Brakes inventions

20090277726 - Mechanical brake: A mechanical brake having an axial shifting mechanism arranged on an input drive shaft and an axial shifting mechanism arranged on an output drive shaft. The two axial shifting mechanisms are so embodied that their shifting directions are opposed and that, upon introduction of a torque via the input drive... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090277727 - Battery forklift drive unit: The invention is aimed at providing a battery forklift drive unit which makes a large space unnecessary for disposing brakes in the vicinities of drive units, thereby to achieve making the vicinities of drive units compact in a battery forklift. To this end, a second gear disposed in a drive... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090277728 - Self activated power brake: A Self Activated Power Brake comprising a rotating brake disk fitted coaxially to a wheel and the main brake caliper/shoes fitted on dead axle/body frame. A sliding mechanism having shaped resembles to arc in orbit of brake disk. The mechanism having in two major parts, one is sliding and other... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20090277729 - Pad spring of disc brake and method for manufacturing the same: Disclosed are a pad spring of a disc brake, which guides the sliding motion of pad plates and reduces vibration transmitted from the pad plates to a carrier concurrently, and continuously maintains these functions for a long time, and a method for manufacturing the same. In a pad spring of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090277730 - Actuator for an electromechanical brake, a brake including such an actuator, a vehicle including at least one such brake, and a method of implementing said actuator: The invention relates to an actuator for an electromechanical brake, the actuator comprising a pusher and a first drive member arranged to move the pusher in register with a stack of disks and to apply a braking pressure to the stack of disks, the actuator including a second drive member... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090277731 - Brake drum for vehicle and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed herein is a composition for a vehicle brake drum, including 3.2˜4.2 wt % of carbon, 1.5˜2.8 wt % of silicon, 0.6˜0.9 wt % of manganese, 0.1 wt % or less of sulfur, 0.1˜0.3 wt % of chromium, 0.2˜0.5 wt % of molybdenum, 5˜10 wt % of carbon nanotubes, and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090277732 - Bicycle damper: A damper for a bicycle having, in one arrangement, a primary unit and a remote 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 of the primary unit. The main... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090277733 - Kolben-zylinderaggregat: Presented is a piston-cylinder unit that includes a closed first end, a cylinder, a sealing device, and a piston installed in the cylinder with freedom to slide back and forth. The piston divides the cylinder into a first space at the closed end and a second space at the end... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090277734 - Methods and apparatus for position sensitive suspension dampening: Methods and apparatus for position sensitive dampening. In one aspect a fluid damper is provided comprising a damper chamber divided by a piston into a primary compression and a primary rebound chamber; a secondary compression chamber in fluid communication with the damper chamber; and an adjustable fluid meter controlling fluid... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090277735 - Rotation damper: A rotary damper includes a housing (11, 51), silicon oil housed inside the housing (11, 51), a rotor 31 housed inside the housing (11, 51), and having a shaft member (32) projecting from the housing (11, 51) and having a resistance member (36) moving through the silicon oil (21) inside... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090277736 - Bicycle damper: A damper for a bicycle having a primary unit and a remote unit that, in some arrangements, 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... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090272606 - Triple chamfer seal groove: A brake caliper assembly that includes at least one piston bore having an exterior surface and a seal groove that includes a plurality of chamfered walls that are configured to substantially prevent piston to seal slippage at low pressures and allowing piston to seal slippage at high pressures.... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20090272607 - Disc brake for a commercial vehicle: A disc brake, particularly for a commercial vehicle, includes a brake caliper, which is provided with a brake disc and fixed to a brake carrier by two fastening elements such that it can be axially displaced in relation to the brake disc. The fastening elements each include a guide spar,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090272608 - Redundant hardware architecture for the power stage of the braking system of a vehicle in which each of the wheels are connected to at least one rotary electrical machine: d

20090272610 - Brake disk and modular system: A built brake disk for a wheel brake of a vehicle, in particular an automobile, has two friction rings, between which a plurality of spacers are arranged to form cooling ducts of an internal ventilation of the brake disk, and further has a nave, which is arranged coaxially with the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090272609 - Venturi nozzle aerodynamic vent design: A rotor arrangement for the brake system of a vehicle has first and second annular rotor plates substantially in parallel, with a ventilated region therebetween for cooling the rotor plates. A plurality of airfoil-shaped structures is arranged in the ventilated region, each being coupled at one portion thereof to the... Agent: Benita J Rohm Rohm & Monsanto

20090272611 - Damping force adjustable fluid pressure shock absorber: A first piston and a second piston coupled to a piston rod are fitted in a cylinder, and an intermediate chamber is formed between the first and second pistons. A compression-side check valve and an extension-side check valve are provided at the first piston and the second piston. An extension-side... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090272612 - Impact absorption plate and manufacturing method thereof: An impact absorption plate for absorbing impact in the event of a vehicle crash and a method of manufacturing the impact absorption plate includes a base plate and a plurality of bosses. The base plate has on an upper surface thereof a patterned rib unit. Each boss has fitting notches... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090266652 - Brake force transducer for electric brakes: An electric brake actuator and force transducer for the brake system of an aircraft is presented. A brake actuator includes a piston driven by a cylindrical nut and screw arrangement, driven by an appropriate motor of the actuator. Application of brake force results in a reactionary force that deflects the... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090266653 - Disk brake friction surfaces with tunable indent patterns for minimizing brake pad radial taper wear: A brake rotor providing reduced brake pad radial taper wear by providing brake rotor friction surface indent patterns. For example, the indent patterns are the form of radial-biased grooves or linearly arranged cross-drill hole sets, patterned in a configuration that balances brake pad wear, thereby reducing brake pad radial taper... Agent: General Motors Company Legal Staff

20090266654 - Elastomeric stabilizers for brake caliper assembly on utility vehicle: A brake caliper assembly on a utility vehicle includes a brake caliper arm pivotably mounted to a stationary actuator, and a pair of brake pads on each side of a disc coupled to a driven shaft of the utility vehicle. One of the brake pads has a pair of holes... Agent: Deere & Company

20090266655 - Disc brake cover structure and vehicle: A disc brake cover structure for a vehicle includes a protection cover and a wheel collar. The protection cover is to protect a rotor of a disc brake disposed at a front wheel of a vehicle. The front wheel is rotatably supported via a support shaft between first and second... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090266656 - Hydraulic shock absorber: There is provided a hydraulic shock absorber in which fall prevention means, which is moored at a mooring portion provided to a spring receiver (spring receiver base portion) having been previously assembled to the axle bracket and prevents the fall of the spring receiver (spring receiver base portion), is provided... Agent: Orum & Roth LLC

20090266657 - Hydraulic shock absorber: There is provided a hydraulic shock absorber including a spring receiver that is supported so as to be not rotatable with respect to the axle bracket. The spring receiver is divided into a spring receiver base portion that has an outer diameter smaller than an inner periphery of an axle-side... Agent: Orum & Roth LLC

20090266658 - Torque steer reduction system: A torque steer reduction system is disclosed. The system includes a damper. The damping effect of the damper is variable. Furthermore, the damping effect may be adjusted through a damping coefficient. High damping coefficients may correspond to stronger damping effects. During periods associated with a greater influence of torque steer,... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20090266659 - Shock absorber for sliding sleeve in well: A sliding sleeve for frac operations or the like has a housing, a sleeve, and a shock absorber. The sleeve is movable within the housing's internal passage relative to flow ports. The shock absorber, which can have a cylindrical body, positions partially in the sleeve's internal passage and has a... Agent: (weatherford) Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20090266660 - Breakdown preventive device of rotary damper: In the breakdown preventive mechanism of a rotary damper of the invention, when the upper rotor (12) is rotated in one direction, a communication path is formed between the valve body (16) and the lower rotor (15), and the pressure in the pressure chamber is formed between the lower rotor... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090266661 - Gas spring assembly with pre-paint protective sleeve: A gas spring assembly includes a gas spring enclosed within a flexible, liquid-impermeable protective sleeve. The sleeve protects the gas spring against contamination during painting and pre-paint processes, and is then removable to leave the gas spring as a permanent component of the installation subject to the painting.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090266662 - Shock absorption apparatus for a treadmill: A shock absorption apparatus for a treadmill interposed between a lifting frame and a running board, comprising: a) a fixing tube having one end fixed on the lifting frame, a positioning member, a locating gear, a locating member, and a damping spring being placed into the fixing tube one after... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090266663 - Resilient shock-absorbing device: A resilient shock-absorbing device includes an absorber body having a first absorber layer including a plurality of longitudinal first outer tube halves heat-sealed to each other and each having two transversely opposed first longitudinal ends contacting respectively adjacent first longitudinal ends of two adjacent first outer tube halves, and a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090260927 - Disk brake: A disk brake for a traction machine having a damping height of a damping mechanism that can be adjusted integrally. According to one embodiment, a disk brake includes: a static iron core; a spring and a coil assembly in the static iron core; a dynamic iron core assembly including a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090260928 - Disc brake, in particular for a utility vehicle: A disc brake for a utility vehicle, having a brake caliper which encompasses a brake disc and which is fastened, so as to be axially movable in relation to the brake disc, to a positionally fixed brake carrier by means of two fastening elements, wherein the fastening elements have in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090260929 - Electric actuator unit for a vehicle brake assembly: An improved structure for an electric actuator unit for use in a brake assembly. According to an embodiment, a drum brake assembly comprises a mounting flange having an abutment; a backing plate secured to the mounting flange, the backing plate having a pair of brake shoes supported thereon; and an... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090260930 - Clutch arrangement for a wear adjustment device for a disk brake: The description relates to a clutch arrangement for a wear adjustment device for a disk brake in vehicles, in which wear adjustment device a rotating lever which is actuated during braking acts on at least one displaceable element which actuates at least one adjusting spindle which presses a brake lining... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090260933 - Brake disc: A disc/hub connection for connecting the brake disc with the hub is provided. The brake disc has support elements on the inner peripheral area and the hub has cams. The hub has a pot-like, hollow cylinder section that merges with a disc section that extends outward radially. The disc section... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090260932 - Chamber with filler material to dampen vibrating components: A component defines at least one chamber that is confined by the component. The chamber has an inner surface. A filler material is disposed inside the chamber. Relative movement between the inner surface and the filler material helps dampen vibrations and other oscillations if and when the component is vibrated.... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090260931 - Filler material to dampen vibrating components: A component that carries a filler material. The filler material can convert from a solid state and into a molten state when the filler material is heated. Relative movement between the component and the filler material helps dampen vibrations and other oscillations in the component if and when the component... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090260934 - Shock absorber having resilient device in rebound chamber: A shock absorber comprises a damping cylinder pressurized by a system pressure and divided by a piston into a compression chamber and a return chamber. A resilient device is disposed in the return chamber. The resilient device comprises a pressurizing member or pressurizing medium disposed in an inner volume that... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090260935 - Regenerative shock absorber: Regenerative shock absorber. A piston is disposed for reciprocating motion within a cylinder as a vehicle's suspension system deflects. Hydraulic fluid passes through an hydraulic motor to turn its shaft. The hydraulic motor shaft is connected to an electric generator to generate electricity. Flow characteristics of hydraulic circuits are selected... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090260936 - Fluidic stabilizer with remote control: A fluidic stabilizer with remote control having every portion of the circuit which connects the housing and the remote control valve within a range that will permit fluid placed in the circuit to flow freely at high speed but that will also create the fluid pressure necessary for effective damping.... Agent: Thompson E. Fehr Goldenwest Corporate Center

20090260937 - Suspension system: A side chamber (152) within said motion damping unit (114) also expands and contracts with said relative retracting and extending movement of said accumulator (112) and the motion damping unit (114). At least one bleed port (156) communicates the side chamber (152) with the second chamber (124), the bleed port... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090260938 - Shock absorber: A shock absorber has a seat disk seated on a valve seat of a piston. A disk valve opens and closes a slot provided in the seat disk to extend in the circumferential direction thereof. In a low piston speed region, an orifice passage generates a damping force of orifice... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090260939 - Insert with filler to dampen vibrating components: An insert has a body which defines a cavity with a filler held in the cavity. Relative movement between the body and the filler helps dampen vibrations in a component when the insert is carried in the component and when the component is vibrated.... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.