Brakes inventions 05/07

20070119661 - Wheel assembly: A wheel assembly has a wheel bracket, a connecting base, a wheel and a brake device. The wheel bracket has a holding slot. The connecting base is rotatably mounted on the wheel bracket. The brake device is mounted on the wheel bracket, corresponds to the wheel and has a brake... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070119662 - Parking brake for a wheelchair: Parking brake, in particular for a wheelchair, with a pressing element (10) articulated by a pivoting lever (8) coupled to a retainer (12) mounted to the wheelchair frame. The pivoting lever (8) is tiltable by swiveling a hand brake lever (7) into an engaged position, in which the pressing element... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070119663 - Brake system for automobile: Brake system for automobile is disclosed. The brake system comprises a braking gear for supplying a braking force to an output shaft, a first braking member for making the braking gear stop, an operator for operating the first braking member and a third braking member for selectively making speed change... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070119664 - Electromechanical aircraft brake with tiltable actuators: The invention relates to an electromechanical brake, in particular for aircraft, the brake comprising a support carrying at least one electromechanical actuator comprising a pusher that is axially displaceable towards friction elements in order to apply a braking force to the friction elements, selectively, wherein the actuator is mounted on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070119665 - Outer pad abutment design for frame type calipers: A brake assembly including a caliper body that clamps brake pads against a rotor. The brake includes a support bracket defining a planar portion, a bridging portion and a pair of rails. The bridging portion extends in a generally perpendicular direction from the planar portion. The pair of rails extends... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070119666 - Support bracket for an internally abutted brake pad and a hanging brake pad: A brake assembly generally includes a hanging brake pad, an abutted brake pad and a caliper body that clamps the pads against a rotor. The brake system comprises a support bracket having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion defines an aperture that receives the abutted brake... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070119667 - Rotor assembly and method: The apparatus of the present invention provides a brake rotor assembly. The brake rotor assembly includes a generally annular rotor having a frictional surface and a radially inner rotor flange defining a plurality of rotor teeth. The brake rotor assembly also includes a hub section integrally formed onto the rotor.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070119668 - Hydroformed drum brake shoe assembly for vehicles and method of making same: A hydroformed drum brake shoe assembly for a vehicle and method of making same includes a hydroformed drum brake shoe. The hydroformed drum brake shoe assembly also includes a friction lining secured to the hydroformed drum brake shoe. The hydroformed drum brake shoe is a monolithic structure being integral, unitary,... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070119669 - Magnetorheological damper system: A magnetorheological damper system comprising a reservoir in communication with a damper. The damper comprises a damper cylinder defining a damper chamber, wherein the damper chamber contains a magnetorheological fluid and a movable damper piston. The damper piston comprises at least two coil windings on the outer surface of the... Agent: Inskeep Intellectual Property Group, Inc

20070119670 - Inertia valve fluid damper with reservoir positioned blowoff valve: A damper having a valve, including a moveable inertia mass, movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively alter the compression damping rate of the shock absorber. The damper includes a blow-off valve in the reservoir tube.... Agent: Fox Factory, Inc.

20070119671 - Decoupled mono tube damper assembly: A decoupled mono tube damper assembly for a vehicle includes an outer tube attached to the vehicle's unsprung mass. The outer tube has a base and a sleeve end. An outer tube sleeve engaging end of an inner tube is slidingly engaged with the sleeve end. The inner tube has... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070119672 - Damping cylinder with annular bladder: An improvement to damping cylinders in which the damping fluid needs to be separated from a gas is disclosed. In particular, an annular bladder is used. An annular bladder allows for a control shaft to extend at least at least a portion of the length of the damping cylinder. This... Agent: Fox Factory, Inc.

