Brakes inventions

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.

20090255766 - Shim structure for brake squeal attenuation: A shim structure is provided for damping vibration and attenuating noise in a brake system. The brake system includes a forcing member operable to urge a friction member against a rotating member to slow or stop the same. The shim structure includes a shim body that is adapted to be... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090255767 - device for braking the movement of a movable member with respect to a support structure: A device (10) for braking the movement of a movable member with respect to a support structure is described. The device comprises a casing (12) fixable to the movable member (M) or to the structure (W) and defining a chamber (16; 16″; 16″′) containing a viscous braking fluid, and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090255768 - Bicycle suspension having stroke and damper adjustment: A bicycle suspension including a stroke adjustment unit, a suspension damper, and a damper adjustment unit. The stroke adjustment unit is configured to adjust a stroke of the bicycle suspension, which is configured to expand and contract within the stroke. The suspension damper is configured to apply damping force to... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090255769 - brake caliper of a disk brake: A brake caliper that has the same performance as a brake caliper with multiple pistons despite its compact structure, in which drag resistance between a brake pad and a brake disk is minimized, that is less likely to produce non-uniform wear of brake pad and brake squealing, and whose weight... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090250299 - Brake pad holder with arrangement for fine adjustment of a distance between brake pad and wheel rim: A bicycle brake pad holder includes a hollow fastening rod comprising a head, a concave surface on the head, and an annular flange on the concave surface; a brake pad mount including a slotted channel, a convex receptor opposite the channel, a hole through the convex receptor, and a nut... Agent: Sam Chen

20090250300 - Method of securing a shim to a backing plate and subassembly formed thereby: A subassembly for use in a brake assembly, the subassembly comprising a shim, a backing plate and a friction pad formed of a friction pad material, wherein the friction pad material extends into at least one pass-through hole in the backing plate; and wherein one or more flanges perimetering at... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP