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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2023
Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Philip Nathanael Jedele, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Lakshminarayanan Vaidyanathan, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A ball and nut assembly adapted for a brake system of a vehicle, comprising: (a) a nut having a threaded portion; (b) a spindle having a threaded portion positioned at least partially within the nut so that the threaded portion of the spindle engages the threaded portion of the nut; and (c) an end stop positioned adjacent to the spindle, wherein a mating area is located between the end stop and the spindle, the mating area includes a contact region in which the end stop contacts the spindle directly or indirectly, and the contact region includes a circumferential area greater than a circumferential area of a single line contact between the end stop and the spindle.
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