US Patent Issued to Raicam Driveline on Dec. 30 for "Valve unit for an anti-lock braking system" (British, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,049, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Raicam Driveline S.R.L. (Mondovi', Italy).

"Valve unit for an anti-lock braking system" was invented by Sandro Bonardo (Peveragno, Italy) and Benjamin Chetwood Struve' (Kenilworth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve unit for an ABS system having a single hydraulic chamber configured to receive a brake fluid, with a delivery port for supplying the brake fluid to a brake caliper, and a passage to for letting the brake fluid from a master cylinder into the single hydraulic chamber is provided. A single piston, longitudinally movable within the single hydraulic chamber, has first ...