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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2001
Seiji Asai, Okazaki, JP;
Nisshinbo Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A brake cable-connecting apparatus for a drum brake, having a simplified structure and designed to permit a cable end to be steadily seated on a brake lever, thereby providing improved durability of an inner cable, and to further positively holds a brake cable in position, which otherwise would be disengaged from the brake lever. A drum brake comprises: slanted surfaces for permitting an inner cable to be deflected while a cable end of a brake cable is slid along an outer edge of a free end of a brake lever , the cable end being advanced from a direction in which the brake cable is pulled, to a opposite direction in which the brake cable is pulled; and, an opening formed in series with a cable-receiving groove for receiving the inner cable