Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Continental Automotive Systems Corporation

Continental Automotive Systems Us, Inc.

Jeffrey R Skvarce

Stefan Ulrich Anger

Jeffrey Weber

Lorraine C Krill

Daniel D Keck

A method of controlling a vehicle and trailer assembly comprises obtaining an image for a current position of the vehicle and trailer assembly from a GPS system. The image is displayed on a display screen and a location is selected to indicate a desired final position for the vehicle and trailer assembly. An intended trailer backing path is determined with the desired final position of the vehicle and trailer assembly and a predicted trailer backing path is determined based upon a steering angle of the vehicle and an angle between the vehicle and the trailer. The predicted trailer backing path and the intended trailer backing path are displayed on the display screen to assist the operator in steering the vehicle.

Trailer backing path prediction using GPS and camera images

In order to realize a two-piston floating caliper disc brake with a wide caliper, the axially outer side of the caliper is supported by radially extending protrusions shaped on the outer brake shoe. While the two protrusions have the same depth, they differ in their width. Corresponding circular grooves within the caliper around recess openings on the opposite side of the brake cylinders, however, are identical. Therefore, a radial support of the brake caliper can be carried out by both protrusions while a tangential positioning of the caliper is limited to the wider one of the two protrusions.

Disc brake, disc brake caliper and disc brake shoe

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Clarkston, MI, United States of America

Jeffrey R Skvarce