Brakes inventions 01/09

20090026022 - Wheel chock system: A wheel restraint for restraining a vehicle at a loading dock includes various features such as, a wheel chock supported by a spring loaded articulated arm with a spring that can be selectively tightened or released, a sensor that detects whether the chock is solidly against a base plate or... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090026023 - Self-locking descender with disengageable handle: A self-locking comprising a pulley in the form of a rotary cam, a brake shoe, and an actuating handle of a mechanism with an interruptible mechanical link between the pulley and handle after an intermediate position has been passed causing disengagement of the pulley and automatic return of the cam... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090026024 - Caliper brake system: A caliper brake system includes a housing, a bore within the housing, and a piston slidably positioned within the bore. The brake system also includes a spring assembly, a fluid chamber defined by the bore and the piston, and a hydraulic fluid supply network. The spring assembly provides a biasing... Agent: Edward G. Greive Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20090026027 - Brake rotors for vehicles: Diffusion bonded brake rotor and hub formed by powder metallurgy including metals such as titanium powder.... Agent: Andrew Alexander & Associates

20090026025 - Dual coated cast iron brake rotor and method of construction: A brake rotor for a vehicle and method of construction thereof provides a cast iron disc with a first coating of a ceramic anti-wear material adhered to the cast iron disc to provide an annular friction surface for braking engagement with a brake pad. The disc has a second coating... Agent: Robert L. Stearns Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090026026 - Vehicular brake rotors: Vehicular brake rotor formed by powder metallurgy including metals such as titanium powder.... Agent: Andrew Alexander & Associates

20090026028 - Brake pad for a disc brake: A brake pad includes a support plate which is embodied as a cast piece as well as a friction lining that is attached therein. The support plate is provided with a planiform base and raised, positively connected parts, which are molded onto the base and are enclosed by the friction... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090026029 - Damping force generating mechanism for hydraulic shock absorber: A hydraulic shock absorber comprises a piston 8 fixed to a tip end of a piston rod 1 within a cylinder 15. A port 7 that causes working oil to flow from an oil chamber R into an oil chamber P in accordance with an expansion operation of the piston... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090026030 - Shock absorber staged valving system: A shock absorber piston assembly includes a shock absorber piston having a first face and an opposed second face. A plurality of fluid passages extend between the first face and the second face. A plurality of valves attach to the piston, including: at least two rebound valves, each connectable to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090020377 - Disk brake for vehicle: Disclosed is a disk brake for a vehicle having a power transmission device that presses a friction pad against a disk by using a worm gear. The disk brake includes a movable friction pad that makes contact with one lateral side of a disk rotating together with a vehicle wheel,... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090020376 - Wheel carrier for vehicles with a disc brake: A wheel carrier (1) for providing a rotary connection between a wheel and suspension means of a vehicle comprises a support member (2) in order to support a braking band (3) and a connection flange (4) in order to support the wheel of the vehicle, in which the support member... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090020373 - Rappelling device: In a rappelling device (10) for braking a load guided on a cable which can be fixed to the rappelling device (10), the cable (14) is friction-guided over a distance (22) and the cable (14) which runs through the rappelling device (10) is guided over a brakable shaft (24). The... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090020374 - Buggy cart brake system: A grocery cart braking system is described having a brake release bail bar assembly, a clutch disk assembly, a replaceable sacrificial brake shoe, and a biased brake rod assembly. The clutch disk assembly may be a single disk or a two part disk assembly. The two part disk assembly allows... Agent: Cloutier & Engle, Pllc Attn: Priya Sinha Cloutier

