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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anthony W Harrison, Birmingham, GB;
Assignee:
Lucas Industries Public Limited Company, Birmingham, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
188156 ; 188365 ;
Abstract
An internal shoe drum brake has a body (1) carrying a plurality of circumferentially spaced friction elements (2) movable into engagement with a rotatable drum (3) by a hydraulic system including an actuator (5) having a pressure-applying cylinder (2) in which a pressure-generating piston (21) is driven by an electrical stepper motor (28), slave cylinders (4) which actuate the friction elements, and internal ducts (7, 8) for transmitting pressure from piston (21) to slave cylinders (4).