Brakes inventions 02/07

20070039786 - Articulated castor braking system: A carriage incorporating an articulated caster braking system is disclosed. The carriage includes a frame with a base section that pivots relative to the rest of the frame and pivotally attaches to caster wheels. The base section provides a walking-beam suspension for the frame by pivoting at a point between... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070039787 - Static/dynamic pressure-energized seal for a brake actuator: A pressure-energized seal for a spring-type brake actuator for a vehicle brake, in which the actuator's power spring is located between the service brake actuator and parking brake release actuator. The power spring is captured between the actuator's intermediate flange and a spring retainer. In order to prevent pressure leakage... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070039788 - Magnetic braking system for a cable supported vehicle: A braking system for a movable unit which travels along a cable includes a plate of conductive material extending from the cable to define a braking zone having a start and an end along at least a portion of the cable. There is a brake unit movable along the cable... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070039789 - Disk brake pad: A disk brake pad has a friction member that slidably contacts to a rotating disk to generate braking force, and a backing plate that supports a back of the friction member. The friction member has a contact surface that slidably contacts to the disk. The backing plate has a heat... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070039790 - Vehicle suspension spring system: A vehicle suspension spring system for a vehicle wheel station includes a hydraulic cylinder or strut having a piston which divides the cylinder volume into a main oil volume and an annular oil volume. The main oil volume communicates via a first oil passage with a first accumulator having a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070039791 - Device for amplitude-dependent damper: A vibration damper providing amplitude-dependent damping for motor vehicles includes a first damping device including a piston rod which is disposed in a damping tube so as to be moveable in an oscillating manner and which supports a damping piston which divides the interior of the damping tube into a... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070039792 - Damper: In a damper, in particular for spin-drying washing machines, it is provided, with a view to improved solidity and noise behaviour of the damper, that at least one buffer stop is disposed between at least one piston and at least one stop element, the buffer stop comprising at least one... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070039793 - Damper: In a damper having a structure comprising a vibration body, a mass member and an elastic body through which the mass member is joined to the vibration body, the elastic body is formed from a cross-linking product of an EPDM composition, which comprises (a) 100 parts by weight of at... Agent: Butzel Long

20070034456 - Brake device for power tool: A brake device for a power tool has a brake assembly, a bearing portion, a pinion and a gearbox. The brake assembly includes a brake base, a cover, a first throttle cable, a second throttle cable, a brake-activating block, a brake-guiding pillar, a brake band and a brake drum. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070034457 - Disk brake system for automobile: Provided is a disk brake system for automotive vehicles capable of pressing a brake pad against a circumferential surface of a brake disk in a braking operation, thus making sure that heat can be readily dissipated from a friction surface with a minimized possibility of thermal deformation of the brake... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070034458 - Gearbox brake for mining machinery: A gearbox having an integral wet brake assembly is provided to replace the prior gearbox assembly of an underground mining machine. The brake housing is configured and contoured to be nestingly received upon the gearbox housing and without intrusion upon the output drive flanges. The brake housing includes concentric parking... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070034459 - Electric disk brake for vehicle: An electric disk brake for a vehicle, includes an electric motor in which a brush coming into slide contact with a commutator provided on an output shaft rotatably supported in a motor housing is held by a brush holder secured to the motor housing, and a rotation angle detection sensor... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070034460 - Drum brake apparatuses: This invention discloses a type of drum brake that can be used for automobiles, comprising a brake drum, one or more brake shoes, and one ore more brake cylinders. Its special characteristics are: the drum brake further comprises an ordinary gear train which comprises an annulus, one or more planetary... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20070034461 - Mechanical brake actuator: To provide the mechanical brake actuator enabling to downsize the device and to reduce the manufacturing costs of the parts. The mechanical brake actuator comprises the strut (23) which engages with one brake shoe (12) and has two facing plates (23b) with a strut-bridge (23a) connecting therebetween and the plate-like... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070034462 - Ventilated brake pads: A disc brake pad including a brake lining having at least one friction surface, and provided with a heat dissipating structure which circulates the heat to be dissipated in one or more directions substantially parallel to the plane of the friction surface. The structure is arranged in the lining and/or... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070034463 - Control structure for a shock absorber: A control structure for a shock absorber that comprises: a base, a control assembly, and a moving assembly. The control assembly controls the motion of the moving assembly and is moved by a steel cable. A control member and a returning spring of the control assembly serve to control the... Agent: Banger Shia