20070119673 - Drum brake: A drum brake has cylinders symmetrically fixed to a stationary member. Each cylinder has an axial bore therein with a groove for retention of a seal. A piston engages each seal to define chambers that receive pressurized fluid. Webs for friction members have a first end pined to an opposite... Agent: Leo H Mccormick

20070114099 - Exciter ring for a brake rotor: Exciter rings, wheel assemblies and methods of assembling. In some aspects, a wheel assembly includes a brake rotor including a barrel section having an interior surface defining a barrel cavity, and a projection extending from the interior surface of the barrel section into the barrel cavity. The wheel assembly also... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070114100 - Wheel caster with wheel chock: The present invention is a device for supporting a wheel comprising a first member, which has a retention member and an axle operably configured to receive the wheel, and; a second member, which has a chock and an engagement portion. The second member is rotatably attached to the axle. Further,... Agent: Gross & Associates

20070114101 - Disc brake assembly with parking brake mechanism: A disc brake having a parking brake mechanism and in particular a parking brake mechanism which is integrally incorporated into the disc brake assembly.... Agent: Jackson, Demarco, Tidus & Packenpaugh

20070114102 - Brake lining for disc brakes: A lining for a disc brake, in particular, a pneumatically actuated disc brake designed for utility vehicles, includes a pressure plate and a lining material mounted on the pressure plate. At least one return mechanism located on the pressure plate causes axial return of the brake lining after brake applications,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070114103 - Displacement element: A displacement element includes a first piston, a second piston, a cylindrical housing filled with a fluid under pressure, a piston rod, and a spring. Each of the pistons is adapted to the respective internal diameter of its section and divides the respective section into two pressure chambers. The first... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070114104 - Device for supporting an aircraft battery: A device is provided for suspending a battery (20) of an aircraft, the device including at least one spring (41, 54); the device further includes an adjustment element enabling the stiffness of the spring to be adjusted.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070107994 - Brake pad with wear indicator: A brake pad includes a backing plate and a friction material layer attached to the backing plate. At least one inner layer is disposed within the friction material layer. The inner layer has a color different than the friction material layer.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070107995 - Brake drawing system: A brake drawing system applied in bikes and any motor vehicle provided with handbrake and pedal driven brake operates by having a pull rod to drive a push rod to engage in linearly reciprocal motion for activating the brake; a brake lever pin on the pull rod constituting transmission between... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070107996 - Pair of brake linings for a disk brake: A pair of brake linings for a disk brake, particularly a disk brake with a sliding caliper, including one brake lining which is actively connected on the clamping side to a clamping device and one brake lining on the reaction side, each having a lining carrier plate and a friction... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070107997 - Caliper brake with disengaged position: The invention relates to a calliper brake for a brake disc, in particular for elevator drives. Said brake comprises a brake body that is mounted on a fixed bolt (7) in a floating manner (1) and a brake calliper (2) that impinges on the brake disc (3) from the outer... Agent: W. Norman Roth

20070107998 - Coupling/brake combination: The invention relates to a coupling/brake combination, characterised in that the unit is embodied as a so-called lantern (connector piece) with integrated static current operated spring pressure brake and with a central hub (for example, a bellows coupling or a plug-in coupling or a shaft in hollow shaft) between the... Agent: W. Norman Roth

20070107999 - Ventilated disk rotor and method of manufacturing the same: A ventilated disk rotor includes a pair of opposed annular sliding plates, a plurality of ribs and a plurality of ventilation holes. The ribs extend between the pair of the annular sliding plates. The plurality of ventilation holes are formed between the plurality of ribs. In addition a groove is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070108001 - Hydraulic bearing and processes for manufacturing a hydraulic bearing: A hydraulic bearing has an inner part (1) and an elastomeric bearing body (2) connected to the inner part (1) by vulcanization. An outer sleeve (3) accommodates the inner part (1) with the bearing body (2). At least two damping agent chambers (4, 4′) are filled with a viscous damping... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070108000 - Rotary damper: A rotary damper includes a housing and a rotor rotatable in the housing. A clutch is movable toward and away from the housing when said rotor is rotated in first and second directions.... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070108002 - Damper and vibration damping structure using the same: A damper (7) includes a hollow outer elongated body (21) formed of a cylindrical member; a hollow inner elongated body (22) similarly formed of a cylindrical member; a viscous body (26) disposed in a cylindrical gap (25) between an inner surface (23) of the elongated body (21) and an outer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070108003 - Device for maintaining the position of a rotatably or displaceably mounted shaft: Device for maintaining the position of a rotatably or displaceably mounted shaft, particularly an armature shaft (11) of an electric motor (9), wherein a gripping body (26) is arranged around the shaft (11), and said gripping body is impinged upon by a force (54, 56) in order to form a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070108004 - Linear damper: A linear damper includes a conical housing with a friction cone in the housing and a rod extending therethrough and axially moveable relative thereto. The friction cone is axially moveable in the housing and radially expandable and contractible to provide clamping force against a rod when the rod is moved... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070102246 - Hub hat for bolt-on brake rotor, associated brake assembly and associated methods: The bolt-on disc brake assembly includes a hub hat that can be used with off the shelf rotors and doesn't require any welding to complete a disc brake conversion. Thea hub hat is for mounting a bolt-on brake rotor to a wheel hub on an axle shaft assembly. The hub... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070102247 - Brake disk producing method and brake disk: A brake disk producing method, comprising a periphery pressing step for forming an outer peripheral shape (5) of a rotor plate (2) into a peripheral shape having recesses and ridges (5a, 5b) repeated in a radial direction, and a chamfering step for forming a chamfered surface (6) by pressing, against... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070102248 - Clamping device having stepless braking effect: A clamping device includes two clamping members pivotally connected with each other and each having a first end and a second end, and a braking mechanism mounted between the second ends of the two clamping members to provide a stepless braking effect to the two clamping members. Thus, the braking... Agent: Banger Shia

