Brakes inventions 10/07

20070246308 - Mountainboard: A mountain board having a leg-actuated safety brake mechanism and a leg-actuated brake mechanism. The brake mechanism includes a displaceable pad or cup attached to the top region of a post attached to, and extending from, the mountain board. The safety brake mechanism includes a safety brake lever, or push... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070246309 - Parking brake: A parking brake for a commercial vehicle equipped with an air-operated service brake is configured in such a way that the actuating energy for the brake is reduced in comparison to a configuration with a spring brake cylinder, while the installation space in the wheel area is minimized. Primary functional... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070246310 - Method for adjusting the play of a disc brake: A method is provided for adjusting the play between the brake linings and the brake disc of a pneumatically actuated disc brake by way of at least one or several adjustment devices actuated by electric motors. The method sensorlessly determines the play caused by braking with the aid of a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070246311 - High performance retrofit disk brake kit and method of use: A disk brake kit including a pair of brake pads disposed on opposite sides of a brake disc and carried from calipers suspended from a kit frame indexed to predetermined land marks on the wheel housing.... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070246312 - Disc brake with a spring arrangement: A disc brake includes brake pads (7), which are slidably received on either side of a brake disc within guide portions (6) of the disc brake, and including a spring arrangement (10) for spring cushioning the brake pads (7). Disc brakes of this type are frequently used in motor vehicles.... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20070246313 - Brake cylinder for motor vehicle brakes: A brake cylinder for brakes of a motor vehicle, in particular for utility vehicles, comprising a spring loaded brake section and a service brake section is configurable in such a way that a total length is substantially shortened. In the inventive cylinder, the spring loaded brake section and the service... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070246314 - Disc for a disc brake: The present invention relates to a disc for a disc brake comprising a support bell and braking band being coaxial with each other. The support bell has a plurality of radial housings and the braking band has a plurality of connecting elements suitable to connect it to the bell. The... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20070246315 - Method of securing a shim to a backing plate and subassembly formed thereby: A subassembly for use in a brake assembly, the subassembly comprising a shim, a backing plate and a friction pad formed of a friction pad material, wherein the friction pad material extends into at least one pass-through hole in the backing plate; and wherein one or more flanges perimetering at... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20070246316 - Pneumatic spring-vibration damper assenbly unit: A pneumatic spring-vibration damper unit is provided for absorbing shocks on wheels and chassis parts of motor vehicles. A variable air chamber is delimited by a rolling bellows which is disposed between a first subassembly that is fixed to the vehicle body and is provided with a vibration damper system... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070240945 - Disc rotor retaining assembly: An apparatus for coupling a bicycle disc brake rotor to a bicycle wheel hub is disclosed. The apparatus includes an adapter and a rotor retaining member. The adapter is adapted to be nonrotatably coupled to the bicycle wheel hub and to be nonrotatably coupled to the disc brake rotor. The... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20070240946 - Brake pad and caliper for a disc brake:

20070240947 - Electronic parking brake and method for controlling an electronic parking brake: In a method for controlling an electronic parking brake system and an electronic parking brake system, a travel-optimized method is used to achieve the released state of the parking brake system. When the parking brake is applied, travel-force values are detected and a plausibility check is run, the values being... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070240948 - Bicycle disk brake pad with titanium fiber friction material: A bicycle brake friction member comprises titanium fibers and a resin.... Agent: Deland Law Office

20070240949 - Brake shoe: In a brake shoe (1) comprising a carrier plate (2) having arranged thereon first a dampening and noise-reducing intermediate layer (4) and then a friction lining (6), it is provided that the intermediate layer (4), on the side thereof facing towards the friction lining (6), comprises a three-dimensional surface structure,... Agent: Diller, Ramik & Wight

20070240950 - Setting device, particularly a motor vehicle parking brake: A setting device, particularly a motor vehicle parking brake, has a telescopic device (2; 3), which can be axially displaced by a setting unit (10) in a housing (1) or the like and which contains a hollow shaft (2) and a spindle shaft (3). This spindle shaft is axially connected... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070240951 - Device for damping vibrations and method for assembling the device: Device for damping vibrations of a vibration surface (21) of the frequency tuned resonance damping kind consisting of one or several elastic damping elements (1-4) and a vibration body (5) supported by the damping elements which together are tuned to damp the vibrations of said surface within a selected frequency... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070235267 - Controller for electromechanical braking system with running clearance adjustment and method: A system and method for establishing a running clearance position for an electromechanical actuator, wherein the running clearance is based on an actuator ram position attained during an advancement of the actuator ram using a current limit that is less than a current limit used for the application of braking... Agent: Don W. Bulson (goodrich) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070235269 - Motion-restraint arrangement: A motion-restraint arrangement (48) with elongate lines of elements (10), wherein each line of elements (10) has a number of individual elements (12) which can be erected by spring elements (20) from a small-volume thin storage condition into a large-volume active condition. Each respective individual element (12) has flexible lateral... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070235268 - Temperature based clearance control for vehicle brake: An adjustment mechanism for a vehicle brake uses an electric motor to adjust brake clearance based on brake temperature and wheel speed. A temperature sensor transmits brake temperature data to a controller. If a brake is dragging during non-braking events, the controller identifies an increase in brake temperature and actuates... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070235270 - Insert for manufacture of an enhanced sound dampening composite rotor casting and method thereof: An insert for a casting mold used to produce a sound dampening rotor of a caliper disc brake is provided. The insert includes a ring having an inner diameter, an outer diameter and at least one tab. The insert also includes an inner core made from a refractory material, the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070235271 - Actuator: An actuator has a rotatable input member coupled to a drive member such that rotation of the rotatable input member under an input load causes rotation of the drive member on a first axis. The drive member is coupled to a driven member such that rotation of the drive member... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070235272 - Electric field reciprocal displacement sensors: The present disclosure provides electrical field (“E-field”) sensor systems that sense displacement or change in displacement of one body relative to another. In general, the bodies 110, 112 are within an electrical field and displacement of a body causes a change in the E-field. A field sensor 290 detects this... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20070235273 - Cryogenic fluid mass damper using charged particulates for stiction-free damping: A mass damper is provided for damping a mass. The mass damper includes a housing configured to couple to the mass and a plurality of electrostatically charged particles disposed within the housing, where the particles do not clump to one another or stick to the housing.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070235274 - Composite helmet for body mount: A composite helmet is provided for a body mount. The helmet includes an interior structural load bearing skeleton including an elongated cylinder, and a disk or washer mold-bonded with the polymeric or elastomeric portion of the helmet. The elastomeric portion of the helmet includes an elongated axial portion that encompasses... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070235275 - Multi-location tractor trailer pneumatic connections: A tractor truck configured for towing trailers of different air connection configuration. The truck has a first and a second tractor protection valve, each configured to be located on the tractor at a location remote from the other. Each tractor protection valve location is proximate a typical position at which... Agent: Volvo Corporate Patents 7825 National Service Road

