Patents Examined by Xuan Lan Nguyen
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Patent number: 11001099Abstract: A vehicle wheel hub assembly includes an outer member configured to be mounted to a non-rotatable portion of the vehicle and an inner member rotatably supported in the outer member by a bearing. An annular target body is coupled to the inner member. A first magnetic target track is disposed on the annular target body, and a first sensor is located adjacent to the first magnetic target track and configured to sense angular displacement of the first magnetic target track and to produce a first output signal. A second magnetic target track is disposed on the annular target body, and the second magnetic target track is spaced from the first magnetic target track. A second sensor is located adjacent to the second magnetic target track for sensing angular displacement of the second target track and is configured to produce a second output signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Mathieu Hubert, Gene Kovacs, Michele Musso, Lokesh Nagarajan, David Christopher Rybski
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Patent number: 11001238Abstract: A braking system including a brake actuator, a control valve, a control assembly, and at least one pressure sensor. The control valve is disposed to direct hydraulic fluid to the brake actuator at a rate corresponding to a magnitude of a control signal. The control assembly includes a mixed-mode control system. The at least one pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure of the hydraulic fluid to the brake actuator. The control assembly is configured to determine a position of the brake actuator. The mixed-mode control system is configured to determine a position command and a pressure command. The mixed-mode control system is configured to adjust the magnitude of the control signal based on at least one of the position command and the pressure command so as to reposition the brake actuator from a first position to a second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Naison E. Mastrocola, Tyler Arsenault
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Patent number: 10995465Abstract: A damper for absorbing impact shock generated upon docking of a moving structure with a stationary structure or foundation is shown, the damper comprising a cylinder (1) connectable to the docking structure, the cylinder arranged with a cap end and a head end and having a piston (2) arranged movable in the cylinder and separating a cylinder cap volume (13) from a cylinder head volume (10). A check valve (14), a pressure relief valve (15) with adjustable opening pressure and an orifice (16; 23) of static size are respectively arranged in the cap end of the cylinder, wherein under constant load from the piston during a terminal stroke length of the damper in compression, the orifice provides a restricted flow from cylinder cap volume generating a constant pressure in the cylinder cap volume below the opening pressure of the pressure relief valve.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: VETCO GRAY SCANDINAVIA ASInventors: Peter Bjornsson, Magnus Geiran
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Patent number: 10988127Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a brake device for a vehicle, and a main object of the present disclosure is to provide a brake device for a vehicle which can stably perform an electric parking braking cooperative control process for dynamic parking braking in a state in which the brake device enters a backup mode due to an abnormality or a malfunction generated in a device related to an electric booster in a vehicle equipped the electric booster. In order to achieve the above object, a brake device including a fallback valve which is provided on a hydraulic pressure supply line connected to a wheel brake of a wheel on which an electronic parking brake is installed, and which is configured to selectively shut off brake liquid pressure supplied to the wheel brake, and a method for controlling the same are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Tae Heon Kim
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Patent number: 10962082Abstract: Provided is an adjusting method for a resonance frequency of a vibration isolator, the vibration isolator including first to n-th elastic member groups and/or an n+1-th elastic member group, the first to n-th elastic member groups and/or the n+1-th elastic member group being located on an xy plane of an xyz coordinate system, and an xy coordinate system of the xyz coordinate system being a coordinate system obtained by, when a tensor of inertia I with respect to an XYZ coordinate system having an origin in a center of gravity of a vibration sensing side structure or a vibration source side structure is represented as I, rotating an XY coordinate system by ?=tan?1(2IXY/(IXX?IYY)) around a Z axis, the adjusting method including, when rigidity Ki of the first to n-th elastic member groups is represented as [ K i ] = [ k i ? _ ? xx 0 0 0 k i ? _ ? yy 0 0 0 k i ? _ ? zz ] , rigidity Kn+1 of the n+1-th elastic member group is represented as [ K n + 1Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyInventors: Yasutoshi Hyakusoku, Takafumi Kajikawa, Qinzhong Shi, Daichi Todaka
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Patent number: 10962084Abstract: A damper assembly (100) is configured to dampen motion between a first component and a second component. The damper assembly (100) includes a housing (102) having at least one housing rotation-limiting protuberance (126). A rotor (104) is rotatably coupled to the housing (102). The rotor (104) includes at least one rotor rotation-limiting protuberance (160). The housing rotation-limiting protuberance(s) (126) and the rotor rotation-limiting protuberance(s) (160) cooperate to limit a range of rotation of the rotor (104) relative to the housing (102).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Karly R. Miller, Steven L. Bivens, Jeffrey S. Cascio, Daniel T. Lindsey
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Patent number: 10940913Abstract: An actuating device is part of a bicycle hydraulic operating system that also includes an additional actuating device and a hydraulic operated device. The hydraulic operated device includes a slave cylinder fluidly connected to an additional master cylinder of the additional actuating device such that operation of an additional operating member of the additional actuating device moves the slave piston. The actuating device includes an operating member, a master cylinder, a master piston and a fluid port. The fluid port fluidly connects the master cylinder to the slave fluid port such that operation of the operating member moves the slave piston. The actuating device has no fluid reservoir. The master cylinder of the actuating device is fluidly connected to the additional master cylinder of the additional actuating device at a point upstream of the fluid port with respect to a flow of hydraulic fluid towards the hydraulic operated device.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Osamu Kariyama, Takahiro Yamashita, Masahiro Nakakura
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Patent number: 10941832Abstract: A hydromount that is suitable for mounting a motor vehicle engine at a vehicle body includes a supporting spring supporting a mount core and surrounding a working chamber, and a compensating chamber separated from the working chamber by a separating assembly and delimited by a compensating diaphragm. The separating assembly may have at least two nozzle systems which have one decoupling diaphragm each and in each of which one damping duct is disposed. The compensating chamber and the working chamber may be filled with a liquid and may be connected to each other in a liquid-conducting manner by damping ducts. The separating assembly may have an absorber duct connecting the working chamber with the compensating chamber. A switchable actuating member may be assigned to the absorber duct.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: VIBRACOUSTIC GMBHInventors: Thomas Romanski, Viktor Klostreich
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Patent number: 10933852Abstract: A fluid-operated braking system (1) for a tractor-trailer vehicle includes a trailer control valve (2), a parking brake module (3), and an electronic control unit (4) electrically connected to the trailer control valve (2) and to the parking brake module (3). A pressure fluid accumulator (13) of the braking system (1) is connected to a control pressure input (P43) of the trailer control valve (2). A redundancy circuit controls the control pressure input (P43), even during a malfunction of the control unit (4). The parking brake module (3) includes a control valve (14), a redundancy valve (15) and a changeover valve (16) controlled by an electronic switch unit (20) with a holding function. When the control unit (4) malfunctions, the last error-free switching position of the control valve (14) or the redundancy valve is maintained until a operationally safe resting state is reached or the ignition system is switched off.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: WABCO GmbHInventors: Andreas Goers, Thomas Müller, Jakob Friedrich Schmidt
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Patent number: 10933854Abstract: A brake module for a hydraulically braked tractor coupled to a pneumatically braked trailer has a trailer control valve connected via hydraulic control inlet to a hydraulic pressure line leaving a master brake cylinder, and via pneumatic inlet to a compressed air reservoir. Hydraulic control pressure determines pneumatic output pressure level at a trailer control valve pneumatic outlet. The brake module has a break-off prevention module which, if the control line leaks or separates from the trailer control valve relative to the trailer brake system, closes a supply pressure coupling head supply line and causes trailer brake system venting. The break-off prevention module has a pneumatic supply pressure inlet and a pneumatic tear-off control pressure inlet connected to the air reservoir independently of trailer control valve pressure inlets. Supply pressure inlet supply pressure passes through the break-off prevention module and feeds to a trailer control valve pneumatic supply pressure inlet.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: WABCO GmbH, AGCO International GmbHInventors: Mirko Bruett, Georg Frank, Stefan Prestel, Jan Spremberg
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Patent number: 10926753Abstract: Braking systems and methods having above atmospheric pressure applied to the working hydraulic fluid of the braking system. In certain preferred arrangements, the braking system includes at least one source of pressure, which pressurizes a fluid. The pressurized fluid acts on respective pressure surfaces of the master plunger(s) and the slave piston(s) that are opposite the active or working surfaces of the master plunger(s) and the slave piston(s).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: RG3 INPROP, LLCInventor: Robert W. Henricksen
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Patent number: 10926750Abstract: A servo brake cylinder for a distributed brake system with an electric motor, a ball screw assembly with a lead screw and a nut, a piston, a cylinder body is disclosed. The electric motor is connected to the ball screw assembly. The piston is installed in the hollow inner space of the cylinder body, slidable axially. The piston has a hole at the center formed by three sections of surfaces including a first cone surface, a cylindrical surface a second cone surface. One end of the lead screw is connected with the nut, and the other end at the tip of the lead screw has three sections of surfaces including a gradually constricting cone surface from the tip followed by a cylindrical surface, further followed by a gradually expanding cone surface. These surface sections at the lead screw and the three sections of the surfaces at the hole of the piston form an inlet valve and an outlet valve between the piston and the lead screw.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Inventors: Weiwen Deng, Nenggen Ding
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Patent number: 10927908Abstract: A hybrid torque tube for a brake assembly may comprise a tube portion having a centerline axis, and a conical back-leg portion extending from the tube portion. A stator spline may be formed on a radially outward surface of the tube portion. A foot may be formed on a radially inward surface of the tube portion. The tube portion is formed using a first manufacturing process and at least one of the conical back-leg, stator spline, or foot is formed using additive manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Leslie Steele, Thomas P Filburn, Michael A. Klecka
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Patent number: 10927906Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) LimitedInventors: Dietmar Knoop, Neel Shah, Sean Cleary, Dave Hubbard
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Patent number: 10927917Abstract: Provided is a shock absorber that includes a middle chamber formed by a piston, a first damping-force generating device that is provided between an upper chamber and the middle chamber and generates a damping force, a second damping-force generating device that is provided between a lower chamber and the middle chamber and generates a damping force, and a position-based state changing device that changes a state of a passage to a state in which the upper chamber and the lower chamber communicate with each other, a state in which the upper chamber and the middle chamber communicate with each other, or a state in which the lower chamber and the middle chamber communicate with each other depending on a position of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Mikio Yamashita, Kunio Takiguchi
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Patent number: 10914354Abstract: An electromagnetically actuable brake device includes: a coil shell, in particular of the solenoid, an armature disk, which is connected to the coil shell in a torque-proof yet displaceable manner, a sensor having a sensor housing, a spring part, and a screwed cable gland. The coil shell has a stepped through bore, the sensor housing of the sensor has a stepped configuration, the screwed cable gland is situated at an end of the bore, in particular is screwed into a threaded section of the bore, the spring part is situated in the bore between the screwed cable gland and the sensor housing, the spring part is braced on a step of the sensor housing on one side and on the screwed cable gland on the other, and the sensor housing is pressed against a step of the bore, in particular by the spring part.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Timo Hufnagel, Gerolf Fichtner-Pflaum
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Patent number: 10900526Abstract: A brake device for braking rotation of an input shaft, comprises a selectively operable trigger brake comprising a preloaded torsion spring rotationally coupled to the input shaft but permitting a limited rotational movement between the trigger brake and the input shaft; and a roller jamming mechanism operable upon the relative rotation between the trigger brake and the input shaft exceeding a predetermined amount to stop rotation of the input shaft upon operation of the trigger brake.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS LIMITEDInventor: Stephen Davies
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Patent number: 10882584Abstract: A hydraulic operating device comprises a base member, an operating member, and a piston. The base member includes a first end portion, a second end portion, a cylinder bore, a first hose-attachment hole, and a second hose-attachment hole. The second end portion is opposite to the first end portion. The first hose-attachment hole is configured to be in fluid communication with the cylinder bore. The second hose-attachment hole is configured to be in fluid communication with the cylinder bore. The operating member is pivotally coupled to the base member at the first end portion about a pivot axis. The first hose-attachment hole and the second hose-attachment hole are provided closer to the pivot axis than the second end portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventors: Kazuma Mori, Takuma Sakai, Masahiro Nakakura
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Patent number: 10876588Abstract: In the spring mechanism, the negative spring mechanism biasing the loading plate to the positive side in the z-direction has the spring shaft and interspring. The spring shaft is rotatably connected to the fixed part and is connected through the slider with respect to the loading plate so that it can rotate and can move in the x-direction. The connection part with the loading plate is positioned on the positive side in the z-direction and on the positive side in the x-direction relative to the connection part with the fixed part. An elastic force countering the compression is generated by the spring shaft. The interspring is connected to the loading plate and is connected through the slider to the spring shaft. It generates an elastic force countering the displacement to the positive side in the x-direction of the connection part of the spring shaft with the loading plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAITAMA UNIVERSITYInventor: Masato Saitoh
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Patent number: 10864895Abstract: The wheel chock is designed use over a base plate to prevent a parked vehicle from moving away in an unauthorized or accidental manner in a departure direction. The wheel chock includes a monolithic main body having a bottom base portion and a tire-engaging bulge. It also includes a tire deformation cavity, made within the main body on the tire-facing side, which is located immediately below the tire-engaging bulge. Teeth are provided underneath the bottom base portion of the wheel chock to uninterruptedly engage at least one among corresponding teeth provided on the base plate in a positive latched engagement. The wheel chock has an improved resistance to rollover and tipping when the wheel is pressed forcefully against the wheel chock.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: 9172-9863 QUEBEC INC.Inventors: Gregory Palmer, Daniel Grothe, Etienne Ayotte, Geatan Jette