Patents Assigned to Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
  • BRAKE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20220299079
    Abstract: A disc brake assembly having brake pads, a brake carrier, a caliper, and an actuating arrangement. The caliper is slidable with respect to the brake carrier for clamping and release of a rotor by the brake pads. The actuating arrangement is configured to selectively move the caliper and the brake carrier relative to each other generally transverse to a first longitudinal axis so as to lock or inhibit sliding of the caliper relative to the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Szafnauer, Sean Cleary, Tim Smith, Anthony Williams, Paul Thomas
  • Guide assembly for a disc brake
    Patent number: 11408474
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a disc brake and a method of arrangement. The guide assembly includes a guide pin and a sliding bore that receives the guide pin. A first face mating interface of the sliding bore may define a first sliding interface between the guide pin and the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Dietmar Knoop
  • GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE
    Publication number: 20220136577
    Abstract: A caliper guide assembly and a method of manufacture. The guide assembly may include a guide pin, a guide bore arranged to receive the guide pin and permit relative axial sliding thereof, a bush arranged to define at least part of the guide bore, and a sensor arrangement configured to provide an output indicative of a state of wear of the bush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Sean Cleary, Alex Szafnauer
  • Caliper guide assembly
    Patent number: 11313423
    Abstract: A caliper guide assembly for a heavy vehicle disc brake. The caliper guide assembly may include a wear sensor arranged to detect the position of a guide pin in relation to a guide bore. The guide pin and a guide surface may have different cross sectional profiles to define at least one void therebetween. The wear sensor may be at least partially accommodated within the void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Martin P. Taylor, Sean Cleary, Matthew McGinn, Refaat Malki
  • Disc brake
    Patent number: 11261928
    Abstract: An actuation mechanism for a disc brake. The actuation mechanism may include a yoke, a piston, a wear adjustment mechanism, and a rolling element bearing. The piston may have a rotatable portion. The wear adjustment mechanism may have a driving portion. The rolling element bearing may be located between the driving portion and the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Martin P. Taylor, Gareth Holtham
  • BRAKE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20220049747
    Abstract: A brake assembly having a brake carrier, a caliper, first and second brake pads, a pad retraction spring, and a first stop surface. The pad retraction spring urges the first and second brake pads in a direction away from a rotor plane. A first supporting portion of the pad retraction spring is configured to abut the first stop surface to inhibit the pad retraction spring from entering a partially enclosed volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Sean Cleary, Alex Szafnauer
  • Disc brake assembly
    Patent number: 11173889
    Abstract: A brake assembly including an operating shaft, a yoke, and a rotating element. The rotating element bearing may be positioned between a convex bearing surface of the operating shaft and a concave bearing surface of the yoke such that the rotating element bearing may be configured to move relative to the operating shaft and relative to the yoke during actuation of the brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Dhananjaya Raveendrappa, Sanjeev Kulkarni, Martin P. Taylor, Matthew McGinn, Pradeep Mirji
  • CALIPER GUIDE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20210270334
    Abstract: A caliper guide assembly having a guide pin, a guide bore, a cap, and a sensor arrangement. The guide bore is arranged to receive the guide pin. The cap may be secured to an open end of the guide bore proximate a free end of the guide pin. The sensor arrangement may include a first sensor component that is configured to provide an output indicative of relative axial displacement between a first sensor component and a second sensor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Martin Taylor, Sean Cleary, Matthew McGinn, Sanjeev Kulkarni, Vadiraj Pavaman
  • GUIDE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20210239167
    Abstract: A disc brake guide assembly having a guide bush, a closure, and a stop. The guide bush may be mountable in a through bore of a support. The closure may be a barrier to the ingress of foreign matter into the through bore. The stop may restrict axial displacement of the guide bush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Gareth Rhys Holtham, Mark Norman, Mathew Morris, Alexander Howard
  • Brake carrier casting and a method of making a brake carrier casting
    Patent number: 11065681
    Abstract: A brake carrier casting and a method of making a brake carrier casting. The brake carrier casting may have a first side portion and a second side portion that may be connected by a first bridge and a second bridge. The first side portion, second side portion, first bridge, and second bridge may define an opening of the brake carrier casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Paul Thomas, Simon Fisher, Michael Wright
  • DISC BRAKE PAD SPRING
    Publication number: 20210207669
    Abstract: A disc brake and a pad spring for a brake pad assembly. The pad spring may include first and second arms that extend from an intermediate portion and that each have a free end. The free end of each arm may curve outwardly relative to an intermediate portion and back towards a plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Alexander Wade
  • Disc brake
    Patent number: 11047437
    Abstract: A disc brake and an adjuster system for a disc brake. The adjuster system may include a piston, a manual rewind apparatus, and an overload device. The overload device may be arranged between the manual rewind device and the piston and may be configured to interrupt driving engagement between the manual rewind apparatus and the piston when torque is applied above a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Martin P. Taylor
  • Brake housing assembly
    Patent number: 11047436
    Abstract: A brake housing assembly including a brake housing and a bearing support. The brake housing may have a recess defining a recess axis, the recess having a base and a recess wall, the base defining a base contour. The bearing support may have a projection defining a bearing support axis, the projection having an end and a projection wall, the end defining an end contour corresponding to the base contour such that with the end in engagement with the base the end contour and base contour cooperate to align the bearing support axis with the recess axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Howard, Jon Dus, Dave Hubbard, Bobby Kent Potts, Jr., Rohit Singla, Daniel Philpott
  • Brake caliper
    Patent number: 11002325
    Abstract: A brake caliper and method of manufacture. The brake caliper may have a first portion, a second portion, a first bridge and a second bridge that may be provided as a single casting. A first housing side may have a machined feature that may be axially aligned with a hole in the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Howard, Mark Burnard, Gordon Onions, Phil Smith
  • Adjuster mechanism
    Patent number: 10927911
    Abstract: An adjuster mechanism for a disc brake. The adjuster mechanism may include an outer piston and an inner piston. The outer piston may define a bore having a female thread, a non-threaded region, and a transition region. The non-threaded region may have a greater diameter than a minor diameter of the female thread. The minor diameter of the female thread in the transition region may progressively increase until it meets a major diameter of the female thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Neel Shah, Dave Hubbard, Sean Cleary, Refaat Malki
  • Disc brake
    Patent number: 10927906
    Abstract: A brake pad, a disc brake, and a method of fitting a brake pad. At least one of a first brake pad and a second brake pad and corresponding support structures may have complementary profiles on circumferential faces thereof arranged so as to permit the brake pad to be inserted into a corresponding support structure in a transverse direction of the brake pad and at an angle to a circumferential direction of the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Dietmar Knoop, Neel Shah, Sean Cleary, Dave Hubbard
  • GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE
    Publication number: 20210048079
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a disc brake and a method of arrangement. The guide assembly includes a guide pin and a sliding bore that receives the guide pin. A first face mating interface of the sliding bore may define a first sliding interface between the guide pin and the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Dietmar Knoop
  • MOUNTING FOR A GUIDE PIN OF A DISC BRAKE
    Publication number: 20210048081
    Abstract: A mounting for a guide pin of a disc brake and method of mounting. A mounting portion of a guide pin may have a first polygonal cross-sectional profile. A receiving portion of a brake carrier may receive the mounting portion and may have cross-sectional profile that is different than the first polygonal cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Paul Thomas
  • GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE
    Publication number: 20210048078
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a disc brake and method of mounting. The guide assembly may have a guide pin that includes a mounting portion and a guiding portion. A retaining bore of a brake carrier may receive the guide pin and retain the mounting portion. The guiding portion may protrude from an inboard-side of the brake carrier and may slidably support a brake caliper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Dietmar Knoop
  • GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE
    Publication number: 20210048080
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a disc brake, a disc brake, and a method of mounting. The guide assembly may include a guide pin, a receiving portion, and a weld. The receiving portion may receive a mounting portion of the guide pin. The weld may secure the mounting portion and the receiving portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Paul Thomas, Callum Thompson