Patents by Inventor Manuel Schmitz

Manuel Schmitz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090159381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle brake (10) comprising a housing (12), a brake piston (16) accommodated in the housing (12) and coupled to a brake lining (20), a blocking device (26) for arresting the brake piston (16) inside the housing (12), and an electromechanical actuating device (42) for activating the blocking device (26) in a parking brake situation, wherein the brake piston (16) together with the housing (12) delimits a fluid chamber (68) that is chargeable with hydraulic fluid, so that the brake piston (16) for actuating the vehicle brake (10) is hydraulically displaceable inside the housing (12) along a piston longitudinal axis (A). In such a vehicle brake it is provided that there is associated with the blocking device (26) a locking arrangement (125), which in a parking brake situation acts mechanically on a component (36) of the blocking device (26) and locks the blocking device against a resetting movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Kurt Mohr, Manuel Schmitz