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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hans Sjöström, Göteborg, SE;
Assignee:
SKF Nova AB, Gothenberg, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 3/334 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 3/334 ;
Abstract
A rolling bearing made of bearing steel and incorporating an inner race, an outer race positioned coaxially about the inner race and a set of rolling bodies positioned in the annular space between and in rolling contact with the inner and outer race, wherein at least one of the inner race, the outer race and the set of rolling bodies is provided with a surface coating incorporating an exterior carbon nitride layer and an intermediate layer interposed between the carbon nitride layer and the surface of the coated component(s), said intermediate layer being hexagonal boron carbon nitride.