20090020375 - Disc brake for a commercial vehicle: A commercial vehicle disc brake has a caliper that straddles a brake disc that can be functionally connected to brake pads having a brake lining supporting plate and a friction lining secured thereto. At least one closure cover encloses and hermetically seals a chamber for housing functional parts of the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090020378 - Disk brake apparatus: A thrust transmitting plate 14b on a cylinder hole bottom side portion of an adjuster nut 14, a drive side cam plate 12, and a cam spring 15 for biasing the thrust transmitting plate 14b toward the drive side cam plate 12 are accommodated in a generally cylindrical housing 16.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090020379 - Low mass multi-piece sound dampened article: A multi-piece sound dampened brake rotor comprises a relatively light weight hub with a hub flange and a heavier rotor body with a sound damping insert and a rotor body flange. The hub and rotor body are attached at their flanges. The flanges may be mechanically attached such as with... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090020380 - Brake pad for a disc brake: A brake pad for a disc brake, in particular for a commercial vehicle, has a pad retaining spring which is configured as an arcuate leaf spring and is held in a manner which is secured captively and can be deflected radially on a lining carrier plate of a brake pad... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090020381 - Vibration isolators and isolation systems: In an embodiment, and by way of example only, a vibration isolator is used for coupling between a payload and a base and includes a rod, a magnetic damper, a first spring, and a second spring. The magnetic damper includes a movable section and stationary section. The movable section comprises... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090020382 - Piston with an integral electrically operated adjustment valve for a hydraulic vibration damper: A vibration damper includes a cylinder within which a piston is slidably received thereby defining compression and rebound chambers. The piston has a bore with a valve seat through which fluid flows between those chambers. A poppet selectively engages the valve seat and forms a pilot chamber an opposite side... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090020383 - Damped part: A part including a body including a metal, and a frictional damping means, the frictional damping means comprising frictional surfaces in local contact but not bonded together, or the frictional damping means including a layer including at least one of particles, flakes, or fibers, the layer having a thickness ranging... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090014262 - Disc brake and brake pad for a commercial vehicle: A disc brake for a commercial vehicle includes a caliper which, in use, straddles a brake disc. A closure cover closes-off an opening of the caliper. A brake pad includes a lining carrier plate and a friction lining material fastened thereon. The closure cover and the lining carrier plate have... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090014257 - Disk brake apparatus: Engaging grooves 8e extending in the cylinder axial direction and circumferential grooves 8f formed in a cylinder axial direction middle portion of the engaging grooves 8 are formed on a bottom side of a cylinder hole 8. Engaging rib 12b engaging with the engaging groove 8e and engaging rib 16d... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090014258 - Safety braking system: A safety braking system mounted to a bike, motorcycle or any other two-wheel linear type of vehicle adapted with a right and a left brake lever to respectively control applying a brake to a front wheel and a rear wheel of the vehicle to control a rear wheel brake to... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090014259 - Load-minimizing, trolley arrester apparatus and method: A system comprising a cable held in suspension and a trolley traveling along the cable relies on a brake to control velocity and limit net downhill acceleration of the trolley. The trolley may include a brake pad positioned to contact the cable. At the downhill end of the ride, the... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20090014260 - Method for manufacturing callipers for disc brakes with forced cap: s

20090014261 - Apparatus for controlling aircraft parking brakes: An apparatus for remotely controlling an aircraft having a self-propelled nosewheel, on the ground, comprises parking brakes; an APU on said aircraft; control means for applying and releasing said parking brakes; control means for turning on and off said APU; transmitting means for transmitting information to said parking brakes and... Agent: Borealis Technical Limited

20090014263 - Brake drum with vent hole and cooling scoop: One embodiment of a brake drum includes a cylindrical main body portion, a brake drum mounting flange portion, a brake drum transition portion, the brake drum transition portion extending between the cylindrical main body portion and the mounting flange portion, the transition portion having a plurality of vent openings, and... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20090014264 - Hydraulic shock absorber: In a hydraulic shock absorber, a first oil chamber (R1) around the piston rod (2) and a second oil chamber (R2) on the opposite side are separated by a piston (3). A communicating passage (L) is disposed on the outside of the cylinder (1) to connect the first oil chamber... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090014265 - Dual-tube shock absorber: A dual-tube shock absorber comprising a working cylinder which is filled with a damping fluid and a container tube which concentrically encloses the working cylinder. A storage space which is filled with damping fluid and a gas is formed between the working cylinder and the container tube. The working cylinder... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20090014266 - Adjustable fluid friction valve: The present invention is an adjustable fluid friction valve. It is comprised of a left cap, a casing, a right cap, a fluid reservoir, a rotated-member, a stem, and an adjustment grip. The adjustment grip is turned by the user's hand and connects to and turns the central stem that... Agent: Donald Clifton Maser

20090008193 - Disc brake device: A disc brake apparatus which can securely suppress clunking sounds not only at the time of forward braking of a vehicle but also at the time of back braking of the vehicle is provided. When a backing metal 6A of a brake pad 6 shifts toward a first torque receiving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090008194 - Disc brake: Embodiments of the present invention provide a disc brake, comprising a brake support, a brake caliper, a brake disc and at least one brake lining. According to embodiments of the invention, in the assembled state of the disc brake, the brake support comprises no component extending over the brake disc... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20090008195 - Vibration isolator: There is provided a vibration isolator in which a restriction passage for causing a main fluid chamber and a sub-fluid chamber to communicate with each other is changed over to one of a first restriction passage and a second restriction passage according to a change in the frequency of vibrations... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090008196 - Multistage adjusting device: A cylindrical body, a plurality of grooves formed on an inner wall surface of the cylindrical body, and a device main body provided with an adjusting body disposed in the cylindrical body and rotatable in an inner circumferential direction of the cylindrical body can be provided. Further, the grooves can... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090008197 - Steering damping method for vehicle and steering damping device for vehicle: A steering damper can generate a smaller damping force according to a first damping force characteristic or a larger damping force according to a second damping force characteristic by controlling a flow of hydraulic oil during a steering operation of a steering member. When the associated vehicle is running at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090008198 - Multi-position brake lever system with a converter that converts a cable actuator to a hydraulic actuator: A hydraulic assembly for a hydraulic disc brake system that includes a housing defining a cylinder, a piston received in and moveable within the cylinder, a first lever operatively associated with one of the piston or the cylinder, and a second lever operatively associated with the other of the piston... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20090008199 - Motorcycle brake system: A hydraulic motorcycle brake system includes an accommodating member for the hydraulic connection of two master brake cylinders to the front-wheel brake and rear-wheel brake having several pressure channels for the front-wheel circuit and rear-wheel brake circuit, and allowing manufacture in a simplest possible manner, and a pair of wheel... Agent: William A Drucker

