Patent · US Expired

Self-adjusting parking brake for motor vehicles

US6131483A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Ed. Scharwaechter GmbH · DE

Inventors

Axel Kuller · Wuppertal, DE
Sven Bode · Berlin, DE
Hans-Peter Kalckert · Remscheid, DE
Ulf Braker · Adenau, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 7, 1999
Grant date	Oct 17, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 7, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T74/20702
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A self-adjusting parking brake for a motor vehicle and including a brake lever pivotally supported on a bridge girder, a locking pawl for securing the brake lever on the bridge girder in any arbitrary put-on position of the parking brake, a brake cable driving element likewise supported on the bridge girder and spring-biased in a rotational direction, and an automatically engageable, upon application of the parking brake, formlocking clutch for releasable connecting the brake lever with the brake cable driving element.

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