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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2007
Method and device for indicating wear of a brake pad in a disk brake with an electric motor actuator
Applicants:
Tobias Linke, Munich, DE;
Markus Stoehr, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Tobias Linke, Munich, DE;
Markus Stoehr, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 66/02 (2006.01); F16D 66/00 (2006.01); F16D 121/24 (2012.01); F16D 125/20 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 66/025 (2013.01); F16D 66/026 (2013.01); F16D 2066/003 (2013.01); F16D 2121/24 (2013.01); F16D 2125/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and device are provided for indicating wear of at least one brake pad in a disc brake having an electric motor actuator. The method adds up wear adjustment travel paths of the electric motor actuator and/or of an adjustment motor, and indicates the sum of the wear adjustment paths so obtained as the wear of the brake pad or as a residual brake pad service life.