US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Europe on Aug. 5 for "Brake actuator, in particular electromechanical brake actuator of a commercial vehicle" (Polish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,008, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Brussels).

"Brake actuator, in particular electromechanical brake actuator of a commercial vehicle" was invented by Bartlomiej Tomala (Opole, Poland) and Peter Beier (Wunstorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake actuator (1, 1') includes a casing (10), an electric motor for providing a driving torque, a cam disc (20) rotatably mounted to the casing (10) and operatively coupled to the electric motor, and a push rod (30) received in the casing (10), and configured to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction (100) between a retracted position (300) and an extended...