US Patent Issued to Hendrickson USA on Oct. 21 for "Slack adjuster assembly for heavy-duty vehicles" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,013, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hendrickson USA LLC (Schaumburg, Ill.).

"Slack adjuster assembly for heavy-duty vehicles" was invented by Jay D. White (Lenoir, N.C.) and Dhawal P. Dharaiya (Twinsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slack adjuster assembly for use in a heavy-duty vehicle drum brake system, the slack adjuster assembly comprising a slack adjuster, an inboard sealing assembly, and a sensor arrangement. The slack adjuster is mounted on an inboard end of a camshaft of the drum brake system. The inboard sealing assembly sealingly engages with an inboard side of the slack adjuster. The sensor arrangement measu...