Brakes inventions 01/07

20070017754 - Two-wheeled vehicle and chassis braking system: A chassis braking system for braking a chassis includes a braking unit including a braking surface biased toward a road surface on which the chassis runs and having a first state where movement of the braking surface toward the road surface is locked and a second state where the braking... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070017755 - Roller brake mounting adapter: The roller brake mounting adapter is configured to be mounted to a bicycle wheel driving device (e.g., hub) equipped with an internal motor. The roller brake mounting adapter has a flange part and a cylindrical part. The flange part is configured to be mounted to a side end section of... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070017756 - Disk brake device: A disk brake has a mount and a pad. The pad has a guide portion and outer and inner push bearing portions on a disk rotor rotation outlet side. The mount has a support portion to support the guide portion movably in a rotor axial direction. The outer and inner... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070017757 - Spring-actuated brake cylinder: A spring-actuated brake cylinder having a housing with a first housing part in which there is formed a spring chamber containing an actuator spring that acts on a spring-actuated piston, and with a second housing part in which there is formed a pressure chamber, the housing parts being provided with... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20070017758 - Magnetorheological damper and use thereof: An magnetorheological damper useful in structural vibration control has a damper body and a moveable portion relative to the damper body. The damper includes an magnetorheological material contained within the damper body for resisting movement of the moveable portion. Rheology changes can be generated in the magnetorheological material owing to... Agent: Law Offices Of Jacobson Holman

20070017759 - Shock absorbing structure: A shock absorbing structure comprises: a cylinder, a valve, a moveable tube, an adjusting tube and a valve rod. The valve rod, the adjusting tube and the moveable tube are coaxially arranged in a telescopic manner. The valve is fixed at an end of the moveable tube, and cooperates with... Agent: Banger Shia

20070017760 - Suspension arrangement for motor vehicles: The invention relates to a suspension arrangement (1) for—loading-bearing and resilient wheel support in a motor vehicle, having at least one spring cylinder (2) with a piston (6) which is guided in a cylinder (4) such that it can be moved relative to the latter and which, on one side,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070017761 - Jounce assembly for a suspension system: A suspension system for a vehicle having a vehicle body and a plurality of wheels movable relative to the vehicle body. A hydraulic damper, which includes a piston rod and a cylinder, is disposed between the vehicle body and wheels. A striker plate is mounted to the cylinder and is... Agent: Basf Aktiengesellschaft

20070017762 - Suspension bearing: A protruding portion is formed integrally on an outer ring in such a manner as to protrude from an outer raceway surface toward an inner raceway surface. A sliding portion is formed on an inner ring as a separate element from the inner raceway surface in such a manner as... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070017763 - Energy conversion device including a piston without o-rings: An energy conversion device includes a gas cylinder having a cylinder body, and a piston guided to move along a direction. The cylinder body includes an annular partition wall unit extending from a base plate and defining a piston chamber. The piston includes a plug and an annular fence unit.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070012525 - Disc brake friction couple wear indicator: A disc brake assembly wear indicator configured to be examined by physical contact, i.e. touch, as well as by eyesight to determine wear of the brake assembly friction couple. Physical markings are provided on the assembly carrier and caliper in locations selected so that the tactile-sensible markings are furthest away... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070012526 - Wheelchair inboard disk brakes: Disk brakes are located to the interior of the outermost extent of the space frame of the wheelchair, and are within the volume of this space frame, being most commonly under the seat of the occupant of the wheelchair. In this location the disk brakes are subject to unobstructed operation,... Agent: William C. Fuess

20070012527 - Brake system for remote-control toy car: A brake system used in a remote-control toy car is disclosed to include brake pads and brake discs alternatively arranged on two holder members at two sides of a differential, two shafts respectively pivotally mounted in the two holder members and deviated from one side of the center line, each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070012528 - Vehicular brake hydraulic control device: The vehicular brake hydraulic control device includes a plurality of electromagnetic valves arranged at regular intervals on a first attaching plane of a body, and coil assemblies fit over each of the electromagnetic valves, wherein the soil assemblies adjacent to one another are arranged apart by a predetermined gap. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070012529 - Automatic slack adjuster: An automatic slack adjuster for vehicle brakes to adjust the brake system to compensate for brake wear. The automatic slack adjuster has a body pivotable about an axis for transmitting torque to a brake shaft and at least one component with a toothed portion that includes a ceramic material, such... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070012530 - Bearing damper having dispersed friction damping elements: The present invention is a bearing support apparatus that provides damping to the bearing, and is made of high temperature resistant materials in order that the bearing can be used in a high temperature environment such as a gas turbine engine. The bearing support includes an annular chamber that is... Agent: Manny Garcia Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.

20070012531 - Shock absorber with electronic control: A damper including a valve movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively alter the compression damping rate of the shock absorber. The valve may be responsive to a vertical acceleration sensor.... Agent: Fox Factory, Inc.

