Brakes inventions 12/08

20080314693 - Immobilisation device for a vehicle wheel and method for immobilising a vehicle wheel: The present invention relates to an immobilisation device for a wheel of a vehicle, comprising two chocks to be positioned in front and behind a wheel to prevent said wheel from rolling, two arms which are pivotable about a pivot point relative to each other, which function as connecting means... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080314696 - Device for braking an elongated rotating body, such as a rotary shaft, and transmission integrating such a braking device: A device for braking an elongated rotating body, includes at least two parts with coaxial conical surfaces, able to be slipped onto the body, and one, a so-called male cone, mounted integrally in rotation with the body, and the other, a so-called female cone, mounted fixed in rotation relative to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080314695 - Single motor electro wedge brake system using solenoid mechanism for implementing additional functions: The present invention provides an electro wedge brake (EWB) system that implements a main braking function by using power generated by one motor. Further, the electro wedge brake system implements various additional functions such as a function for maintaining a set clearance of a pad, a Fail-Safe function, and an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080314694 - Single motor electronic controlled wedge break system: A single motor electronic controlled wedge brake system of the invention includes: a mounting plate that is fastened to a carrier movably in the pressing direction of a disc rotor; a movable wedge that is supported by the base wedge that is movably installed to the mounting plate and contacts... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080314697 - Disk brake: The invention relates to a disk brake having a brake dirk (22) with a rotational axis (A) and a preferred running direction (1), having an application device, having a brake caliper (12) with a first caliper limb (32) which is arranged on a first side of the brake disk and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080314698 - Fixing and combining device for the brake disc of a remote-controlled model car: A fixing and combining device for the brake disc of a remote-controlled model car includes a connecting cup and a brake disc. The connecting cup has one side provided with a cup-shaped transmission member having two opposite sides of its circumferential wall respectively cut with an engage notch for receiving... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080314699 - Pad retention device: A pad retention device for a brake calliper for a disc brake for a vehicle comprises four spaced elongate cylindrical abutment pins (11) to (14) dispersed at spaced intervals around the periphery of the pad (10). The pins comprise two leading edge pins (11) and (12) and two trailing edge... Agent: Salter & Michaelson The Heritage Building

20080314700 - Brake actuating apparatus using an electric motor: Disclosed is a brake actuating apparatus which can perform braking without converting a rotational motion into a linear motion. The brake actuating apparatus includes a caliper body with a cylinder. An electric motor is fixed to the caliper body. A pressing piston is installed in the cylinder. A housing or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080314701 - Automatic spring-loaded brake for industrial truck: An industrial truck with at least one driven wheel, which is adapted to being braked during traveling operation by means of a service brake and which is adapted to being immobilized by a parking brake, comprises a braking force generation and braking force transmission apparatus, which is adapted to generating... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080314702 - Collet controlled slack adjuster: A slack adjuster for a fluid-actuated brake comprises a slack adjuster collet (24) having a tubular skirt and an enlarged ring section. The enlarged ring section has opposed axial stop faces notched therein that define a conical lift surface facing the tube axis. A forward stop face has a conical... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080314703 - Bell-band drive connection for disc brake: The invention relates to a braking disc comprising a braking band and a support bell. The band comprises first connecting means and the bell comprises second connecting means adapted to face the first connecting means. The disc further comprises coupling means, each of which is slidingly associated to one of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080314704 - Junction bleed: A shock absorber includes a piston which has at least one compression fluid passage and at least one rebound fluid passage. A compression valve assembly closes the at least one compression passage and a rebound valve assembly closes the at least one rebound passage. An interconnecting passage connects the at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080314706 - Gas cup assembly and damper having same: One expression of an embodiment of the invention is for a damper including a damper cylinder and a damper gas cup assembly. The damper gas cup assembly is disposed in, and is slidingly engagable with, the damper cylinder and includes a gas-and-liquid-impermeable damper gas cup and a liquid-permeable member. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080314705 - Magnetorheological piston having a bypass passageway: A magnetorheological (MR) piston includes an MR piston core, an MR piston end plate, a shim disc, and a flexible orifice disc. The end plate covers an end of the core to define a chamber and has a through passageway aligned with an MR-piston-core bypass passageway at the chamber. The... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080314707 - Damper having a rebound bumper and damper subassembly having same: A damper includes a rod guide assembly which is attached to an open end portion of a cylinder. The rod guide assembly is adapted to guide a piston rod and to seal damping fluid within the cylinder. The damper includes a compressible rebound bumper disposed between, and attached to one... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080314708 - Piston-cylinder unit: Presented is a piston-cylinder unit. The piston-cylinder unit includes an outer tube defining a cavity, a working cylinder disposed in the cavity of the outer tube and filling only a portion of the cavity. The unfilled portion of the cavity is a compensating space. The compensating space is divided into... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080308363 - Bicycle disc brake device: A bicycle disc brake device includes a fixed member, an actuation unit and an adjustment structure. The fixed member includes a caliper housing. The actuation unit is coupled to the fixed member. The actuation unit is configured and arranged to move a friction member of the disc brake device from... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080308364 - Lightweight brake drum with middle position squealer band: A novel brake drum includes one or more mid-positioned squealer bands that are roughly in line with the ribs of the brake shoes. This places the most rigid part of the brake drum and the location of greatest heat sink over the most rigid portion of the brake shoes, which... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C.

