Patents Examined by Bruce King
  • Combined service and parking brake system
    Patent number: 6311808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined service and parking brake system, especially for automotive vehicles, which includes a hydraulically clampable combined service and parking brake with a mechanical locking device. The mechanical locking device is electrically operable and thus satisfies in a simple fashion the parking function of the hydraulically clamped combined service and parking brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co., OHG
    Inventors: Georg Halasy-Wimmer, Jürgen Balz, Stefan Schmitt, Ulrich Neumann, Hans-Jörg Feigel, Lothar Schiel, Andreas Klein