20070034464 - Magnetic valve for shock absorbers: A shock absorber having a valve controlling the flow rate of fluid between a compression chamber and a rebound chamber in a housing and separated by a piston. The valve has an orifice component and a blocker component, one of which has a permanent magnet, and the other of which... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20070034465 - Flexible bushing assembly for spring brake push rod center seal: An improved bushing assembly for the center seal used with an adapter base separating pressure chambers in a spring brake actuator to allow a push rod to pass through an aperture therein without loss of pressurized fluid between the pressure chambers. The improved bushing assembly has a flexing component that... Agent: Richard A. Ryan Attorney At Law

20070034466 - Asymmetrical intake damper valve: A valve assembly progressively opens to provide a smooth transition from a closed position to an open position. The fluid pressure reacts against a valve plate in a non-symmetrical manner to progressively open the valve. The valve can include a plurality of varying sized fluid passages or valve lands can... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070034467 - Hydraulic brake device: A hydraulic brake device is disclosed. The device has a seat body mounted with a left-right sliding piston structure and a handle at one side of the seat body for actuating the piston structure, the seat body having a piston cavity and an oil supplementing cavity arranged adjacent to each... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070034468 - Energy dissipation device with elevated action force: The present invention relates to an energy dissipation device with a first force-transferring element, a second force-transferring element, and a first and second energy dissipation element which are disposed in the energy dissipation device such that the force flow taking place during the transfer of the tractive and impact forces... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Fulbright Tower

20070023236 - Wear-protected system for monitoring vehicle brakeshoe wear: A motor vehicle having a brakeshoe housing that shifts in a predetermined direction relative to a vehicle frame as brakeshoes it carries wear has a brakeshoe-wear monitor with a proximity sensor mounted on the frame and responsive to a position of the brakeshoe housing relative to the direction. Circuitry connected... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070023237 - Bicycle rim brake assembly: A bicycle rim brake assembly includes a fastening shaft, a mounting part, a pair of brake arms and a pair of brake shoe attaching parts. The fastening shaft extends in an axial direction and is configured for attachment to a portion of a bicycle frame adjacent to the bicycle wheel.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070023238 - Finned brake duct to divert cooling air to a vehicle brake system: A brake duct assembly for use in communicating cooling air from a front facia of a vehicle to a front brake assembly. The assembly includes an inlet portion, a passageway portion, and an outlet portion. The portion is disposed in the vehicle facia, and the outlet portion extends through an... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070023239 - Disc brake for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle: The invention relates to a disc brake for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, comprising an application device (3), which is used to apply a brake lining (11) to a brake disc (1) by means of at least one or two actuating spindles running parallel and at a distance... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070023240 - Coulomb friction damped disc brake caliper bracket: A Coulomb friction damped disc brake caliper bracket, wherein damping is provided by Coulomb friction, most preferably at the outboard tie-bar thereof. In one form, at least one clamping member applies compressive force externally to the caliper bracket, and in a second form, at least one interfacial boundary is internally... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070023241 - Universal brake assembly: A brake actuator assembly for a railway vehicle braking system comprises a flexible elastomeric member directly and sealably attached to a mounting member employed for attaching the brake actuator assembly to the rigid structure of a braking system and to a push rod member connected to the control linkage. The... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20070023242 - Composite brake disk: Composite brake disc, comprising cast iron carrier disc (1) and at least one friction ring (2) of the different material rigidly joined therewith, which covers over essentially the area opposite to the brake pad, wherein the friction ring (2) is comprised of a friction material, which exhibits a higher corrosion... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070023243 - Combined pneumatic cylinder and corresponding control method: A combined pneumatic cylinder and a corresponding control method are characterized in that a spring for realizing the parking brake function is directly placed inside one of two pressure chambers and, to be precise, inside the pressure chamber that is designed for effecting service brakings by increasing pressure. The service... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070023244 - System comprising magnetically actuated motion control device: A system that includes a magnetically actuated motion control device comprising a housing defining a cavity and including a slot therethrough. A movable member is located within the cavity and is movable relative to the housing. A magnetic field generator located on either the housing or the movable member causes... Agent: Lord Corporation Patent & Legal Services

20070023245 - Pressurized magnetorheological fluid dampers: A magnetorheological (MR) fluid device including a pressurized MR liquid with an improved performance is provided. Also provided is a method for minimizing cavitation of a common magnetorheological device, comprising providing an MR fluid within the device with a pressure of at least 100 psi. The device as provided minimizes... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070023246 - Viscous fluid-filled damper and mounting structure for viscous fluid-filled damper: Obtained is a viscous fluid-filled damper which makes it easy to determine whether or not a shaft or the like protruding from a supporting body side or a supported body side has been sufficiently inserted therein and which can be easily mounted on a supporting body or a supported body,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC