Brakes inventions 11/07

20070272504 - Electric parking brake device: An electric parking brake device comprises an electric motor, a conversion mechanism for converting a rotational drive force given by the electric motor into a linear drive force and a pair of cables (i.e., inner cables) connected to a pair of parking brakes, wherein the parking brakes are brought into... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070272499 - Safety braking assembly for a bicycle: A safety braking assembly for a bicycle has a cylinder box, a pair of upper protecting pipes, a pair of lower protecting pipes, a front brake cable, a rear brake cable, a lower fixed block and an upper fixed block. The cylinder box has a mounting sleeve, an upper cover... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070272502 - Opposed piston type disc brake: Notches 20, 20 constituting engaging portions are provided at portions of middle portions in a rotating direction a rotor at end portions on outer radial side of the two pads 11, 12 in a radial direction of the rotor. Further, an engaging pin 19 is made to bridge an outer... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070272498 - Wide caliper assembly design: A disc brake caliper assembly is provided including a support bracket, a pair of slide pins, and a caliper body. The support bracket includes an inboard rail and an outboard rail. The inboard rail defines a pair of engagement bores. The pair of slide pins engage the pair of engagement... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20070272500 - Elevator installation with braking equipment and method of braking in an elevator installation: An elevator installation has an elevator car that moves in a vertical direction along guide tracks and is braked or held at standstill by a braking equipment. The braking equipment includes at least two brake units, at least one of the brake units, but preferably each of the brake units,... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070272501 - Spot-type disc brake comprising a spring assembly: Disclosed is a spot-type disc brake (1) having a spring assembly (10, 20) for active adjustment of a clearance between a brake lining (4) and a brake disc. A spring assembly (10, 20) of this type ensures that the brake linings (4) are appropriately lifted from the brake disc after... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20070272503 - Brake device for elevator: An elevator braking device in which energy required for braking and releasing is reduced. The braking device includes a movable plunger, braking mechanisms connected to one end of the movable plunger and that are switched between a braking state and a releasing state by an axial movement of the movable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070272505 - Apparatus and method for pressure relief in an exhaust brake: An exhaust brake has a body with a passageway for exhaust gases therein. A valve member is movably located within the passageway for selective movement between an open position where the valve member opens the passageway and exhaust gases are free to move through the passageway and a closed position... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070267255 - Parking brake system: A parking brake system is provided in which a parking brake state is obtained by forward movement of a parking piston (44) slidably fitted into a casing (23) with the rear side of the parking piston (44) facing a parking control fluid pressure chamber (47), and the forwardly moved state... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070267256 - Brake carrier: Embodiments of the present invention provide a brake carrier for a disk brake, which comprises a flange facing in parallel to the brake disk plane. The brake carrier comprises a flange facing having at least two sections that are configured on respective shoulders on the side of the brake carrier... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070267257 - Hybrid pads for disc brakes: A hybrid pad for a disc brake has first friction members and a second friction member. The first friction members can be positioned at a rotor rotation inlet portion and at a rotor rotation outlet portion of the pad. The second friction member can be positioned at a central portion... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070267258 - Device for lifting a hatch pivotable around a pivot axis: Apparatus for lifting a hatch which can pivot around a pivot axis, especially a hatch of a motor vehicle, by means of a piston-cylinder unit. The piston-cylinder unit has a closed cylinder filled with a pressurized fluid, the interior of the cylinder 6 being divided by a piston into a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070267259 - Rear suspension eyelet mount shock assembly: A golf car shock absorber mount assembly includes a tubular sleeve connected to a shock absorber. A shock absorber mount bracket is fixed to a frame structure of the vehicle and engages a first end of the tubular sleeve. A bushing assembly within the tubular sleeve includes an elastomeric bushing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070267260 - Strut type shock absorber: In a strut type shock absorber (1), a lower cap (2) is welded onto an inner circumferential surface of an outer shell (3) at a step (16) formed in a retreated position from an axial tip of the outer shell (3). The axial tip of the outer shell (3) is... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070267261 - Impact absorption structure: The present invention includes an article of manufacture with a layer with a plurality of corrugations to form an energy absorbing structure, where each corrugation has a floor and two walls connecting the floor to the base layer and the length of each corrugation is longer than the widest width... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20070261925 - Pedal actuated bicycle brake system: A braking mechanism for actuating a supplemental brake, used in association with a pedal-actuated brake, which increases total brake effectiveness and increases reliability through redundancy as a result of the coaster brake functioning as a back-up to a failed supplemental brake. A brake lever arm is adapted to cooperate with... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20070261926 - Brake force transducer for electric brakes: An electric brake actuator for the brake system of an aircraft is presented. A brake actuator includes a piston driven by a cylindrical nut and screw arrangement, driven by an appropriate motor of the actuator. Application of brake force results in a reactionary force that deflects the top cover of... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20070261927 - Brake lining carrier plate for a disc brake: A brake lining support plate arrangeable in a lining housing of a disc brake for a land vehicle includes at least one tolerance compensating spring for compensating tolerance between the lining support plate and the plate housing. The tolerance compensating spring(s) are embodied in the form of leaf- or leg-springs,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070261928 - Drum brake: An actuator for a drum brake including a plunger connected through a resilient member to a linkage attached to a web on a brake shoe. A rod extends from the plunger and engages a lever arm that is pivotally retained on the web. The lever engages an extendable strut of... Agent: Leo H Mccormick