20070235276 - Active vibration isolation system: The invention relates to an active vibration isolation system which detects structural vibration of the mass to be isolated via a sensor and also takes account of these disturbance variables.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070227838 - Electric disk brake, caliper for the electric disk brake, motor/controller unit for the electric disk brake, and method for assembling the caliper for the electric disk brake: An electric disk brake that can be operated and inspected before being assembled and that can be assembled easily. A piston, a ball ramp mechanism, a differential reduction mechanism, and a pad wear compensation mechanism are integrated to form a piston unit. A motor, a resolver, and a drive controller... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070227839 - Pad clip of disc brake: A pad clip is provided with a pair of restraining pieces formed by bending a metal plate and remote from each other in an axial direction of a rotor. By the two restraining pieces, portions of the support member are squeezed from both sides of the support member with regard... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070227834 - Braking device: In the braking device according to the invention for a vehicle for actuating at least one braking module, a secondary transmission which is embodied as a block and tackle is provided to transmit a force between a primary transmission and the at least one braking module. In this case, the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070227835 - Roller disk brake for a winch: A power device includes a motor, a drive shaft, and a roller brake system including a cam mechanism. The motor may put out a driving torque in a first and a second rotary direction. The cam mechanism includes first and second cam members. The first cam member may be in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070227836 - Device for displacing an object a certain distance: Method and device for displacing an object (4) a certain distance between a forward position (9) and a rearward position (10). An unit (14) is included that is displaceable between a first position (12) and a second position (13) for driving the object a distance corresponding to the distance between... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070227837 - Wedge roller ramp parking brake assembly: A parking brake assembly includes a brake mechanism, a coupling mechanism and an apply mechanism. The brake mechanism includes a piston that clamps brake pads against a rotor. The coupling mechanism couples the apply mechanism to the brake mechanism. The coupling mechanism includes a first member having a first end... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20070227840 - Vehicle drum-in-hat disc brake assembly and method for producing same: A vehicle drum-in-hat disc brake assembly comprises: a shield adapted to be secured to an axle flange; a drum brake portion carried by the shield; an abutment tower operatively disposed with the drum brake portion; and a caliper bracket assembly formed separate from the abutment tower and adapted to be... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070227842 - Brake member and bonding method: In a brake member having a brake lining bonded to a brake shoe, the brake shoe has a chemical conversion coating provided on the surface thereof and a ceramics coating layer provided on the chemical conversion coating which has been formed by dipping in a ceramics precursor solution. The brake... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070227841 - Bicycle disk brake pad with a titanium backing plate: A brake pad for a bicycle comprises a backing plate formed from titanium, and a friction member bonded to the backing plate through a diffusion layer. The diffusion layer is formed at least in part by thermal spraying copper onto the backing plate. A method of constructing the brake pad... Agent: Deland Law Office

20070227843 - Damping force control valve and shock absorber using the same: The present invention relates to a damping force control valve and a shock absorber using the same. The present invention is conceived to solve the aforementioned problems in the prior art. An object of the present invention is to provide a damping force control valve, which has an improved inner... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070227845 - Bicycle suspension assembly with inertia valve and blow-off: A bicycle suspension assembly having an inertia valve is described. A blow-off valve that permits fluid flow through the suspension assembly when the fluid pressure in the suspension assembly exceeds a predetermined threshold may be included.... Agent: Fox Factory, Inc.

20070227844 - Bicycle suspension assembly with inertia valve and g-threshold: A bicycle suspension assembly having an inertia valve is described. The inertia valve moves between its closed and open positions in response to at least a portion of the bicycle suspension assembly being subjected to an upward acceleration above a predetermined threshold. For example, the predetermined upward acceleration threshold may... Agent: Fox Factory, Inc.

20070227846 - Damping force control valve and shock absorber using the same: The present invention relates to a damping force control valve and a shock absorber using the same. An object of the present invention is to provide a damping force control valve, in which the damping force characteristic at a high speed is maintained in a low level, and a shock... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070227847 - Vehicle height adjusting device: A vehicle height adjusting device includes a cylinder (1), a rod (3) inserted in the cylinder (1), a piston (4) connected to the rod (3) and movable within the cylinder (1), and defining a rod side chamber (2a) and an non-rod side chamber (2b) in the cylinder (1), damping parts... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070227848 - Piston arrangement: A piston arrangement which can be fitted into a cylinder having an inside wall, the arrangement including a piston and a radial damping element which damps movement of the piston arrangement, the radial damping element having at least two sector-shaped sections which are loaded radially outward against the inside wall... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane