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Brakes August inventions list 08/10

20100213015 - Apparatus and method for controlling motion of a bend stiffener: A method and apparatus is disclosed for governing motion of a bend stiffener along a flexible pipe. The apparatus includes a stopper clamp secured to a portion of flexible pipe body and at least one retardation element located on the flexible pipe body at a predetermined position with respect to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100213016 - Elevator brake: The invention relates to an elevator brake, said elevator comprising a hoisting machine (1) provided with at least a frame part (2) and a traction sheave (3), and a brake drum (4) arranged to be rotatable with the traction sheave (3) and provided with a braking surface (5), and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100213017 - Wheel-type resistance device for an exerciser: A wheel-type resistance device includes a flywheel rotatably mounted on a shaft, a mount secured to the shaft and having a slot, left and right mounting strips anchored to the mount and having pulled ends adjacent to the slot, left and right pulling cords respectively connected to the pulled ends... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100213018 - Brake mechanism for power equipment: Brake pawls for use in safety systems for power equipment are disclosed. The brake pawls include an energy-absorbing region. The energy absorbing regions may include a deformable or collapsible region made from apertures in the brake pawl or from collapsible members or from materials of differing hardnesses, strengths, or structures.... Agent: Sd3, LLC

20100206671 - Brake wear measurement system and method: A brake measurement system comprising a measurement mechanism for measuring brake wear operatively coupled to a moveable member of a brake assembly is provided. The system further includes a displacement sensor and a visual indicator. The displacement sensor is operatively coupled to the measurement mechanism, wherein movement of the moveable... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (goodrich)

20100206672 - Emergency brake: An emergency brake. The emergency brake includes a pack of disks and counter-disks. A resilient actuator acts on the pack to push the disks and counter-disks into a braking condition. A piston acts on the pack in opposition to the resilient actuator in order to disable braking. A hydraulic circuit... Agent: Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

20100206673 - Brake system for a motor vehicle: A brake system for a motor vehicle which simplifies the hydraulic design and avoids a vacuum prevailing over a relatively long period of time. The first hydraulic unit has a suction volume, which is connected to the suction side of the pump and which, in the event of a change... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100206674 - Disc brake rotors with tilted vane geometry: A tilted vane brake rotor. The tilted vanes are tilted in the sense of being oriented with respect to the inside disc surfaces at other than 90 degrees, defined by an acute intersection angle with respect to either of the inside disc surfaces. The tilted vanes may be, for example,... Agent: Keefe And Associates

20100206675 - Ventilated disc rotor: A ventilated disc rotor includes a hat portion at which the ventilated disc rotor is attached to a rotation shaft, a sliding portion formed in an annular shape and provided at a radially outer portion of the hat portion, the ventilated disc rotor being slidably held by an inner pad... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100206676 - Shock absorber housing: A shock absorber housing for a shock absorber of a vehicle comprises a tube, which has a tubular wall, and an attaching element joined onto the tubular wall, the attaching element determining a critical force introduction area of an introduction of a force into the tubular wall, the tube in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100206677 - Parking brake system: A vehicle parking brake system for a vehicle including: a non-rotary body; a rotary drum; brake shoes; an anchor member disposed between anchor-member-side end portions of the respective brake shoes; a transmitting member interconnecting transmitting-member-side end portions of the respective brake shoes; and a parking-brake operating apparatus configured to predict... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100200340 - Braking device for a rimmed wheel, especially for a bike wheel: A braking device is designed to be mounted on a bicycle frame C with at least one wheel R with a rim (10), including a fixed support (12), two rigid arms (14G, 14D) that can move relative to the fixed support (12), and two elastic return links (16G, 16D) that... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100200341 - Brake operation structure and brake/differential-lock operation structure: The present invention provides a brake operation structure capable of realizing facilitation of adjustment work of a brake operation mechanism for operating a brake mechanism based on manual operation. The brake operation structure includes a brake operation mechanism that rotates a brake pressing member of the brake mechanism about a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100200342 - Brake system of the brake-by-wire type: A brake system of the brake-by-wire (BBW) type for a vehicle having a brake pressure signal generator which can be activated by a brake pedal and can be connected to wheel brakes outside the BBW operating mode, having a pressure source which can be actuated by an electronic control unit... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100200343 - Electromagnetic shock absorber for vehicle: An electromagnetic absorber (10) for a vehicle including (a) a threaded rod (78) which is disposed on one of a sprung portion and an unsprung portion and which has a threaded groove (76) formed in its outer circumferential portion and an axial groove (90) extending in its axis direction (b)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100200344 - Apparatus for damping the torsional excitation of a hollow drive shaft: An apparatus for damping the torsional excitation of a hollow drive shaft is provided. The apparatus includes an elongate member that extends along the interior of the drive shaft, one end of the member is secured to one end of the drive shaft, the other end of the member is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100200345 - Locking hydraulic brake system: A locking mechanism for installing between a master cylinder and a brake line includes a housing having an internal bore, an inlet port, a passage, and an outlet port. A reciprocating piston is movable within the bore. A locking lever is coupled to the reciprocating piston for actuating the reciprocating... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20100200346 - Shock-absorbing structure: A shock-absorbing structure configured to absorb an impact load in a specific direction includes a first steric portion having a hollow steric structure; and a second steric portion disposed inside the first steric portion and having a hollow steric structure. In the shock-absorbing structure, the second steric portion includes a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100200348 - Liquid damper for reducing vertical and/or horizontal vibrations in a building or machine structure: In a liquid damper for reducing vertical and/or horizontal vibrations in a building or machine structure, having at least two chambers (1, 2) partly filled with liquid (3), which communicate with one another at their lower ends, whereby at least one chamber (1) is sealed off in airtight manner at... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20100200347 - Oil cavity for pendulum element (roller) of a centrifugal pendulum: A centrifugal pendulum in a torsional vibration damper of a drive train of a motor vehicle with a pendulum flange rotating about a rotation axis and several pendulum masses distributed over the circumference, disposed on the latter in a manner capable of swinging. When the internal combustion engine of the... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20100193298 - Self-amplifying electromechanical friction brake: The invention relates to a self-amplifying electromechanical disc brake, having a friction brake lining, which is able to move on a helical path and having a rack-and-pinion mechanism for moving the friction brake lining and for actuating the disc brake. According to the invention, a rack of the rack-and-pinion mechanism... Agent: Ronald E. Greigg Greigg & Greigg P.l.l.c.

20100193299 - Brake retraction utilizing active material actuation: A braking system comprising a reconfigurable caliper piston adapted for, and a method of, retracting a brake pad utilizing active material actuation.... Agent: Slj, LLC

20100193300 - Vehicle disc brake device: A disc brake device in which uneven wear on the brake pads is prevented. Each brake pad has a set pin hole at one end in which a set pin is fitted, and a torque-receiving component for receiving braking torque in the other end. The pistons for pressing the brake... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100193301 - Vehicle disc brake device: A vehicle disc brake device for preventing snow, ice, and mud from adhering to a caliper includes a body-anchoring part provided in a cylinder of a caliper, the body-anchoring part for securing a wire guide used to support a brake wire. The body-anchoring part has a first surface oriented along... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100193302 - Method for the secured release of an electromechanically actuable parking brake: A method to limit overheating of a brake equipped with an electromechanically actuable parking brake including the steps of: driving a threaded spindle by an electric motor until a power drain (Imax), corresponding to a brake application force (F), is reached; detection of a travel distance (x0) of the piston... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100193303 - Brake spider weldment and anchor pin assembly: An improved brake spider and anchor pin assembly in which weight, cost, manufacture, axle installation and maintenance is improved over prior brake spider designs. The improved brake spider is built up from light weight, relatively inexpensive stampings which are joined together, for example by welding, to form a strong built-up... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100193304 - Damping device with field-controllable fluid: The present invention relates to a damping device having a first control element with a first surface (O1) and a second control element with a second surface (O2), the two control elements being moveable relative to each other with their two surfaces, a spatial region (intermediate space Z) which is... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20100193305 - Actively controlled colloidal damper: An actively controlled colloidal damper having controllable damping characteristics. The damper has a cylinder (2); a piston (4) reciprocatably guided and supported by the cylinder (2) and forming a closed space (3) in cooperation with the cylinder (2); a porous body (8) having a large number of fine holes and... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20100193306 - Damper: An inner rotor 22 is rotated at a high speed, and if a pressure due to silicon oil S reaches a predetermined value or above, the pressure due to the silicon oil S traveling from a communicating passage 42 to a communicating passage 44, increases. Accordingly, a piston 52 is... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20100193307 - Hydrodynamic retarder with a tangential inflow and outflow principle: A hydrodynamic retarder with tangential inflow and outflow is formed with at least one radial recess (3), in the stator, which extends radially outward when viewed in the radial direction. The at least one radial recess (3) is arranged so as to enable one of back-feed and back-filling of the... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20100193308 - Triple tube shock absorber having a shortened intermediate tube: A triple tube shock absorber includes a pressure tube, a reserve tube and an intermediate tube. The intermediate tube is disposed between the pressure tube and the intermediate tube. A tube ring is disposed between the pressure tube and the intermediate tube to isolate an intermediate chamber from a reserve... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100193309 - Piston for a piston-cylinder arrangement and production method: The invention relates to a piston for a piston-cylinder arrangement, particularly a shock absorber piston, which includes a piston body, that has a circumferential surface. A sealing collar has an outer circumferential surface, an inner circumferential surface, a first peripheral surface, and a first sealing lip, and extends around the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100193310 - Yaw damper with pump: Yaw damper for damping yaw motions between two vehicle parts. This includes in the customary manner a piston part and a cylinder part, wherein that piston part is provided with a piston which divides that cylinder part into two chambers. Between these two chambers, connecting lines are present. The embodiment... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100193311 - Enhanced brake booster vacuum support: An apparatus and method for providing enhanced vacuum to a brake booster of a braking system under certain operational conditions. Vacuum is stored in a reservoir and is controllably released to the brake booster to provide a brake booster vacuum level of at least a predetermined vacuum level threshold in... Agent: Keefe And Associates