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US 11,761,498 B2Granted
Expanding rotor brake
AssigneeDuplicent, LLC
InventorCurren Emmett Krasnoff
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Abstract
A braking system includes a rotor, a braking mechanism including a brake pad, and an actuator system configured to reposition the rotor from a first position where the rotor does not engage with the brake pad to a second position where the rotor engages with the brake pad.
Claims20
A braking system comprising:
- a first rotor;
- a second rotor;
- a braking mechanism including a first brake pad and a second brake pad;
- an actuator system, comprising:
- a first actuator configured to facilitate repositioning the first rotor from a first position where the first rotor does not engage with the first brake pad to a second position where the first rotor engages with the first brake pad to brake a wheel;
- and
- a second actuator configured to facilitate repositioning the second rotor from a third position where the second rotor does not engage with the second brake pad to a fourth position where the second rotor engages with the second brake pad to brake the wheel;
- wherein the first actuator and the second actuator are positioned so as to be separately operable to facilitate:
- repositioning of the first rotor without repositioning of the second rotor, and
- repositioning of the second rotor without repositioning the first rotor;
- and
- a controller configured to control the actuator system to:
- reposition the first rotor from the first position to the second position in response to a braking condition, and
- reposition the second rotor from the third position to the fourth position in response to the braking condition.
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A braking system comprising:
- a first rotor;
- a second rotor;
- a first brake pad;
- a second brake pad;
- a first actuator configured to reposition the first rotor between
- a first position where the first rotor does not engage with the first brake pad, and
- a second position where the first rotor engages with the first brake pad;
- a second actuator configured to reposition the second rotor between
- a third position where the second rotor does not engage with the second brake pad, and
- a fourth position where the second rotor engages with the second brake pad;
- at least one brake caliper,
- wherein the at least one brake caliper is configured to reposition the first brake pad between
- a fifth position where the first brake pad does not engage with the first rotor, and
- a sixth position where the first brake pad engages with the first rotor;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- control the first actuator to move the first rotor from the first position to the second position in response to a braking condition to brake a wheel,
- control the second actuator to move the second rotor from the third position to the fourth position in response to the braking condition to brake the wheel, and
- control the at least one brake caliper to move the first brake pad from the fifth position to the sixth position in response to the braking condition to brake the wheel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.