Including Actuator Pivotable In Plane Parallel To Axis Of Rotation Of Wheel Patents (Class 188/73.41)
  • Patent number: 9528563
    Abstract: A hydraulic vehicle brake with a parking brake device, in particular for motor vehicles, includes a brake housing in which a hydraulic service pressure chamber is delimited by a brake piston, wherein hydraulic pressure fluid can be applied to the hydraulic service pressure chamber for carrying out service brake operations so that the brake piston is actuatable along a longitudinal piston axis in order to achieve a braking effect. The parking brake device acts on the brake piston with an actuating device, which actuates a rolling-element ramp-type gear with an electromechanical actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jurgen Balz, Hans Olms, Georg Halasy-Wimmer, Volker Knop, Jurgen Volkel, Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8905200
    Abstract: A device comprising: a caliper comprising: one or more piston bores housing a piston; an outboard pad retainer; a bridge; and a shoulder; wherein the caliper is attached directly to a knuckle of an automobile via the shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Inventor: Kenneth Eric Gutelius
  • Patent number: 8733513
    Abstract: Provided is a disk brake in which a rotation control part for controlling relative rotation of a cartridge and a cylinder of a parking brake mechanism is formed at the cartridge and includes convex parts having curved surfaces and concave parts formed at the cylinder and having curved surfaces, and a spacer formed of stainless steel, resiliently fitted into an inner circumference of the cylinder and including arc part having the same shape as the concave parts is disposed between the convex parts and the concave parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Takahashi, Shigoru Hayashi, Yorihito Miura
  • Patent number: 8678146
    Abstract: Provided is a disk brake having a caliper. The caliper includes a cylinder part disposed at one side in a disk axial direction and having a bore for accommodating a piston, a pair of arm parts extending to both sides of the cylinder part in a disk rotational direction and having ends to which sliding pins are fixed, and a guide attachment part configured to couple the one arm part to the cylinder part and to which a cable guide member is fixed, which are integrally formed with each other. A thickness of the guide attachment part in a disk diameter direction and a thickness of the one arm part in the disk diameter direction at least partially overlap in the disk axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yorihito Miura, Shinichi Nakayama, Katsuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8186487
    Abstract: A vehicle disc brake device for preventing snow, ice, and mud from adhering to a caliper includes a body-anchoring part provided in a cylinder of a caliper, the body-anchoring part for securing a wire guide used to support a brake wire. The body-anchoring part has a first surface oriented along the longitudinal direction of the brake wire, and a second surface located on the side opposite the first surface. A wire-guide-anchoring part is secured to the second surface. The first surface is a flat, inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Miura, Yoichi Sato, Masayuki Sugita, Yoshinori Yamanoi, Hitoshi Ohi, Atsushi Takano, Nobuteru Fujii
  • Patent number: 7896141
    Abstract: A disc brake, in particular for commercial vehicles with a pivoting or displaceable brake caliper, an actuation device and at least one adjustment device on both sides of the brake disc is characterized in that the brake caliper comprises bearing housings on the underside thereof, whereby support elements, arranged on the wheel axle, engage in the bearing housings. At least one elastically-deformable spacer element is provided between bearing housing and support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Dieter Bieker
  • Publication number: 20100193301
    Abstract: A vehicle disc brake device for preventing snow, ice, and mud from adhering to a caliper includes a body-anchoring part provided in a cylinder of a caliper, the body-anchoring part for securing a wire guide used to support a brake wire. The body-anchoring part has a first surface oriented along the longitudinal direction of the brake wire, and a second surface located on the side opposite the first surface. A wire-guide-anchoring part is secured to the second surface. The first surface is a flat, inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: NISSIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Miura, Yoichi Sato, Masayuki Sugita, Yoshinori Yamanoi, Hitoshi Ohi, Atsushi Takano, Nobuteru Fujii
  • Publication number: 20080135354
    Abstract: A brake caliper of a disc brake includes a housing with a bore, in which a piston is arranged in an axially displaceable fashion, a shaft for actuation, which is mounted in a rotatable and axially displaceable fashion, two ramp elements being rotatable in relation to each other, a readjusting device with a spindle, and an axial bearing that is active between the shaft and the spindle. A generic brake caliper of a disc brake includes components having a construction to withstand stress so that they are exposed to even, low stress without detrimental tension peaks. A toothing is provided on a circumference of the spindle, and a form-fit accommodation means for the toothing is provided. The accommodation means are unrotatably connected to the housing and secure the spindle against twisting. A calotte arrangement is also provided as an axial bearing, which comprises a calotte shell with a concavely curved surface and a calotte pivot with a convexly curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Ralph Petri, Rolf Weiler, Jurgen Balz, Michael Weidenweber
  • Patent number: 7134532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disk brake, in particular for utility vehicles, comprising a brake caliper, which extends over a brake disk, an application device located in the brake caliper for applying brake pads on both sides of the brake disk in the direction of the latter, in addition to at least one adjusting system located in the brake caliper for compensating wear and tear on the brake pad and or disk, by adjusting the distance between the brake pad and the brake disk. The adjusting system has an adjusting rotative device. The disk brake is characterized in that at least one of the adjusting rotative devices is provided on each side of the brake disk for adjusting the axial distances between the two brake pads and the brake disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Dieter Bieker, Wolfgang Pahle
  • Patent number: 6334514
    Abstract: A bicycle disc brake is provided in which a support member movably couples the brake caliper to the frame of the bicycle. The bicycle disc brake caliper has a caliper housing with a single piston unit. The piston unit is movably coupled to the housing between a release position, in which the piston unit is spaced from a disc brake mounted to a wheel of a bicycle, and a braking position, in which the piston unit engages the disc brake of the bicycle wheel. The piston unit has a first friction member movably coupled between a release position and a braking position and a second friction member arranged substantially parallel to the first friction member to form a disc brake receiving space between the first and second friction members. In one embodiment, the caliper housing is movably coupled to the support member by a pivot pin. In another embodiment, the caliper housing is movably coupled to the support member by a linkage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Kirimoto, Yoshiaki Ando, Kenji Ose, Tadashi Ichida, Toshio Tezuka, Tatsuya Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6223867
    Abstract: A disk pass portion for receiving a part of a disk is provided between a cylinder portion and an outer claw portion of a caliper body at the inner peripheral side of a bridge portion of the caliper body. A pair of mounting portions extend arcuately from both sides of the bridge portion to lie outside the disk pass portion with respect to the radial direction of the disk. A pair of sliding pins are secured to the distal ends of the mounting portions through pin bolts and slidably fitted in pin-fitting holes provided in a mounting member supporting the caliper. When the brake is activated, friction pads are pressed against the disk by the caliper. At this time, deformation of the caliper by reaction forces from the disk is small around the area where proximal portions of the mounting portions are connected to the caliper body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignees: Tokico LTD, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Doi, Tadashi Tamasho, Hideaki Ishii, Takahiro Tokunaga, Joichi Yokoo, Shinji Suzuki
  • Patent number: RE38975
    Abstract: A bicycle disc brake is provided in which a support member movably couples the brake caliper to the frame of the bicycle. The bicycle disc brake caliper has a caliper housing with a single piston unit. The piston unit is movably coupled to the housing between a release position, in which the piston unit is spaced from a disc brake mounted to a wheel of a bicycle, and a braking position, in which the piston unit engages the disc brake of the bicycle wheel. The piston unit has a first friction member movably coupled between a release position and a braking position and a second friction member arranged substantially parallel to the first friction member to form a disc brake receiving space between the first and second friction members. In one embodiment, the caliper housing is movably coupled to the support member by a pivot pin. In another embodiment, the caliper housing is movably coupled to the support member by a linkage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Kanji Kirimoto, Yoshiaki Ando, Kenji Ose, Tadashi Ichida, Toshio Tetsuka, Tatsuya Matsushita