ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,340, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RATIER-FIGEAC SAS (Figeac, France).
"Brake assembly with thermal fuse" was invented by Eric Delbos (Lacapelle-Marival, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The brake assembly includes a housing, a rotor disc. The rotor disc includes at least one internal cavity. The at least one internal cavity includes a pawl and a thermal fuse. In use, the thermal fuse is configured to maintain the position of the pawl in the at least one internal cavity when a temperature is below a predetermined threshold, and wherein the thermal fuse is configured to melt when a predetermined threshold of temperature is...