20070261929 - Aerodynamic vented rotor: An aerodynamic vented rotor comprises an outboard disc, an inboard disc spaced from the outboard disc, and fins extending between the outboard disc and the inboard disc and defining vents therebetween. The fins have an airfoil-shaped cross section with a leading edge facing radially inwardly on the rotor. The fins... Agent: Ford Global Technologies C/o Mofo Nova

20070261930 - Rotation damper: A rotation damper, particularly for damping the rotary movement of a belt retractor shaft of a vehicle safety belt, has a housing which delimits a working space filled with a damping medium, and an element which is rotatable relative to the housing. Several pins serving as resistance elements, which extend... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070261931 - Self-pumping hydropneumatic spring strut unit with internal level control: The strut unit includes a piston dividing an oil-filled working cylinder into first and second working spaces, wherein the second working space is connected to a high pressure chamber having a gas cushion; a hollow piston rod defining a pump cylinder; and a pump rod received in pump cylinder. The... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070256900 - Disk brake: The invention relates to a disk brake which comprises a brake disk (4), having a preferred running direction (D), a first bake shoe (2), having a first center of gravity (S1) on a first side of the brake disk, a second brake shoe (3), having a second center of gravity... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20070256901 - Disc brake wear adjuster: A co-axial wear adjuster and wear sensor for a brake caliper includes a sleeve having an external tooth form engageable with a toothed adjustment wheel of a brake tappet. The sleeve rotates with the tappet and is threaded to engage a relatively non-rotatable, but axially movable, bolt. A wear sensor... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070256902 - Disc brake operating mechanism: An actuating lever of a brake caliper of a vehicle includes a cam surface operable against a single tappet and reacting against a caliper bridge. The actuating lever includes a wear adjuster arm which exerts a turning moment on the actuating lever. The turning moment is resisted by a small... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070256903 - Piston seal and disc brake using the piston seal: A piston seal of a disc brake can stabilize the amount of rollback of a piston by reducing thermal expansion and a decrease in modulus of elasticity of the piston seal caused by an increase in temperature, thereby preventing a driver from feeling that the brake operation is unnatural. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070251769 - Brake assembly: A brake assembly includes a wheel having a circular bridge and a means for applying braking forces to the bridge.... Agent: Jackson, Demarco, Tidus & Packenpaugh

20070251768 - Hydraulic bicycle brake mechanism: A bicycle brake mechanism includes a body located above a front wheel and a pivotable member is pivotably connected to the body. A hydraulic device is connected to the pivotable member so as to pivot the pivotable member. Two brake arms are located on two sides of the rim and... Agent: Phillip Liu

20070251770 - Manual brake for a wheelchair with a variable braking force: Manual braking system with a variable braking force for a wheelchair or other wheeled vehicles. Caliper type brakes positioned to mount on and exert braking force on disks mounted to interior “disk” hubs rotatably mounted to the wheelchair or wheeled vehicle frame wheel hubs are mated with the “disk” hubs... Agent: Gunn & Lee, P.C.

