ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,099, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek, South Korea).
"Caliper brake" was invented by Dong Koo Kang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein a caliper brake includes a carrier in which a pair of pad plates are installed to move forward and backward toward a disk; a caliper housing slidably installed on the carrier and provided with a cylinder; a piston installed in the cylinder and configured to move forward and backward toward the pair of pad plates by a braking hydraulic pressure; a seal groove formed to be recessed in an annular shape on an inner surface of the cylinder; and...