20080308365 - Friction lining: The invention describes a friction lining (4) comprising a binding agent matrix (5) and friction particles (6), which binding agent matrix (5) forms a coating with a pre-definable coating thickness. A proportion of the friction particles (6) selected from a range with a lower limit of 20% and an upper... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080308366 - Viscous shear damping strut assembly: A damping device using viscous shear to moderate substantially linear movement. The device has a housing with one or more reservoirs containing a viscous fluid, such as silicone, and one or more retractable struts that can extend from the housing. The strut has a portion formed as a toothed rack,... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080308367 - Air spring and damper unit having a pilot-controlled main valve: An air spring and damper unit for vehicles has, as operating spaces, at least two pressure spaces filled with compressed air and connected to one another via flow channels. The pressure spaces have movable walls in the form of rolling bellows or folding bellows, wherein a pilot-controlled main valve which... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080308368 - Device for reducing vibrations and sounds: The invention refers to a device for reducing vibrations and sounds in a structure (1). The device comprises at least a dynamic element (4), which extends along two main axes and has a mass-moment of inertia, and at least a spring element (5) which is connected to the dynamic element... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080302614 - Aircraft brake particularly adapted for mounting on a conical axle: P

20080302613 - Wheel-and-brake assembly for aircraft: According to the invention, the assembly comprises a drum extending around the disks to be interposed between the disks and the rim, the drum including drive means for driving the rotor disks in rotation and fastener means for fastening the drum to the rim of the wheel.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080302616 - Brake disk with grooves: A brake disk includes a central hole so as to be connected to a wheel shaft and a serrated periphery which includes a plurality of first protrusions and a second protrusion is located between any two adjacent first protrusions. Two recesses are connected between the second protrusion and the two... Agent: Kao, Ching-wen

20080302615 - Ventilated brake disc and corresponding vehicle: A brake disc including two plates spaced apart from each other and connected together by ventilating blocks distributed in concentric circular rows including a first outlet row of blocks through which air exits the gap between the two plates and a second row upstream of the outlet row along the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080302617 - Railcar brake head: A railcar brake head having an upper end, a lower end, and a pair of sides. The brake head further includes an elongated concave keyway defining an elongated axis and opening to the upper and lower ends of the brake head. At least a portion of the keyway is defined... Agent: Law Office Of John W. Harbst