20090008200 - Negative pressure type booster device: To provide a negative pressure type booster device which has a high responsiveness even when a brake pedal is stepped on strongly and which is simplified and compact in construction. To this end, a passage 45 communicating directly with the atmosphere is provided between the internal surface of a sliding... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090008201 - Vibration damping device and manufacturing method thereof: A vibration damping device including a hollow housing having a fastening frame and a housing main body attached to the fastening frame for providing the hollow housing enclosing a mass member. With the housing main body inserted between top and base plate portions through an opening in the fastening frame,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090000883 - Motorcycle having a plurality of brake calipers acting on its rear wheel: A motorcycle (10) is described, equipped with a rear drive wheel (12), rotatingly constrained to an oscillating arm (14) integral with the engine (16) of the motorcycle (10), at least one rear shock absorber (20), positioned between the oscillating arm (14) and the chassis (24) of the motorcycle (10), at... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20090000878 - Method of varying a rest position and a length of an actuation arc of a lever in a hydraulic disc brake system: A method of varying a rest position and a length of an actuation arc of a lever in a hydraulic disc brake system. The hydraulic disc brake system comprises a master cylinder including a cylinder having a first end and second end and a port communicating with a hydraulic fluid... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20090000879 - Abseiling device: An abseiling device for braking a load (16) that is suspended on a rope (14) and may be fastened to the abseiling device (10), with which the rope (14) passes through the abseiling device (10) and is frictionally guided along a section (22), at least one portion of the section... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090000881 - Disc brake for a commercial vehicle: A disc brake is provided for a commercial vehicle, having a brake caliper and brake pads, which make contact with a brake disc. At least one brake pad, together with a carrier plate and a friction lining fixed on the latter, can be pressed against the brake disc by a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090000880 - Disc brake shim plate: A disc brake shim plate including a metal plate and a rubber section formed on at least one side of the metal plate. The rubber section includes an elastomer and carbon nanofibers having an average diameter of 0.5 to 500 nm and dispersed in the elastomer; the rubber section in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090000882 - Shrink fitted caliper guidance pins: A guide pin for a sliding disc brake caliper and a carrier for the caliper are attached together by generating a difference in temperatures between a section of the guide pin and a section of the carrier. The section of the guide pin is then inserted into an aperture defined... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090000884 - Brake rotor: The present invention is predicated upon improved brake rotors and methods of forming thereof which include tangential stiffening to reduce vibration and noise of the brake rotor.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20090000885 - Bicycle damper: A damper including a valve movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively alter the compression damping rate of the shock absorber. The valve may include a groove feature at the location of the openings in the valve shaft which operates to accumulate the flow of hydraulic... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090000886 - Bicycle damper: A damper for a bicycle, having a primary unit including a damper tube, a piston rod that supports a main piston, a reservoir tube that is outside of the compression chamber of the primary tube, and an inertial valve within the reservoir tube. The damper also includes a flow path... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090000887 - Bicycle damper: A damper for a bicycle having a primary unit and a remote unit that is substantially entirely outside of the primary unit. The primary unit includes a damper tube, a spring chamber, and a piston rod that supports a main piston. The main piston is movable within the damper chamber... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090000888 - Bicycle damper: A damper for a bicycle, having a primary unit including a damper tube, a piston rod that supports a main piston, a reservoir tube that is outside of compression chamber of the primary tube, an inertial valve within the reservoir tube, a flow housing within the reservoir tube, and a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090000889 - Bicycle damper: A damper including a valve movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively alter the compression damping rate of the shock absorber. The valve may include a groove feature at the location of the openings in the valve shaft which operates to accumulate the flow of hydraulic... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090000890 - Steering damping device: A steering shaft (2) penetrates a head tube (1) fixed to a vehicle body (A) of a motorcycle. The steering shaft (2) is coupled to a front wheel and handlebars of the motorcycle. A linear damper of a double-rod type is enclosed in the steering shaft (2). When the steering... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090000891 - Shock absorber: A piston connected with a piston rod is slidably fitted in a cylinder having a hydraulic fluid sealed therein. An extension-side main disk valve generates a damping force in a high piston speed region against the flow of hydraulic fluid in an extension-side passage. A sub-passage bypasses the extension-side main... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

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20090000893 - Brake shim and method thereof: Provided is a shim structure adapted to be interposed between a friction member and a forcing member configured to urge the friction member against a rotating member of a brake system. The shim structure includes a sheet member having opposing first and second surfaces defining a substantially uniform thickness of... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC