Drum brake with rotatable brake shoe assembly
AssigneeHl Mando Corporation
InventorsHatem Shahin, Kai Braun, Lothar Wagner
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Abstract
The invention relates to a drum brake assembly for braking a wheel a motor vehicle that rotates about a rotation axis, with: a brake drum having a back wall section extending at an angle to the rotation axis and a circumferential wall section, at least one brake shoe assembly, wherein each of the brake shoe assembly and brake drum has a contact portion for contacting the respective other of the brake shoe assembly and brake drum to generate a braking force; and wherein the brake shoe assembly is configured to be coupled to a rotatable axle component of the motor vehicle to rotate relative to the brake drum about the rotation axis.
Claims9
A drum brake assembly for braking a wheel of a motor vehicle that rotates about a rotation axis,
- with:
- a brake drum having a back wall section extending at an angle to the rotation axis and a circumferential wall section,
- at least one brake shoe assembly,
- wherein each of the brake shoe assembly and the brake drum has a contact portion for contacting the respective other of the brake shoe assembly and brake drum to generate a braking force;
- wherein the brake shoe assembly is configured to be coupled to the motor vehicle to rotate relative to the brake drum about the rotation axis, and
- wherein the brake drum is radially displaceable so as to contact the brake shoe assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.