US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 18 for "Motor vehicle disc brake lining with friction lining resetting spring" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,184, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hanover, Germany).

"Motor vehicle disc brake lining with friction lining resetting spring" was invented by Ralph Petri (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Kilian Bashayan (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Sebastian Salzmann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle disc brake lining having friction material fixed on the front side of a back plate, and a resetting spring fixed releasably or non-releasably on the rear side of the back plate with a base and an elastic resetting spring bow. The resetting spring bow sits elastically...