Brakes inventions 06/09

20090159375 - Control system for braking devices based on braking torque sensor: An embodiment of a control system of a braking device is provided. Said braking device includes at least one braking element adapted to apply a braking action to a moving body. The control system includes receiving means for receiving an indication of a target value of the braking action to... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20090159378 - Multi-part multi-stage brakes: A disc brake having a rotor and a caliper is provided and includes a first and second brake pad situated on the same side of the rotor whereby in a non-braking state the first brake pad is in contact with the rotor and the second brake pad is offset from... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090159376 - Mounting system for disk brake pad: A mounting system for a brake pad in the housings of a disk brake yoke in which the brake pad comprises at its ends two mounting ears (10), each ear being mounted in a housing of a disk brake yoke. The mounting system comprises for each pad ear, a spring... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090159377 - Magnetic, launch lock apparatus and method: An apparatus for securing movable elements of a multiple-axis drive mechanism with respect to the fixed base thereof during launch to prevent damage while unpowered. Mating surfaces of the lock secure the mechanism about all three axes of motion. Thus, the drives need to be only sufficiently designed to break... Agent: Utah State University Technology Commercialization Office

20090159379 - Drum brakes: A drum brake (10) is provided which has a pair of brake pads (12), each pad being moveable generally radially outwardly into contact with a brake drum by a respective operating lever (14) which is acted on at one end by a brake applying means (15) and pivoted (16) at... Agent: Paul E. Milliken

20090159380 - Brake shoe and method of manufacturing the same: An object is to provide a brake shoe which can be manufactured by a method comprising a reduced number of manufacturing steps, and such a method. A brake shoe 1 is manufactured by cutting a sheet blank formed by extrusion or calender sheeting into strips having a predetermined length, laying... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090159381 - Hydraulically actuable vehicle brake having a locking means: The present invention relates to a vehicle brake (10) comprising a housing (12), a brake piston (16) accommodated in the housing (12) and coupled to a brake lining (20), a blocking device (26) for arresting the brake piston (16) inside the housing (12), and an electromechanical actuating device (42) for... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090159382 - Rotary damper: A rotary viscous damper, comprising a stator and a rotor defining between them a main chamber filled with a visco-elastic fluid, which can be of a thixotropic, dilatant, or Bingham, etc, or Magneto-Rheological nature, substantially radial paddles being disposed on each of said stator and rotor, said paddles dividing said... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090159383 - Brake actuator: A piston-type air brake actuator includes a cylinder having an internal sliding surface of substantially uniform cross-section, a piston dimensioned to have a substantially air tight, axially slidable fit within the cylinder, and a pushrod rigidly secured to the piston for engagement with a pivoting operating shaft of a disc... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090159384 - Energy absorber and system: Various embodiments of an energy absorber are included. In one embodiment, the energy observer includes a base, a top spaced apart from the base and a plurality of legs that extend from the top to the base and that are spatially arranged relative to one another with window openings interposed... Agent: Sabic - 08ct Sabic Innovative Plastics -IPLegal

20090152054 - Method for determining the coefficient of friction of disk brakes: A method for determining the friction value of a disk brake, in particular of self-energizing disk brakes, in which the friction value is determined on the basis of the: motor current for the application direction and retraction direction, idle current Io, wedge angle α, transmission constant K, and clamping force.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090152055 - Wheel motor cooling: The present invention provides a means for cooling the brakes of under-carriage wheels by disengaging and spinning the motor used to provide traction on landing, thereby providing fan cooling of the brakes.... Agent: Borealis Technical Limited

20090152056 - Disk brake with guard screen: A disk brake for a vehicle having a bracket which is fixed with respect to the vehicle and on which brake linings and at least one brake caliper are mounted so as to be movable in an axial direction is disclosed. The bracket and the brake caliper engage around at... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090152057 - Brake device and motor with speed reducing mechanism: A brake device arranged between a drive shaft and a driven shaft arranged coaxially with the drive shaft is disclosed. The brake device includes a first rotor, a second rotor, an engagement member, a braking mechanism, and a cam mechanism. The braking mechanism includes a movable friction member rotatable integrally... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090152058 - Brake lining cup attachment method for reduced wear: A brake lining assembly is provided for improved useful life. A brake lining assembly may comprise a carrier disk, a brake lining cup secured to the carrier disk and filled with a brake lining material, wherein the segmented brake lining cup has a center, wherein the brake lining material is... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (goodrich)

20090152059 - Rotational resistance apparatus: A rotational resistance apparatus and method of use is disclosed to control movement of a carriage across a surface. The apparatus includes a disc having an axial rotational axis, an axial first end portion, and second end face portion that is substantially perpendicular to the axial rotational axis. The first... Agent: Jackson Esquire Roger A. Jackson

20090152060 - Magnetic resistor control assembly: A magnetic resistor control assembly for a body training machine comprises a main shaft; a rotor, a stator, an adjusting unit, a sliding block set and a controller. An inner disk and an outer disk clamp of the stator clamping the adjusting unit. The sliding block set has guide tracks,... Agent: Hai-pin Kuo

20090152061 - Adjustable pumping device for a hydraulic brake device of a bicycle: An adjustable pumping device for a hydraulic brake device of a bicycle includes a body mounted to a handlebar of the bicycle and having a first tunnel defined therein for containing oil. A main cylinder is disposed in the body and pumps oil to the hydraulic brake device of the... Agent: Sam Chen

20090152062 - Position seat for a hydraulic brake device of a bicycle: A position seat for a hydraulic brake device of a bicycle includes a position member mounted to a handlebar of the bicycle and a pumping member partially received in the position member. The pumping member is selectively rotatable relative to the position member. A semi-annular groove is defined in an... Agent: Sam Chen

20090152063 - Pumping device for a hydraulic brake of a bicycle: A pumping device for a brake device of a bicycle includes a tunnel and a main cylinder directly and respectively disposed in a distal portion of a handlebar of the bicycle. The tunnel is provided to contain oil and the main cylinder is connected to the brake device. The tunnel... Agent: Sam Chen

20090152064 - Interconnecting strut for arranging between adjacent landing flaps of an aircraft: An interconnecting strut is disclosed, which comprises two coaxially arranged strut elements which may be displaced relative to one another in the longitudinal direction of the interconnecting strut, two end stops defining the mutual displaceability of the two strut elements, as well as damping means, which when a specific permissible... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090152065 - Tube expanding method and apparatus of damper tube: In a tube expanding apparatus of a damper tube supporting a thrust force of a punch applied to the damper tube by a stopper at a time of retaining one end of the damper tube by the stopper, inserting the other end of the damper tube to a die, inserting... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20090145699 - Braking device for a robot drive and method of detecting a braking state: Method of detecting a braking state of a braking device of a robot drive, having a frame device which, if required, applies braking forces to a rotating component of the robot drive by means of a first movable frame element. As a result, the braking device is shifted into at... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090145700 - Fast braking device for grinding machine: A fast braking device for a grinding machine installed in a grinding machine with a spindle comprises: an electromagnet element closely neighbors an inner braking disc; the electromagnet element and the inner braking disc are jointly fixed on the grinding machine. An outer braking disc is separated from the electromagnet... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090145701 - Device for controlling the piston roll-back: A device for controlling the piston roll-back including a piston comprising a piston body (9) and a bush (10) coaxial to said piston body, said bush being arranged externally to said piston body and having an outer sealing surface, a scraper element (11) seated in a seat provided in the... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20090145702 - Brake pad for a vehicle disc brake assembly: An improved structure for a brake pad adapted for use in a disc brake assembly. The brake pad includes a backing plate and a friction pad. The friction pad includes a lengthwise axis of symmetry. The brake pad is adapted to align a friction pad area centroid relative to a... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090145703 - Process for production of a brake lining and brake lining in particular for a motor-vehicle disk brake: A friction lining (4) of a brake is made of a friction material (41) and has a grid (1) that is made of an elastic filling material embedded into the friction material. As a first step, the grid (1) made of the filling material is placed into a friction-lining compression... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090145704 - Brake disk lock: The invention relates to a brake disk lock having an actuable housing shell, a support section, an engagement hoop and a securing section, with the support section and the engagement hoop bounding a receiving gap for the receiving of a brake disk, with the housing shell being arranged on the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090145705 - Brake disk lock: The invention relates to a brake disk lock having a receiving gap for the receiving of a brake disk, comprising: a securing section for the closing of the receiving gap, an alarm device for the output of an alarm signal, a movable brake disk recognition device, a pressure switch having... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090145706 - Arrangement for telescopic fork leg with parallel damping: A device for telescopic fork legs, preferably for a motorcycle or bicycle. The device is a compact removable unit that comprises parallel medium flow passages that run between upper and lower sides of the piston. This unit that is simple to adapt to different front fork dimensions and to use... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090145707 - Piston-cylinder unit with piston rod protector: Piston-cylinder unit includes a piston rod guided with freedom of axial movement in a cylinder, where at least part of the piston rod is enclosed by a piston rod protector, which is designed with at least limited axial elasticity. At least one retaining surface of the piston rod protector enters... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090145708 - Shock absorber: Disclosed herein is a shock absorber for damping vibration transmitted to a vehicle according to a road state. The shock absorber includes a cylinder and a piston valve disposed within the cylinder and connected to a piston rod to divide the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090145709 - Shock absorber: Disclosed herein is a shock absorber for damping vibration transmitted to a vehicle according to a road state. The shock absorber includes a cylinder and a piston valve disposed within the cylinder and connected to a piston rod to divide the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090139804 - Cart braking device: A cart braking device includes a swivel unit, a shaft unit and a braking unit which has a central shaft, an orientation member, a braking member and a base. The central shaft is coupled with the orientation member and has an elastic piece for moving the central shaft upward. A... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090139805 - Brake device for prams: This device is actuated by a single control (1) that by ropes (2 and 3) and in a simultaneous manner acts on the rear wheels (4) of the pram. The control (1) has a lever (5) at its end (6) being linked to a bracket (7) in a pin-jointed connection... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090139806 - Centrifugal emergency brake: An emergency braking assembly that stops the rotation of a shaft in the event that the speed of the shaft exceeds a predetermined speed. The braking assembly includes a flanged mounting ring that is mounted to a housing where the shaft extends through the ring, and a braking ring threadably... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC

20090139807 - Brake assembly having multi-piece core and replaceable friction surfaces: A brake disk (10) includes an annular core (12, 60, 82) formed from a plurality of non-annular pieces (40, 66, 68, 84), a first friction disk (14) mounted on a first side of the annular core (12, 60, 82), a second friction disk (14) mounted on a second side of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090139808 - Method of fabricating carbon fiber reinforced composite material parts: A coherent fiber preform made of carbon fibers presents holes formed from at least a first face of the preform, and the preform is densified by depositing therein a material constituting a matrix by means of a chemical vapor infiltration type process. The holes are formed by causing a plurality... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090139809 - Plateless railway brake shoe: A brake shoe formed of friction material for use without a metal backing plate. The brake shoe is defined by a friction surface for bearing upon a wheel tread and an opposed back surface for being placed in contact with and secured to a brake head. The brake shoe has... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090139811 - Damper device: Mass portions of torsional dampers are annular surrounding corresponding elastic portions. The mass portion of the torsional damper has a first inclined face formed such that the elastic portion deforms in a sheared manner as the mass portion rotates in a rotational direction with respect to a companion flange and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090139810 - Rotary damper: A rotary damper is provided and includes: a housing; an annular ring member that is provided in the housing, and is made of elastomer or flexible rubber; a shaft body that is accommodated in a rotatable manner in the housing; and a sliding portion that is provided in the housing... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090139812 - Shock absorber for movable tools: The invention relates to a shock absorber in which the blow from a movable tool is received by a piston that transmits the kinetic energy of the blow to a chamber filled with hydraulic liquid. The shock absorber is also provided with means for returning the piston to its starting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP