Patents Examined by Xuan Lan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9371062
    Abstract: A brake device includes: a mechanical pressure regulating part having a high-pressure port, a low-pressure port, a pilot pressure input port, and an output port which outputs fluid pressure corresponding to the pressure supplied to the pilot pressure input port by fluid pressures supplied to both of the high- and low-pressure ports, to a chamber for a master piston; a high-pressure source connected to the high-pressure port and the pilot pressure input port; a low-pressure source connected to the low-pressure port and the pilot pressure input port; and an electrically-operated pilot pressure generating part which includes control valves for controlling flows of the brake fluid between the high-pressure source and the pilot pressure input port, and between the low-pressure source and the pilot pressure input port, respectively, and which outputs desired fluid pressure to the pilot pressure input port by controlling flow of the brake fluid with control valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 9365400
    Abstract: Linear brake systems are provided. For example, in one embodiment, a baseplate having a linear brake housing mounted thereto is provided. A linear brake is partially disposed within the brake housing. The linear brake includes a braided cable; a collar attached to the proximal end of the braided cable; a member attached to the distal end of the braided cable; a rope having a portion that passes into a bore in the collar, through a tunnel formed by the braided cable and the collar, and exits the braided cable by passing between cable strands; and an interface mounted to the baseplate to extend the braided cable and constrict the braided cable upon the rope. The collar secures the proximal of the braided cable to the brake housing and the member secures the distal end of the braided cable to the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: James E. Sadeck, Dale Tabor
  • Patent number: 9366364
    Abstract: A fitting for providing a substantially fluid-tight seal between an opening in a chamber wall and a pipe passing through the opening, the fitting including a tubular sleeve adapted to allow the pipe to pass through the sleeve, a flange extending radially outwardly from the sleeve, the fitting incorporating an energy transfer device enabling heating to cause the fitting and the wall to fuse or bond together in order to form a substantially fluid-tight seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Franklin Fueling Systems Limited
    Inventors: Wayne Clifton Augustus Wright, John Alexandre Boudry
  • Patent number: 9359801
    Abstract: The invention relates to a damper (1) for furniture, especially hinges, comprising a housing (2) in which a piston (8) is connected to a piston rod (3) and can be displaced. A fluid flows through at least one flow channel (11) on or in the piston (8) during a movement of the piston (8) inside the housing (2). A connecting element (4) having a seat (5) for coupling a drive element thereto is provided on the piston rod (3) on the end section projecting from the housing (2). The seat (5) has a cut-out section (18) on the face of the of the piston rod (3) accommodated therein, said cut-out section allowing the direct mechanical contact of a face (17) of the piston rod (3) and a drive element accommodated in the seat (5) so that there is a direct flux of force in the axial direction from the drive element accommodated in the seat towards the piston rod (3) when pressure is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: DRUCK-UND SPRITZGUSSWERK HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Konrad Weber
  • Patent number: 9353813
    Abstract: A plurality of rotating side brake disks and a plurality of non-rotating side brake disks are arranged outside in the radial direction from a motor shaft in a brake case while alternately overlapping with each other. A frictional material is provided on the non-rotating side brake disk, and an oil groove is provided in a frictional engaging surface of this frictional material. It is configured such that, when a braking force is applied by a brake piston to the motor shaft, lubricant oil flowing into the brake case from a lubricant oil inlet port flows from the outer diameter side to the inner diameter side between the rotating side brake disk and the non-rotating side brake disk only through the oil groove. As a result, the lubricant oil having flowed into the brake case efficiently cools the frictional engaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okuno, Yutaka Komaru, Takashi Niidome
  • Patent number: 9352630
    Abstract: A jounce bumper can be dimensioned for securement along an end member of a gas spring assembly adjacent a sensing device. The jounce bumper can include a bumper body with a sensing passage extending their through such that the sensing device can communicate through the sensing passage. A gas spring assembly including a sensing device and such a jounce bumper as well as a suspension system including one or more of such gas spring assemblies are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC
    Inventors: Brian S. DeBruler, Todd A. Chapman
  • Patent number: 9347536
    Abstract: A spindle nut for a ball screw with a nut part on whose inner periphery there is a spiral ball groove that winds around a spindle axis for the rolling of balls and with two deflection elements, the balls are deflectable into the curved deflection channel of each deflection element and the nut part has two recesses that are spaced apart from each other in the axial direction and one of the deflection elements is arranged in each recess. The nut part is provided with a straight return channel for the balls, and the straight return channel is connected to the two deflection channels. The balls are movable along a ball track in the curved deflection channel and in the straight return channel, and the straight return channel is arranged within a wall thickness of the spindle nut and is arranged at an angle relative to the spindle axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mario Kreutzer, Gerd Sanewski
  • Patent number: 9347508
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic disc brake. The electronic disc brake includes a caliper housing at which a piston is installed, a carrier coupled with the caliper housing, a pair of pad plates installed at the carrier to be slidable toward a disc, an adjuster to prevent the pad plates from moving away from the disc and maintain the pad plates at a certain distance from the disc, a push rod screw-coupled to the adjuster, a spindle unit coupled to the push rod and installed at a cylinder of the caliper housing, a spring case forming an accommodation space between the cylinder and the push rod, a low-pressure spring and a high-pressure spring arranged in parallel in the spring case, and a support plate slidably installed in the cylinder so that a gap is formed between the low-pressure spring and the high-pressure spring in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventors: Jae-Hyun Lee, Young-Hun Kong
  • Patent number: 9327700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric parking brake apparatus. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a worm shaft is formed with a first protrusion, a rotating member is formed with a second protrusion, and after the rotating member rotates by a preset rotation angle, the first protrusion of the worm shaft contacts the second protrusion of the rotating member so that the worm shaft cannot rotate any more, thereby preventing a gear jam due to over-release of the rotating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jae Seop Yoon
  • Patent number: 9327696
    Abstract: A hydraulic braking system has a brake actuator including hydraulic pumps that generate a W/C pressure by sucking and discharging a brake fluid from a master reservoir, and suck the brake fluid discharged from the W/C side for decompressing a W/C pressure during anti-lock braking. Further, open-when-self-priming valves that suck the brake fluid by themselves from the master reservoir in the hydraulic pumps are provided. Further, an accumulator is provided in a pipe connecting the hydraulic pumps and the W/C, and an accumulation to the accumulator is performed by the hydraulic pumps. Then, communication and cut-off of a pipe connected to the accumulator are controlled by lower limit indicating valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Murayama
  • Patent number: 9321527
    Abstract: A frequency adapter for a rotorcraft rotor is provided. The frequency adapter has at least first and second cylinders having respective elongate first and second side walls, respectively. The second cylinder is surrounded at least in part by the first cylinder. Resilient return rings are in contact with the first and second side walls. The return rings comprise resilient first and second extreme layers each in contact with the first and second side walls. The adapter is provided with a fluid arranged in a single chamber between the first and second extreme layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: Charles Louis, Vincent Girard
  • Patent number: 9313953
    Abstract: The parking brake system for a lap bar controlled lawn maintenance vehicle includes at least an actuation assembly and a stop assembly. The actuation assembly includes a push arm and a rotatable pedal arm, and the push arm is attached to a lap bar and is rotatable between and engaged position and a disengaged position. Rotation of the push arm from the disengaged position to the engaged position causes rotation of the pedal arm, and such rotation of the pedal arm causes the stop assembly to prevent the axle for the rear wheel that is controlled by the corresponding lap bar from rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: MTD PRODUCTS INC
    Inventors: Alex Borshov, Adam Woodrum
  • Patent number: 9308899
    Abstract: A brake control section can select an automatic mode in which a mechanical brake is automatically transitioned from a released state to a braking state in response to the running condition of a vehicle. A diagnostic section outputs a fail signal when an abnormal condition of the brake control section is detected. A power control section automatically stops a drive power source of the vehicle when the running condition of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition for determining a vehicle stop. When the automatic mode of the brake control section is released or when the diagnostic section outputs a fail signal of the brake control section, the power control section is inhibited to automatically stop the drive power source, so that an unintentional movement of the vehicle caused by an inclination of the road surface and the automatic stop of the drive power source can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiya Uchimura, Katsufumi Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Nakano
  • Patent number: 9296367
    Abstract: Provided is a brake apparatus for an electric corner module (ECM) including: a housing; a shaft, of which both ends are accommodated in accommodation portions of the housing; a planet gear connected to the shafts; and a driving unit that transmits power to the shaft, moves the planet gear in an axial direction and induces friction between the housing and the planet gear. That is, in a brake apparatus for an ECM, a planet gear is moved in an axial direction using a driving unit so as to induce friction between a housing and the planet gear and thus confinement forces of the planet gear are generated so that a brake function can be implemented by blocking power transmission using a decelerator and the weight of a wheel can be reduced and the size of a power transmission system can be reduced and optimization of packaging can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seung Young Park
  • Patent number: 9248817
    Abstract: A vehicle anti-rollaway device includes a first switch responsive to the presence and absence of an operator at a predetermined location in the vehicle for controlling the on/off state of parking brake of the vehicle in the form of either a servo controlled parking brake or a fluid controlled parking brake. The device can also include a speed control responsive to a speed of the vehicle for controlling the on/off state of the parking brake as a function of the speed of the vehicle. The device can also include a second switch operative for controlling the response of the parking brake to the state of the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas Accardi
  • Patent number: 9234554
    Abstract: Various arrangements are disclosed based on springs formed from a plurality of individual resilient arms, including a spring having a substantially planar form in an unloaded state and rotational symmetry of at east order two about a symmetry axis perpendicular to the plane of the spring, the spring comprising: an inner hub and an outer hub, the inner hub being radially inward with respect to the outer hub; a plurality of resilient connecting arms each connected at an inner end to the inner hub and at an outer end to the outer hub, the plurality of resilient connecting arms being configured to provide a restoring force parallel to the symmetry axis when the inner and outer hubs are displaced relative to each other along the symmetry axis; wherein the inner hub, the outer hub and each of the plurality of resilient connecting arms are formed as physically separate elements and are connected to each other during assembly to form the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Isis Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Michael William Dadd, Paul Brian Bailey
  • Patent number: 9233678
    Abstract: A brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a base member; a control housing including a storage space for storing an electromagnetic valve on one face of the base member and a coil assembly; and a pump driving motor on a back face of the base member. The base member are provided with: two housing mounting penetration holes through which housing mounting screws for fixing the control housing are to be inserted; two motor mounting holes into which motor mounting screws for fixing the motor are to be inserted; and a rotation shaft storage hole into which a rotation shaft of the motor is to be stored, wherein the housing mounting penetration holes and the motor mounting holes are respectively disposed point-symmetrically with respect to the center of the rotation shaft storage hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuro Kodama
  • Patent number: 9216754
    Abstract: A wheel brake set for a luggage case contains a covering member; a support assembly for supporting the covering member; at least one wheel mounted on one side of the support assembly, and a respective one of the at least one wheel having a plurality of hollowly concave portions defined on one side thereof; a driving assembly including a fixing pin secured on the support assembly for positioning a respective one wheel at an original position. The fixing pin is driven to extend out of the support assembly and to insert into a pushing position of one of the plurality of hollowly concave portions, thus positioning the respective one wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sinox Lock (Kunshan) Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Mao-Yi Chen
  • Patent number: 9206865
    Abstract: A brake lining for a partially lined disc brake, in particular of a rail vehicle, with lining elements which are connected on a lining carrier and of which each has a carrier plate and friction elements which are fastened to the carrier plate and lie on the rear side in receptacles, wherein the carrier plate is held on the lining carrier such that the carrier plate can be moved in a tilting manner, is configured in such a way that at least one depression which increases the surface area of the carrier plate is provided in the carrier plate, adjacent to the receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Sigl, Matthias Niessner
  • Patent number: 9199620
    Abstract: A vacuum booster is configured so that at least when an input rod is released, a front surface of a flexible portion of a valve element communicates with a first port which communicates with a vacuum chamber. A valve element holder is formed of a single member made of a sheet of steel which includes a rim portion, an annular arm portion, and a crimp holding portion. The rim portion is fitted to an inner circumferential surface of a valve cylinder via a seal member. The annular arm portion extends inwards in a radial direction from a front end of the rim portion. The crimp holding portion extends from an inner circumferential end of the arm portion to form a bag-like shape and to narrow a front opening portion thereof. The crimp holding portion crimp holds a mounting bead portion of the valve element from rear thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NISSAN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Yoshizawa