20080302618 - Hydraulic coupling for an actuating system for actuating a motor vehicle clutch: Presented is a hydraulic coupling for an actuating system for actuating a motor vehicle clutch. The hydraulic coupling includes a socket part defining an internal recess, a plug part configured for insertion into the socket part, a locking element that engages with the plug part and the socket part in... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080302619 - Rotary damper with one-way clutch: A rotary damper (15) comprises a first component (17), a second component (31) mounted rotatably on the first (17), a braking fluid interposed between the first (17) and the second component (31), and a third component (50) mounted rotatably on the second component (31). The second (31) and the third... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080302620 - Drum brake apparatus: A cylinder body 60 of a wheel cylinder assembly 6 for expanding a pair of brake shoes 3 and 4 by a pair of pistons 31 and 32 brought into contact with the respective brake shoes has a shape of a single straight pipe with both ends which are opened.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080302621 - Adjustable mounting vibration isolator: A device of the invention includes a vibration isolator with an elastomeric damper and inner and outer connectors. The inner connector has external and internal threads, and the outer connector has internal threads. A method of the invention includes attaching the vibration isolator to a block by screwing external threads... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080302622 - Damper, and electronic component and electronic apparatus equipped with the damper: Disclosed is a damper that is easy to mount and capable of attenuating to a sufficient degree a vibration generated by an electronic component; also disclosed are an electronic component and an electronic apparatus that are provided with such a damper. A mounting insertion portion is provided with a hard... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20080296107 - Parking brake actuator with spring force provided by flexible actuator cable: This invention relates to a pivotal control for engaging and disengaging the parking brake of an outdoor power equipment unit such as a lawn mower. The control is laterally pivotal from an inboard to an outboard position by the operator as the operator mounts or dismounts the unit. This lateral... Agent: James W. Miller, Attorney

20080296101 - Brake device for prams: A brake device for prams is operable for jointly acting on the rear wheels being installed on the two sides of the pram. The braking action is carried out by one single control being such as to simultaneously act on the two wheels through a rope. The single control is... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080296102 - Self-amplifying electromechanical partial lining disc brake: The present invention relates to a self-amplifying electromechanical partial lining disc brake, having a ramp mechanism as a self-amplification device. According to the invention, a rack for driving a friction brake pad is situated between roller elements of the ramp mechanism, particularly at a geometrical centroid of an imaginary surface... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20080296103 - Caliper brake: A hydraulic caliper brake includes a housing formed by two halves. A pair of bores are provided in each housing half, and a piston is positioned in each bore. An end cap closes off each bore and is sealed by an O-ring positioned around the periphery of each end cap.... Agent: Edwards G. Greive Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20080296104 - Brake clamping assembly: A brake clamping assembly, comprises a cylinder body; an outer side of the cylinder body having an outer hole; the cylinder body having a hollow receiving space; and the receiving space having a claw; the claw is elastic; an inner brake pad being installed inside of the claw and the... Agent: Chester Wen

20080296105 - Tension control system for a web of material: A tension control assembly including a rotating member, a braking member, at least one brake pad, a means for driving the at least one brake pad against the braking member, and a temperature sensing means. The braking member is attached to the rotating member. The at least one brake pad... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080296106 - Redundant brake actuators for fail safe brake system: A vehicle brake system includes first and second central control units communicating with, respectively, first and second control networks, and a plurality of brake units. Each brake unit includes a brake component, a self-enforcing mechanism associated with and acting upon the brake component, and first and second actuation mechanisms acting... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080296108 - Brake disc: A brake disc of the type comprising a braking band, a connecting portion and connecting spokes made in a single piece. In said disc at least one spoke exhibits an active section reduction that is sufficient to prevent vibrations and whistling during the braking phase. The disc, according to the... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20080296109 - Insert and retainer for securing same to an aircraft brake disk: An aircraft brake rotor (60) or stator (110) includes a circular disk having first and second walls (62, 112) and a peripheral wall (64, 114) including at least one notch (66, 116) having a bottom (70) and first and second sides (72). The disk further includes first and second peripheral... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.