ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,015, issued on April 29, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).
"Brake carrier" was invented by Philipp Adamczyk (Stoettwang, Germany), Matthias Klingner (Moorenweis, Germany) and Akbar Hassani (Dachau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-piece brake carrier for a vehicle disc brake is provided. The brake carrier has a frame-like disc wrap-around element which has two mutually parallel bridge struts, and two frame sections arranged parallel to a brake disc rotation axis and connecting the bridge struts. The brake carrier further has a securing flange by which the brake carrier is fixable to an ...