20070102249 - Automatically locking parking brake for a vehicle: A parking brake for a vehicle, including a parking brake unit, a drive unit, an actuating device situated between the parking brake unit and the drive unit, which actuating device is drivable by the drive unit and actuates the parking brake unit, and a mechanical locking device situated between the... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070102250 - Rotary damper: A rotary damper includes a housing, a viscous fluid filled in the housing, and a rotor disposed inside the housing and having a shaft part partially protruding from the housing. The rotor has a plurality of rotating resistance parts provided on the shaft part for moving in the viscous fluid... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070102251 - Automotive drive comprising a water-based retarder: The invention relates to an automotive drive, comprising a cooling circuit with a coolant, a retarder having a rotor and a stator that together form a toroidal working chamber, with the coolant being the working medium of the retarder. The retarder has an inlet for feeding the working medium from... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20070102252 - Built-in damper type front fork: A both-side rod type damper (11) is arranged in a storage chamber (40) formed inside an inner tube (2) and an outer tube (3), rods (31) and (32) of the damper (11) are coupled so as to move by the same quantity in accordance with the extending or retracting operation... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070095618 - Structure to operate and to dismantle/assemble dual-use sickbed and wheel chair: An improved structure to operate and to dismantle/assemble dual-use sickbed and wheel chair, which is comprised by bed & chair, hemicycle disc gear, block structure, check structure and linkage structure, wherein shaft of block structure is fixed at lever or at bottom of lever basing on right cable housing of... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070095619 - Dual actuator friction brake assembly: An industrial brake is provided through which tension and emergency braking are initiated at opposite axial ends of the brake in order to improve packaging and maintenance of the brake and to enable the addition of an emergency brake function to existing tension brakes without substantial modifications to the brake.... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070095620 - Conveyer belt brake: Conveyer belt braking apparatus comprises an idler roller (10) rotatable about an axle, and a brake member (40) mounted adjacent the idler roller and movable relative to the roller between a first, inoperative position adjacent a belt supported by the roller and a second, braking position against the belt. An... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070095621 - Liquid cooled brake assembly: An adjustable fluid cooled brake is provided that integrates the driven shaft and bearings with braking components to form a packaged assembly. The brake includes a driven shaft and two bearings disposed about the driven shaft. The brake further includes a housing disposed about the shaft and friction plates coupled... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070095622 - Balanced flow cooling water jacket: A fluid jacket for a disc brake is provided that promotes a balanced flow of cooling fluid throughout the fluid jacket to most effectively remove heat from the disc brake. The fluid jacket includes an annular body configured for engagement with a friction surface. The annular body defines a plurality... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070095623 - Device for absorbing lateral forces in a side impact in a motor vehicle: To effectively absorb a side impact in a motor vehicle, a transverse modular unit is provided in the vehicle. This unit includes a beam element and profile parts arranged on ends of the beam element.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070095624 - Saddle-type vehicle and steering damper for use in the same: A steering damper with improved layout relative to nearby components includes a piston cylinder extending axially in a straight line, a piston slidably disposed in the piston cylinder, a first piston rod extending in a straight line from one end face of the piston, and a second piston rod extending... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.