal against any ingress of contaminants into the bearing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Daniele Duch, Fausto Morello, Antonia Nastasi, Laura Sguotti
  • Publication number: 20210025495
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the sealing device being provided with a shield mounted on an outer ring of the bearing and with an annular cylindrical wall having an inner lateral surface mounted on an outer lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring; and with a sealing material fixed to the shield; an annular snap catch being positioned radially inside the cylindrical wall and extending radially from the inner lateral surface through a specified radial thickness so as to be snap-fitted into a circular groove formed on the outer lateral surface of the collar, and the sealing material being positioned behind the catch before the shield is mounted on the outer ring, with a radial overall dimension smaller than the thickness of the catch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Giorgio Missiaggia, Antonia Nastasi
  • Publication number: 20200332836
    Abstract: A sealing device for a bearing unit having an axis of rotation and providing; a static component placed on a non-rotatable outer ring having a reinforcement support that abuts the outer ring and elastomeric material disposed on the reinforcement support, the elastomeric material forming first and second lips; a rigid shield configured for placement on one of a rotatable hub and a rotatable inner ring; the first and second lips have an equilibrium position where they do not contact the metallic shield; the elastomeric material forming a third lip that contacts the rigid shield to form an internal volume of the sealing device, the second lip and the rigid shield define a labyrinth seal in communication with the internal volume; the second lip, does not extend a full three hundred sixty degrees around the axis of rotation. This creates a channel for drainage of contaminants from the internal volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Paolo A Re
  • Patent number: 10759219
    Abstract: Low-friction sealing assembly for a vehicle wheel-hub unit to be inserted in an annular space defined between a flanged rotating element and a stationary element, to protect at least one ring of rolling members arranged between the stationary element and the rotating element; the flanged rotating element being provided with a flange and a mounting seat delimited by a cylindrical bottom wall and by an axial shoulder arranged on the opposite side to the flange. Nominal dimensions of an internal diameter of a sleeve portion of an annular screen are substantially the same as nominal dimensions of an outer diameter of a cylindrical bottom wall of the mounting seat, and the axial shoulder has an entry edge with a substantially conical form for facilitating mounting of the annular screen on the rotating annular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Giorgio Barberis, Daniele Duch
  • Publication number: 20200130411
    Abstract: Sealing device for a wheel hub unit is disclosed herein, wherein the sealing device being able, during use, to form a static seal for protecting the wheel hub unit from any environmental pollutant and being provided with a screen, which is engaged with a collar of the wheel hub unit and has a bottom wall, a cylindrical side wall integral with and more or less perpendicular to the bottom wall. The sealing device is designed and structured to protect the wheel hub unit from any environmental contaminant that the wheel hub unit may be exposed to during usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Daniele Duch, Antonia Nastasi, Laura Sguotti
  • Publication number: 20200079149
    Abstract: A sealing device for a wheel hub unit configured to form a static seal to protect the wheel hub unit from environmental contaminants. The sealing device including a metal shield that is coupled to a collar of the wheel hub unit, and has an end wall, a cylindrical lateral wall integral with, and orthogonal to, the end wall. The lateral wall has twice the thickness of the end wall in order to impart stiffness to the metal shield, and a stop edge integral with the cylindrical lateral wall on the opposite side to the end wall, for bearing axially against the collar; a sealing gasket formed by a silicone-based sealing compound being provided to allow the formation of a bead against a cylindrical lateral wall in an assembly configuration of the sealing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Daniele Duch
  • Publication number: 20200079148
    Abstract: A sealing device for a wheel hub unit configured to form a static seal to protect the wheel hub unit from environmental contaminants. The sealing device including a shield that is coupled to a collar of the wheel hub unit. The sealing device having a cylindrical lateral mounting wall pressed into the collar, an annular seat with a blind end formed in the cylindrical lateral wall, and a sealing gasket positioned, inside the seat and compressed radially between the groove and the collar, and formed by a sealing compound to allow the formation of a bead against the cylindrical lateral wall in a transport and/or assembly configuration of the sealing device. The bead being movable into the seat by a scraping action exerted by the collar during the assembly of the shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Daniele Duch
  • Publication number: 20190061421
    Abstract: Low-friction sealing assembly for a vehicle wheel-hub unit to be inserted in an annular space defined between a flanged rotating element and a stationary element, to protect at least one ring of rolling members arranged between the stationary element and the rotating element; the flanged rotating element being provided with a flange and a mounting seat delimited by a cylindrical bottom wall and by an axial shoulder arranged on the opposite side to the flange. Nominal dimensions of an internal diameter of a sleeve portion of an annular screen are substantially the same as nominal dimensions of an outer diameter of a cylindrical bottom wall of the mounting seat, and the axial shoulder has an entry edge with a substantially conical form for facilitating mounting of the annular screen on the rotating annular element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Antonia Nastasi, Giorgio Barberis, Daniele Duch