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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:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Denis John McCann, South Wales, GB;
Andrew John Ward, South Wales, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 1/368 ; B60T 1/716 ; B60T 1/374 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 1/368 ; B60T 1/716 ; B60T 1/374 ;
Abstract
A parking braking system in a vehicle not having EBS wherein, for parking braking, the brakes are arranged to be supplied with actuating fluid from a pressure source under the control of a manually operated electrical device and wherein, upon selecting parking braking by actuation of the electrical device, the brakes are arranged to be applied and mechanically locked or latched in place.