20070012532 - Working cylinder with terminal position damping: A working cylinder with end position damping which has at least one telescoping damping pin, which upon the approach to the corresponding end position of the piston plunges into a receiving opening, which closes off a damping chamber and forms a damping element, in an end part of the working... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070012533 - Hydraulic system bleed device: A hydraulic system bleed device for applying pressure to a pedal associated with a hydraulic system so as to permit the hydraulic system to be bled by a single person. The hydraulic system bleed device includes a cylinder with an internal compression spring, extension shafts extendable from within the cylinder,... Agent: William H. Hollimon Moyle, Flanigan, Katz, Raymond & Sheehan, P.A.

20070012534 - Utility trailer and safety barrier for street repair: A utility trailer provides a frame defining a forward open bottom work space, a medially rearward deck and a rearwardmost extendable impact attenuator. Hitch structure encloses the forward portion of the work space. The impact attenuator is deployable spacedly rearwardly of the utility trailer in work site mode and provides... Agent: Keith S Bergman Attorney At Law

20070012535 - Laminated damper: A laminated damper intended to be used to support and dampen vibrations in a bearing, where the damper includes a plurality of laminates of a flexible yet rigid material, the damper having an L-shape proximal end and a bearing support surface on the distal end, and where the distal end... Agent: Paul Matheny Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.

20070007088 - Brake condition monitoring: A system and method for monitoring the applications of carbon-carbon brakes of an aircraft to determine brake condition and operate a brake maintenance program or charge a brake system user. The system and method includes monitoring each actuation of the brakes and making a separate record of each actuation of... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20070007089 - Wheelbarrow with braking system: A braking system for a wheelbarrow comprises a brake assembly which includes a band-type braking member and a link member connected to the braking member, wherein the braking member encircles more than about one half of the outer circumference of the wheel flange of the wheel. The wheelbarrow braking system... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070007090 - Manually actuated brake system for manually towable vehicle: A brake system for a vehicle having a plurality of wheels and a frame comprising a mechanically actuated braking assembly operably coupled with at least one of the wheels and being operable between braking and non-braking conditions, a handle coupled to the braking assembly and being mounted to the frame... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20070007091 - Gas spring: A gas spring has a pressure cylinder consisting of nonmagnetic material and closed at two ends, and a piston movably guided in the pressure cylinder. The piston divides the pressure cylinder into a first working chamber and a second working chamber, which are both filled with a pressurized fluid and... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070007092 - Vibration damper having a buffer spring: A vibration damper includes a damper tube filled with a damping medium; a piston rod which can move in an oscillating and reciprocal manner in the damper tube and one end of which protrudes into the damper tube and which comprises at this end a piston rod extension and a... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070007093 - Hydrodynamic retarder: A hydrodynamic retarder is provided having a rotor blade wheel, which has a number (ZR) of blades, and a stator blade wheel, which has a number (ZS) of blades. The rotor blade wheel and the stator blade wheel together form a toroidal working chamber in which torque is transmitted from... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070000737 - Universal belay device: The present invention provides a universal belay device for providing safety to mountain and rock climbers. The belay device allows a belayer to selectively operate the device in any of a plurality of modes. In an auto-locking mode, a fall by a climber automatically stops the rope without requiring the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070000738 - Vehicle braking system: A vehicle brake system having self-amplifying electromechanical wheel brakes have a self-amplification devices that are effective in only one rotation direction of the vehicle wheels and therefore in only one travel direction. The self-amplification devices of the wheel brakes associated with a front axle are effective in the forward travel... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070000739 - Brake system: Brake systems, assemblies and methods for use on remote control vehicles. In some embodiments, a counter-link member is provided to cause an opposing torque on a brake cam as a function of turning a wheel of the remote control vehicle, which can decrease a force applied to brake discs of... Agent: David W. C. Chen

20070000740 - Brake pad dust collector or diverter: A brake pad dust collector or diverter is described, which includes a brake caliper extension operatively associated with the brake pad, the extension shaped or configured so as to divert and/or collect brake dust.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070000741 - Axial rotary eddy current brake with adjustable braking force: The present invention relates to an axial adjustable, rotary brake device using eddy current resistance, having an annular rotating conductive reaction member fastened on a central axle, having a frame, and fitted with permanent magnets disposed on either one side or both sides of said member, wherein the magnets produce... Agent: Walter A. Hackler, Ph.d. Patent Law Office

20070000742 - Device for slowing the movement of a door, drawer or similar movable member, having releasable locking means: A device (15) for slowing the movement of a door (2) urged by unidirectional thrust means (4), including a casing (17) fixable to a structure (S) and defining a chamber (18) filled with a viscous fluid, and a rotor (31). The rotor (31) includes a disc portion (32) and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070000743 - Adjustable damping force hydraulic shock absorber: A damping force adjustable hydraulic shock absorber is provided with a first passage connected to a rod side chamber, a second passage connected to a piston side chamber, a main passage combining the first passage and the second passage so as to communicate with a reservoir, a first check valve... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC