Brakes inventions 07/08

20080179144 - Parking brake assembly for railway vehicle brake system: A parking brake assembly for a railway car includes a ratchet mounted for rotation on a threaded piston rod of a brake actuator and a holding pawl engageable with the ratchet for maintaining a push rod of the parking brake assembly to apply braking force when the air pressure is... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080179145 - Apparatus for generating brake pedal resistance: An apparatus that generates brake pedal reaction force is provided. The apparatus includes a variable throttle mechanism that varies a fluid passage area between the variable throttle mechanism and a stroke simulator when the flow rate of an operating fluid supplied from a master cylinder exceeds a predetermined flow rate.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080179146 - Method and apparatus for braking and maneuvering: Aircraft landing gear comprised of a wheel hub motor/generator includes alternating rotors and stators mounted with respect to the wheel support and wheel. The invention in certain embodiments can provide motive force to the wheel when electrical power is applied, e.g. prior to touch-down, thus decreasing the difference in relative... Agent: Richard E. Kurtz, Esq. Greenberg Traurig

20080179147 - Disc rotor with graphical structural elements: Disc brake rotors in which figural bodies are formed by struts connecting an inner hub mounting section to an outer braking surface section are described. An entertaining variety of forms may be so-portrayed. Additional graphical features may be applied or incorporated, for example, in the outer ring of the rotor.... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20080179148 - Multistage jounce bumper: A multistage jounce bumper, including a jounce bumper cushion integrated with a hydraulic jounce bumper, wherein provided are the damping characteristic of the hydraulic jounce bumper and the damping/spring characteristics of a jounce bumper cushion. The hydraulic jounce bumper hydraulic response is tunable via adjustment of hydraulic flow with respect... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080179149 - Rod guide for monotube shock absorbers: A rod guide for use in a piston/cylinder monotube shock absorber includes an annular guide body disposed about the piston rod within the shock absorber cylinder. A rod scraper in a top face of the guide body seals grease and oil inside the cylinder and prevents contaminants from entering the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080179150 - Electronic device latch dempening system: An electronic device comprising a latch mechanism configured to securely fasten a first member to a second member and a dampening system configured to reduce acoustical noise generated in response to actuation of the latch mechanism.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080179151 - Straddle-type vehicle: A body frame of a straddle-type vehicle includes a frame extending along an outer side surface of a fuel tank. A first vibration isolating member is sandwiched between the frame and the fuel tank. Vibration transmitted to the fuel tank through the body frame is damped by the first vibration... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080179152 - Oscillation damper for hand-held power tool: An oscillation damper for a hand-held power tool (D) has at least one first spring (4) and at least one second, additional spring (9) for axially compressively preloading a damping mass (3) of the damper against the tool housing, and a user-operated switching element (8) having a first position in... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080173505 - Wheelchair brake system: An embodiment includes a brake lever, a caliper brake, brake cable, and mounting bracket which mounts the caliper brake so that a wheelchair user's assistant can control the wheelchair wheel yet does not interfere with propulsion of the wheelchair by the user by rotating the wheelrim. One embodiment bracket has... Agent: William S Ramsey, Esq

20080173504 - Device for brake application in a motor vehicle: A device for the brake application of a motor vehicle comprising a master cylinder and a pneumatic brake booster, with one of the pistons of the master cylinder having a stepped design with two differently sized hydraulically active effective surfaces, and change-over of the effective surfaces takes place by means... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080173506 - Opening and closing mechanism with damper: An opening and closing member with a rotary damper for use in a western style stool or piano and the like which facilitates easy control of the rotary damper and easy assembly. Hinge members corresponding to an opening and closing member side are adjacently disposed at the same side of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080169160 - Electromechanical actuator for a vehicle brake, the vehicle brake including such an actuator, and a method of maintaining such an actuator: The invention provides an electromechanical actuator for a vehicle brake, the actuator comprising: a motor; a screw-and-nut system having a first element, the screw or the nut, rotated by the motor; and an antirotation member preventing rotation of the second element of the screw-and-nut system, the nut or the screw,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080169161 - Brake moan and groan splitter: The invention provides a brake pad for decreasing one of brake moan and groan, comprising a brake pad lining with at least one notch located at or near at least one peak area of wave propagation within the brake pad lining. The invention also provides a method of decreasing one... Agent: Ford Global Technologies C/o Mofo Nova

20080169162 - Disc brake caliper and manufacturing method of disc brake caliper: After chemical nickel plating has been applied onto a rotor-side surface 10 of a caliper 5a made of aluminum alloy and an opposite surface 11 disposed in an opposite side of the rotor-side surface, nickel-tungsten alloy plating is applied onto these both surfaces 10, 11. Then, gold plating is applied... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080169163 - Harmonic dampener: A harmonic dampener includes a first body having an internal cavity. A first mounting is provided on the first body. An elongated second body is telescopically received within the internal cavity of the first body. Dampening means are positioned within the internal cavity of the first body and adapted to... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080164104 - System for signaling potential unintended application of park air brake in a vehicle having a lift platform: A method for warning a driver of a moving vehicle of potential imminent unintended application of a park brake because of an indication that a motorized lift (12) is out-of-stow. A processor (68) executes an algorithm for issuing an alarm to signal the driver when air pressure in a line... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20080164105 - Electromechanical disk brake with self-boosting: An electromechanical disk brake having a self-boosting by means of a ramp mechanism with an encapsulation to protect moving parts of the brake against becoming soiled. The friction brake lining has a three-point support with three roller bodies and thus is braced in a statically defined way, and a contate... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080164106 - Electric brake for utility vehicles: An electric braking system and methods for a utility vehicle is provided. The system includes a rotor coupled to a rear axle of the utility vehicle. A caliper is electrically controlled to provide stopping force to the rotor. A spring is pre-loaded to actuate the caliper when additional stopping force... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080164107 - Apparatus and method for operating a take-up mechanism in a locomotive braking system: In the specification and drawings, an apparatus and method for operating a take-up mechanism is described and shown. The take-up mechanism includes a gear, a motor configured for engagement with the gear, and a manual input shaft configured for engagement with the gear. In a first mode of operation, the... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080164108 - Repair kit for vehicular brake slack adjuster: A repair kit for a vehicle brake slack adjuster provides C-shaped reinforcement plates that may be clamped on opposite sides of a damaged stabilizer anchor tab to repair the same without removal of the slack adjuster.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080164109 - Composite brake disc: Composite brake disk comprising a brake disk ring and a brake disk chamber having at least three fastening means for connection of the brake disk ring and brake disk chamber, the fastening means being blind rivets with a holding force in both directions parallel to the rivet axis, selected from... Agent: Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20080164110 - Brake disc rings with perforation holes: Brake disk rings which have perforation holes perpendicular to the plane of the friction surfaces, characterized in that the perforation holes each have a distance from their nearest neighbors which is always at most 30 mm and on average is at least twice the average hole diameter.... Agent: Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20080164111 - Suspension apparatus for vehicle: It is an object of the invention to improve utility in a suspension apparatus for a vehicle having an electromagnetic actuator and a hydraulic damper. In the suspension apparatus, a hydraulic damper is disposed between an electromagnetic actuator and a wheel-holding portion, and a cover tube is provided for accommodating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080164112 - Cylindrical mouldings based on cellular polyurethane elastomers:

20080164113 - Two master cylinder braking system for a vehicle having a safety function: A braking system for a vehicle having two pairs of wheels, has two master cylinders operating as pumps, wherein each master cylinder is operated by its own brake pedal and controls the braking on one rear wheel, as well as on the front wheels through a valve for the disconnection... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080164114 - Vibration isolating device: [Means to Solve the Problems] A rubber elastic body (18) is vulcanized and adhered to an outer peripheral surface of an inner cylinder (16), end portions of a pair of pressure-joint sections (26) of the elastic body (18) are pressure-joined to an inner peripheral surface of a bracket cylinder part... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080156599 - Device for a skateboard: A braking device removably attachable to a skateboard having a plurality of wheels, the device comprising a plurality of wheel engaging means, each for engaging a wheel of a skateboard, said device being operable to restrain the wheels against rotation relative to the skateboard.... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.c.

20080156598 - Brake system with redundancy: The present invention concerns a brake system creating redundancy in electromechanical brakes. At least two drive units are provided at each single brake for activation of the brake. The at least two units may be controlled and/or energized separately. To safeguard the function the control and/or energy source systems are... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080156593 - Park lock and pad wear adjusting arrangement for electrically actuated brake: An electrically actuated brake assembly includes a brake disc, a brake pad, and an electric motor having a rotatable output shaft. A service brake transmission in operative rotational communication with the output shaft causes service braking of the vehicle in response to rotation of the output shaft, and an adjuster... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080156594 - Electromagnetic brake device: A deenergization operation type electromagnetic brake device (1), comprising a plurality of conical springs (8) for pressing an armature disk (5) against a fixed disk (7) through a friction disk (6) held therebetween. The conical springs (8) are inserted into the spring insertion recessed parts (15) of the yoke (11)... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.c.

20080156595 - Disc brake apparatus of opposed-piston type: An object of the invention is to suppress an unnecessary movement of pads, which are respectively arranged at both sides of a disc rotor, and also suppress generation of brake noise and abnormal noise. A pair of torque frames are firmly fixed to a caliper of an opposed-piston type disc... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080156596 - Sprag and bearing system: A sprag and bearing system including a sprag is disclosed. The sprag includes an integral body having an oblong cross sectional circumference at least one actuator configured to selectively rotate the body about an axis in a first direction. The sprag also includes at least one spring configured to bias... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080156597 - Power-off electromagnetic brake: The power-off electromagnetic brake (2) attracts an armature that is pressed by spring force to a rotating member by magnetic attraction force that is generated by energizing an exciting coil, and brake force that is acting on the rotating member is released. A voltage control circuit (12) continuously energizes the... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.c.

20080156600 - Backing plate and method of making: A backing plate comprises a front side configured to engage a friction material, a rear side opposite the front side, a first edge, a second edge generally opposing the first edge, and at least one channel disposed between the front side and the rear side and extending from the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080156601 - Lining or functional body or friction lining for disk brakes, in particular for road and rail vehicles: The lining or functional body includes a carrier (11) in form of a ground plate, for example a carrier plate or a carrier sheet, of a thin-walled rough ground carrier (15; 15′) made of a metal sheet or of another appropriate material placed on the carrier (11; 11′), of a... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080156602 - Adaptive energy absorption system for a vehicle seat: An adaptive energy absorption system for a vehicle seat is disclosed, utilizing an adaptive energy absorber or variable profile energy absorber (VPEA) for mitigating occupant injury due to extreme vehicle movement (e.g., during a vehicle shock event), and/or for mitigating vibration experienced by an occupant of the vehicle seat during... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080156603 - Shock absorber having self pumping unit: A shock absorber, in which external gas is sucked by movement of a piston rod to obtain compressed gas, which is used for inhibiting the “lag” phenomenon. A piston valve is connected to one end of a piston rod received in an inner shell and moved between rebound and compression... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc