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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322657 | Stroke simulator A second piston includes a first protruding portion that protrudes toward a first piston and a second protruding portion that protrudes toward a stopper. By changing a height of the first protruding portion and a height of the second protruding portion it is possibl... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7219966 | Brake pedal feel simulator A brake pedal feel simulator is provided which eliminates the simulation force during emergency, non-assisted and failure conditions. The brake pedal feel simulator generally comprises a spring, a spring seat and a spring stop. The spring is operatively connected to... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7194946 | Pneumatic servomotor for power-assisted braking, the servomotor having a crimped diaphragm A pneumatic servomotor (12) for power-assisted braking for a motor vehicle, which servomotor is of the type having a substantially cylindrical rigid casing (16) inside which a moving transverse partition (18) is movably mounted that has a periph... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6732518 | Hydraulic brake booster A hydraulic brake booster for use in a brake system having a housing with a power piston located in a first bore and a control valve located in a second bore. An input member is connected to the power piston and linked to the control valve by a lever arrangement. Th... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6668552 | Hydraulic brake booster A hydraulic brake booster has a housing with a stepped bore for retaining a cylindrical piston and a control bore for retaining a control valve. The cylindrical piston defines, with the stepped bore, an output chamber, a relief chamber and a power chamber... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6418716 | Hydraulic brake booster In a proportional booster valve V, a primary reaction piston 37 and a secondary reaction piston 38 are provided between a control piston 23 which faces at one end thereof toward a control pressure chamber 25 into which hydraulic pressure outputted from a ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6223533 | Pressurized fluid device A primary pipe system includes a master cylinder with corresponding pressure sensor that produces a primary electrical signal. A secondary pipe system includes a working cylinder with a pressure sensor that produces a secondary electrical signal. The seco... | 05/01/2001 |
| 5337564 | Force or pressure augmenting device A clutch-servo for vehicles which constitutes a working device arranged for fluid connection with a master cylinder to be operated by the vehicle's driver. The servo comprises a working cylinder unit (50) with a piston (5) arranged in a working cylinder (... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5330259 | Electrohydraulic braking system with remote booster A brake system (10) comprising: a master cylinder (20) including a primary (24) and a secondary (26) chamber and a reservoir (26); an accumulator (40), a pump (42) having first inlet port connected to a reservoir (26) of the master cylinder (20) and the s... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5186003 | Integrated pressure amplification and modulation system for a hydraulic circuit The invention relates to an integrated pressure amplification and modulation system for a hydraulic brake circuit, comprising at least one master cylinder (10), a hydraulic motor, a source of fluid under high pressure (48) and a reservoir of fluid under l... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5142865 | Hydraulic booster There is disclosed an automotive hydraulic brake booster in which a driver feels a brake pedal moving smoothly as he or she pushes down on the brake pedal. The booster includes a housing connected with a master cylinder, an input rod, a booster chamber fo... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5065573 | Hydraulic power booster including backup actuator in addition to lever device, for booster control valve A hydraulic power booster having a lever device disposed in operative association with a reaction piston, a power piston and a valve spool, for moving the valve spool in one of opposite axial directions thereof for applying a pressure of a pressure source... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5061016 | Brake fluid pressure control apparatus Disclosed is a brake fluid pressure control apparatus in which an anti-lock control mechanism is connected to a hydraulic booster. A large-diameter piston is combined with a small-diameter piston so that the pressurization effected by the master cylinder ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5046314 | Control device of a brake booster, applying additional force when a pressure difference between a front and rear booster chamber exceeds a pre-determined threshold In order to increase the efficiency of a booster (10), the rear chamber (18) of which contains an auxiliary drive member (28) having a pressure chamber (30) connected to a pressure source (34) via a control device (36), the latter comprises a normally clo... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5038564 | Pulsator-operated valving with reaction chamber accumulator for hydraulic booster system A fluid pressure booster device includes a booster body, a control piston in the booster body for forward and rearward movements to define a boosting chamber between the control piston and a rear surface of a master piston of a master cylinder, a valve pi... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4902075 | Braking apparatus for vehicle A braking apparatus for a vehicle has a booster for receiving, as a pilot pressure, a pressure of a master cylinder and for regulating a pressure from an auxiliary pressure source to a level predetermined times the pilot pressure. The booster is provided ... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4884403 | Modular brake actuator A modular brake actuator useful in automotove vehicles includes a mounting base adapted to fit into a complementary opening in and form part of the fire wall between the engine compartment and the driver's cockpit. On one side of the mounting base there a... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4874207 | Hydraulic braking system for an automotive vehicle A hydraulic braking system for an automotive vehicle having a power source for generating a hydraulic power pressure, a reservoir, a master cylinder, a regulator and a plurality of wheel brake cylinders for braking respective road wheels, which are divide... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4787685 | Slip-controlled brake device for automotive vehicles including vacuum power generator assembly used both as brake power booster and as modulator A brake power-controlled brake device for automotive vehicles is provided with a hydraulic master cylinder (11) which is, via a pneumatically actuated pressure modulator (12), connected to at least one wheel cylinder brake circuit I. The pressure modulato... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4779422 | Master-cylinder-actuated plunger for hydraulic brake booster valve A brake system wherein an input from an operator operates a first master cylinder (12) produces first and second hydraulic fluid pressures. Flexible conduit (22 and 24) carries the first and second hydraulic fluid pressures to an actuator (26) for a hydra... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4732001 | Hydraulic booster with boost-pressure responsive valve A braking pressure generator (1,21) for a vehicular hydraulic brake system, wherein a booster piston (15) which is slidable by hydraulic pressure is displaceable in the actuating direction. The booster piston (15) is arranged as a stepped piston with a sm... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732002 | Servo-assisted master cylinder assemblies A servo-assisted master cylinder assembly for a vehicle hydraulic braking system has a tandem master cylinder with primary and secondary pistons operative to pressurise primary and secondary pressure spaces for primary and secondary brake circuits. A serv... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4706545 | Brake valve infinitely variable pressure intensification In a brake valve of the type in which a given ratio is maintained between a master pressure developed by a brake pedal and an actual brake pressure, an arrangement is provided for continuous, rather than stepwise, adjustment of this ratio. The brake valve... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4660897 | Brake system with brake booster A brake system having a master cylinder for generating brake pressures in at least one closed brake circuit (I, II) and having an associated brake booster including a booster cylinder, a displaceable booster piston having a piston rod oriented into the ma... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4622814 | Hydraulic assistance device Hydraulic assistance device of the mixed hydrodynamic/hydrostatic type incorporating a body (10) in which a first piston (18) is slideably mounted and moveable between a first position allowing the communication of a first chamber (53), joined to a brakin... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4494377 | Brake booster operated also by solenoid A brake booster is operated both by braking actuated by a brake pedal and by a solenoid. A moving core of the solenoid and a relay valve piston of the brake booster are linked by a balance lever, and the moving core of the solenoid has a much larger mobil... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4463562 | Booster assisted hydraulic master cylinders for vehicle braking systems In a master cylinder assembly the pressure spaces in advance of pedal-operated pistons of two separate master cylinders are interconnected by a transfer passage, and each master cylinder incorporates a boost chamber to which hydraulic fluid from a pressur... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4378676 | Booster for a hydraulic clutch system An air/hydraulic servomotor unit for providing power assistance for a clutch hydraulic operating system and comprising a compressed air cylinder, a hydraulic slave cylinder, a load proportioning means that determines what ratio of the unit output is deriv... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4362019 | Motor vehicle hydraulic system A motor vehicle provided with servo-assisted controls for the brakes and steering, has an hydraulic system of the type comprising a volumetric pump the input of which is connected to a reservoir, and first and second distributor devices the first of which... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4241583 | Fluid-pressure operated servo-motor assemblies for vehicle braking systems In a servo-motor assembly for a vehicle braking system a valve controlling the servo pressure is operated by an operating assembly including a rotary valve actuator positioned between a pedal-operated input member and an abutment member. The valve actuato... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4223533 | Device for the power-assisted control of a hydraulic transmitter A device for the power-assisted control of a hydraulic transmitter is disclosed which includes a transmitter cylinder having a first and second bore provided therein, a main piston with a bore hole, disposed in the cylinder, valve means disposed in the bo... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4182427 | Control mechanism for an integrated brake and steering system A control mechanism through which pressurized fluid from a source is communicated into a brake system and a steering system in response to independent operator brake and steering signals. The control mechanism has a housing with a first bore and a second ... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4123908 | Hydraulic servo assisted braking system A servo-assisted hydrodynamic braking system of the type in which brake pedal pressure is used to control a modulating valve which restricts an output line of a pump thereby increasing the pressure in the output line which is connected to the master cylin... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4117681 | Tandem master cylinder with integral proportioning valve A tandem brake master cylinder has a proportioning valve between two pressure regions therein. The pressure in a second pressure region changes by a proportion of the change in a first pressure region at least over a part of the pressure range of the firs... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4114376 | Servo-assisted hydraulic braking system Servo-assisted hydraulic braking system of the type in which brake pedal pressure is reinforced by a pressure dependent thereon and fed to a master cylinder driving piston by a distributor device which is fed with fluid under pressure from a pressure sour... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4106818 | Braking system for vehicle A powered assist braking system having a pressurized fluid source which also supplies fluid to the steering system of a vehicle is disclosed herein. The braking system includes left and right-hand brake actuators that cooperate with a power brake valve an... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4072011 | Hydraulic brake booster A brake booster for use in a braking system having a control valve which is responsive to a hydraulic output force created by manually moving a piston in a bore of a master cylinder. The hydraulic output force actuates the control valve which proportional... | 02/07/1978 |