20070251771 - Hydraulic disc brake device: A hydraulic disc brake device comprises: a base assembly mounted on a vehicle, a sliding assembly slideably mounted on the base assembly, a return spring disposed between the base assembly and the sliding assembly, a brake lining assembly, a control valve assembly disposed on the oil pressure system. hydraulic disc... Agent: Banger Shia

20070251772 - Disk brake: The strength and rigidity of pad springs are increased with a simple structure to prevent deformation and so forth of the pad springs caused by external force. A mounting member 1 is provided with pad springs 8 for resiliently supporting friction pads 7. Each pad spring 8 has guide plates... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070251773 - Clamp device: A clamp device inserted between two parts can prevent a relative movement between a brake disc and a brake caliper of a vehicle brake. The device includes two plates, with adjustable separation by way of at least two rollers running against each other and rolling on roller surfaces on facing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070251774 - Actuating device, particularly for a parking brake: To provide a simple cable compensation in an actuating device (1), particularly an electromechanically actuated motor vehicle parking brake, a coupling device (20; 40) for canceling and restoring a frictional connection between the actuator (3) and brake cable pull (4)is provided. To this end, the coupling device (20; 40) has... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070251775 - Selective engagement apparatus and method: A selective braking or clutching device includes a housing, an armature partially received within the housing and defining a radial air gap between the armature and the housing, and a coil productive of a magnetic field, a flux thereof being radially directed through the air gap. A method for extending... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070251776 - Damper: The invention relates to a damper having a damper cylinder, in which a piston ram is guided via a piston rod, and for adjusting characteristic damper values, the flow of a damper fluid can be controlled. A piezoelectric valve is disposed inside the damper cylinder, and includes a piezoelectric element... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20070251777 - Shock absorber for a vehicle: A shock absorber for a vehicle comprises an inner pipe, an outer pipe, and a piston assembly moveably received in the inner pipe, and a bottom valve assembly disposed at a bottom of the inner pipe. The bottom valve assembly is provided with a plurality of oil lines, including a... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070251778 - Vibration damper: A vibration damper has a working cylinder and a working piston axially displaceable therein. A compensation cylinder has a compensation piston axially displaceable therein. The compensation cylinder is situated at the longitudinal end of the working cylinder and diagonally thereto.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070251779 - Sealed gas spring cover: A gas spring assembly is used to control movement of a vehicle body panel relative to a vehicle body member. The gas spring assembly includes a rod and piston that are received within a tube or cylinder. A first rod end is coupled to the piston to move the piston... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070251780 - Frame integrated bicycle brake system: A brake system comprises a brake lever that operates an integrated brake assembly that is housed within a portion of the frame of a bicycle. Operation of the brake system can employ a master cylinder that is actuated by the brake lever either directly or by cable. Actuation of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070251781 - Remote drain valve device for an air brake vehicle: The invention is a remote drain device for purging moisture from an air braking system of a motor vehicle, especially buses and medium and heavy duty trucks. The remote drain device uses purge valves connected with drain tubing to the drain ports of the air braking system air tanks. The... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20070251782 - Impact absorber device: An impact absorber device includes at least one first portion having a short tubular shape, and at least one second portion having a short tubular shape concentrically disposed in a stacked relationship with the first portion. The first portion and the second portion engage with each other at an engagement... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070251783 - Cylindrical dynamic damper: A cylindrical dynamic damper including: a cylindrical fastening member of elastic body to be fitted onto a rod shaped vibrating member; a mass member of tubular shape disposed about the cylindrical fastening member in a concentric fashion; a plurality of elastic connecting members disposed between the cylindrical fastening member and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.