Patents by Inventor Roger Mahoudeaux

Roger Mahoudeaux 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).

  • Patent number: 9638275
    Abstract: A brake calliper has two arms, each including a housing and a stub. A member for guiding a disc brake pad is disposed in the housing, and is secured by lugs to a front of the stub. The member includes a body having a U-shaped section formed by an inner radial surface, a base, an outer radial surface, and includes a tongue that extends beyond an edge of the body, and that is configured to be hooked in the housing and to fully lock the member in the arm. An inner side of the body is bordered by an inner front supporting surface disposed against an inner surface of the arm. An outer front supporting surface is disposed against the front of the stud, extends into a hairpin damper spring extending towards the front of the stud, and is bordered on each side by a tongue that form side end-stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Patent number: 9574628
    Abstract: A radial spring for a disk brake pad and brake pads and brakes provided with such radial springs, in which the radial spring is for the lug of a brake pad. The spring includes a clamp and a supporting loop. The clamp is formed of a straight arm, an undulating bottom, and an arm in the shape of a Z, followed by the loop connected by a bend, followed by a bend with a large radius of curvature connected to the pad terminated by a turn that is almost at a right angle to the extremity of the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Patent number: 9551391
    Abstract: A brake calliper has two arms, where each arm includes a housing and a stub. A member for guiding a disc brake pad is disposed in the housing, and is secured by lugs to a front of the stub. The member includes a body having a U-shaped section formed by an inner radial surface, a base, and an outer radial surface. An inner side of the body is bordered by an inner supporting surface located on an inner surface of the arms, and an outer supporting surface of the body is disposed against a front of the stud. The out supporting surface extends into a supporting surface toward the front of the stud. The body further includes a locking tongue that extends beyond an edge of the body, and is configured to be hooked in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Patent number: 9400023
    Abstract: A guideway for a motor vehicle disc brake is configured to mount at least one brake pad in a slidable manner with respect to a brake disc along an axially oriented axis of sliding. The guideway includes at least one brake pad application element which is configured to act axially. The guideway is fixed to a fixed carrier, and includes an elastically deformable leg and a guide face that has a contact zone. The elastically deformable leg is configured to exert a constant elastic force. The guide face includes a damping element. The elastically deformable leg further includes a bent-over portion configured to contact the at least one brake pad such that the guide face is opposite a contact zone of the at least one brake pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Patent number: 9217480
    Abstract: A disc brake pad includes lugs, each of which is provided with a groove that receives the tongue of a coiled spring disposed in a housing in the brake yoke. The aforementioned groove has an essentially mixtilinear rectangular section, of which the base is formed in cross-section by a central portion in the form of a convex root face forming a support extending on each side into a fillet recessed from the supporting plane. The fillet joins the respective side of the groove behind the supporting plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Publication number: 20150176666
    Abstract: A radial spring for a disk brake pad and brake pads and brakes provided with such radial springs, in which the radial spring is for the lug of a brake pad. The spring includes a clamp and a supporting loop. The clamp is formed of a straight arm, an undulating bottom, and an arm in the shape of a Z, followed by the loop connected by a bend, followed by a bend with a large radius of curvature connected to the pad terminated by a turn that is almost at a right angle to the extremity of the pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Publication number: 20140374202
    Abstract: A guideway for a motor vehicle disc brake is configured to mount at least one brake pad in a slidable manner with respect to a brake disc along an axially oriented axis of sliding. The guideway includes at least one brake pad application element which is configured to act axially. The guideway is fixed to a fixed carrier, and includes an elastically deformable leg and a guide face that has a contact zone. The elastically deformable leg is configured to exert a constant elastic force. The guide face includes a damping element. The elastically deformable leg further includes a bent-over portion configured to contact the at least one brake pad such that the guide face is opposite a contact zone of the at least one brake pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Publication number: 20140311839
    Abstract: A disc brake pad includes lugs, each of which is provided with a groove that receives the tongue of a coiled spring disposed in a housing in the brake yoke. The aforementioned groove has an essentially mixtilinear rectangular section, of which the base is formed in cross-section by a central portion in the form of a convex root face forming a support extending on each side into a fillet recessed from the supporting plane. The fillet joins the respective side of the groove behind the supporting plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Publication number: 20140305754
    Abstract: A brake calliper has two arms, each including a housing and a stub. A member for guiding a disc brake pad is disposed in the housing, and is secured by lugs to a front of the stub. The member includes a body having a U-shaped section formed by an inner radial surface, a base, an outer radial surface, and includes a tongue that extends beyond an edge of the body, and that is configured to be hooked in the housing and to fully lock the member in the arm. An inner side of the body is bordered by an inner front supporting surface disposed against an inner surface of the arm. An outer front supporting surface is disposed against the front of the stud, extends into a hairpin damper spring extending towards the front of the stud, and is bordered on each side by a tongue that form side end-stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Publication number: 20140291083
    Abstract: A brake calliper has two arms, where each arm includes a housing and a stub. A member for guiding a disc brake pad is disposed in the housing, and is secured by lugs to a front of the stub. The member includes a body having a U-shaped section formed by an inner radial surface, a base, and an outer radial surface. An inner side of the body is bordered by an inner supporting surface located on an inner surface of the arms, and an outer supporting surface of the body is disposed against a front of the stud. The out supporting surface extends into a supporting surface toward the front of the stud. The body further includes a locking tongue that extends beyond an edge of the body, and is configured to be hooked in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Bernard, Sandra Merrien, Roger Mahoudeaux
  • Patent number: 8443949
    Abstract: The cartridge (22) comprises a body (24), a rotary control plate (28) driving a push plate (30) in a translational movement, elastic means (38) of compressing the push plate (30) towards the control plate (28), and a cage (40) for holding the elastic means (38). The body (24) comprises a projection (42) for attaching the cage (40), collaborating with an attachment orifice (46) formed in an axial tab (44) of the cage (40). The cage (40) is capable of a rotational movement between an attachment position in which the attachment orifice (46) collaborates with the projection (42), and a release position in which the cage (40) is not attached to the body (24). The body (24) comprises a first limit stop (50) that limits the rotation of the cage (40) with which the tab (44) collaborates in the release position. The body (24) comprises a ramp (60), adjacent to the first limit stop (50). In the release position (40), the tab (44) rests radially against the projection (42) and the ramp (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roger Mahoudeaux, Xavier Laurencin
  • Publication number: 20120037470
    Abstract: The cartridge (22) comprises a body (24), a rotary control plate (28) driving a push plate (30) in a translational movement, elastic means (38) of compressing the push plate (30) towards the control plate (28), and a cage (40) for holding the elastic means (38). The body (24) comprises a projection (42) for attaching the cage (40), collaborating with an attachment orifice (46) formed in an axial tab (44) of the cage (40). The cage (40) is capable of a rotational movement between an attachment position in which the attachment orifice (46) collaborates with the projection (42), and a release position in which the cage (40) is not attached to the body (24). The body (24) comprises a first limit stop (50) that limits the rotation of the cage (40) with which the tab (44) collaborates in the release position. The body (24) comprises a ramp (60), adjacent to the first limit stop (50). In the release position (40), the tab (44) rests radially against the projection (42) and the ramp (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Roger Mahoudeaux, Xavier Laurencin