US Patent Issued to HL MANDO on Sept. 30 for "Electric parking brake and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,102, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Electric parking brake and method of operating the same" was invented by Woochul Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Daejune Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein an electric parking brake including a ball-screw type power conversion unit installed in a caliper housing to convert a rotational force into a linear motion. The electric parking brake includes a motor configured to generate a rotational force, a first gear unit including a first connection portion, the first connection portion directly connected to...