Abstract: A rotary damper for use in an automotive vehicle. The rotary damper includes an outer casing having a main chamber and a pair of piston orifices, the main chamber and the piston orifices being filled with a damping fluid, a pivotable cam located in the main chamber and attached to an arm for transferring the rotary movement of the arm to the cam. The damper also includes a pair of pistons, each located in its own orifice, and connected to opposite sides of the cam. When the arm transfers the rotary movement to the cam, each piston is moved in opposite directions in its respective piston orifice to damp the rotary movement of the arm.

Abstract: A starter is comprised of a starter motor, a planetary gear speed reduction mechanism including a sun gear, a plurality of planetary gears and an internal gear, a casing rotatably supporting the output shaft via a bearing and an outer cylindrical member coupled with the casing. The planetary gear speed reduction mechanism has an internal gear block having the internal gear, and the internal gear block is disposed in the cylindrical member and spline-fitted to the casing. Thus, a labyrinth is formed between the internal gear block and the casing.

Abstract: A bearing of the type comprising a fixed raceway (2) intended to be associated with a fixed structure, a rotating raceway (3) intended to be associated with a rotating member (6, 8, 9) and rolling bodies disposed between them, in which the fixed raceway (2) comprises first means (5) of fixing the said bearing (1) to the fixed structure. The fixed raceway (2) comprises at least one elastic deformation zone able to be deformed under the action of forces exerted on the said bearing (1). At least one sensor (26) able to measure the said forces is functionally associated with the said elastic deformation zone.

Abstract: A gear drive, including a first shaft, a first gear wheel on the first shaft, a second shaft a certain distance away from the first shaft, and a second gear on the second shaft. The second gear wheel engaged with the first gear wheel by way of helical gearing. A third gear wheel is mounted on the second shaft a certain axial distance away from the second gear wheel to compensate for backlash. The third gear wheel also engages with the first gear wheel by way of helical gearing and being axially shiftable with respect to the second gear wheel. An expansion element is arranged so as to change a distance between the second gear wheel and the third gear wheel as a function of temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hydraulic antivibration mount. The mount has an annular rubber spring et in an outer metal casing, encasing an inner metal portion having a central mounting means. The outer metal casing is crimped over the flange of an end cap. Located with the end cap and retained within the crimped portion is a flexible diaphragm. Also retained within the crimped portion is a damper plate dividing the interior of the mount into an upper chamber A and a lower chamber B to be filled with fluid. The damper plate is formed from an upper plate and a lower plate. The upper and lower plates form a flow channel between the two plates which extends at least partially around the circumference of the damper plate, the flow channel permitting communication between the upper and lower chamber. The upper plate has an opening communicating to the upper chamber with an integral tab extending from the opening into the flow channel to block the channel.

Abstract: A trailer brake control system comprises a trailer. The trailer has brakes. The trailer also has a secondary electrical receiver. A towing vehicle is also provided. The vehicle has a steering wheel. The vehicle also has a secondary electrical transmitter. A steering wheel cover having a primary wireless signal transmitter is provided. The signal transmitter has a power source and a flexible torus-shaped tube. The tube has a hollow bore. Secured within the bore are a pair of wires, one flat and one toothed, offset from each other. Both wires are electronically coupled to the primary signal transmitter. A trailer brake processor is provided next. The brake processor has a trailer brake actuating switch. The actuating switch is electrically coupled with the brakes of the trailer. A primary signal receiver is coupled to the actuating switch and adapted to receive signals from the primary signal transmitter. A manual switch is also coupled to the actuating switch.

Abstract: A braking system including (a) a hydraulically operated brake cylinder for operating a brake, (b) a master cylinder operable according to an operation of a manually operable brake operating member, to pressurize a working fluid, (c) a master-cylinder cut-off valve connected to the master cylinder, (d) a high-pressure source such as a power-operated pressure-control cylinder disposed between the master-cylinder cut-off valve and the brake cylinder and operable according to the operation of the brake operating member, to pressurize the fluid, the high-pressure source including a power-operated drive device and a pressure-control cylinder having a control piston which is operable by the power-operated drive device and which partially defines on respective front and rear sides thereof a front control-pressure chamber connected to the brake cylinder, and a rear pressure chamber which is held in communication with the master cylinder, and (e) a braking-pressure control device (200) operable to control the power-ope

Abstract: A latching assembly includes a latch mounted to a moveable member, the latch being moveable between a first position where it engages a stop of a base member to releasably secure the moveable member to the base member and a second releasing position. An actuator drives the latch between the first and second positions; and at least one spring biases the latch towards the first position.

Abstract: A brake for retaining a mobile carriage on which storage facilities are constructed and having a slidable actuating assembly with a claw which engages a slotted member when the actuating assembly is depressed. The mobile carriage is mounted on a platform with a track in which the mobile carriage rolls and with a channel in which the slotted member is secured. A back plate is used to mount the brake on the mobile carriage. A cover is mounted on the back plate and an actuating assembly extends through and is slidably mounted in the pair of openings in the cover so that the actuating assembly may move to and from the platform.

Abstract: A vehicle includes four wheels, a drive axle, a power train which connects a vehicle engine to the drive axle via a transmission, a clutch, and an axle differential, a brake system, which may brake at least the wheels associated with the drive axle independently of the other wheels, a steering system which includes a manual steering device, at which a driver may set a steering angle for steerable wheels, and a control system, which brakes at least the drive axle wheel inside the curve and generates a steering-supporting braking torque on this wheel below a predefined vehicle velocity and as of a predefined steering angle. In order to improve the steering support, the control system monitors the status of the transmission and/or the clutch, the control system actuating the brakes of the appropriate wheel as a function of this status in order to generate the steering-supporting braking torque.

Abstract: A fluid-filled active vibration damping device comprising an elastic body elastically connecting a first and a second mounting member and partially defining a fluid chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid, an oscillating member partially defining the fluid chamber and being reciprocatory movable in order to control a pressure of the fluid in the fluid chamber. The above vibration damping device further includes an independently formed electromagnetic actuator for applying driving force to oscillate the oscillating member and having an oscillating sleeve member fixedly connected to the oscillating member, and a retainer adapted to support the electromagnetic actuator with respect to the second mounting member such that the retainer fixed to the second mounting member while housing the electromagnetic actuator, while a yoke member of the electromagnetic actuator is fixed to a bottom wall portion of the retainer so as to extend through the bottom wall portion.

Abstract: To provide a wheel support bearing assembly having a capability of detecting the number of revolutions of a wheel, having no risk of breaking of wire outside a vehicle body, capable of reducing the weight and cost of an automotive vehicle. This wheel support bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a wheel 13 relative to a vehicle body structure 12 includes an outer member 1 having its inner periphery formed with plural rows of raceways 6 and 7, an inner member 2 having raceways 8 and 9 confronting respectively to the raceways 6 and 7, and rows of rolling elements 3 accommodated respectively between the raceways. An electric generator 4 for generating an electric power as one of the outer and inner members 1 and 2 rotates relative to the other of the outer and inner members 1 and 2. A signal indicative of the number of revolutions of the wheel 13 outputted from the electric generator 4 is transmitted wireless by mean of a wireless transmitting means 5A.

Abstract: A cylindrical roller cage includes an outer race, and inner race, a plurality of rolling elements arranged between the outer race and the inner race, and at least one cage having a plurality of locating pockets corresponding to the number of rolling elements. The cage is ring-shaped and is arranged in a groove in the outer race or the inner race. The cage is interrupted at least at one circumferential breakpoint to define two ends of the cage at the breakpoint that form a connection having at least two cooperating elements which interact in a complementary manner by way of an undercut as viewed in the circumferential direction. The axial direction of the elements forms an angle of 15° to 75° with the circumferential direction or tangent to the circumference at the breakpoint.

Abstract: An aircraft brake assembly, wherein the actuator portion of the brake assembly is no longer provided as part of the brake assembly but instead as part of the aircraft landing gear. Accordingly, the actuator portion or individual actuators assemblies are designated as Line Replacement Units (LRUs), which are replaceable independently of other brake components, e.g., the torque tube and heat sink, which then comprise the brake assembly designated as a separate LRU. This new arrangement is particularly suited to electro-mechanically actuated brakes, where actuator maintenance intervals will typically be more closely related to landing gear maintenance intervals than to brake maintenance (i.e., hydraulic actuator and/or heat sink maintenance). The invention also provides for more effective and desirable mounting of one or more electro-mechanical actuators wherein reactionary loads are transferred in compression as opposed to in tension through mounting bolts or other removable fasteners.

Abstract: A low profile rod clamp comprises two halves having semi-circular channels for receiving a support rod. When the two halves of the clamp are fastened together, the outer surfaces of the rods are in contact. The positioning of the two rods adjacent one another and with surface-to-surface contact results in increased friction and the highest possible load resistance. The clamp provides the ability to raise or lower the support rods in a vertical direction, while also allowing for rotation and the ability to move the rods in a horizontal direction as well.

Abstract: Composite bearing with double ball bearings (4) for the rotary support of a rotating shaft (1) of a very high precision device, wherein this bearing with double ball bearings is constituted by the juxtaposition of two bearings with single ball bearings having two respective corresponding races (51, 52), interior or exterior, tightened axially against one another with a predetermined pre-stress, characterized in that the two races (51, 52) maintained tightened against one another with said pre-determined pre-stress are welded (9) to each other by their co-operating faces.

Abstract: A motor-driven disk brake is capable of functioning as a parking brake satisfactorily without degrading the brake operating feeling and impairing the function of operating as a motor-driven brake. A stator and rotor of an electric motor are provided in a caliper body floatably supported on a carrier. The rotation of the rotor is transmitted to a piston after being converted into rectilinear motion through a ball-and-ramp mechanism and an adjusting nut. The piston, together with a claw member, presses brake pads against a disk rotor. A rotation assisting device is provided between the rear end of the rotor and a motor casing. A rotary disk constituting the rotation assisting device is rotated through a wire extending from an external operating member.

Abstract: A vehicle braking member has a block of friction material cooperating in sliding manner with a respective member for braking, and supports a wear detector wherein a resistive element, consumed simultaneously with the block of friction material, has a first electric terminal set, in use, to a reference potential, and a single second electric terminal cooperating in sliding manner with the member for braking so as to be set to the same potential as the member for braking.

Abstract: The invention relates to a brake disk/hub assembly for vehicle disk brakes comprising a hub and a brake disk, which is arranged thereon in a manner that prevents it from turning. The brake disk is arranged in the axial direction of the hub in such a manner that it can be axially displaced against an elastic pretensioning exerted by a number of spring elements. To this end, each spring element has a retaining section by means of which it is fixed to the hub. Each spring element also comprises at least one spring section, which rests against at least one assigned intermediate element that is essentially arranged between the hub and the brake disk. The inventive design is advantageous by virtue of the fact that the spring elements are not in direct contact with the brake disk thereby effectively preventing the spring elements from becoming thermally overloaded. The functional reliability of the spring elements can thus be maintained over a long period of time.

Abstract: An eddy current braking apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a stator, a coil of wire, and a drum. The stator has a plurality of poles and is mountable to a frame of a vehicle. The coil of wire is wound about each of the plurality of poles and wherein adjacent coils are electrically connected to form an electromagnet. The drum is adapted to receive a wheel and tire assembly and wherein the drum is rotatably mounted to a vehicle axle, and wherein an eddy current is developed between the drum and the stator, from the relative motion of the drum with respect to the stator, thereby retarding rotation of the drum and wheel and tire assembly.